The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-08
HAYWARDS.
Notes From a Pretty Town a
Mile From the Station.

Editor Morning Call : Haywards is
town fully worthy OF coming within your
capital system of popular representation in
The CALL. Most San Franciscans know
Haywards only as the pretty town to which
they HE when the weather grows warm and
the noise and hustle of the city wearis0me,
Tor a month or two of rest and change.
Haywards Hotel is probably one of the best
known houses of entertainment In the
county, its excellent management. ::..1. the
towns ease of access from San Francisco
and Oakland rendering 1t a popular sum-
meTiug place for city business men. But
the summer visitor, welcome though he is,
Is not the chief maintenance OF Haywards
Passengers looking out of car-windows as
the train halts at our station wonder where
the town is, as nothing appears but the
pretty station and q long warehouse or two.
The town lies back among the hills, nearly
mile from the station, but the rapid growth
OF the place is steadily reducing this dis
lance, and our business streets are surely
creeping statiOnward. A couple of large
stages convey passengers from the station
to town, and once here the visitor for the
first time is always surprised at the
thrift, business and enterprise mani
tested in our rows of neat stores,
our well-paved streets. brightly lighted
at night and the evidences of a growing
town everywhere to be seen. Every line Of
business is represented in Hsywards by one
or two often three or four goOd-siZed estab-
llsnmeutS. Our hotels are of the best, our
manufactures well known, and our schools,
churches and public buildings of every sort
handsome, well kept and well sustained.
The town abounds in pretty residences, fine
turnouts are everywhere 10 be seen on our
streets, and when the electric road, which
will connect our town with the city of Oak
land, Is completed, our builders, now busy
enough, will be rushed indeed to supply the
increased demand for houses.
Haywards lies in the very heart of won
derful fruit section, and something over
year ago change was made in our method
of marketing fruit that has made the Hay
wards growers famous. There have al
ways been combinations of fruit-buyers,
Gamers, commission men and all the fra
ternitles that live off the growers, but some
how the inevitable result of all these
seemed to be that the fruit-grower got left.
Summer before last the Haywards growers
got tired of this system, and resolved to
shake themselves clear of the middlemen
and strike out for themselves Accordingly
car was chartered, loaded with cherries
and sent direct to Chicago in charge of one
of our trusted residents, Mr.. Milo Knox.
Inc venture was complete success; Chi
cago dealers snapped the fruit up at good
prices, and demanded more The Hay
wards Fruit-groNers Association was
formed, and other towns were invited TO
Join In the venture. and accepting the in
Vltatbn, growers lound themselves In q po-
sition to maintain their rights, much to the
disgust Of city wholesalers and middle
men.
Last year the association did prosperous
business, and looks forward during the COM
ing season to put the knowledge and expe-
rlence 1t has gained 10 excellent use in the
interests of our growers.
County division is an ting theme of
conversation among our people this winter,
not that we think Alameda County is going
to be divided this year, or even next but
times are ripening for such a step. and
when 1t is actually taken, which will be
when Alameda consents TO be merged into
Oakland, then new county Will be formed
under the old name, and our flourishing
town will in all probability be the county
seat. We know there are those who dispute
this claim, but the fact remains that here
is the most eligible site for the county seat.
and community of nearly or quite 20OO
people ready to offer every reasonable in
ducement to bring the seat of county gov
eminent here. The Haywards Journal, our
live local paper, IS an enthusiastic supporter
OF TINS proposition, and its proprietor
George A. Oakes, a Haywards boy who has
grown up among us and knows the ms and
outs of every local question, is fully con-
versant with the merits of this one. Our
people do not particularly desire county
division. We are quite willing to await the
motion of Oakland and Alameda in the
matter, but when 1t comes to the county,
seat question we will be right there.
Hdyl0drds, Feb. 7, 1891 HAYwARDs,