The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-06
MUSTN'T. SMOKE IN !.
YOUR OWN GARAGE
New Fire Rules Forbid II land
Owners Must Put Up signs
To Warn Themselves Not To

! ~ .E@N. :
,iiAutomobile owners who smoke in
their private garages hereafter are
going 10 risk going to Jail rs well as
setting fire to their property, according
TO the new fire law rules and reeula-
tions which have Just been issued by
DelBert E. Mctzger, the territorial fire
marshal.
What is more, the owner Of n private
garage Is going to violate the law IL
he docs not put up sign at all the
ontfhneDs to his garage saying "No
Smoking as a reminder to himself
and others Of this fire rulc. The ter
1 ritorial treasurer warns such private
garage owners if they do not comply
with the law their neighbors and others
will find 1t out and report them.
An excerpt from tho insurance law
defines a private garage as n building
where one or more automobiles are
, kept and stored for private use only,
and not rented or hired out to the pub
! lie, or any charge made for storage.
/ The ono Smoke rule and the reauir-
I Ing OF conspicuous signs with this
warning apply also to public garages.
Rules Are Strict
| The rules and regulations OF the new
! fire laws which went into effect on July
| l are strict also in their references to
establishments such as paint shops, fur
niture stores, planning mills, bakeries,
lumber yards, clothes cleaning estab-
lishmonts and other places where infam
4 nable matter is kept in large quaint
| tics. Such places of business have to
secure special permits. ~
But 1t is in their Applicant ions. tot gar
ages that the rules are extremely rigid.
| In his notice to the public, the fire
marshall warns all to know the law and
comply with its requirements. A full
and continuous compliance will cause
less, Inconvenience and cost than an
effort to defend single violation. If
you DOM comply your neighbors and
| others will find it out. Be law abiding,
and help conserve our property and re-
sources from fire loss; this is elemen-
tary and effective patriotism, ~ he says.
Another rule which applies to private
garages is that at all times they must
contain two iron buckets of at least one
gallon capacity filed with dry sand.
Some questions asked in connection
with the notice Of the fire rules, which
may puzzle bachelor owners of auto.
mobiles to answer, arc as follows:
A Few Questions
"Is your general housekeeping good I
Are your cellar, your attic, your back
yard and your Outbuildings in proper
orderP
There are nine separate rules apply
| ing to the storing Of gasoline filing of
tanks, use of lights while tanks are be-
, ing filed and providing other precau-
tiOns for preventing FIRE. Information
and instructions regarding these rules
and regulations may be secured upon
! APPLICATION to the fire marshal at the
4 territorial treasurer s Office.
| A section of the Insurance Law pass
ed by the Legislature in 1917, in order
to bring the insurance business under
government direction, created the Office
of fire marshal, and specified that
sheriffs were to be the deputy fire mar
shals outside of towns and cities which
had no fire departments. In towns
which had the fire departments the
chiefs were named as the deputy fire
marshals
It, also was provided that the fire
marshal should promuIgate rules and
regulations as fire laws, so the fire
hazard would be reduced, which has
been done, after conferences with fire
insurance experts, the deputy fire mar
shaIs and others.
Because there is so much work Of
keeping the reports of fires, one Of
! which has to he submitted for every
/ fire in the Territory, and personal in
4 vcStigations made az to the cause, when
doubtful, the territorial treasurer de
! rided he would need a deputy to devote
Ms time to this work TO fiji this posi-
tion he has appointed Earl Williams of
Hilo, Hawaii, who entered upon his
duties last Wednesday.
The deputy fire marshal s Office is in
the treasury Office whore all tho fire
reports will be filed and other work of
this department given attention.