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201 No radiator or heating coil shall be placed in any aisle or passageway used as an exit unless set in a recess or suspended from the walls or ceiling with a clear passage of ?' 6" below. When a ste~n boiler is used for h~ating or other purposes it must be located outside the part of the building used for t~ theater, and must be enclosed by walls and ceiling of masonry on all sides. Stairways leading to such a room must be closed with automatic fire doors. Every portion of the building devoted to the use or accom~odation of the public and in- cluding the open exit courts or corridors shall be well lighted during each performance and at adl times when the public is admitted to the building. Over each exit opening there shall be a light kept burning with a red globe or lantern on which shall be placed the word "Exit" in red letters not less than 6" in height. ~upplying the building shall have three indepen- dent connections as follows: One for the stage, one for the auditorium, and the third for the corridors,lobbies, halls, exits and such other portions of the building as are used by the audience outside of the auditorium proper. Provisions must be made for shutting off all gas and electricity outside of the buildin~ and in addition to this there must be some means in the lobby of controlling all lights in that part of the theater used by the audience. No lights of any description shall be recessed in walls, woodwork or ceiling in any part of the building unless protected by fireproof materials. Whenever deemed necessary by the building in- spector wire guards shall be provided over lights. All ducts or shafts used for conducting heated air from the main chandelier or from any light shall be con- structed of metal and made with double wal]s with an air space between, or some other fireproof material. Where open lights are used on stage they shall be protected with wire guards or screen so constructed that no mstal can come in contact with the frames. Lights on the side of the proscenium must be so protected with guards that no drop can come in contact with lights. Electric calcium so called included in the above re- quirements. Border lights must be constructed according to the best known method and to be su~ect to the approval of the City electrical inspector, and the first S' of the suspensim next to the light must be made of wire rope or iro~ chain. Stand pipes of not less than 4" in dzameter shall be provided as follows: One on each side of the stage with connections at the main floor. A similar stand pipe with one connection within 10' O" of the door of the carpenter s~p and one within 10' of the door of any storage room, and one in the fly gallery so ~laced as to be essily reached from the exit window or door already specified. All such stand pipes ~nd hose connections shall be kept clear of obstruction at all times. A sufficient quantity of approved linen cotton, hose not less than 2½" in diameter in 50 ft. lengths, but not less tha~ 50' O" in total length in any case shall be kept attached to each hose connection° Such hose to be provided with washers, couplings and nozzles and the threads of all connections to conform with the standard in use by the fire department. The stand pipe must be installed independent of the automatic sprinkler system. All stand pipes must be connected to a Siamese steamer connection on the outside of the building and be approved by the chief of the fire department~ Such stand pipes shall receive and supply the water from a gravity tank located over the stage roof with the bottom of the tank at least 12'O" above the highest point of thereof. This tank to be of not less than 5000 gals. capacity, and in addition such stand pipes must have at least one of the follow- ing supplies: (a) Approved steel pressure tank of not less than ~OOO gale. capacity loc&ted on the stage roof or not lower than the grid floor. (b) Automatic fire pump of not less than £ive htuudre~ gallons capacity p~r minute~ (c) City water malu where nozzle pressure is notless than 25 pounds per square inch at the high~st hose outlet when streams are in operation. Stand pipes must be ~itted with approved straightway composition valves w~th hose outlets. Two spanners to be located at each hose connection. Stand pipes to be kept constantly filled with water under pressure ready for instant use. A system of automatic sprinklers aD, roved by the build- ing inspector and the chief of the fire department shall be installed throughout the entire stage section of the theater located in the rear of the proscenium wall~ This to include equipment of roof, grid, galleries, stage and in all dressing rooms, in all workshops and all property rooms and other rooms and passages. There shall be an independent water supply connected with sprinklers which may consist of a gravity tank with the bottom not less than 25' O" a~ove the highest sprinkler and a capacity of not less than lO,OeO gallons and in addition at least one of the sources of supply as required for addition-