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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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lustra-tions make readily ap-parent. Just what les-sons for architects andbuilders are to be de-rived from the shock ofApril 18 will in duetime be well understood.There had always beenattempts made to guardagainst earthquake dam-age by special methods of bracing, and by provision for unusual elas-ticity in frames. The larger part of the property loss of SanFrancisco was due to the spread of conflagration.The earthquake wreckage would naturally havestarted many fires, while also destroying thewater-supply and thus putting the fire depart-ment practically out of business. Under such,circumstances, a wooden city like San Franciscois bound to suffer far more from flames thanwould a city built of brick or stone. In itsearlier history San Francisco was repeatedlyswept by great fires, and it must seemingly al-ways be peculiarly liable to conflagration. The great disaster comes at a time when thisbrilliant and interesting metropolis of the Pacificcoast felt itself to be entering upon the most
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Copyright, 1904, by C. S. Hammond 5: Co., New V.irk,

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