Image: Flood Building from A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results (1906) (14766289272) crop

Description: Identifier: historyofearthqu00aitk (find matches) Title: A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Aitken, Frank W Hilton, Edward Subjects: Earthquakes -- California San Francisco Publisher: San Francisco, The E. Hilton Co. Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ay forthem. Then, too, a few property owners had begunto complain that they would be injured by the pro-posed changes. In the meantime the immediate work of re-building the city had become all-important, and theplans for the City Beautiful gave way, in the publicmind, to the reconstruction of the actual city thatimmediate business necessities demanded. For thetime being San Francisco was in the anomalouscondition of having an enormous amount of busi-ness and no place where it could be transacted—thetrade of a metropolis, and the facilities of a village.In the immediate rebuilding of the city, there-fore, the first essential was speed; and while manyconcerns contrived to put up substantial edificesmany others had to be content with mere shacks.But after July all construction was required to bein accordance with the new building ordinance. The new ordinance, itself, did not provide forradical changes in the citys manner of building;but great good lay in the fact that all of the burned Text Appearing After Image: James Flood Building Photo by Mollcr THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO district—except outlying residence sections—wouldbe within the fire-limits, and that all new build-ings would have to be of a substantial type. Apartfrom allowing the use of re-enforced concrete—which had always been forbidden, except for floors,because of political influences—the ordinance wasnotable as prohibiting the erection of any exceptsteel frame buildings above 102 feet, and limitingeven the latter to one and one-half times the widthof the street. Within the fire-limits no framestructures will be allowed. Within six months after the fire the work ofagain covering the burned district with substantialstructures was well under way. Permanent build-ings costing many millions had been started, in-cluding many of steel frame construction, and re-enforced concrete. The work which had been solong delayed by insurance troubles, and by impera-tive need of some immediate provision for the re-sumption of business, was begu Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Flood Building from A history of the earthquake and fire in San Francisco; an account of the disaster of April 18, 1906 and its immediate results (1906) (14766289272) crop
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