(b) Subject to all the conditions of these regulations and such further restrictions as the Fire Commissioner may deem necessary:

(c) For the term during which all the conditions and restrictions are strictly observed, for the period of one year. 2. Terminate immediately on any violation of these regulations or the restrictions imposed by the Fire Commissioner.

3. Be revoked by the Fire Commissioner should he deem that the interest of public safety so demands.

§ 56. Sand to be kept on the premises.-Sand shall be kept— 1. In approved fire buckets for fire extinguishing purposes only. 2. In approved receptacles for use in absorbing waste oil on floors. 3. In bed or metal drip pans where motor cycles are kept on floors that are not fireproof.

57. Smoking Not Allowed.-Smoking is absolutely prohibited in any room or place used as a motor cycle repair shop, or in any room or hall opening into such motor cycle repair shop. A notice in large letters "No Smoking" shall be displayed in a conspicuous place and manner on the wall of said motor cycle repair shop.

§ 58. Fire, Lights, etc.-No stove, forge, torch, boiler or other furnace, flame, fire or fire heat, no electric dynamo, motor or other exteriorly sparking electric apparatus, or any artificial light (except the incandescent electric light) shall be used or allowed in any motor cycle repair shop or in any room directly adjoining such shop. § 59. Movable Electric Lights.-Movable incandescent electric lights shall be protected by approved metal cages and shall be fitted with keyless sockets. All electric switches and plugs shall be permanently located at least four feet above the floor.

60. The amount of gasolene in any motor cycle repair shop shall at no time exceed two gallons.

Such gasolene shall be contained in one approved safety can of no more than two gallons capacity. Such cans when not used shall sit in an approved drip pan of metal.

PART VIII.

Storage, Sale and Use of Matches.

All regulations regarding the sale of matches within the corporate limits of The City of New York are hereby revoked, and the following are substituted in lieu thereof:

§ 1. No person, firm, or corporation, as sellers, vendors, or merchants, except as hereinafter specified, and after procuring a license or permit therefor, as hereinafter provided, shall, within the corporate limits of the city, store, keep, sell or give away any matches. § 2. All matches to be sold at retail, or to be given away, after April 30, 1903, in the city, shall comply with the following specifications:

(a) Not more than one thousand matches shall be put in the box immediately inclosing said matches.

(b) Boxes shall be of such material and so constructed that the matches are not likely to fall out when the container is withdrawn; and when more than five hundred matches are packed in a box, that

box shall be specially strengthened with wood veneer or heavy nonflexible strawboard, or other suitable material or device, to insure the outer box retaining its shape when the container is being withdrawn.

(c) All wooden splints shall be sufficiently strong to permit of the matches being easily ignited and without breaking.

(d) Matches should ignite on scratch surface easily, with little noise, and practically without danger of heads flying off.

(e) Matches must be well made, and in no case shall boxes contain matches with heads stuck together.

(f) The name and address of the licensee, with the words "Licensed Match," shall appear upon each separate box containing one thousand matches or less, either by printing or stamping same upon the box itself or by label attached thereto.

(g) All matches sold to consumers within the City shall in every respect correspond with the sample or samples deposited with the Fire Commissioner.

§ 3. Licenses for the sale at wholesale by manufacturers, manufacturers' agents, importers and owners of private brands will be issued by the Fire Commissioner upon written application accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars, and upon the approval by the said Fire Commissioner of samples submitted of matches such as said licensee proposes to sell for consumption within the corporate limits of the City. In every case said matches must conform to the specifications embodied in these regulations, if intended for sale at retail within the City. The sale or giving away of the variety of match known as "fusee" is prohibited.

§ 4. Permits for the storage and sale, in original packages, of matches already licensed shall be issued to wholesale dealers supplying the retail trade, which permits may authorize said wholesale dealers to carry in stock not more than three thousand five hundred matchman's gross of matches. The annual fee for such permits shall be five dollars.

