The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1907, Page 1

skeleton bu ne will mot be purposes of : willing to pay the never ceases. that deadened portion of the ugh ~which “the street cars ping only. a.few hich th was not % stgeet lamp, nor a;single habi upied after office<hours, the ebb of the life that t k. . Marl at night had be 1 During the day d-lonely, and g through left 1 of the night ds to the work t Th: re gradu left st tHose ‘at least will I ok fifty years placed in'less than e smooth- ouble and tch abo he Pile Driver Said said to the more than he dfiver re- Then it continued the end of the day st a doin ich t it'wa ight P fully driven A single brazier-burned on Mission t, bardly more conspicuous.than of tramps beside, a road ng thing flashed in the dark, low pounding beg nging of ‘steel L8 o going: on a1tern flashed behind a pile ed bricks and I w that it work on the steel frame resting on nth street to Market ug-chug of a gasoline engine issuing from a tent.’ At a light shone through the canvas and essed that' the stillness: was broken there. A man, old but. not slave to the machine, lay n.a cot and watched. it work the water. pumped from the ex- tion below gurgled out"into:the “It's a nice. little engine, ‘it pumps very well,” he said. ;He leaned back again, puffing at. his-pipe, and nodded at the fascinating monotony of the engine’s stride. The work of building a reinforced concrete” structure is simpler jeven than the building of a2 wooden house. The wooden molds are set, the.long, thin strips of steel ‘are “placed, and then it means merely so many wheel- barrow. loads..of i cancrete .which' can- beleft to dry and harden’once thcy are whil red-into the mold " On the site’ the old Flood -building they: frdhthis: 1 easy. task. The workdiis lad=out or the night beforehand and'§ under the arc lights as.if jtwWoee ¢ By this arrangement just hilf tHe tig of building ‘i8 saved. The use Gf inforced concrete has an advanta@e e that it is quick; Blt it seems to Have: this double’ advantage that it lends itself adily to night work, a greater the hundreds of buildings that st-now reaching the p he .work: is -heginning to. show ground many of .them will be ith this turesque e reinforced ‘concrete buildings it i§ mercly'a casé of come and go ‘with“the wheelbarrows, keep+" ing the steel tods’ straight-and pours ing ‘into ‘the :molds Jut -when the rush” comes on the -steei ~skeleton buildings; in the .night .will ‘be -made live with the flashing ofiredihot rivets, hissing, through -the_air to be edught and driven, home and clinched wuntil the night rings with the ¢lash of stegl. Property owners are demanding liaste, contractors’ vie with' cach other, and * contracts arc ‘being “let {6r ‘the con' struction: of: tall buildings i1 such re: markably: short time that'it seems: im passible for . the worK ~to ' be - done. Time has its limits, and-so has the , possibility, of rapid buildings.. .To do what has been cagreed .upon- there ‘must be a steady increase of this nfght * work. Tt will continde until the whole lower center of the city witl glow at night and the ‘wérk will go'on lighted by a thousand-arc' lights, swinging from the depths of excavations up 'to the highest story of the sky-scrapers. The work of b ing-once, under way .. demands_this speed, and. the flashing of ‘the Whole gttive district with mil- lions of-candle-power of glowing lights will entirely remove the 'night and make it" possible. " And anather wonder’ will be’added ‘to San* Fran~ ciscos 5 mght