NEW YORK AND COMBUSTIBLES.

NEW YORK AND COMBUSTIBLES.

On January 1, 1903, the new combustible storage ordinance of New York goes into effect. It fixes the limit of quantity to be stored in any building in the city limits as follows: Hemp or flax unbailed, 2,000 pounds; varnish, twenty barrels; alcohol, pure spirits, camphene, burning fluid, five barrels; unslacked lime, ten barrels; vitriol, five carboys; loose wood shavings, 100 pounds; sulphur, 1,000 pounds; manufactured matches, 500 pounds; chlorate of potash, chlorate of soda, and all other chlorates, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, and all other nitrates, 500 pounds; collodion, ether, phosphorus, fifty pounds; cartridges, percussion caps, powder train, sodium, peroxide, 100 pounds; aquafortis, muriatic acid, and nitric acid, 1,000 pounds; tar, pitch, resin, and turpentine, 100 barrels. Calcium carbide, zinc dust, and metallic sodium must not be kept below the grade floor of any building, for the reason that water on these substances renders them specially dangerous.

On January 1, 1903, the new combustible storage ordinance of New York goes into effect. It fixes the limit of quantity to be stored in any building in the city limits as follows: Hemp or flax unbailed, 2,000 pounds; varnish, twenty barrels; alcohol, pure spirits, camphene, burning fluid, five barrels; unslacked lime, ten barrels; vitriol, five carboys; loose wood shavings, 100 pounds; sulphur, 1,000 pounds; manufactured matches, 500 pounds; chlorate of potash, chlorate of soda, and all other chlorates, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, and all other nitrates, 500 pounds; collodion, ether, phosphorus, fifty pounds; cartridges, percussion caps, powder train, sodium, peroxide, 100 pounds; aquafortis, muriatic acid, and nitric acid, 1,000 pounds; tar, pitch, resin, and turpentine, 100 barrels. Calcium carbide, zinc dust, and metallic sodium must not be kept below the grade floor of any building, for the reason that water on these substances renders them specially dangerous.