§ 5. No permit shall be required for the keeping of fifty (50) matchman's gross, or less, of licensed matches for retail sale to con

sumers.

6. Repealed.

7. The storage or sale of matches shall not be permitted in any building or premises where paints, oils, varnishes, resin or turpentine, or oils, other than for illuminating, edible, medicinal and lubricating purposes, are sold; in furniture stores where hemp, cotton, oil or varnishes are used, or in any building where gunpowder, blasting powder, fireworks or other explosives are kept or sold. § 8. Repealed.

§ 9. Retail stores may carry not more than fifty matchman's gross of matches, which must be kept in some readily accessible open space in said stores. Cases shall not be placed under the counters or shelving, nor shall they be covered with any inflammable or combustible material. All goods other than in original packages must be placed in a closed case.

§ 10. Manufacturers and manufacturers' agents may have storage room in the City where they may carry two hundred and fifty thousand matchman's gross of matches, in original packages, with

which to supply the trade. Said storage room shall be in a building having brick walls on all our sides. The building must be lighted with gas or electricity. All gas jets must be protected with glass or wire globes or screens. Each floor shall be provided with fire extinguishers and at least six pails of water that shall always be kept full and ready for use.

§ 11. A matchman's gross is as follows: One gross of boxes, each containing one hundred matches or less (14,400 matches or less).

§ 12. The Fire Commissioner may revoke permits or licenses in case of violation of these regulations, or when, in his judgment, it is necessary to do so for the public safety.

13. All licenses may be reissued on payment of ten dollars.

14. The fees for licenses and permits and all fines imposed for violation thereof, when collected shall be paid into the Firemen's Relief Fund of the New York Fire Department, pursuant to title 5, chapter 15, of the Greater New York Charter.

§ 15. Any person who shall sell matches at retail without a permit, or who shall sell matches in a box not stamped as a "Licensed Match," in accordance with the foregoing regulations, may be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by revocation of his permit, if he holds one, or by both.

§ 16. Any violation of these regulations as to licensees shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars, or by a revocation of the license, or by both.

Suggestions for the Proper Use of Matches in Households.

(a) There should be a matchbox in each room, placed 51⁄2 feet from the floor, with a receptacle for holding the burnt matches, to obviate the carrying of matches from one room to another and to prevent the throwing of lighted matches on the floor.

(b) In buildings inhabited by more than one family, where halls are in charge of janitors employed by the house owners, these janitors should use only safety matches.

(c) Matches in each household should be kept in a covered earthen or metal receptacle or in matchboxes on the wall.

(d) Children under ten years of age should not be permitted to play with or use matches of any kind.

(e) The use of safety matches, to the exclusion of all other varieties of matches, is recommended.

PART IX.

Miscellaneous Regulations.'

CHAPTER 1.-NITRATES OF CELLULOSE.

Section 1. No material having a nitrate of cellulose as a basis of ts manufacture and a volatile combustible as its solvent shall be manufactured in the City.

§ 2. No stock of any material having a nitrate of cellulose as a basis of its manufacture shall be stored or kept in any one place in the City in quantity greater than five hundred pounds without a permit from the Fire Commissioner, issued after a survey and ap

proval of the premises. The fee for such permit shall be two dollars. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to permit the handling or storage of smokeless powder in contravention of regulations contained in Part II.

§ 3. All warehouses and workshops thus licensed shall at all times keep comminuted pieces or shavings of such material immersed in water within metal receptacles. The quantity of such comminuted pieces or shavings shall not exceed at any one time two hundred pounds.

§ 4. If, in the use of any material having nitrate of cellulose as a basis of its manufacture, saws or metal tools calculated to heat the material to the firing point are used, they shall be so adapted and contrived that a jet of water is constantly playing upon the material at the point where it is being cut.

§ 5. Where permits are issued for manufacturing articles from a material with a nitrate of cellulose base, no larger stock of this material shall be carried on the premises than may be necessary in the proper conduct of the business.

