Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01

and w, u. Miller; the store anu snoPS VI L.
L. Lewis & Co.; the store of Holbrook, Mer-
r;ll & Stetson the store of Locke q Laven-
von the store of Hall, Luhrs II Co.; the
bnildinp of H. Wachhorst the Hayden
building ; the store of Waterhouse & Lester;
the Capital Wooden Mills depot; the Rail
road building Third and K streets the
I,ardner building the Central building
.he REooRp.UN1oN building; the Fratt
building; the Brown building; the
Marco Mania building; the Booth & Co.
buildings. occupied by that firm and u. w.
Chesley & Co.; the spacious stores OF BAKER
r Hamilton, NJ. c. Hawley & Co., Holman
n Stanton, George o. Bates & Co., and the
Studebaker Agency; the business block &C.
cupied by Alderman & Co. and Dale q 90;
tbe snacious business block at Fourth and h
ytraets. the D. H. Quinn building; the L.
G. Chandler building; the Water works
building; the Clunie building; the Grand
Hotel building; Boston Drug Store building;
Jacobs Hall, and others.
AMONG OTHER STRUCTURES
of prominence and worthy of mention IN
This connection is the handsome building OF
che Sacramento Bank, the building occupied
h. the National Gold Bank of ID. o. Mills &
CO the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Com
many and others; the st. George building,
spacious and lofty pile owned by the ODD
Fellows Hall Association, the Old Ladies
Home. the II. S. Croker & Co. building, the
GIL. Simmons building, the Howard House,
the Nathan building, Pioneer Hall, Exempt
Fireman's Hall, the Protestant Orphan Asy-
INN and its school house, the two occupying
an entire block of ground, the Franklin
building occupied by the Mechanical or
Technical school, Turner Hall and the vast
Pavilion of the State Agricultural Society.
Among church structures are several OF
architectural prominence, as Grace Church,
the First Baptist Church, the Congrega-
= tional Church, the Sixth street Nj. L. Church
and the Lutheran Church; those OF lesser
architectural prominence being the Chris
tiab, Presbyterian, st. Rose, African NJ. Il.
Church. Colored Baptist Church, Kingsley
MI E. Chapel, Calvary Baptist, United
Brethren, NJ. E. Church South, and the SYM
goghle. Prominent, too, among the pubic
buildings of Sacramento, is the Sacramento
Institute which is the college of the Chris
tialh Brothers, and the Sacramento Seminary mar
for young ladies, owned by Mrs.
Hermon Perry, which is lofty and
handsome structure standing in an ample
space in the very heart of the city. st.
Joseph's Convent School building is large
structure standing on improved grounds a
block in extent.
The city owns upon 1 street, between
Seventh and Eighth, very handsome build
ing, in which on one floor is the City Free
Library, one of the most popular and useful
institutions of the municipality, while the
other portions of the building are occupied by
the Sacramento Business College ct II. Z.
Atkinson. Chief among the public buildings
also is the Central Pacific Railroad Hospital,
p a very large and attractive structure. Near
the CITY borders is situate the County Hospl-
tai. large, costly and new building, OIL
rather series of buildings, they being five in
number. and radiating from central struct
ure.
ESPECIALLY PROMINENT BUILDINGS.
But there ara buildings of which Sacra
mento is also justly proud, and chief among
these and the largest of all others are the
workshops of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company. The works occupy twelve blocks
of ground, lying between ID and e and Front
and Sixth streets. La point of extent, i'm.
portance, the number of men employed and
general benefit, these works stand at the head
of the many manufacturing and industrial In
terests of the State. The main shop is 90x2OC
feet and two stories high, of brick and with
iron roof the extension is 90x30S. The cal
shop is of wood and iron, 40x300 feet. The
main paint shop is 70x242, with five extern
sions, each large enough for one car, and
mixing-room is added, 2Ox45 feet. The ma
chineshopis 100x400feet; the blacksmiths hoI
Is S0x135 feet. The engine and boiler room:
contain six 54-inch by 16 feet boilers, and {
l60 horse power Corliss engine, and also 81
horsepower engine and two large-sizeC
Knowles steam pumps and hose carriages
with hose amply sufficient to reach any build
ing of the works The iron and brass foun
dry is S0xl75 feet. The wheel foundry il
fOX100 feet. The round-house is 60x600 feet
with 30 stalls for locomotives. The wash
house is 40x60 feet. The boier-Gsakers' shol
is 60x225 feet; the copper and tin shop i
50x75 The purchasing agents department
with oil reservoirs, etc., are in building
constructed the rolling mills building, which
in size and character will be the largest man
ufaotory in the State, working iron and stee
exclusively.
THE DEPoTs.
But these are not the only large structures
The passenger depot of the Central Pacih,
Railroad is the largest and finest of the Pa
cific slope. 1t is handsome and imposing
building. 400 by 80 feet, with several largi
additions or wings used for the eating de
partments, offices, etc. On Front street the
same company has during the year erected {
new freight depot, which is the largest In the
j L.. Ill
is 600 by so feet, and is a prominent anc
pleasing feature of the wholesale business
section of the city. Besides these struc
lures should be named the various plan
ing mills, all OF which are large
the Union iron works, Gutenberger.
foundry and machine shop, the Pioneer boz
factory, Nichols pail and tub factory, TIT
Capital furniture factory, the spacious build
ings of the Capital wooden mills, the lofty
Pioneer Touring mills, the mill of Neubourt
& Lagos, and the very large and massive mil
of C. McCreary & Co.; the works of thu
Capital Gas Company, the Lachman winery
the Johnston brandy and wine works. Their,
might well be added here, did space permit
a very large number of buildings occupied b,
carriage and wagon factories, iron and wood
workers and various trades. 1t might ais,
be appropriate to make note in this conpec
ton Of the exceedingly large buildings of tn
State Agricultural Society, located in the in
closed grounds of the Association.
THE POPULATION OF SACRAMENTO.
The population OF Sacramento, accordirI
70 the official census of 1850, is, within th
corporate limits of the city, nearly $4,000
but Immediately upon the borders of thes
limits, and as properly the population of tn
CITY as the enumeration within the city, is
large residence population which may prop
erly be credited to the city. These immediat
suburban sections give the city an enumera
ton of fully p, 900 people directly belonging
to and contribUtive to it, and separated onl,
from it by the imaginary boundary line c
the city charter.
DRIVES.
The city is provided with numerous pleas
ant and attractive drives. Aside from it
very broad streets with their cool shades, af
fording some thirty miles in extent of pleas
ant driveways, that for driving purpose
are unsurpassed in the country, and which
during the hight of the season, are thronge
with elegant equipsges. there is the Riversid
road, extending sJme four miles upon tn
eastern bank Of the Sacramento river in
southerly direction, and devoted almost eS
clusively to driving purposes for pleasure
Leading out from the city there are also nu
merous roads to the uplands, and TO the ada
cent counties, which are properly to be classe
SIS the drives of the city.
PARKS.
The chief park of the city is that surround
ing the State Capitol buildings, and extend
n IL I A