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Building & engineering news (1914)

Contractors' and Dealers' Association of California · San Francisco : L. A. Larson · leaf 7

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t rateswere one trouble which the companytried to overcome without very muchsuccess. Exceeding all previous high records,Americas fire waste last year totaled$548,000,000 according to a report :ustissued bv the Actuarial Bureau of theNational Beard of Fire Underwriters.This represents an average… … Daniel W. McCarthy, pioneer con-struction engineer and for twenty yearssuperintendent of the Grant Buildingin San Francisco, died in St. MarysHospital, San Francisco, June 30 atthe age ot 81 years. He was born inIreland in 1844 and came to Californiain 1867, where he first started hiscareer as a…

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