§ 6. These regulations shall go into effect thirty days after their approval by the Mayor. (App. July 30, 1903.)

CHAPTER 2.-COMBUSTIBLE FIBRES.

§ 7. No person, firm, corporation, without having first procured a permit or license therefor as herein provided, shall, within the corporate limits of the City, manufacture, store, keep for sale or for use in any art, trade or manufacture, any of the following materials except as herein provided:

Cotton, excelsior, flax, hay, hemp, husks, jute, oakum, rags, paper and cardboard, scraps, both old and new; rushes, sawdust, shavings, straw, paper stock, broom corn or other finely divided vegetable fibre; excepting that such substances may be kept without a permit or license, under the following conditions:

(la) In the unbuilt-up portions of the City in stacks removed at least one hundred yards from any building, which is not an outbuilding, and in barns or sheds;

(b) In the built-up portions of the City in stables, two thousand pounds in all of loose hay and straw and two tons in all of baled hay and straw, and in buildings used exclusively for the storage of the articles of this section one thousand pounds in all.

(2) In no portion of the City, whether built up or not built up, shall any of the aforesaid articles, without a permit or license therefor, be stored in any building not built of brick, stone or iron, and not covered with tile, slate or other fireproof material, which is within ten feet of any hotel, dwelling, lodging, boarding or tenement house, or school.

(3a) No permit shall be granted to store any of the articles enumerated in this section on any floor of a building, in weight exceeding one-third of the safe bearing weight of said floor, as certified by the Department of Buildings, nor any quantity when baled more than sufficient to cover two-thirds of the floor space when in piles of not to exceed two-thirds of the distance from floor to ceiling in height.

(b) No permit shall be granted to store any of the articles enumerated in this section, in quantities exceeding twenty tons, in any building not provided with a standard perforated pipe or sprinkler outfit installed in accordance with the requirements of the Fire Commissioner.

CHAPTER 3.-ACETYLENE.

§ 8. Acetylene generating apparatus of a capacity fitted for a single burner only, and the storage of the calcium carbide necessary therefor, but not exceeding twenty pounds, shall be exempted from the provisions of this chapter.

§ 9. All acetylene generating apparatus shall be used only under permits obtained from the Fire Commissioner.

§ 10. All apparatus used for generating or holding acetylene gas shall be so constructed, located and used as to secure the greatest measure of safety, as may be prescribed by the Fire Commissioner, i. e.: (a) Copper and any alloys of same must not be used in any part of the apparatus; the various parts shall be of adequate strength. (b) Escape of gas from the apparatus must be carefully guarded against.

(c) Satisfactory provision must be made against dangerous development of heat.

(d) In all generating apparatus, and when necessary in holding apparatus, satisfactory provision must be made against the dangerous effects of undue pressure, by the employment of an approved safety device, connected with an escape pipe discharging into the open air above the roof of the highest contiguous building. In all lighting systems using acetylene, the pressure must be indicated by suitable pressure gauge.

(e) Provision must be made for the residuum of calcium carbide being deposited out of doors immediately upon its being removed from the apparatus, away from all drains, so that it will not be a hazard to combustible material.

(f) No person shall have charge of a generating apparatus until he has been properly instructed in its management.

§ 11. All acetylene generating or acetylene gas-holding apparatus, except as hereinafter provided, must be installed in an outhouse building of fireproof construction and with approved ventilation, and so located that it will not be a hazard to adjoining property; the dimensions of said building must be confined to the requirements of the apparatus and the limited supply of calcium carbide, as follows:

(a) With all generators having a capacity of not more than twentyfive pounds, there may be stored an additional amount of not more than fifty pounds, the whole to be located in an outhouse vault, separated from the main building by a blank wall and an air space of at least five feet, provided said vault is properly ventilated and drained.

(b) Acetylene generators or acetylene gas-holding apparatus of larger capacity than the above-mentioned must, excepting as hereinafter provided, be located in a detached fireproof building properly ventilated.

(c) All generating apparatus must be charged by daylight.