The San Francisco earthquake and fire; a brief history of the disaster; a presentation of facts and resulting phenomena, with special reference to the efficiency of building materials, lessons of the disaster . -•^T.^-^ JJ^ ^^f^ MAJESTIC THEATRE. Northeast Corner Ninth and Market Streets. This building had an entrance by anarcade from Marliet Street througli a Class B building, which was destroyed by the fire. All the walls are bearing walls andof common brick with terra-cotta ornamentation. The left-hand side is the stage portion of the building, and was totallywrecked by the eartli((uake. Th
The San Francisco earthquake and fire; a brief history of the disaster; a presentation of facts and resulting phenomena, with special reference to the efficiency of building materials, lessons of the disaster . -•^T.^-^ JJ^ ^^f^ MAJESTIC THEATRE. Northeast Corner Ninth and Market Streets. This building had an entrance by anarcade from Marliet Street througli a Class B building, which was destroyed by the fire. All the walls are bearing walls andof common brick with terra-cotta ornamentation. The left-hand side is the stage portion of the building, and was totallywrecked by the eartli((uake. The gable wall at the opposite end of the building was also shaken out, large portions ofthe brickwork falling ujion the gallery tier and being supported by it. Koebling concrete floors and ornamental furring andlathing were used throughout. Note the floating section of brick wall cracked and su|)porting a large truss of 75 feets]>an, about 80 feet above the ground. The loose section of the wall has moved horizontally so that the side of the pilaster is4 inches out of line. 198. 11)9 The wall on the west side of the building had not been builtat the time of the fire, this portion of the building being incom-plete on account of delays in negotiations for adjacent prop-erty. The Market Street facade consists of gray sand-stonefor the first and second stories, terra cotta brick from the thirdto the eighth story inclusive and terra cotta for the ninth andtenth stories. The ornamental cornice is of metal. The in-terior light court is faced with vitrified brick with terra cottaornamentation. This building has a steel skeleton frame, thewalls being curtain walls. The columns support girders spaced about 16 ft. apart, andthe floor construction spanning the interval between the girdersis of the reinforced concrete type. Reinforced concrete beamsdivide the girder spans in two, making the spans of the concretefloor slab between suppoits about 8 ft. The tension membersof the rein
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