The record-union., 1893-03-11
OUR SUBURBAN NEIGHBORS.
Present and Prospective Improvements
at Oak Park.
What a Correspondent There Has to
Say-Would Like to Vote for
B. U. Steinman.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: Residents of
Sacramento City, as well as many visitors
from other points, daily express surprise
at the rapid development of Oak Park;
but the suburban resident, with know
ing smile, says: Just wait another year,
and we will show you something in the
way OF development and improvement"
And he speaks not without reason, as the
outlook for something like "boom" is
most encouraging. 1t is safe to predict
that within the coming year between fifty
and one hundred dwellings of a substan-
tlal character will be erected, many of the
primitive settlers only awaiting settled
weather to begin improving their proper
ties, while many outside lot-owners. who
are now convinced that Oak Park sis in
1t for keeps" will become residents.
To those seeking a healthful place to
make home, the high land to the east of
the city offers many inducements The
Electric Railway Company affords excel
lent service, making the trip from the
park to the depot in thirty minutes. Dur
ing the hot summer season we enjoy the
| first caresses of the afternoon sea-breeZe.
! laden with health-giving ozone from the
ocean, free from taint. We have the
puAOSb anu SN GCIGSI NdlGI 10 D6 IOullQ
anywhere, and in ineXhaustibIe quantity;
we are over twenty feet above the level of
the city, and have most charming view
OF mountain scenery to be had anywhere
in the valley. To the south can plainly
be seen Mount Diablo and the inner coast
range; to the east, the eyes can trace the
Sierra Nevadas for hundreds of miles.
while to the north can be seen the lofty
peak of old Shasta, snow wreathed from
January to December
Three years ago the site of this sub
urban settlement was wheat field, pro-
duclng Scant return to its owners but a
few enter prising and far-seeing gentle
men, among them b. U. Steinman, pur-
chased the land, placed it upon the mar
ket at such low prices and easy terms of
payment as to come within the reach of
any workingman ambitious to secure a
home for his family. The result of their
enterprise is that many homes now ap-
pear upon the erstwhiIe wheat field, and
the only regret of the scores of working
men who make Oak Park their homes is
that they are debarred from having
voice as to who shall be the next Mayor
OF Sacramento.
The new schoolhouse and church. both
on cypress avenue, are rapidly approach
ing completion. The school, erected at a
| cost of about $1,000, has three large class
rooms so arranged by folding-doors as To
= III,
each classroom having a seating capacity
for about fifty pupils. A movement is
now under way by the ladies Of the park
to give an entertainment in the new
school building when completed in which
the children of Capital school Mrs. Dunn
teacher) and those of the Oak Park school
Miss Hicks teacher) will take prominent
parts.
The new church Union Baptist) will
be ready for services about May lst.
4 meat market has just been opened in
the old Hunter store, on Thirty-fourth
street. near Sacramento avenue.
The new store on Magnolia avenue,
near Thirty-second street, being built for
use as a bakery, will open soon.
Considerable improvement is being
made at the Pavilion grounds, and visit
ors who enjoy that style of music will be
treated to the latest melodies from new
machine organ in the merry-go-round
house.
1t is rumored that the railway company
intend to soon remove the unsightly and
dangerously inclined old car buildings at
the corner of Thirty-tifth street and Sac
ramento avenue.
1t is reported on good authority that a
prominent San Francisco real estate firm
have made overtures to the owner OF
large ranch adjoining Oak Park, to sur
vey and plat a portion of it and offer it
for building sites. OBSERVER.