新奥尔良的消防
在新建筑专员MoKelvey保持忙Orleans investigating the schools and other buildings. In the schools he has found conditions absolutely inviting the cremation of the pupils. One the Stoddart, is typical of the neglect of the Board of Education, it is an old three-story brick structure, without any protection than the ordinary school drill. From the third floor, where there is only one exit for over low children, if the sta rway leading from the second to the third floor caught fire, the cremation of the children would follow almost as a matter of course. As the Board of Education claims exemption as a separate department, it insists that the building commissioner has no jurisdiction over its buildings. The latter official, however, expects to hold the hoard under the State law. The hotel men have come around and are seeing to it that fire escapes are provided. Strangely enough in the case of one hotel keeper, when the commissioner asked to see the fire escape, as although it was a threestory building with 70 rooms and no ropes in any, nor fire gongs, and not enough of red lights or signals, he was told that a guese could easily find an escape at the end of the building. The landlord offered to show it to the inspector, whom he led through a long unlighted corridor until he came to a row of guest chambers at the end. Stopping before one of these, he considered a while before he tried the door, then, brightening up, he said: "Here it is.” It wasn’t there, however, as the man was forced to admit. Another room was tried at the extreme end, and its exit was discovered in another room, whereupon the manager triumphantly exclaimed when they had found it: "I got mixed up on the floors. Now. it we had been on the second floor we would have found the fire escape in the room directly above the first one into which we went!” In another hotel of the same type and size someone had hidden away the fire ropes in the various rooms. After a long and weary search under the beds, behind wardrobes and in the drawers of bureaus and chiffoniers they were found on the third floor. These proved to have been intended for the second floor, and when thrown from the windows of the third floor they reached only to the windows on the second floor. On the fourth floor of a business college, of which building the mothers of some of the students had complained on account of its fire dangers, these complaints were found to be justified. There was no hallway leading from the various student rooms direct to the fire escape, which is on the west wall of the building. The students in the rooms on the east side of the building have to pass through other rooms to reach the fire escape. However, the building itself, the commissioner found, was fireproof, and the protection in other respects perfect. He ordered doors taken off in the classrooms on the fourth floor so as to leave an open way for all students to the fire escape. The theaters, even the old ones, were found to be in a most satisfactory condition in every way. Tn those which arc not fireproof, three in number, every device known to render an old-style building nearly fireproof had been employed.
在新建筑专员MoKelvey保持忙Orleans investigating the schools and other buildings. In the schools he has found conditions absolutely inviting the cremation of the pupils. One the Stoddart, is typical of the neglect of the Board of Education, it is an old three-story brick structure, without any protection than the ordinary school drill. From the third floor, where there is only one exit for over low children, if the sta rway leading from the second to the third floor caught fire, the cremation of the children would follow almost as a matter of course. As the Board of Education claims exemption as a separate department, it insists that the building commissioner has no jurisdiction over its buildings. The latter official, however, expects to hold the hoard under the State law. The hotel men have come around and are seeing to it that fire escapes are provided. Strangely enough in the case of one hotel keeper, when the commissioner asked to see the fire escape, as although it was a threestory building with 70 rooms and no ropes in any, nor fire gongs, and not enough of red lights or signals, he was told that a guese could easily find an escape at the end of the building. The landlord offered to show it to the inspector, whom he led through a long unlighted corridor until he came to a row of guest chambers at the end. Stopping before one of these, he considered a while before he tried the door, then, brightening up, he said: "Here it is.” It wasn’t there, however, as the man was forced to admit. Another room was tried at the extreme end, and its exit was discovered in another room, whereupon the manager triumphantly exclaimed when they had found it: "I got mixed up on the floors. Now. it we had been on the second floor we would have found the fire escape in the room directly above the first one into which we went!” In another hotel of the same type and size someone had hidden away the fire ropes in the various rooms. After a long and weary search under the beds, behind wardrobes and in the drawers of bureaus and chiffoniers they were found on the third floor. These proved to have been intended for the second floor, and when thrown from the windows of the third floor they reached only to the windows on the second floor. On the fourth floor of a business college, of which building the mothers of some of the students had complained on account of its fire dangers, these complaints were found to be justified. There was no hallway leading from the various student rooms direct to the fire escape, which is on the west wall of the building. The students in the rooms on the east side of the building have to pass through other rooms to reach the fire escape. However, the building itself, the commissioner found, was fireproof, and the protection in other respects perfect. He ordered doors taken off in the classrooms on the fourth floor so as to leave an open way for all students to the fire escape. The theaters, even the old ones, were found to be in a most satisfactory condition in every way. Tn those which arc not fireproof, three in number, every device known to render an old-style building nearly fireproof had been employed.
