Reports on an Auxilary Water Supply System for Fire Protection for San Francisco, California |
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alluvium amount of water artificially filled bay shore boiler buildings capacity Chief Engineer cisterns City Engineer conflagration hazard connections constructed David Starr Jordan discharge distributing reservoir distributing system elevation estimated extinguishing feet fire apparatus fire boats fire department fire engines fire limits fire mains fire protection system flushing Foot Length fuel gallons per minute gate valves geological fault ground High Pressure Fire hundred hydrant inch hose inches in diameter installed INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE large fire leakage located lower zone necessary Ness avenue nozzle pressure pipe lines pipe system plant portion pounds per square proposed system quantities of water Rincon Hill salt water pumping Sample San Francisco San Francisco peninsula shock Spring Valley square inch stand pipe steam fire engines storage reservoirs sufficient system for fire Thickness tion turbine Twin Peaks reservoirs upper zone vicinity water pumping stations Water Supply Water Works Association
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Page 36 - The following statement is made in Special Consular Reports, Volume 38, Bureau of Manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor, in discussing fire insurance in foreign countries: In Europe the fire insurance laws are remarkable, chiefly because they compel insurance in some countries, while in all cities they prevent great losses by insisting on the erection of only stone and brick buildings. The fire department systems are ridiculously inadequate as compared with those of American cities, yet...
Page 36 - Germany: The comparative immunity of Berlin from disastrous fires results not from the efficiency of its fire department — although it does promptly and well what work it has to do — but from the absence of wooden houses and the solid, careful construction of all kinds of stone and brick buildings under the rigid scrutiny of the building police. Other consuls invariably report, "There are no wooden buildings in the city.
Page 137 - Report of a general committee and of six special committees of the San Francisco association of members of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The effects of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, on engineering constructions: Am.
Page 157 - After having been published five successive days, according to law, taken up and finally passed by the following vote: Ayes: Supervisors Bancroft, Booth, Broderick, Center, Comte, Connolly, D'Ancona. Giannini, Hocks, Jennings, Johnston, McAllister, McLeran, Murdock, Murphy, Payot, Pollok, Rixford. JOHN E. BEHAN, Clerk. Approved, San Francisco, July 14, I908.
Page 46 - Exchange, corner Battery and Washington streets. The latter building was completely ruined. The California Engine Company's House, Market and Sansome streets, was severely injured and rendered unfit for occupancy. The chimney in the rear of the Lick House was shaken down. Stoddard's warehouse on Beale Street is said to have been thrown out of place several inches. On Third Street, from Market to Howard, the window glass was broken in many places. On Washington Street, also, the glass appears to have...
Page 143 - ... race, but to the study of the effects of nutritive and even morbid processes upon the skull form." Dr. DJ Brinton prefixes a short appreciative note to the memoir, and points out that the conclusion as to the influence of methods of living in producing differences between crania is most important. " A CATALOGUE of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast, 1769 to 1897,
Page 155 - Francisco; that the cost thereof, in addition to the other expenses of the city and county, will exceed the income and revenue provided for the said city and county for any one year; and directing the board of public works to procure through the city engineer and...
Page 46 - ... and lasted perhaps five seconds. It was almost instantly followed by a heavier shock, which continued for ten seconds or more. The vibrations appeared to be east and west, or northeast and southwest. There was nothing in the weather or in the condition of the atmosphere during the previous week to foretell the earthquake. On October 8, in the evening, there were two or three slight additional shocks. The chief damages to buildings were to Popper's building, Third and Mission Streets, the City...
Page 38 - ... prescribed limits. No proprietor is allowed to pile up private insurance on his property until its destruction by fire would become profitable to himself. As has been already stated, the nominal or insurable value of buildings in Berlin during the fiscal year 1894 was 4,310,495,800 marks ($1,025,898,000). The percentage of premium charged for such insurance is calculated from year to year so as to produce an income that covers three items of expenditure, namely: Losses on property through fires,...
Page 156 - ... the cost of which, in addition to the other expenses of the City and County will exceed the income and revenue provided for the City and County for any one year, they must, by ordinance, submit a proposition or propositions to incur a bonded indebtedness for such purpose or purposes to the electors of the City and County at a special election to be held for that purpose only.