OCEAN CITY SENTINEL

VOL. XXIII.

OCEAN CITY. N. J.. THURSDAY. JUNE 18, 190:!.

NO. 11.

Ocean City Sentinel

BOARD OF HEALTH ORDINANCE

johi« re. orovess 649 AsnuBY Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J. I

A N ORDINANCE governing anti regulating Plumbing and Drain ) age in Ocean City. N. J.. in accordance with an Act entitled,! "An Act to establish in this State. Boards of Health and aj Bureau of Vital Statistics, and to define their duties." approved.March 1 31. 1HK7. and the several supplements thereto and amendments thereof, j Section i Every person engaged in the plumbing business in the i city of Ocean City as a master- plumber, and every person coming from other places for the purpose of doing* plumbing work to the city ol Ocean City as a master pftnuber.-shall appear in i«erson at the office of the Hoard of Health and register his name and business address upon forms prescribed l>y the Board of Health, and Tecetr* a certificate of registry, upon presenting satisfactory proof that he is a Iwna fide master plumber, and the payment of >2.00 ; and no person other than a registered plumber shall be allowed to carry on or engage in the plumbing business, or make any connection with any sewer, drain, soil, or was' pipe, or any pipe connected therewith. Sec. 2 Every registered plumber shall give immediate notice any change in his place of business, and upon his retirement from business shall surrender his certificate of registry to the Board of

Health.

Sec. 3. The drainage ot all bnildings. public or private, and the alterations of the same, shall he executed in accordance with plans and Ipecifications previously approved in writing by tire Board of Health. Sec. 4. There shall tie a separate plan for each building, public >r private. accom|ianied by specifications describing the drainage of such buildings on blanks, prescrilied and furnished lor this purpose, showing the sire and kind of pipes, the traps, closets and fixtures, etc., to lie used, the same to be placed on file in the office of the Board of

Health.

