Identifier: historyofearthqu00aitk (find matches)
Title: A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Aitken, Frank W Hilton, Edward
Subjects: Earthquakes -- California San Francisco
Publisher: San Francisco, The E. Hilton Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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upper air.For this reason solid walls without openings should beprovided wherever possible. Window openings should be small and few, and shouldbe protected by the use of metal sash and wired glasswhere possible, and by fire-proof shutters or screens, auto-matic or otherwise. It is important that interior par-titions, floors, etc., be made fire-proof to minimize thespreading of fires within buildings. Doors, etc., shouldbe metal-sheathed. If hollow tile partitions are used,they should be better built, so as to hold together moresolidly. It would seem eminently desirable that officebuildings, which necessarily have many window spaces,should have a really fire-proof wall—say of brick, withwired-glass transoms and metal-sheathed doors—to dividethe front rooms from the others and prevent the spreadof a fire through the building after it had effected anentrance. Such construction would have saved, for in-stance, at least three-fourths of the Merchants Exchangeand James Flood Buildings.
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Aronson Building Photo hy Waters APPENDIX 283 Vertical openings, such as elevator shafts and stair-ways, should be isolated by fire-proof walls if possible,and there should certainly be no combustible materialadjacent to them, such as the usual room doors openingon central hallways. Both the Atlas and the Kohl Build-ings seem to have been saved from destruction mainlyby the fact that there was nothing combustible near theelevator shaft. = The only really safe method, perhaps,would be to enclose the elevator in a brick-walled shaftwith automatic fire doors at the openings on each story. STATEMENT OF RELIEF FUNDS (From Report, Nov. 17, 1906) Receipts from cash subscriptions $6,213,259.28 Expenditures 4,628,452.23 As follows: Housing the Homeless 1,234,094.43 Relief of Hungry 1,146,412.68 Rehabilitation 1,023,166.51 Sanitation 231,020.74 Transportation 171,470.53 Sick and Wounded 147,899.90 Construction and Operation of Permanent Camps 140,805.56 Relief of other Cities 138,934.00 General

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