Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1919 — CITY HALL GOES AS FIRE MARSHAL SPEAKS. [ARTICLE]

CITY HALL GOES AS FIRE MARSHAL SPEAKS.

Harry S. Tnyer, state fire marshal, paid Rensselaer another visit Thursday and as a result a few other of the buildings in the uptown district have been consigned to the scrap heap, while other property owners have been ordered to make changes to comply with the fire laws. Among the buildings ordered tom down was the city hall, which has served, as the fire house. The .building is an old frame one, decidedly unsafe and an eye-sore to the business district. Ninety days is given for the completion of the wrecking of the building. A new building will ibe erected immediately. Other buildings within the immediate vicinity of the fire house will probably also be ordered wrecked. Marshal Tyner also ordered all public gasoline tanks placed underground, and minor changes in several busines? rooms. Mr. Tyner was accompanied by J. J. Montgomery on a trip to Francesville and practically made * a clean sweep of *the business district at that place, where he found conditions extremely bad and the fire hazards many. The|e is a concerted movement throughout the state toward lessening the fire evils and toward razing all unsafe buildings.