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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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,with a noiseless and well-ventilated system of transportation. Each househas its own stairs to the platform, which runs the entire length. In thisbasement are the conduits for all the pipes and wires of Koadtown. Havinggas, water and electricity in a straight line is one of the great eomomiesof the new city. Every apartment has on two sides air and light. The twoends partition off the adjacent houses. The country, with gardens and farms, is immediately accessible at everypoint. Within a half mile on either side there are two acres of lancl for eachfamily, sufficient, the intensive agriculturists assert, for their support. The roof of this long line of houses is also a continuous passage. And It Was a San Francisco Girl, Too .\ voung woman was visiting a friend in an architects draughting roomthe other day and made the following exclamation upon iieing shown a lon-gitudinal section of a theatre: < )h! thats a view of the front as if therewere nothing! THE ARCHITECT AXD EXC.IXEER 71
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MILL COXSV hl\ I II:) nrii.ri \ i The Standard Slow Combustion Building i5o Called Mill Construction) l-.y AI.FKKI) KLMIX. Architect* Wl IICX llic CDiistniction of a commercial or factory building is beingconsidered by the architect who wishes to protect his client in thematter of tire hazard, wood fratiiin*^ beinjj considered out of the(luesliuii, reinforced concrete seems to be the only alternative. This is ))artly due to tlie mistaken idea that seems to prevail. es;ieciallyto the layman, that any timber construction is hazardous, must therefore betabooed, and is associated with the old ly;)e of joist constructed buildinij—that old lire trap, with the ojien elivator hatchway and stair well. tiiroiio;hwhich the tire roared, s)>rea(l from tlnor to tloor and was soon beyonil thecontrol of the firemen ; then fallint^ walls and total destruction. The fact of the matter is. that lonjj before the present era of reinforcedconcrete, the very Ixst tyiH of brick masonry and wood frame str

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