Said drawings and description to be furnished by the owner, or his authorized agent, and prepared by the architect or builder, where one is employed, and application fur a change in plan must be made writing by the owner. Sec. 5. Blanks for drawings and specifications for drainage will be famished on application at Uie office of the Board of Health. One vertical drawing will be sufficient for a building where it can be made show all the work ; if the work is intricate and cannot lie shown liy 01 drawing, two or more shall be made. Sec. 6. When the plan of any plumbing and drainage system filed in the office of the Board of Health, a fee of $2.00 must be paid defray the expenses of inspection, the filing of plans and superintending the testing of the work. Sec. 7. Hans will be approved or rejected within twenty-four (24 hours when practicable, and under no circumstances will a delay beyond ten (to) days be permitted. * Sue. 8. No drainage work shall be covered or concealed way until after it lias been examined and approved by a house drainage inspector, and notice must lie sent to the Board of Health, in writing, when the work is sufficiently advanced for such inspection ; aad immediately on completion of the work, application must be made for final ins|iecti<in. I'nder no circumstances shall sanitary plumbing work be used until the same has first been tested in the presence of the Plumbing Inspector, with the water tcsL or if that is not practicable. With the peppermint, mercury, smoke or other reliable test, and iT said test is satisfactory he shall issue a certificate to that effect. When defective pi]ies are discovered they shall lie removed and replaced by sound pipes. Defective joints shall lie made tight, and y part of the work in which defects are found shall be made ' i to the requirements of this ordinance. The failure on the part of a master plumber to make said applicafor final insjicction. or the violation of any of the rales of the Hoard of Health in the construction of any drainage work, and failure correct the fault after notification, will be deemed sufficient cause to place his name on the delinquent list until he has complied with said rules and regulations. Any attempt on the part of a master plumber to construct or alter system of drainage during the time his name appears on said delinquent list will subject him to criminal prosecution. Sec. 9. When there is no sewer in the alley adjoining the lot on which a building is placed and it is necessary to construct a private connect with a sewer on an adjacent street or alley, it must lie laid along the alley to the nearest street, and .down the roadway of the street to the nearest branch pipe, and not throngh yards or private property without a special permit from the Board of Health. Sec. 10. All horizontal drains within the walls of buildings shall lie of cast iron, with caulked leaden joints or wrought iron screwed joints.-and shall be so located as to be readily accessible for inspection. The house drain within bnildings shall be securely hung on the cellar wall or properly laid on brick piers 9 inches thick aqd not more than 7 feet apart, unless this is impracticable, in which case it must lie laid in a trench cut at the grade. The house drain shall have a fall of at least one-quarter of an inch to the foot, and more if possible. When a pipe passes under a wall of a building there shall be a relieving arch to prevent the pipe being broken by the settling of the foundation. Said drains shall be provided with o|ienings for cleansing purposes, the sai to lie closed with screw plugs. All other drains or soil-pipes connected with the main drain, or where the main drain-pipe is above the cellar floor, shall lie of plain cast iron pipe, or of wrought iron pipe with screw joints made with paste of red leadand treated to prevent corrosion. Outside of omldings, where the soil is of sufficient solidity for projier foundation, cylindrical terra-cotta pipes, of the best qnality, free from flaws, splits or cracks, perfectly burned, and well glazol over tin entire inner and outer surfaces may be used, laid on a smooth bottom. Will) special groove cut in the bottom of trench for each hub (in order give the pipe a solid hearing on its entire length) and the soil well mined on each side of the pipe. The spigot and bob ends shall be concentric. ■■ 1 The space tietwecn-tbe hub and pipe shall be thoroughly filled with Uie liest cement mortar, made of equal parts of the bed American natural cement and bar sand thoroughly mixed dr)-, and water enough afterward added to give it proper consistence.. The cement must be mixed in small quantities at a time, and used as soon as made. The. must lie carefully wiped and pointed, and all mortar that may be left inside thoroughly cleaned out and the pipe left clean and smooth throughout, for which purpose a swab shall be ufied. No tetnpered-up cement shall lie used. A straight-edge shall be used, and the different sections shall be laid in jierfect line on the Ijottom and sides : but in no case shall terra-cotu pipes be permitted within wo (2) feet of any foundation wall. In all cases where sewer pipes are laid in the street, in front of asy raproved property, the Board of Health may, if they deem it necessary, compel the owner or owners thereof, to connect the drainage of all Imildings on said property, with the outside sewers in the street. Overflow pipes, from fixtures, must in each case be connected on the inlet ' of the trap of the same fixture. Grease Interceptors shall be employed in the construction and reconstruction of house drainage Systems whenever required by the Board of Health. [Note.—After the test lias been approved by the Inspector, iron drain or soil-pipes may be tar coated. But in no cose shall any coating be applied to cast iron soil or draw pipes until test has been ipplied and approved by the Inspector.] Sec. 11. The arrangement of soil-and waste pipes shall be as direct as possible. All changes in direction of horizontal pipes shall be made with Y liranches one-sixteenth (i-i6)or one-eighth (i-t) bcuds. In of elbows, sweep Iwnds must lie used. Every bouse or building shall be separately and independently connected with the street sewer min drain in alley, and every house shall be separately vented. _ Site. «a. Every vertical soil pipe within ten (10) feet of a window sliall extend two (2) feet above the top oft said window, otherwise shall extend two (2) feet a bolt the roof, with the outlet uncovered ekcfcpt with a wire guard. Sec. 13. Every branch or horizontal Kne of soil pipe to which a group of two (2) or more water-closets is to be connected, and every Inanrh line of horizontal soil pipe fifteen (15) feet or more in length, to which a water-closet is to be connected, sliall lie ventilated, either by extending said soft pipe, undiminished in size, to at least two (a) fret above the highest part of the building or contiguous property; or by extending said soil pipe and connecting it with the main soil pipe above tlie highest fixture, or by a ventilating pipe connected to the crown of each water-closet trap, not less than two (2) inches in diameter, which shall lie increased one-half (}£) inch in diameter for every fifteen (15)

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TALMAGE SERMON * By ntANK DC WITT TALMAGE. D.O..

iTik-nen. Jan* M.'-lr

talk to the rblldrrn. spprotirlate to tbs <1*J. tb.1T la a tmaarr to the bsart and lire of el-cry Aiucrlcaa boy and Ctrl and So tbr parrnta alio. Ttw text la- Matthew slz. 14. “Buffer lilUr chit drvu. and forbid tbctu not, to cam* anThe acrond Sahtiatb of Jane la Tbla la eblldn-na day. Tbla la tbr mornlna when tbr Monday acboola of Amcrfro. bedded by tbetr loperlolmdetrts and trorbera. bare made a croud rbarer and captured the pulplta and

pnra and choir lofu of

Tbla la the day when the eburrb tori urns are. for tbr moat port, fragrant with two kinds of flowers. Herr tbr flowers wbb-b wrre produced lo tbr crvrnhouart and the back yarda the front yarda and Uie wild cua liUUkfrs and the meadow lands. Here ore a loo tbr boman boda which

