22 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 21 August '85

Historic Cape May Continuing Tours

CAPE MAY - Trolley, walking, and house museum tours i including a Beach Drive tour) are leatured daily in the narion's .oldest seashore resort Trolley tours are The Historic East End Tour, highlighted by the historic Physick Estate, 'wo Victorian hotels. Columbia Avenue. Ocean street, and Hughes Street. ;he oldest residential street >n the city. The tour departs every 45 minutes "he following schedule:

10:00 a.m. to 2:45 p.m . and 7 p.m. THE WEST EM) Tour includes Congress Hall, the Huntington House, the famous Pink House, quaint Congress Place, unique Perry Street, and the align ed porches of Decatur Street. The tour departs 10: 15 a.m.. II :45 a.m.. 1:30 p.m.. 3:30 p.m.. and 7:45 p.m. The Beach Drive Tour features a century of beach housing, from Victorian cottages through turn-of-the-ccntury mansions and

exotic revivals of the 1910s and '20s to the best of contemporary design. The tour departs 11 a.m.. 12:45 p.m!, 2:15 p.m.. 4:15 p.m.. and 6: 15 p.m. WALKING TOURS of the National Landmark District lead visitors on a stroll down many of the historic streets. Tours begin at the Information Booth at the head of the Washington Street Mall (at Ocean St.) on the following schedule: Saturdays. Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays: 10 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. 7 p.m.. and Fridays. 1 p.m. Guided tours of the Physick Estate. 1048 Washington St.. features the ifi-room house designed .

by renowned architect Frank Furness. Built in 18a! in the Stick Style, it is an authentically restored Victorian House Museum. The complete estate tour runs every day except Monday 11 and 11:45 a.m., 12:30. 1:15, 2 and 2:45 p.m. EVERY WEEK MAC operates Physick Estate and trolley tours specially geared for children 6-12. Children's Physick Estate Tours run every Tuesday morning at 9:30. MAC's open air trolley carries patrons by the surf of the beachfront and back through the heart of the Historic District. The ride leaves from the Tr°Hey Station. Beach Drive at Gurney Street, every evening at 8:30.

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School Boards Hit Fire Code Change

A New Jersey School Boards Association official recently protested a proposed fire safety code that could require schools throughout the state to spend $36 million to install automatic alarms in every building constructed before 1979. As currently written, tbe code would apply only to high occupancy buildings, requiring the retrofitting of automatic alarms and sprinkler systems in those structures built before the i Uniform Construction Code <UCC i was adopted. T II E P R O P () S A L . however, excludes one and two family homes where most fatal fires occur. Vice President for legislation Charles Robinson underscored that fact during a public hearing of the state Fire Safety Commission. a unit of the Department of Community Affairs which proposed the revisions. "According to statistics from the Bureau of Fire Safety, the overwhelming majority of fatal fires and accidents occur in residential buildings.' ^Robinson said. •"FIRES IN schools

J always make headlines but I statistically are a rare occurrence." t In fact, the department » of education can find no ) case of a student being kill1 ed in a public school fire in ' New Jersey, he added. ? The association estimates that 65 percent of ' the state's 2.388 school • buildings were built before amendments to the UCC pertaining to schoolhouses were adopted in 1979. THE RETROFITTING required by the proposed code could cost -districts from $20,000 to $30,000 per building, or approximately $36 million. It would have to be completed within one year of the code's adoption. At present, school buildings must contain one automatic fire alarm system as well as a manual back-up system. The most commonly used automatic fire alarms in schools are pneumatic systems that detect rapid temperature increases at a rate of 15 degrees per minute. Robinson testified. NONETHELESS, under the proposed code, these ! alarms would have to be I backed up by either fixed- I temperature heat detectors or smoke detectors. The i NJSBA vice president said | thai while pneumatic i systems do have limita- | tions, the proposed re- I quirements would not | significantly increase the safety margin for I occupants ; "Smoke detectors are ! considered to be too sen- ; sitive for schools, leading < to many false alarms," he < pointed out | In addition, in certain i circumstances fires would < remain too cool to trigger a i fixed-temperature heat I detector until too late, he < said. ( "OS THE other hand, the pneumatic systems are approved (by the National : Fire Prevention Assicia- < tion), and available < evidence from school I districts indicates they do i detect the overwhelming < majority of fires." Robin- I son said. < "Furthermore, even in I those instances where : (they) have failed, the re- * 1 quired backup manual « systems have worked." * Be. ca use of ' enhancements to the con- < struction code covering ; school buildings, boards of f education have "led the >

way" in altering buildings to provide easier egress for occupants and to prevent the spread df smoke and fire, according to Robinson. "BUT THE most important component in the fire safety effort is the timely removal of students from a burning building," he continued. "Here local fire officials and school districts have worked in close cooperation and to great effect: manual backup fire alarms are tested twice monthly during mandatory fire drills and students are evacuated routinely in less than three minutes.

For example, the most recent and destructive fire literally demolished a Paterson city school building, yet all 900 children were evacuated safely in less than three minutes, Robinson said. "... the primary benefit of the extra alarming devices would be to property and would not significantly increase the safety of students," Robinson added. This article is reprinted from School Board Notes, a weekly report to the citizens of New Jersey from the New Jersey School Boards Association.

Social Security Is Not Just For Aged

By DEL BROOKS Social Security Manager in Wildwood It's true that Social Security provides monthly and Medicare. protection for most older Americans. But it also has much to offer younger people. Since 1985 is the International Year of Youth, it is particularly appropriate to take a closer look at the program Social Security pays to about 3.4 million sons and daughers of insured workers. Payments are made when a parent dies or received disability or retirement checks after having worked long enough under Social Security. The worker's unmarried children under 18 (19 if in school full time) or who have been severely disabled since before age 22 are eligible for benefits. WHEN YOUNG people start working, they earn work credits so that some day benefits can be paid on their Social Security record. Since most jobs are covered by Social Security today, any and all credits earned count toward future In the case of a younger worker, as little 'as years of work credits are required to be insured. Benefits are payable when a worker becomes disabled and cannot do any substantial gainful work for at least a year A worker's dependents can

get benefits when the worker dies or receives disability checks. Social Security only partially replaces earnings that are lost or reduced due to death, disability, or retirement THEREFORE, workers should begin early to build additional protection through, savings, insurance, pensions. IRA's, or other methods. If you wish more information about the program, need a Social Security card, or" feel you are eligible for benefits, contact the nearest Social Security of- 1 fice. The people there will be glad to help you. [--- 1 ^ Aminut|ago, tt. ll l. ln H ill + American Red Croon. 51