. Review of reviews and world's work. liable to sweeping fires. Conflagra-tions do not occur in European cities. A bigfire in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or anyother of a liundred cities one might name ispractically unknown. We can gradually reduceour fire risks to the European basis. And ,SanFrancisco must now lead the country in devis-ing ways to baffle the fire fiend. The Europeanplan is to use every possible precaution in theconstruction of buildings. AVe must not be con-tent to provide skillful means for extinguishingfires, but we must stop building imflammablecities. San Francisco can
. Review of reviews and world's work. liable to sweeping fires. Conflagra-tions do not occur in European cities. A bigfire in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or anyother of a liundred cities one might name ispractically unknown. We can gradually reduceour fire risks to the European basis. And ,SanFrancisco must now lead the country in devis-ing ways to baffle the fire fiend. The Europeanplan is to use every possible precaution in theconstruction of buildings. AVe must not be con-tent to provide skillful means for extinguishingfires, but we must stop building imflammablecities. San Francisco can and doubtless willadd enormously to the efficiency of its waterservice, and will also find ways to build a farmore fireproof city than the one destroyed. Ithas been found that steel-framed buildings prop-erly constructed can survive severe earthquakeshocks, and capitalists and builders will in duetime proceed to create the new city with as muchconfidence as it is right for men to have inhuman undertakings. San Francisco, like every.
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