Cleaning Up Denver
Denver, Colo., like most large cities in the United States, has its “Tenderloin.” located in the district lying between Larimer and Blake streets and Nineteenth and Twenty-second streets. This is to be the first section of the city that is to he inspected with a view to making it clean and sanitary, as well as safe from a fire-protective and fire-preventive standpoint. It abounds in firetraps. The inspecting party will be the fire and police and health commissioners, the building and plumbing inspectors and the chief sergeant of police. In that district there are scores of buildings now a menace to the city. I f a fire once started among them the entire business district would be in imminent danger. To these buildings no attention has been paid, and they will he at once condemned and pulled down, as will be all outbuildings that threaten the public safety and health. No structure, whatever its size or whoever its owner, will escape inspection, nor will it he spared unless it is in every way deserving of exemption. The inspecting commission reports that the same evils are common throughout the whole of the fire limits.
Denver, Colo., like most large cities in the United States, has its “Tenderloin.” located in the district lying between Larimer and Blake streets and Nineteenth and Twenty-second streets. This is to be the first section of the city that is to he inspected with a view to making it clean and sanitary, as well as safe from a fire-protective and fire-preventive standpoint. It abounds in firetraps. The inspecting party will be the fire and police and health commissioners, the building and plumbing inspectors and the chief sergeant of police. In that district there are scores of buildings now a menace to the city. I f a fire once started among them the entire business district would be in imminent danger. To these buildings no attention has been paid, and they will he at once condemned and pulled down, as will be all outbuildings that threaten the public safety and health. No structure, whatever its size or whoever its owner, will escape inspection, nor will it he spared unless it is in every way deserving of exemption. The inspecting commission reports that the same evils are common throughout the whole of the fire limits.
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