BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURES. 37 
FAIRMOUNT HOTEL. 
The six-story Fairmount Hotel, California, Mason, Powell, and 
Sacramento streets, was nearly completed, and the only combustible 
in it was the lumber used in construction. It consisted of a steel 
skeleton with floors of cinder concrete reenforced with expanded 
metal. The walls were self-supporting and were constructed of 
granite backed with brick up to the third floor and of light-colored 
terra cotta in the upper stories. The ceilings were of the suspended 
type plastered on metal lath. The original plans called for the 
columns to be fireproofed with concrete, but because of the greater 
expense of this material the plans were changed and the expanded 
metal and plaster partitions were molded around these columns. The 
result was that even under the moderate heat to which the building 
was subjected about 40 of the columns buckled, including 23 on the 
third floor alone (PI. XXXIV), and the partitions were completely 
wrecked. The effect of the earthquake shock was principally con- 
fined to the west end of the north front. The terra cotta was spalled 
considerably and the granite only slightly by fire. The exterior dam- 
age was not very great. 
JAMES FLOOD BUILDING. 
The steel-frame twelve-story James Flood Building, on the north- 
east corner of Powell and Market streets, was constructed with seg- 
mental hollow-tile floor arches topped with cinder concrete and sus- 
pended ceilings plastered on metal lath. The columns were, con- 
structed of Z bars and were filled with common brick to the outer 
edge of the section and the whole inclosed with 3-inch hollow tile. 
This tile failed (PL XXXV, A), although the fire could not have 
been very severe, for the wooden floor in the offices was only partly 
burned and there were a number- of wardrobes and switch boxes of 
wood, besides the door and window frames and wainscoting, which 
were not burned. The stairways, which had cast-iron horses and 
marble treads, were in fair condition. The corridors were tiled with 
marble. The stonework was very slightly spalled by fire, and the 
principal damage by earthquake was a cracking of the sandstone at 
several of the entrances (PL XXXIII, B). 
GRANT BUILDING. 
The lower floor of the Grant Building, at the southeast corner of 
Seventh and Market streets, was used for a bank, the upper floors for 
offices. It was eight stories high and had a steel frame with cinder- 
concrete floors, the beams and girders being of solid concrete. The 
first story had self-supporting walls of sandstone, and the remaining 
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