This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...is secured by pipes from the city waterworks, in connection with about 1,325 fireplugs, and with a forcing water-pressure of 150 feet. The police authorities have to investigate and hand in their report over every case of fire, and all breaches of the tire laws being a polioe offense, these are punishable by the police magistrate with fine or imprisonment. In all suspected cases of incendiarism, however, the accused will be handed over for trial in the criminal courts. In the tables for the year 1890 there was only the return of one case of incendiarism. Warehousing of petroleum and other fluids of highly inflammable nature is prohibited inside of the city walls, and is confined to such places outside the city as in the opinion of the fire board are at a sufficiently safe distance from all other buildings. These regulations are not, however, applicable to the storage of small quantities of such articles, say of 800 quarts or less, which may be required by retail dealers in their trade or by manufacturers in their works; the same must, however, be stored in underground cellars with stone walls and flooring. Under the fire regulations any display of fireworks or illuminating with torchlights is prohibited without the sanction of the police authorities. The filling of cartridges with explosives, snch as gan cotton, dynamite, etc., without special permission from the Are department is also forbidden, and the transport of explosive substances and filled cartridges through the city can only be made in quantities not exceeding 4 pounds at one time; such explosives under transport to be placed in strongly secured packages, and the transport must not be made by omnibus, tram-car, or other public conveyance. No larger quantity than 10 pounds of powder may be stored i...