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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1913
Page
11
The document details fire department and Building Inspector powers to issue notices, plus extensive theater safety standards. It covers entrances open courts corridors fireproof walls doors stairs balconies and exits, stage separation, fire doors and curtains, structural materials, and prohibitions on dangerous storage.
Detailed fire safety requirements for theaters include asbestos curtain reinforcement with metal rods, automatic ventilators, iron or steel stage structures, fireproof finishes, separate dressing room sections with air doors, and guarded stairways. Exits must be outward swinging, with adequate width and independent routes per gallery, ensuring safe public egress and stage access.
Special notice outlines comprehensive fire safety measures for theaters including automatic sliding doors in walls to building, standpipes with hose connections, gravity tanks and pressure tanks, multiple fire pumps, sprinkler systems, lighting requirements, gas and electric mains with independent controls, and illuminated EXIT signage. It mandates trained chief oversight, emergency equipment, plan diagrams, and continuous exit illumination during performances.
Section 1223 empowers the Building Inspector to deem any building dangerous and to issue an exterior danger notice. Owners must secure the structure or face license revocation if required. In emergencies the inspector may enter property and have the fire department assist, at owner expense, to secure or demolish the unsafe structure.
The ordinance empowers the Building Inspector to seek civil proceedings in the city name for violations or noncompliance, with criminal penalties still possible. A City Solicitor may initiate legal actions to enforce the code, and a Board of Appeal handles inspector disputes with three qualified members. Penalties for violations range from five to two hundred dollars per offense.
City of San Antonio Inspector of Buildings sets advance permit fees based on project cost from 25 to over 5000 dollars with a 0.1 percent rate above 5000 dollars up to a 100 dollar maximum. All fees go to the City Treasurer monthly with a detailed statement. Also repeals and supplements prior ordinances. preserves certain city officials’ duties.
Contractors and architects in New Braunfels and San Antonio invite bids for a two story brick school building, with plans available from A C Coera and Sentter Shand. Documents note the bid deadline is 6 pm July 30, 1913 and reserve the usual rights.
Sealed bids will be received by the undersigner until noon July 21, 1913, for furnishing the City of San Antonio with either four or six street graders. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
The record catalogs numerous 1912 1913 transfers including John Kenney to Margaret Kenney for two lots in new city block 917 and prices around 190 dollars, in San Antonio area blocks and estates with names like California firms and city blocks such as Los Angeles Heights listed with various amounts from 10 to 5000 dollars.
A E Arey of Torreon Mexico, a onetime Monterey and Saltillo trader, died in Los Angeles after injuries from the electric interurban wreck. He leaves a widow and daughter, two brothers Gus of Los Angeles and A R Arey of San Antonio, and two sisters in Los Angeles. Funeral location not announced.
M C Ortiz offers packing and shipping services with free drayage to the station and estimates. Best references available. Mail inquiries to 148 Dwyer Avenue.
Auctioneers Sommer Cunningham and Fred Houston advertise household goods and furniture sales. Highlights include a July 21 auction at 709 Avenue C and a weekly Watomorrow paper sale for the next eight weeks by Sommer Cunningham.
Archaeologists unearthed a $50,000 collection of rare ancient Egyptian relics in the attic of Mrs. A. E. Poore in Grafton Massachusetts after over thirty years of searching by U S archaeologists.
Rail timetable notes list numerous trains serving Houston Kerrville Victoria Sutherland Springs and El Paso with departures arrivals and route labels. The document shows a mixture of north south east and westbound services on daily and Sunday schedules with times such as 2:00 pm 8:00 pm and 9:00 am and references to the Victoria Division and Sun Set Route.
Dr A B Mercer of the Western Theological Seminary Chicago says relics were brought to America in 1881 with the Obelisk now in Central Park New York. They have been hidden from the world. The collection includes rings worn by the Pharaohs of the Greek period and other relics dating to about 1850 B C. Mrs Poore did not know their value or significance.
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