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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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s may be operated as conveniently as those of any otherwindow. It will be observed that all the suggestions made for fire walls, stair andelevator enclosures and window openings are as applicable to buildings ofmill or slow-burning construction as to those of concrete. They should befollowed, as far as possible, in all factory construction and in mercantilebuildings as well. In certain buildings of mill construction, carrying stocks of excessiveweight, it has been a common practice to make the main beams of two piecesof timber side by side, bolted together. An air space between the pieces wasformerly advocated in behalf of better seasoning and possible avoidance ofdry rot. Experience has demonstrated, however, that this space not onlyreduces the resistance of the beams to fire by offering almost double thewooden surface to its attack, but that in case of fire getting started the spacebetween the beams holds it for a long time and prevents its extinction. The The Architect and Enzinecr
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A Standard F.n- Door.—/» a large patter ivare-house in which everythingin one section was de-stroyed by Hre. a line ofstandard tin-clad Hredoors effectively pro-tected^ all stories of theadjoining section. Theaccompanying photographshows one of the doors.Self-rclcasi^ng timbersso7-ed the xualls fromwreck, and the doors keptthe fire in the burning sec-tion. Note the integrityof the standard hardwareiihI the unwarped body ofthe door due to its well■.elected lumber and propernailing. -V ot h i n g hap-pened to it but the bite thefire took out of the core.rposcd in the little round go photograph on page 7i shows a collapse of such double beams, whichare not so severely burned but they might have held had they been one solidtimber, or had the two pieces been bolted tightly together. It is obviousthat neither automatic sprinklers nor ordinary hose-streams can successfullyreach fire lurking in such narrow alleys. Such construction should beavoided. Mill or slow-burning construction pres

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