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Show DOES IT COni'LY WITH THE LAW. Considerable comment is being made on the new building that the Rosenburg Bros, are erecting on main street within the fire limits The city ordinance provides that "It shall be unlawful within said limits to errcct any building the outer out-er walls of which are in whole or in part, constructed of wood, except so much as maybe necessary for door and window frames, cornice, doors, sash, and shutters:" the walls of thU building are partly up and so far are of wood. It is the intention of the parties to cover this wooden part of the wall with corrugated iron. Without entering into a discussion of the fire proof aspect of the case except to remark that snch a wall is certainly not so safe from fire as a wall of brick or stone, it is certain-v certain-v evident that this sort of wall is not such as was contemplated by the ordinance when it says that no part of the outside walls shall be of wood. It is contendedby some persons that this, building will have two walls, the wooden one tliat is now in gourse of erection and the corrugated iron one that is to'be put on after the wooden wood-en one is up; but inasmuch as the irbn is to be attached to the wood it is difficult to see the logic of the two wall idea. The Rosenburg Brothers Broth-ers appcarecj before the city council last Thursday night and promised that if the building inspector when appointed shall declare the building an unlawful one, they will build a nine inches thick brick or other fire pro'of material wall around it. . With this understanding the building is to be allowed to go on. |