Show PUBLIC BUILDINGS county attorney instructed owners to change doors so they will swing out all the doors in all the public buildings in uintah county that swing inward must be changed so that they will swing outward and the change must be made in a few days or somebody N ill have to pay a fine the recent awful decaster de by fire in the collinwood school near cleveland ohio in which school children lost their lives and in which scores of others were burned and injerd has aroused the county commissioners to a realization of the danger to life and limb in public buildings with poor facilities for exit in ease case of a panic among the occupants of the building acting upon instructions received fron from the county commissioners county attorney T W odonnell has sent out notice to all owners managers or agents of public buildings to the effect that they must make the changes above mentioned at once A public building means a church school house dance hall opera house lecture room or in fact any kind or class of building where people congregate some of the public buildings in uintah county are fairly well equipped with exits and others come under the head of regular fire traps in some the doors swing in and in some they swing out the notice sent out by attorney 0 donnell for the changing of the doors I 1 did not include the owners of buildings in the city of vernal the city council will take that matter up at the next meeting the doors of the coir county rity court house all swing in and one of the first agents to receive instructions to make the change was waa the county commissioner in charge of the building the doors of the central school all swing out and the halls balls and stairways are broad and commodious mo dious the doors of the congregational church wilcox school uintah stake academy episcopal church ver nal ward house social hall swing in at workmans Work mans opera house the front and bioff doors swing awing out but the rear doors swing in the law requiring doors of public buildings to be constructed so that they will swing out was passed by the legislature of the state in 1903 but has never been rigidly enforced although there is a minimum fine of and a maximum fine of 1000 for all who violate it |