San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 378
gic sensation; only extra precautioncan prevent an otherwise inevitable catastrophe. The theatre within the Imperial Hotel will seat one thousand people;it is filled with Nikko stone—held in suspension; its balcony railingsconsist of stone embattlements, twenty inches high; two six-foot-squarestone… … Evei-y facade is laininatcd iirofusely with sUjne. unfit for use—soft, fratiile, full of large holes—andcarvings of revived prehistoric patterns if it were outside of Japan; it is devoid of all fundamental essentialswhereby human safety is made reasonably secure; it has no secondaryexits; a…
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