The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-31
SAN FRANCISCO
As IT Is TODAY.
4 Visitors ImlrGSSiol-CMr2St With
the Recent Past
The Growth oftLs City Material and su5stan-
tial Improvemeuts-A City Of Cable
Railways-The Park.
Written Tor THE SUNpAY CALL


I01a energy ana enterprise ana ueellheu
within q few decades 10 attain pTe-emlnent
distinction. The boast was sometimes
-7eera,3 ~ Inv travellers from tba Fast. who
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''" "o' "' IL" '''c'' CUM IS'o'' "" q" ~
existence rom mere hi'Hce "' map ou'
from observation oI our streets ana ihlOI-
nation as {. The volume of business trans
acted Kcarry and Montgomery streets
.,.,,, ,,.-,s nat IN +hans n-rfari models Of
,.1r.s,- f- erarf+ao-Ilr51 symmetry and
taste. the residential streets revealed many
-aFs Of SAND waste Wl''ln '"e oloeA>' anu
i1e Iayemeuts were lar from UNIFORM even
In wood and were for the mos, part eX-
a-rotfa R1sina,s If all kinds. including
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Jug nan "" ~
fi.iSeitute9 Oh u7 tle79-'I j"9t a. ia Nl"''
places, and, unfortunately, When mining
stocks suffered all l8nEUj>hei But great
deal has baunanaI since then. and the
s.-. - ,~o.f,,-. mas. ba mazda -o-j4v
80 +t.,+ r. vim not bs
VISA i.' li'N't 'O-'t''0-e '
scored ~. Nan FRANCISCO mas outr'." !. ~ ~
prov. ul-a- hrlul'>s ID 9ta, t.T' 4'.- ~ ',''''
tnl-el 10 lake iaAA tu '-e sum VI Pc
-e5>' =. L9- tu gfe'4 ~ - ~ .i.o
..ls. Ni.- NC $500 $3.50 ~ -
Las- eeeio.t 10 Tue Le't 4---lS j., "a
-hrl ms, many Of l-tse .ci,e9 III S@us l'...'-''
-tfr' "I''ar a t ~ ID cues I'D "v""-H "a 9''"ts
.a.' "~0'-tal-i W tth t-7 luAAts Oh " Nii-
Much Of This progress d 5 taken place well
.rf-Efr decade. ANY one WHO lo.k ks back
--tr .rr.4E-s may IN. Ie>itatingfy say that tie
=. .-s.uf9 gamma S"t', .'tt-if I'D P.to-
wt.In that period. and the imur. yemeuts
-rw iii progress or prospective viii soon
push Tie city. In the sense Of being fairly
we'll lu..tup. 10 is western limit, the ocean
..I .A some uektfe 20 rs S,1 i...s,-i
INKS
TO THE GOLDEN GATE PARK
And beyCnl The cemeteries and along the
boundary Of the Pres do Reservation af-
Tts IN Sd short period proof If very re-
L8rkat.e enterprise From the ferry slips
at the fo.tof Market street improvements
BOW extend westward IN SUn-tdulai M
pTeS>IFruess quite I'VE miles. These chiefly
take the form OF private es-dences. WIN
markets and stores IN tile blocks Well quit
Up. Many Of the private houses are
large and handsome. and the cost Of con-
~tIUc-iuu ia plain style must have been
considerably enhanced bv the hrw,idprng
variety Of rich embeIishment lavislIy in
tr0iuced on CurBireS, beiyldeTe-. windows,
I0rchas doors and peliments-perl3p use
I-ssIv and IN -awdry ta-je jn q number Of
Instances, UUt On the whole WIKI bright
eject .u q sunny c'Wata. This extension
westward along California, Jackson, Pacific
avenue and other streets is certain TO
Cautule at a rapid rate, for there IS now
less G.1eul-y In reaching "a home at these
CuCa rep-l.iaL distances than there was
few years ago jD making tet0ur around
tur urW City Hail. IHelutT 0uctlon OF The
cable railways has uey end cavil solved the
question Of completing tie csy in accord.
aace vita lis survey maps. L.acrTieity-ora-
relied cars, and also steam locomotives
would have been useless Ia going over ouT
lIH--Int ieW Of them very steep
ana lJ .uli nave been PAINFUL
g. employ horses In dragging tram
cars up such ch-st-testiuE summ.ts. As a
matter u fact CreTe we're u5 tIlm-clT- Tug-
ming up these nigh gradients until the
ay-@trerf Railway was laid and uu- Ito
successful operation. When opened i. was