New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-25


Of the new Croker Building, just block below
The Chronicle" which is to he ten stories high.
and the excavation is now being made for the
suDerb elevcn-story building which d. o. Mills
will erect on the corner of Bush and Montgomery
sts-amost a counterpart of the great Mills Build
ing of New-York. In Market-St. there are half
dozen large bdildings, each of seven or eight
stories which are an actual proof that the fear
of earthquake is gone forever in San FRANCISCO.
Most of these buildings of pressed BRICK, with
trimmings of the many varieties OF Deautlui stone
found in this State and in Arizona
In residence architecture there has also been
an equal Improvement The old style of San Fran
cisco house. which bore a strong resemblance to
drygoods box, covered in every available place
by bay windows, has been abandoned. All the
modern STYLES Of architecture are now represented
with decided tendency in the best residence quar-
tiers toward the Queen Anne and the lighter
Romanesque. AS nine-tenths OF the residences IN
San Francisco are built of wood, this gives u de-
lightful air of grace and variety TO the best
streets The one exception to the wooden residences
is the sombre mansion of brownstonc built by the
late bonanza millionaire, Flood, on the summit OF
Mob Hill This is huge, square, ugly structure
with massive front porticO, set in the centre OF
full half of a city block. With its furnishings, 1t
is said to have cost 50 OOO 900, but it cannot be
called an addition to the architecture of the city
Despite the many new and costly houses which
have been built recently CaliOrna-st. Hill, the
Cotton residence still bears the palm for archl-
tectural beauty. 1t Is Of the pure classical type
with COrnthian pillars supporting graceful front
porlicO and with the classical spirit carried out
even to the iron fence the pickets of which repre-
sent the Roman axe and fasccs What gives great
vaety to many Of the residence streets is the in
PRODUCTION of stone in various shades for the first
stories of many costly homes and the use of fine
native woods for doorwaYs and porticos.
SAL Francisco has always been celebrated for
the number, variety and chcapness of It's res
taurants, but one who knew the city ten years
ago. and who has not seen it since. will be amazed
at the remarkable increase not only of the better
class of restaurants, but Of the cheaper places.
which have entered into competition with the old
restaurants that furnished three dishes for two
bits" 1t was about nine years ago that the cheap
coffee saloon became feature Of san francisco
lite Places were opened in nearly every down
town block where cup OF coffee ana plate OF
hot cakes were sold for 10 cents. All these places
have built up n his business because of 'hcil
cheapncss The coffee joints. the hood
lum' has styled them, are pdlronlzed by the large
floating class III san Franclsco who desire To -et
a meal for less than quarter. Most ol thcm
into the trade OF the large cheap restaurants that
o1ler a greater variety OF food at higher prices
These huge cheap restaurants are SIN cuIi"Nllcs
to the Eastern visitor. as they fufhlsh an amount
and variety of food for quarter oil dol.dI thd'
cannot he paTalleled in Inc restaurants OF any
Eastern city. All of the articles which are usually
doled ont IN grudsing manner IN Eastern res
taurants are here piled up with prodle3i nan
Bread, potatoes, vegetables butter, cT9cAeIs-hl
these may generally he found on the tablc, Oh are
served fee with ole regular meal costing two DIS
ila IL
in number, there has been marker increase lH
the medium-priced French restaurants winch luI-
nisb a very good table dhote Of i've courses Tor
n halfdollar, including pht oil llr N"lIVlAI'
table claret The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN ->'"- On
who is we'll acquainted with restaurants i 3P' ~
onen his eyes when lac discovers the excellence
and cbeapness of these French restaurants ol Sth
Francisco The cooking is usually unccf ~"
charge OF a good chef. The soup l. e\'eiIch,' NV
fish fine. the entrees. OF Whch one Ms tiir ,.."
Of TWO out Of three. well served ana me roast
and dessert are fully equal 10 those OF Ft>''.i"t'
i'm NcW-lork that charge from - Genus I" : a.
The ordinary California Iintahcei' WhlcA - '..'
in nearly every one Of these cheap fIchth rs
,aurauts is a far better and more wholesome 'l'I''
;han the orlinairc that IS iurE iNe' me NV
Yorker with his 55-cent meal II one NIaH'9 !"
spend q collar or dollar ana q',dI,ei iol q
Frencb dinner lie can secure meal at several
nIaces in this city which VIII De iHiN ciudI T."
rrnvthin.r that he can get in Ncw-i ork Tor = '"
10 one who sees the enormous number %.
rcstaurante chop houses and coHtc Saloons %
San Francisco, il seems as though ,hi''-l"Ail -
Of the people must I'VE III 'H'N. Ii"'' ~ 90"
nrnLer of large private hotcis Is pcIcaslAe SNOW
;rr 1hat many people are abandoning lhcir homes
to herd in these large c"!aV"nH"Ih>' II may S,.Ii
incredible t. an Eastern man Sc u ~ 81" ID, '','
r,ct that whole families live IN .hc~r ~ Pi ,F"'t
IotoIs which are i've ana SIN sores hSli' b"Ill
Of wood and thus actual dcal-ir"pa III ElS
NJ q fire ~ night ono oC the t1llc~' "i thcs'
buildings lately constructed, IS Illcd WIN N"'-''
vct the means of escape 10 case ~ HI' ''' NJ
caricatures, consisting Of Ftc' OF t,'H Wi.
Iaidcrs at the side Of the building. Wllch WOMB
.lq q
e.c The Growth IF thcs' prN2r hot"I> mas H''
"pDarcnty hurt the REGULAR pubic notes IN 40.
lest and this month has s'cp ilr op'nn- DI l!' |
~ f,roio IN Pusr->t the tncS' hotel ~ Inc
STATE and the most elaborate, H. h'eIo. h"'S"
ing on the coast. ..,,. |
li.n slows tie difficulty Of mani'g Lone ~ " |
civ where the fircsdc is almost inhh WV. I"-
climate is 50 mild daring nee Iholl"' 4" aug ~
in San Francisco that even gaze 1Ir III -" |
,inng-room or parior ai meh' lS''PI.S ~ 80 |
ncst of fhc fats and cheaper residence, there i u"
provision made for heoilnI any rom 'N,'P' W.
parlGr In many of tie fiat, u" pr'cN 'huH-
rrcls are not carried above Tie ifsi Il 'or terra |
Gotta or galvanized iron pipes taxing men p.'r..
TIE result is that a sudden diop iH Ir',l'
camsns a Good deal Of actual suiicln@ In ne CIV
ann any such chungc has Tendency - give P''-
ME into the street. thus ac"ouniin@i0r t"c corn.
ius street Grove Is which. even on coz hTn''' lh''
III, scpu or many tbOrOuehiaic~ OF san l"''I.'"
I'm nroportiou 70 IL population. IN ffN.'i'''
furnishes larger street crowds ~ M N'H ut"
other CITY in the country IN" ,.or. I,~'c
Tn.rn,, and Market SIS. are usbllE throngcd |
mr , ~ iJnigh, ~ crowds Of wrluc,scd people
II is a street parade mainly for anos"men' AM
eycrcisr that is as unique and = well worth
seeing as the CITY Itself.
Drspi,r lie "aims Of rivals 70 ihr north ana
the south. San Francisco sill retains ITS prestige
rs the lcadinr>city Of the Pachc oaS, ana n1
remarkable erowt 4|rin2 the last iN years J. IL
earnest Of the fact that il will retail =. supremacy
on his coast as surely as Will Ncv-iork on the
Atlantic seaboaid
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