United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 5300 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...This building had castiron concrete-filled column; and Ransome reen forced-concrete floor construction. So far as it was possible to ascertain, no damage was done to the reenforced concrete or to the columns by the earthquake. The building was gutted and the floors considerably damaged by the fire, but the columns were not damaged, and on the whole the building stood very well. A very good view of this building was given in the Engineering News of June 7,190C. page (23. (See Pis. XXIV, 1; XXV, B.).ETNA (YOCNG, OR COMMISSARv) BUILDING. The steel-frame structure at the corner of Spear and Market streets, locally known as the " commissary building.' because it was said to have been erected originally with a view to furnishing offices for the Commissary Department of the Army, rests upon piles, and suffered relatively small damage from the earthquake. PI. XXV, A, shows the corner of the building and the subsidence of the street at this point. The inlet at the corner indicates the original level of the street. There was a vault under the Market street sidewalk, immediately behind the wall at the curb line. The basement floor in this vault was of concrete and had a total thickness of 7 or 8 inches. The earthquake caused the earth to bulge up in the portion of the basement under the sidewalk, rupturing the concrete floor and turning it up on its edge, so that where there had previously been a clear headroom of 7 feet the highest point of the bulge was within 3 feet of the beams carrying the sidewalk. The columns were of steel, protected with expanded metal and plaster. The girders were of steel and the space between them was spanned by reenforced-concrete construction. The reenforced-concrete beams were formed on the lower edge by a curved piece o...