The morning call., 1894-11-24
SIGNS OF LIFE.
Real Estate Business Is
Stirring Up.
A VILLAGE OUT OF TOWN.
Burlingame Park Is Placed Upon
the Market.
INCLINES OF TWO DRlVEWAYS.
Official Figures Show That Fulton
Street Is Better Than the
Avenue for Driving.
INCLINES OF TWO DRlvEWAYs

An eHOrC is D6lDg maQ6 TO 6StaDIlS0
suburban village at Burlingame that will
be par-excellence the swell country place.
s number Of building plats adjacent to
the Burlingame Country Club grounds.
beautifully wooded and commanding a
view of the valley and bay, are to be put
on the market. an innovation that the 400
hardly anticipated, as land near the club
grounds was held in large tracts by own
ers who evinced no desire to sell.
The first subdivision has been made. 1t
surrounds the clubhouse grounds on three
sides and contains seventy-two plats of
various sizes and shapes. The name Sc
lected is Burlingame Park, and as the place
is what its name lmplies-a park with
winding avenues and grand old oaks
quite sanguine hopes are entertained for
its success in the real-estate market.
Baldwin & Hammond have undertak en-
to sell the new village, or park, and they
believe that it will be ''the" country place.
The people of. B urlingame have the true
artistic spirit and are following out the
plans of the New England village i'm
provement asso clations in improving cOun-
try roads and giving to nature some of
that human bea uty that distinguishes old
country landscapes On that account it
may be presum ed that Burlingame Park
Will in a lew years be an object lesson to
other suburban villages around San Fran.
cisco.
The steep climb between Devisadero and
Broderick streets. on Golden Gate avenue,
has proved too much for horses going to
Golden Gate Park, and as Devisadero
street must be abandoned by horsemen
and wheelmen new routes are being ex-
plotted daily.
The proposition made by the railroad
company to make driveway of the ave
nue. as far west as Baker street is meeting
with strong opposition from property
owners on The avenue between Devisadero
and Baker streets. They claim truthfully
that change of grade would ruin their
property, which is far above grade in most
places. A cut of twelve feet. as proposed,
would leave the land on the south side of
the avenue from twenty 70 twenty-five feet
above grade, and on the north side, be-
tween Baker and Broderick, fully seven
teen feet in the air. Realizes tate men de-
clare it is not feasible when property
rights are taken into consideration.
The action deciding on this driveway
was, perhaps. too hastily taken. as a better
route baS since been discovered From
conn arSon of official figures the grades on
this way are less than on Golden Gate
avenue, between Steiner and Broderick
streets. Again. the new route is covered
with oituminous pavement on every block
This is along Fulton street, from Steiner
to Baker, and thence into the panhandle
entrance. The heaviest grade is not 10
per cent. In comparison the grades are as
follows: Fulton street, between Steiner
and Pierce, So feet; Golden Gate avenue,
81 feet; Fulton street, between Pierce and
Scott. 81 ieet; Golden Gate avenue, level;
Fulton street, batWeen Scott and Deyisa-
dero, fall of 80 feet; Golden Gate ave-
nue.. rise Of 30 feet being the steepest
grade on either street. On the avenue be-
tween Devisadero and Broderck streets
the rise Is 80 feet, while on Fulton street
the block is level.
Fulton street can be reached from the
avenue by crossing on Steiner street for
TWO blocks, the first of which has a rise of
twenty-three feet to McAIlister street and
the second block to Fulton only fifteen
feet.
The real estate market is showing
healthy signs, and while actual transfers
are not so frequently made as in better
times there are many small transactions
with some large ones recorded. Business
has steadler tone and would be brisk if
owners OF property would weaken some on
prices.
The auction sale by Won Rhein s. Co.
Thursday last did not quite come up t,
expectations so far as prices are con-
cerned. And yet bidding was reasonably
L u
$4,000 was the highest bid on piece Of
real estate at Sixth and Shipley streets, rs
on Sixth by 125 on Shipley, with the
Arcade Market and three houses of twelve
rooms each. A bank mortgage Of S21, 600
is on the property. W. j. Adams, trustee,
bought the following pro critics under a
deed OF trust: Fourteen-roOm house, lot
25x1C6, on Clayton street, near Page, for
$500; 1900 Bush street, ten-room dwelling
lot 25X75, $1,000; 1918 Lyon street, near
Pine, new elevan-room house, 25x100,
S6175; S02 and SOC Elizabeth street, new
cottages of five rooms each, lots 25x114,
SLIGO each; 1904 Larkin street, north of
Washington. modern seven-room cottage,
lot 29x100. $4,000 Three lots on California
avenue. twenty-five feet east # York
street, 25xl00 each, sold for 1915 each; a
lot on tue southwest corner of York street
and Preeita avenue, 25x100. brought $i100.
and lot 25X100 on Precita avenue, fifty
feet west of York street, brought $3.50
Last Sunday O'Farrell q Co. advertised
block bounded by Mission, Francis,
Croke and Alemany streets in the Acad-
envy tract to be sold in subdivis ions on
easy terms at prices ranging from $500 to
$500, the latter for MisSiOn-Street corners.
BY Wednesday as many as nine lots were
sold for cash. Five sold Cor $3.50 each, and
two for $3.50 each. These have a depth of
$50 feet and frontage Of % feet. A Mis-
sion-street corner, 25x100, was sold for
$780, and the adjoining lot, 25x100, for
$3.50.
A remarkable feature of the sale is the
purchasers did not take advantage of easy
terms offered, but paid cash. No doubt
the reasonable prices were temptations for
men who are looking for cheap homes and
had money ready 10 make the purchase
Ii shows conclusively that there is a large
quaint of money ready for investment
in small sums the moment any induce
ment such as this one presented by O'Far-
rell 81 Co. is offered.
Sol Getz & Bro. report the following
sales Lot 25x120. east line of Twenty-third
avenue, 100 feet south of X street, for
$3.50; 50x10O, south east line of Edn burgh
street, 100 feet northeast of France ave-
nue., for $500; 25x100, south line of ]
nue., for $500; 25x120, west line of Eighth
avenue. 200 feet north of K street, for