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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ands of dollars worth of automobiles. Failure of brakes andmomentary loss of head, have sent more human beings to their graves thanthe German drive on Paris. The remedy for the accident herein illustrated lies in providing sub-stantial barricade in the form of landing entrance elevator doors Thisbarricade is more essential to the management of the garage than thebumpers he places on the front and rear of an automobile. Unsafe Operation of Elevator Gates By D. J. .HARRIS, Elevator Inspector The Elevator Safety Orders of the Industrial Accident Commissionprovide that all landing entrances of freight elevators shall be protectedby gates or doors which shall begin to close automatically before the carplatform has moved one foot from the landing. The accompanyincr illus-tration shows a very common practice of some emploves—that is to blockthese gates open with a stick or a nail, not realizingthe dangerto whichthey expose their fellow-workers and themselves. 108 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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To illustrate: A was employed by a furniture house as a receivingclerk He was called from the basement to the sidewalk, to receive acase of goods from a drayman. He brought the car from the basementto the sidewalk, raised and blocked the gate open as he had been m thehabit of doing. After receiving the case from the drayman he startedto drag the case toward the elevator. In the meantime, unknown to him,another employe had taken the car to one of the upper landings. As hewas dragging the box with his back toward the car. he did not perceiveit had been moved, -with the result that he backed into the open shaft,falling to the pit with the case, which he had instinctively held on to, adistance of fourteen feet, causing injuries which proved fatal. The Flag Pole Hazard A SHORT time ago a painter was sent up a flag pole to paint it. Onreaching the top he took hold of the iron staff supporting the woodenball. The staff bent over about 45 degrees and broke off just above thetop of the flag po

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