The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-04
REAL ESTATE.
A Local Dealers Views Concern
ing Public Improvements.
Sales Reported at the Various Offices Yester.
day-Temrorary Quarters for the Ex-
change secured-Contracts.

Mr.. c. E. Mayne Of c. E. Mayne Il Co.
has. in reply to various questions expressed
his opinion ON the general outlook as fol-
lows:
"What want to say is that Eastern peo-
pie who learn that our taxes here are higher
than in any other city in the United States,
seeing our horrible sewerage. dreadful cob
BILE stone pavements. unfinished parks, dirty
streets and general air of decay, wonder
where all the money goes TO. and feel afraid
to invest
II met capitalists in Chicago and other
places on my recent trip who expressed
their belief in San Francisco's future if pub
lie improvements were commenced and car
ried through on scale commensurate with
the importance and size of the city. If Chi
cago, or even small places such as st. Paul,
Kansas City, Denver or Omaha, had our
Golden Gate Park, do you suppose they
would dilly-dally year after year with the
improvements? By no means. They would
finish it in one year. Do you suppose any
other city in America would leave year after
year the magnificent highway from the
Cliff House south to the county line un-
improved? No, sir-that would be finished
in a few months That driveway and
G0lucH G6lS dI uulSutu 10 tiiO
grandest in the world. They would make
San Francisco famous the world over. III
San Francisco would take advantage of her
natural resources and improve them she
would be the Paris of America If extern
sive public improvements were commenced
next spring, our streets repaired. decent
pavements put down, Golden Gate Park
pushed TO completion, grand boulevard
a., .fffrof if.rN
would come to us than to any other city in
the world. If such policy should be under
taken l would predict population oil
,O00 coo in ten years.
81 say that the taxes paid here every year
would do all this if the city government was
run on business principles and not III the
interest of iobbers and rings. ST. Paul,
Omaha, Kansas City and Denver have more
well-paved streets, finer parks and bonle-
wards, better sewerage, cleaner streets, more
magnificent school buildings. and do more
toward public improvements every year tn IN
San Francisco does in ten, and their taxes are
% per cent less per capita than ours. 10
visitors this is noticeable. They go away
and give the city bad name Chicago has
reached the position of the second largest city
in the United States by push aud pubic en-
terprise. San Francisco should occupy that
position to-day and could have done so had
the citizens made an effort"
SALES REPORTED.
Parker & Ford report the sale Of lot
25x12O, south of Point Lobos on Second
avenue, between Point Lobos and n, for
$1,000.
o. ID. Baldwin and Joost & Mertens have
disposed of the gore block, III feet on Mis-
sion street, 161 feet on Marshall, and 266
feet on Silver avenue, to Rocco Cereghino
and Giuseppe Mazzeio, for Sl1 900, and lot s,
in Block 8, Mountain Spring Heights, for
$500
"A. Dolan & Co. have sold Block 1906
for $1,000.
President Boyee and J. J. O'Farrell of
the San Francisco Real Estate Exchange
have secured the front portion of 10 Post
street, which will be used as temporary
quarters for the new exchange. and the
first meeting of members will be held there
tomorrow.
The Real Estate Record, monthly paper
published by G. III. Umbsen & Co., dis
cusses the question of improvement as
follows:
The Real Estate Record is glad to see that
many prominent citizens are considering the
ady;sability of improving the city. During
ordinary winters chat of 1S89-90 was GER
tainly an exception the climate here is such
rs to make San Francisco desirable place
of residence, IL not q pleasure resort There
are plenty Of frst-class hotels and comfort
able boardiDg-hOuses, and living is remark
ably cheap. Our theaters are numerous,
fered generally up to a high standard of ex-
cellepce. aud the city affords ample means
of recreation. One thing is wanting. and
that is fine driveways around the city, but
this want is gradually being supplied. Cir
cuitous roads are being cut around the Twin
Peaks and surrounding hills; the Mission
road is being wideEed; the San Bruno road
is being placed in good order from Twenty,
fourth street 10 the Fifteen-mile House, and
the drives of the Golden Gate Park and Pre-
sidio arc in course of extension and improve
mcIt
THE CALL is the only morning news.
paper that has recently devoted the usual
space to realty reports and news. Its Sun
day issues contain more real estate adver-
tisements than are published in all the
other dailes combined, and real estate
agents aver that it produces better results
than all the other city papers put together.
BUILDERS CONTRACTS.
William WanshOwski with Schutt Il
Krecker, to build on south line Of jackson
street. 1877 IS east of Devisadero, east q tx
l27 81 1915,