The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-04

200 watts. Provided, that the mini
mum charge for current under this
| schedule shall be $1.00 per month
In all factories where more than
$500 worth of current Is used for
power, current used for lights shall
be charged for at the power rate
| paid by said factories, provided the
| current used for lights shall not
| exceed fifty per cent of the amount
| of current used for power.
These amendments shall apply
to all bills due after January list,
1916.
Passed Nov. 3, 1915.
| A. V. FAwCETT.
Mayor.
Attest: w. D. NICKEUs,
Clerk.
Nov. 4. 1915.
ORDINANCE NO. 6245.-AN ORDI-
| NANCE to define Tacoma Har-
bor;" to establish rules and regu-
| lations for the movement, onchor-
age and dockage of vessels and
water craft within said Harbor; to
prescribe the duties of the Harbor
Master; to provide penalties for the
violation hereof; and to repeal Or
| dinance No, 1247 and all other or :
| dinance and parts of ordinances in
| conflict herewith.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
OF TACOMA:
Section /. The navigable waters
within the jurisdiction of the City
of Tacoma, with the wharves. slips,
and landing places adjacent therey
| to, shall be known and designated
| as Tacoma Harbor." A.
Section 2. The meaning of the
following terms or words" is, for
the purpose of this ordinance, de-
| fined as follows: vessel" shall in
elude ships, boats, steamers, scows,
barges and other structures adapt
ed to navigation or movement from
place to place by water. Tow
boat shall mean any vessel en-
gagged in towing another vessel or
anything other than a vessel. An
chorage" is designated position
at which the city maintains buoys
where vessels may anchor. Pier
Is a pier, wharf. dock, float, grid
iron or other structure to promote
| the convenient loading or discharge
of vessels. Persons" shall. when
necessary. be held and construed to
mean and Include natural persons.
| associations. copartnerships and
themselves or by a servant, agent
or employe: the singular number
shall, when necessary. be held and
construed to include the plural and
| the masculine pronoun to include
! the feminine. Explosive" shall
mean any explosive substance such
as nitroglycerine, dynamite. nitro
| celluose, gun cotton, powder, fire
works or explosives containing an
| ammonium salt and chlorate,
| blasting caps, picric acid. picrates,
Eliminates. decorators, primers and
| fuses. "Oil" shall mean any oil or
substance such as gasoline. motor
spirit, petrol, naptha, benzine, dis
tillate, stove oil. gas oil, benzol,
bon petrachloride and all iluminat-
ing oils that will flash or ignite at
or under ITO degrees Fahrenheit.
wharfage" shall mean the fee for
handling goods, wares and merchan-
disc over any pier. "Dockage"
shall mean the fee charged any
vessel for. making fast to or lying
mean any vessel. or any floating
matter of any description which
cannot comply with the pilot rules
which may In any way blocade, in
terfere with or endanger any ves-
sci or impede navigation. or which
cannot comply with the pilot
Rules for Certain Inland Waters OF
the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and
of the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico"
Master" shall mean the captain,
skipper. pilot or any person having
charge of any vessel. Bath House"
shall include any structure, either
afloat or built upon or over Taco
ma Harbor. or adjacent thereto,
where bathing suits and other ac-
commodations are furnished to the
general public for private gain or
otherwise. Boat House" shall in g.
clude any structure, either afloat
or built upon or over Tacoma Har-
Dor, or adjacent thereto. at which
boats of any description are kept
for hire or charter, to the public.
Club House" shall include any
structure, either afloat or built up
on or over Tacoma Harbor. or ad-
jacent thereto, where a number of
persons have associated themselves
together for the purpose of engag-
ing in aquatic sports or other SIM
liar purposes, and where boats of
any kind are used, stored or housed.
Section 3. The master OF every
vessel entering the harbor between
the hours of nine o'clock a. m. and
four o'clock p. m. of any day, ex-
cept Sundays and holidays. shall
report to the harbor master before
four o'clock p. m. of said day, ald
il entering the harbor between four
o'clock a. m. of the next day, shall
report to the harbor master at nine
O'Clock a. m. of the next legal day.
and IL entering the harhor day or
night upon any Sunday or legal
holiday shall report to the harbor
master at nine o'clock a. m. on the
next legal day, stating name of
vessel, master, tonnage, amount
and nature of cargo, and such other
statistical information as may be
required by the harbor master per-
tanning to vessel and cargo; pro.
vided. that these provisions shall
goes or part caryoes OF explosives
nor those plying between Puge:
Sound ports.
Section 4. The waters of Tacoma
Harbor, subject to reservations for
anchorage, shall be known as fair
way" and shall not be obstructed
| in any manner whereby navigation
may be endangered or impeded. All
| navigable waters In the projection
Of public streets. texcepting FIJI
teenth street, lying on the land
ward side of the outer harbor line
shall be fairway. 1t shall be I'M
lawful for the master or other
person in charge OF any vessel, Ia
anchor, tie or make fast such yes
sci in any such fairway for a long
| er period Of time than reasonably
sufficient to load or unload the
same. except that the harbor mas
| ter may. in hts discretion, grant
| any permit for the use of any such
| fairway for longer period OF time
| whenever I'm his judgment such use
will not interfere with the use OF
the fairway by. any other vessel
but only upon the payment Of the
anchorage charges herein provided