| Show THE STORAGE OP MABLE OILS k THE oil agitation in this 01 olly olty ty b has as V done no harm barm but according to present appearances is likely to result in considerable good an ordinance regulating tho the storage of oil in this thia city was presented in the city council last evening and is under consideration the new now york worlds world commenting on the recent great explosion at the standard oll oil works saye baye thero there Is probably no way of preventing the burning of oil tanks when they are struck by lightning such a mass of metal as the tank itself is far more attractive to the light lightning aing than any number of lightning rods nods which it would be boe practicable to rig around it the only safe plan is in to prevent ho oho storage of inflammable settled localities in such quantities as would be greatly dangerous and oven even in places apart from buildings tanks ought to be placed at such distances from each other na as to render unlikely a catastrophe of the magnitude of the bernes bennes of explosions at communipaw the tho ordinance presented jn in our city council last evening provides against the storage of inflammable oils which shall shau flash or emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below 1100 ilo fahrenheit Faren earen helt belt in quantities above a thousand gallons unless in iron tanks in a licensed building or in quantities between one hundred and one thousand gallons gallone without a permit permits or in any but fireproof buildings less than one hundred gallons may be kept anywhere or anyhow and it looks as tb though ough ou oll that will stand the fire most test of 1100 ilo may be kept in unlimited quantities without license also that all oils oila for illuminating beb bes M baand this test the tho ordinance us na it appears in printis yet in a crude state statland and has not been exa examined mined and discussed we therefore refrain from criticism y i of the council connell the ornis omission slon blon to provide for the methods of testing oil the apparent contradiction that all nyi ail nil oils for illuminating purposes must stand the fire test of 1100 llo while wello all the tho provisions seem to be for the regulation of the storage of oil below that standard etan stan daid and the deeming permission for the storage of oil in any quantity and any place which will stand the 1100 ilo fire test we nind ond no fault we merely draw attention to points that need thorough consideration bide Olde ration |