Here tbry are.' throe but

flowers. Id dusters of many els a XIJ. mjl Did you ever ore oe mr beautiful fleoera abloom aH In ooe 1 den? We know not which to admire moot—the pole lille* In tbr cberka. tbr red mere In tbr Hpe. tbr goldenrod dancing among tbr yellow curia or the roguish glaucre of three "black eyed

Tbla fa tbr flalibatb morning when par-

ent* not only bring their children

tbs chare he* where Christ la preached, but when tbelr own thought*. I believe,

are Irreetatlbly drawn toward the vine teaching* If a father cannot I his affrethma stirred with toe* tow. God when his little girl la singing farlmir'a prelae hi the holy at

Bible. There wi

fling and poshing about Jesus Christ. It waa the time of the Bariout'a earth, ty popularity. Every one wantrd to

of the United States at a White ■vcrptlou. Among others there w. IB that crowd surrounding Christ great number of father* and mothers wbo bad children by their aide and wantrd Jraus to hires them, an tb tbelr boya and girls might grow up be good as Christ waa good. They Wanted to do just aa Washington Irvlog's nurse did when be was a little child. She forced her way Into the home of the first pr. dent and said: "Mr. Washington. I have a little baby buy here wbo la named after you. want him to be aa good and grrn tsan aa yen are. Will you hires y. little nameoake. that many years fr now. aftar you are dead. I may him that year bauds touched Ida forehead and that be ought, therefore, to

tty to bo Uko yooT" Tb

veard grew up to be George Washing

But In the crowd surrounding Christ there were also a lot of unsympathetic men and women. They belonged (hat great rises of people who think that children are a boro ot that they should never tx serif heard Id public places. Tbry think. If they go and visit a married friend, that friend should have bis children eat In the kitchen while they are there, or else have the children wait until the older folks are through sod then go to the second table. Now. I do not believe that la the right way to bring up boya and girls. If my

Mends wbo visit

willing to eat at the same table with

1 at aU. 1 1

d oof ec

who foOuwid Jnraa w end were called hit knew bow precious c< tend was and bow

it day. too.

enough to believe that what la good enough for my <

for my friends. disciples. They

rory word

hlfod and deaf people bo waa curing, and they did not want his lime taken up with Utile children 80 thei dp lee told the fathers and mot be to bother Jesus with f They said: “Her

Then when Christ

. that Is not right little ours away, nd let the childrra

practically said: "A Do not posh those

a path there ■

Christ gave this sweeping Invitation » all children to he brought to Us rma Therefore I shall try. children.

o Christ while you

o try »

that Christ Is the beat friend a child, a young Up or girt, can have. Tea. he la even a better fr than your father or mother, slat He la a Mend whose tore la

J cuiu s na- 1 ere are two kinds of seed One e Is capable of growing Into a -

chiItT* life elsrt* wdl. ami wh child becomes a man or worn*

band an apple When from? "Oh..I know." hoy sluing in that da tear her. My mother

a farm tost hark of our hotel Tberv In bis field be had a great Mg apple ore hard Thv fanner uwl to let me climb those trees and pkk life apple* which grew upon the branches. Tbry were awfully Mg tree*. Borne of them were an big that I had to get a ladder' to climb them, flen.e of them were so Mg that afire I had dtmbrd fbem 1 found four or five birds' nests in the same tree Borne of them were so Mgthat my mother used to rome out ou hot days and hang her hammock Ulster the hr*ochre and there do berorwlng

and knlttlng-

That answer la right, my boy. An apple gross upon 1 orchard. But when tree* dime from which produced the apples? -Oh. I do aot kaow.' the hoy. -I aui’P—' they have always bee if there Why. mother said that some of those apple tress were or fifty years <*d. Borne of them aa old ai my grandfather and grand mother, and they am awfully Yea, my boy. you are tight

