The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-18

interested in the matter and gave the local
grange all the assistance needed to make a
winning fight.
The benefits derived from that kind Of
enterprise can hardly be overestimated. 1t
gives the town good name before all the
world. Outsiders hear of these things and
say, That Is the sort of get-up- and-git we
like to see. When you see towns people
so completely united in their anxiety to get
hold CT
THE WHEEL OF PROGRESS,
And help push it along, you can make up
your mind that that town is the place to live
The Haywards school is a fine large build
ing and occupies whole block. 1t is nicely
situated too, right near the center of the
town, and will always be one of the sight
lest locations in it. In addition to the
public school are one or two private institu-
lions, chief Of which is the Bellevue
the Native Sons Building.
Five church societies also grace the town;
four of them, Congregational, Methodist,
Catholic and Episcopal, each have their own
edlfice. while the Presbyterians hold wor-
ship in the Native Sons Hall.
The fraternal organizations are numerous
and we'll sustained. The Odd Fellows
lodge has over 100 membership, and meets
in its own building The Young Mems In
stitute and Young Ladies' Institute are both
tourishing. The lodge OF A. o. U. W. is
is one of the best in the county. Eucalyptus
Lodge, +. & A. NJ, also has a good stand
Ing, and Alameda Encampment is a candi-
date Tor fraternal recognition.
Haywards has better hotel accOmmo da-
lions than most towns of her size. 1t takes
at least five to meet the demands of the
transient public, and two of them are far
ABOVE the average country inn. The Hay
wards Hotel is fine imposing three-story
structure standing on the brow of the hill
at the corner of
MAIN AND PIERCE STREETS,
ana has become quite noted summer re-
SORT. The balmy, congenal climate, for
when HayWardS Is famous, makes IL a very
desirable place to spend the summer months.
and the large hotels are then in the midst of
thelr harvest The next place of Importance
In this line is Tony Oaks hotel, one Of the
pioneer institutions of the county.
Among the resources for pleasure and rec
reatlon are fine baseball ground and O
picnic ground and hall. Besides the ave-
nues. both in town and leading out in all di-
rectlons, are the best in the world for cycling,
and there is lots of it enjoyed.
The growth OF the country surrounding
Haywards is little short of phenomenal, and
1t is quite as wonderful to those not accus-
Toned to that sort of farming what remark
able profits are yielded 10y small tracts. The
SOIL Is famous for its richness, irrigation is
never necessary, and there are few kinds of
cannot be and are not successfully pro-
duced. Many years ago the ranches were
large and cumbersome and were not con-
Quoted TO the best advantage of late years
they are being cut up into smaller tracts,
five, ten and twenty acres, and not only are
the products multiplied, bat the profits as
well. Indeed, a ten or twenty acre fruit
farm is all one man has any business to
handle, and many make a splendid living
on five acres.
hA hatv,-
Leandro, which includes and completely en-
velops San Lorenzo, one of the oldest fruit
growing settlements in California, is almost
an unbroken stretch of orchards, not all one
ranch. but succession of ranches, all en-
gagged In the thrifty pursuit of Embarrassing.
During the shipping season these districts
are truly
WONDERFUL SCENE.
The spectator is overwhelmed at the vast
quantities OF fruit, and wonders where in
the world mouths can be found to consume
it all. His wonderment performs peculiar
acrobatic maneuver a little later, however,
when he discovers that the demand has been
nowhere near supplied. Haywards and vi
clnity rank as about the second or third
largest shipping points in the State.
AS an instance of what can be done on
small fruit farms, a short time ago Judge
w. e.. Blackwood realized $4,000 on ten
acres of apricots. This may not be fair
example to go by, because it does not often
happen. but shows what may be done. One
OF the means of making small fruit farm
sustain itself until it gets to bearing is to
raise small fruits, such as berries peas cur
rants and the like, which are all very profit
able. One OF the leading enterprises Of the
fruit-rasing district which includes Hay
wards, San Leandro and vicinity is the
Haywards Fruit Growers Association
This company handles nearly all the i'm
mense fruit shipments.
Haywards suffers the same lack of travel
ing conyeniences that the other small towns
south of Oakland do. 1t is blest with seven
trains daily to and from San Francisco and
no more. The people are looking forward
with great interest and high hopes to the
completion of Ii. w. Meek's electric railroad
that will connect their town with Oakland.
III 1t fnlhls what it promises and what all
are expecting OF it, the distance and OBJ
stacles between Haywards and Oakland will
be practically wiped out and hundreds more
will ind it possible TO make the charming
little village their place of permanent abode