The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-06-02

Ellis and Octavia streets, 1872 :6Xl2o IN SIZE
has been sold tor $50, 900; price put IN deed'
$40.
The property on the north side Of Broad
way street, 96 e east of Baker, Al - In 'front.',
"a wide in rear and 1877 IS in depth, has been
sold for $500; price put in deed. $40
AN IMMENSE REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION
IN CHICAGO.
There is a company in Chicago called tne
Fair Company, which owns a series u
stores similar to the Bon Marche OF Farls.
Everything from needle to an anchor Eau
be purchased in these stores ms conf
pany last month leased piece OF lana IN
Chicago, $50 feet front on Adams street anu
an alley in rear and 100 feet on State anu
Dearborn streets. There are $500 square,
feet or three and half fifty-vara lots IN az
In the whole parcel. This land was leaseo
for forty-fve and part for ninety me
years. ut an aggregate annual rental oa
$154,000. This rental, at per cent per
year, places the value Of the lanl Ieaseu
at S3,000,000. The lessees are to Degln 10
erect within a year a twelve-story sleeI
building on the land, the fronts TO De Oh
stone and terra Gotta. This building is 70
cost 81, 100000 AT the valuation OF So 0V0,0oO
the land leased is worth nearly S9OO,0Oo
ffty-vara lot, or SAG 37A per square 1oqI.
For the best portion of it, 165xl9O on tle
corner of Adams and Dearborn streets,
S1,50000O was offered aud refused.
Tie tACIS ABOUT hOSNA
PAVEMENT.
Everybody would prefer to see so-called
bituminouS rock pavement on street rather
than stone blocks. because the former pave
ment is smooth and nUiseless, while stone
blocks, i'll their hardness, are very severe
on horses, and in their noise most trytlS
to human ears and nerves. But stone Dlocks
have one merit which no one can yet pre-
tend to claim for any patent pavement
they do last almost forever Ii 1t could pc
honestly claimed that bitumlnous rocK
would last for ten years without repairing,
wa would at once become one OF It's auVo-
Gates, but no such claim can yet be MADE
for it, therefore we say that if there were
not a corrupt ring in the Board OF Super
visors, bitumnous rock would not now
have been made an accepted pavement. by
all means let property-owners lay 1t when
and wherever they please, and let expert
ence and experiment go on improving IT'S
ability to resist the effects of weather ana
heavy travel, but do not let the city accept
OF 1t until 1t makes much better record
than it has yet done. This is where the
Circular has stood and now stands on the
pavement question.
THE PosToFFICE COMMISSIONERS.
We have before said, and now repeat,
that, had the COMMISSIONERS for the selection
of new site for the Postoffice themselves
selected five or six suitable sites and dealt
directly with the property owners, they
would have avoided the possibility OF the
charge that any one was making money by
buying the option of site with the calcu-
lation of reselling it to the Government at
large advance. Why tie Commissioners
did not do this we cannot say, unless their
official instructions prohibited that course
Ii their instructions did not allow them
to do this, then they were hampered
to Uncle Sans pecuniary injury.
ENTRANCE TO THIS CITY FOR OVERLAND
One of the most expensive items in rail-
road projection is the cost of right of way
and the purchase of land through the
suburbs and into the heart OF large city.
1t cost the AtcnisOn road some S6j00O,OO0
to purchase the land requisite for an en-
trance into and depot grounds In Chicago.
Eastern roads. intending to make through
lines TO San Francisco, have this great I'M
peder of railroad entrance reduced to
minimum. For city of our population
there will be comparatively small expense
in finding terminus What contrast we
offer to Chicago in this respect There
every foot of land has to be covered almost
literally with twenty-d0llar pieces, while
here we have hundreds of miles of water
front, with bay free to all. No opposl-
ton is strong enough to prevent a new road
from reaching tue bay shore, and no oppo-
sition is strong enough to prevent road
from buying or leasing landing near some
cable line. This advantage, together with
those of increased travel, the greater faclll-
ties for freight transportation and the ben
efits to the public of opposition, convince
US that the railroad era has only begun
here.
NEW YORK NEEDING MORE TRANSPoRTA-
TON.
The elevated railroads of New York
solved the rapid transit problem for that
city about ten years ago, but those roads
now are utterly inadequate TO carry the
N bu IN ha fokau iOyn and
town, mornings and evenings particularly,
although the trains run at intervals of one
minute only in the hours when travel is
most pressing. The seats and aisles OF each
car on the elevated roads are packed at
those hours, ana each month there Is greater
need of new transportation. The last Leg
islature at Albany WAS expected to pass
new Rapid Transit Bill, but did not.
GOOD BUILDINGS AMONG RooKERIES..
That portion of the city lying between
Market, Jackson, Front and East streets is,
and has been since the days of 49, surface
clothed only in rotten rags of buildings. old
shaky TattleIaps, clapboard-frame ruins,
old sheds and older shanties. such as that
now standing and disgracing Market street,
next southwest of Goodall, Perkins & Co.'S
building. Everybody, for twenty five years,
has been thinking and saving how shame
full it is that these old frame wrecks-not
relics of better days, either, for they never
saw better days-should year after year be
kept in the heart Of the city, on good bust
ness streets. thus disgracing both. But one
man carried these thoughts into action;
that man was Mr.. John T. Doyle.
lie bought, some eight years ago,
from tie Reese estate, corner of Washing
ton and Front streets, % feet on Front by 100
on Washington, to rear street. INN edi-
ately after purchasing he had the old one
story roOkeries pulled down and erected n
fine four-S story brick building. About two
years ago Mr.. Doyle also bought 45:9X137:6
on west side of Davis street. north of Clay.
On this lot there was a twO-stOry frame
wreck which never had been anything but
q shabby shell, and which, when removed,
was honey-combed with rats and rotten
ness. Mr. Doyle erected on this lot very
fine brick structure for cold storage
company. Mr.. Doyle's last purchase in that
region was on the northwest corner OF Sac
ramento and Drumm streets, on which he Is
now building three-story brick building.
His fine buildings there make the surround
ing roOkerieS look ten times more shabby
than before, just as a diamond on a very
soiled shirt bosom would make the latter
look much more soiled and disgraceful.
Mr.. Doyle has been q silent but practical
preacher for good buildings and decent inl-
pr0vements in region for long years given
over wholly to shabbinesS, dirt and degra-
datiOn. We have never heard him say any
thing about the financial result of thus
doing what every good citizen should do
toward the adornment of the city, but we
are quite sure that each of Mr.. Doyle's
operations there paid him well. He would
not have returned to the charge q second
and third time if his first attack on rock
cries had not proved profitable.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,
Cornalius Vnndarhilt and family salad