...r.,

• lire to be very. '

dad a begtaulng. apple erhleh I bold In my hand you will find In the renter an apple core, flight In the crater of the apple core you will Sod brown seed Now. children. Will take tbla apple seed and la the seed will l> Tb* little root* of that seed to grow down A little gt like graae will begin to grow the green gram will .change aftei awhile Into a steei mg* after awhile

forth from nothti pie tree first growa from the like that which I bold In my baud. Christ the Gw IS a. Now. a little cklkt'a life can be a pared to n seed. How ? Bemuse j know a Bred does not grow anlreo 1: lightly planted In the right kind of ground. Weeda will grow anyw without any core. 80 If the good I spoke of just now does not got c for and looked after It will not g seed will, and like weeda-gtx lug Now, If you ask Jeans to look aft- 1 or you and take charge of you, your nature ran grow (lie great tree* of rlghh-ousoeas which will hear forth good fruit If you will only let the of your heart grow about the rock of Calvary, upon which

■ they have bora able t do. When my little burs and girls I do what I

aad bite. Now. no good tittle boy -will ever art like that, and I do not wi you to go with him." But. children, though I may hare been able to guard and shield and tret my little girt while she wai

r ttw parent t child had to pack her and laave home, r up to a great Mg 1 little boy* and girls In that school re bod girls aa well aa goes] girt*, bod boya aa well as good boya. and Mw had to att three aad oaaoriata to some extoot with them all Now. who la going to look after little girl when ah* goes to meet tomptaflotw of school unlaaa Christ, who love* little children, gore alo and take* her by the hand? Who (Ding to tall bar what to do when 1 tad girt tolls bar to dtaobry her teach

atory If CbHot la not there? mother cannot do It Her father sot do It Wo or* uot there. Christ only an hr her guldg and her shield. opfr do not think avn any Mg temp that some of the we ever liars In * come to at when wo ore young, ry young I kflpw 'ftf hue tittle boy ao dM uot lake Christ along with a to school Ooe day Ida playmate* 1* leasing him. Then, beenum he did not have Christ with him. ha Inal

awoke. He tUxaaht the Mg dog lying •poo him was n big bear or Wolf. Ho took oat hi* knife and drove It into the heart of the dog and kllbd It Then to sea ret 1 fnr him mid found the dng and the man treth dead In the snow. If the man had only known that the dng was try ing In save him he would have horn thankful to him Instead «f killing him. and Ua owa Ufe an hi Id hare two aavrsL But you sea. be did Oot know what a friend the dug was.

rant y<m

rant you

ttw 1—t friend y nau save yam fstw I warn you to w<

Bui Ihrrv Is u not In-: why you eNwilti emt that l* no that you r thcr and nod lev. Mg ten* along with you b many children then fkU.crs never ask a table or have family

uanjr I

s by the ' e chit-

fat Mrs and

tDofls-r* and Mg tirmtlrr* and slat rra because they have an or answered the pleading call of Jraus and have aot rente and knelt at the Savtnur's festl little chnaren. do you not know that you perhaps better than any ooe else ran lead your falhera and moflirra and brothers and aiatera and on-tea and Christ ? Do you ant reollor. bey* and girt*, that aa ttw Bible dreerlhre the day of millennium as the time when -the wolf also shall dwell with Uw bun?!, cud a little child shall land them.” the greatref goaga-l messenger* wbo ever lived are the tittle rhUdrra vrtw are tending the grown op peopte Boys and girls. I? yea have a father fo church, what a good •ottld he If you could bring .pose you should go home service and rtamUef up Into

around you and should nay. ”Yre darling. for your sake I win go to church and h-artt to love Jesaa.” He would be thing Just aa that great lawyer and ■tatreinan of ihtladrlpbfai did a few years ago. He waa haute front Washington far a little while on a vacation While be was sitting la the parlor bin little Blx-yrer-oM daughter rushed Into the runm, crying: "Oh. papa. I have learned to read. Would yua Uko to ksar me read?” Then oh* wren and got a Bible and opened K, and with her little lingers used for a guide ah* •lowly read the sixteenth vrre* of the third chaptar of 8t. Job a. -For God 00 loved the world -that he gave hi* only begotten Sou. that whosoever beUt-vrth In him should mg pertah. but have errrlAattng Dfe." Before the Util* girl hod finished her rending the fitli.T* bran tndt.d with rt aad be wa* crying Hite a Biff* ami gtrla. what .|o ye« would do If you e

and a

w-.nihi get down ua her knees and put her arm* about you and then sod