92 THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE. 
FAIRMOUNT HOTEL. 
The lower two stories of the Fairmount TIofel (PI. XXXIV) were 
•of concrete. The next story, the first, was built of granite, appar- 
ently backed with brickwork, and above that the building was faced 
with ornamental terra cotta. The earthquake damage to this terra 
cotta was severe. Neither the granite nor the concrete walls of this 
building seemed to have suffered materially from the earthquake, 
but the granite was badly damaged by the fire. The building was 
surrounded by a wide open space, and the fire must have been very 
fierce in its vicinity to have ignited it. I was informed that consid- 
erable damage was done to the steel work and fireproofing in this 
building; but as the owners, or at least those in charge, objected to 
having it inspected, and as it was an unfinished building, I made no 
examination of its interior. If, under the circumstances, it suf- 
fered seriousty from the fire, the only conclusion that could have 
been drawn was that the fireproofing was very poorly done. 
JAMES FLOOD BUILDING. 
The new James Flood office building, situated on the north side of 
Market street, opposite the Emporium Building, had a steel frame, 
segmental hollow-tile floor arches, terra -cotta column covering and 
partitions, and furred ceilings of metal lath and plaster. The hol- 
low-tile column covering and partitions failed in this building in 
the same manner as in others, and to about the same extent as in the 
average building. The lower stories seem to have been occupied for 
mercantile purposes, and here the fire damage was greater than it 
was above. PI. XXXV, A, is a view taken in the first story of the 
Market street wing. The second and third columns from the front 
are slightly buckled to the right. They were covered with hollow 
tiles in about the same way as the columns shown in the Aronson 
Building. The columns in the James Flood Building were Z-bar 
columns and were filled in solidly with brickwork, in addition to the 
hollow-tile covering shown in the view. In my judgment, this 
construction was the only thing that saved the Market street wing 
of this building from collapse, because there was every evidence that 
the columns which were found slightly buckled had reached a dan- 
gerous temperature, and would probably have come down and 
wrecked all of the building above them had it not been for the stiffen- 
ing effect of the brick filling. 
PL XXXIII, Z?, shows a doorway in the west front of the James 
Flood Building illustrating the damage by earthquake to the sand- 
stone piers. The stone used in this building was the same grayish- 
green sandstone that is described in connection with other buildings, 
