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Show IDINUE 10 RULE ! IN SCHOOL BUMS Permit Will Be Granted for Liberty Structure Under . Proper Regulations. recision that the permit askerl by the city board of education for reconstruction of the Liberty school shall be granted, provided that the huilding is made to comply with the requirements of the city building- ordinance, was reached by the city commission yesterday, though no vote was taken on the matter. Fire Chief William Ji. Bywater was before be-fore the commission during the consideration considera-tion of the application of the board of education edu-cation for a permit and the protest against ; Its allowance made by 13. M. Ashton. Chief Bywater stated positively that he believed the fire to have been started by faulty construction of the stack of the heating plant, where it pierced the roof of the building, and not, as reported by the board of education, as the result of a fumigation fu-migation candle left burning in the janitor's jani-tor's supplv room. Chief Bywater denounced the tile roof used in the building as entailing too much use of lumber in bracing the roof to support sup-port the weight of the tile. While the chief admitted that his ob-i ob-i jections to the construction of the Liberty building were mostly outside the requirements require-ments of the ordinance, he suggested that the need of direct legislation by the commission com-mission with relation to school building construction was evidenL In this the commissioners were agreed with the fire chief. i H. J. Dininny, city attorney, was called in and asked as to the provisions of the ordinance requiring that fire alarm boxes be placed In all public buildings. He gave the opinion that the ordinance did not Include school buildings and was instructed instruct-ed to draw an amendment to the ordinance ordi-nance that would yrovlde for the installation installa-tion of fire alarm connection with the central fire station, since the fact was brought out at the discussion that there are no telephones in the school buildings. |