The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-18
HO! FOR HAYWARDS!
A Town Full of Backbone, Pride
and Enterprise.
One Of the Busiest Little Industrial Centers
in the State-She Believes in Taking
Good Care of Home Interests.

Haywards is about twenty miles from
San Francisco. 1t would be better for San
Francisco if the distance was greater. and
better for Haywards if not so great.
This is no joke. Haywards may be very
small place and San Francisco very large
place, but that does not necessarily destroy
the possible influences one may have upon
the other AS compared with the dog he
flea is very small creature, yet the dog is
seldom unmindful Of the fiea's influence.
Haywards is one of the busiest and most
little industrial centers of the
entire district that in general sense focal
ICES in San Francisco, and it is by no means
to say that she does vast
deal OF business annually that might other
wise be done in San Francisco.
On the other hand if Haywards was just
little more convenient to the city, ten times
yea, forty times as many people of the
latter would find it possible to build homes
there and could not resist the temptation.
1t is not heaping unmerited praise on Hay
wards to say that there are few such home
like little hamlets to be found anywhere,
and the only reason under the sun that
a thousand families in San Francisco do
not crafty desire to live there is because
the distance makes it impossible.
Haywards is such a busting, thrifty,
healthy. red-chesked. captivating little
country beauty. Why, Just one look at her
is almost fatal to ones future peace of
mind. She is nestled in cluster of hills at
the base of the high ridge hedging in the
bay valley, and was
FORTUNATE
Enough to get very slightly location. East
wardly to the rear the gracefully rising and
undulatlng hills form picturesque pastoral
scene that would make the Swiss shepherd
boy mad with envy if he could once behold
It. On either side, north and south, are
fruit farms of every conceivable variety all
looking as trim and well cared for as hot
house garden, ana in the midst of each. like
a Jeweied setting. neat, cosy dwelling.
Westward the slope, is gradual to the low
lands skirting the bay, and much of this
territory Is also covered with orchards.
V .sions OF fruit greet the visitor on every
side, and the whole town is evidence of
a wel-chosen and skiltully conducted in
duStry.
Haywards is full of self-sustaining pride,
independence and enterprise. That impress
sion plants itself upon the visitor the mo-
ment he steps foot in town. The residents
90 not believe 1t sitting down empty
handed and waiting for business to come to
them. They prefer to make business for
ments to outside business. The conse-
quence is the whole town is full of life and
energy. The moment the visitor alights
from the train the evidences of thrift sur
round him. A horse-car that would do
credit to any system of its kind stands wait
ing, and unless he is spry he don't get a
seat The road is very we'll equipped for
SO small town, and does credit to the pluck
and enterprise that begot it. Every train is
met promptly, and the main parts of the
town are penetrated. Between the depot and
THE VILLAGE
is quite an extensive territory, lying con-
siderably lower than the main part of the
town and hitherto unimproved, except to
some extent for Embarrassing. Within the
past year the Haywards Improvement Club
has been organized, and among its first
ventures was to marguerite improvements
on this district Streets have been opened
through II and it has been subdivided into
town lots. Already q half dozen or more
really elegant dwellings have been erected
there, and the intention is TO build up this
territory clear to the depot and make it as
desirable place to live as anywhere else in
town. But the work of Improvement is not
to be limited to any one particular locality.
The club is organized in the interests of
Haywards, and whatever appeals to that
interest will be considered.
The self-sustaining character Of the town
Is seen more IN the mercantile life than per-
haps in any other sphere of activity. When
small place is located too near a large
city and is only used as a convenient place
TO spend the night, all the merchandising as
rule Is done in the city, and the home
trade is limited to IN occasional handy store
of odds and ends, where a paper of pins, a
sheet of writing-paper or bar of soap may
be obtained to tide over temporary short
age. Not so in Haywards. The merchan
dsing oil that town is done at home. and it
contains more large stores and better as
sorted merchandise than any other town
outside of Oakland in Alameda County.
EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT
Them that 1t is better to keep all possible
trade at home, and with that aim in view
the merchants keep themselves prepared 10
give as good trade as can be obtained else
where. Not only do the inhabitants of the
village appreciate this and award their pat
ronage to home concerns, but the surround
ing country centers there to trade. The
result is splendid business activity. Every
business man takes pride in keeping up his
trade and his reputation. He wears an air
of solldty and ambition and knows nothing
about the sleepy, Indifferent existence Of the
Sleepy Hollow merchant.
A town with good, substantial business
backbone is always enterprsing in other
respects. 1t takes pride in fine streets,
neat, comfortable dwellings, substantial
public buildings and Improvements and a
generally brushed up and tidy condition.
The main street is never out of repair; side
streets are not converted into barn-yards
and cow-pens; sidewalks are not ragged
and shabby; fences and outbuildings are
not rlckety and, Keeling; public buildings
are not rusty and weather-beaten, and moss
does not grow on the backs of the inhab-
itant'. Moss is an unknown product in
Haywards.
Brsides very efficient street railway
service Haywards boasts Of other metro
aal.s
garded by most country towns as extrava-
gances to be dreamed of and dreaded only
First should be mentioned its very complete
system of electric lighting. Nearly every
light in the town, including private dwell
lngs, mercantile houses, shops and corner
STREET LAMPS
Is an incanGescent electric light Very
little oil is burned and no gas. The little
unpresentlous insulated copper wire has
its way from one end OF tie village
to the other, and the glistening bulbs that
scatter the gloom from every darkened
haunt get their inspiration from great, big,
buzzlng, swapping, throbbing dynamo, back
in the northeastern portion of the town.
The ample public lighting is also done by
the same system. The plant was estab-
lished and is conducted under private
ownership, and it rebounds much to the
credit of the place that they are willing to
encourage such an enterprise by giving it
llUeTdl patronage.
Next comes the water works. This Is
also private enterprise. but none the less
efficient. The water is pumped from wells
into large reservoir at a considerable ele-
walton back of the town, and the supply
appears to be ample, of good quality and
unfailng. 1t may not be quite so abun-
dant and perfectly reliable as large lake
i'll the hills, but in the absence of such a
lake it answers every purpose.
1t isn't every small town that can support
a bank, but Haywards numbers among the
few that can. 1t Is not one of your COM
mon six-blt affairs, either; 1t is a big, solid
life-sized bank, with a capital stock of
$780, 600. and with such well-known cap
ilalists behind it as w. f. Goad w. {.
Belcher, John Garretson, j. E. Crooks,
George w. Prescott. Hon. John Boggs and
Julius HOLSTER. 1t is doing prosperous
business, but unlike most country banks, it
does not hold mortgage ON every piece of
nrnnerty Ia and snaalI ruithir L..