Fire insurance and how to build; combining also a guide to insurance agents respecting fire prevention and extinction, special features of manufacturi (1903)
Moore, Francis C. (Francis Cruger), 1842- · New York, The Baker & Taylor Company · leaf 86
Building, New York, almost ruined by afire,show this danger. The cap stones and the bond stones wereof granite and nearly two feet in thickness. They were crackedby the intense heat and the application of water and then failedto answer their purpose, which, of course, Avas to distributetheir load… … CONSTRUCTION. that the weight of the girder and its load fell upon a smallersection of the brickwork, the latter yielded, as shown by the( racks, and but for the admirable work of the New York FireDepartment, and also for the fact that the basement, fortu-nately, was not tilled with more…
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