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 . - parts of the buikiing. The floors are of the expanded metal concrete type with acement finish. 170. KOIIL BUILDING. Tyjjical view of the small darnaf^e to this building by fire. The concrete floors are finishedin cement and are but little damaged in the parts subjected to fire. 171 and smoke, but are disfigured by a great number of plastercracks caused by the earthquake. Comments: The
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 . - parts of the buikiing. The floors are of the expanded metal concrete type with acement finish. 170. KOIIL BUILDING. Tyjjical view of the small darnaf^e to this building by fire. The concrete floors are finishedin cement and are but little damaged in the parts subjected to fire. 171 and smoke, but are disfigured by a great number of plastercracks caused by the earthquake. Comments: The advantages of the metal-covered trim and the incombus-tible floor finish were clearly demonstrated in this building. Inniany cases the fire was confined to the rooms which containedthe windows that admitted the fire from the outside. It is tobe regretted that the design for protecting the window open-ings was not complete, and that metal sash with wire glazingwere not also provided as well as the metal frames in theseopenings. Had this been done, fire would never have been ad-mitted to the building, and the entire damage to the interiorwould have been avoided. The damage to this building was smaller than that of anyof the fire-proof buildings in the burned district. It was un-injured structurally, and
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