The San Francisco call., 1906-05-27
And /oDoe OtherDookE

"Since the fire I have spent several
days scrutinizing the buildings from an
earthquake point of view. Let US start
with The Call (Spreckels) building. This
is probably the most interesting, as 1t is
a type of building that Americans most
demand and is the ne plus ultra Of the
present Well, The Call building stood
it WELL AS q plea for lower buildings we
who desire them will always have The
Call building thrown in our teeth. What
is The Call building? 1t is a boulding
seventy-five feet square, rising to
height of eighteen stories, that includes
two stories in the dome roof; it is over
300 feet in height above the sidewalk.
| The foundation consists of a concrete
and steel raft feet inches in thick
ness, extending over the whole area and
projecting some distance under the side
walk. Two or three layers, 1 could not
discover which, of 15-inch I-beams, and
plenty of them, were used in the grillage
and these were thoroughly Incorporated
IN the cement concrete. The earthquake
has shown that in order to be earth
quake-proof," a foundation should be
capable NOT only of sustaining q
quiescent load, but should. be sufficiently
strong to lift the whole building bodily
. ",
rises beneath it.
ITO go into the thousand and one in
stances Of bad construction that the
earthquake brought to light would be inn
| possible. Such, for instance as a double
arch reaching to column at a salient
angle; result, total collapse of superin-
cumbent walls; tall and wide
gables with no supporting but
tresses, collapse. All such bad con-
struction gave way at this crucial
test. One cannot but feel that a great
deal of damage caused by the earthquake
would have been averted had these build
ings been erected with reasonable de-
| gree of substantially. In order that
| there may be msundersta tanding as to
the amount of damage done by the
earthquake, let me say that while it sent
terror to the hearts of even the most
courageous. the damage so caused, as
compared to the fire that followed. was
| as to 1000"
When the sweet peas come into bloom.
cut their flowers off as soon as they
begin to fade. This prevents them from
forming seed, and the plants, in their
efforts to perpetuate their kind, will
straightway produce more flowers. and
keep on doing this as long as interfered
WITH In this manner flowers are Sc
cured throughout the entire season But
/ II the seed is allowed to FORM YOU will
nave comparatively few flowers during
the latter part of summer.-Eben E.
Rexford in Making the Country Home"
In Inc outing Magazine for June.
|
THE GREATER LOVE-"
(By Ethel Edwards.)
Two loves 1 ever hold apart;
Two loves. to make my life complete
One holds me folded to his heart,
One draws me to his feet.
And he who loves as humans love,
! / give him part, but not the whole;
And he who loves as God above
Has all my heart and soul!
From The Academy Oondon).
'It is probable that the tremor was
due to the slipping or fracturing of some
great stratum or of several strata of
rock either directly underlying the city or
under the Pacific Ocean near by That
| the center of the convusion was either
under the land or not far from the shore
is shown by the fact that no great ami
hilatlng sea-wave resulted. like that
which made the great earthquake of Lis
bon, in 1855, so terribly destructive On
that occasion great tidal wave passed
clear across the Atlantic Ocean in nine
and half hours, and the effect of the
shock itself was felt even in England
The Pacific Coast, which lies in an earth
quake belt quite distinct from that
which includes Southern Italy, is pecu-
liarly susceptible to disturbances of this
nature. The present confguration of the
soil is OF recent geological age and the
coast unlike the Atlantic shore line
shelves rapidly into deep water, and thus
/ the slipping of rock strata, which is
| usually the cause of non-volcanic con-
lvulsions, is greatly facilitated.
THAT the earth is extremely sensitive
even to the slightest shocks, contrac-
tions, or alterations, is shown by the
tremendous rapidity with which the indi-
cations of these are transmitted to vari-
Gus parts of the globe. A few minutes
after the first shock was felt in San
Francisco the seismographic instruments
at Washington recorded the tremor"-
| The Scientific American.
|
Mr.. Upton Sinclair, who has taken the
packing industry for his oyster and
opened it with his pen, challenges j. Og-
den Armour, head Of Armour & Com
pany, to prove legally that Mr. Sinclair's
assertions with regard to condemned beef
are false, and the press advise Mr.. Ar
mour to meet the challenge. "One- hun
dredth part of what have charged
ought. If it is true. to send the guilty
man to the gallows." says Mr.. Sinclair in
/ a letter to the newspaper editors in
/
1 have charged ought, if it is false, to be
enough to send pe to prison" Previous
to the appearance of this letter Mr.. Ar
mour wrote in The Saturday Evening
Post:
strangely enough. in view of its vital
/ importance, this Government inspection
has been the subject of almost endless
misrepresentation-of ignorantly or ma
liciously false statements. The public has
been told that meat animals and car
casses condemned as diseased are after
ward secretly made use of by the pack
ers and sold to the public for food in
the form of dressed meats and canned
meats Right here / desire to brand such
statements as absolutely false as applied
to the business of Armour & Company. /
| believe they are equally false as to all
establishments in this country that are
classed as packing houses. I repeat: In
Armour & Companys business not one
atom of any condemned animal or car
cass finds its way. directly or indirectly,
from any source, into any food product
or food ingredient"
In an article entitled "The Condemned
Meat Industry" in Everybody's for Nav