The herald., 1894-02-12
ENTERPRISES IN SAN FRANCISCO.

hNIAhFkISk IN SAN FRANCISCO.
1t gives us pleasure occasionally to
say something spprecistive OF San
Francisco. That city is in the habit Of
dropping into fits of the most profound
melancholy of getting into the
dumps as it were. In these moods
the people of the metropolis cannot be
consoled. Everything is going, per-
force, to the ''demnition bow vows"
We are inclined to think that the habit
OF grumbling has become second nature
with San Franciscans. and that they
would feel out OF sorts ii they were not
registering kick at something or other
It is true that there are great msnv
unemployed people in that city just
now, and the sign ITO Lett is fire..
quently seen on houses in the by
streets, but the midwinter fair is big
thing, and 1t is going to do San Fran
cisco and the coast at large heap OF
good. There are other notable things
to be chronicled of our Pacific
coast metropolis. It has in
its midst men OF enterprise
not the least noteworthy of whom is
Mr.. Adolph Sutrc. This is the gentle
man who interested some six million
dollars OF English capital in building
the tunnel that bears his name in Vir-
ginis City. None of that ey ever
returned to England. 1t was patriotic
achievement upon the part OF San Fran
cisco's pablic spirited citizen to bring
that much money to this country and
to place it permanently where it would
do the most good. Mr.. Sutro is said to
own one-twelfth of the real estate of the
city and county of San Francisco. And
he is improving it on a grand scale. He
has announced it to be his purpose to
give Sutro Heights, at his death, to the
city. and splendid gift it will be. But
he is not waiting till his death to begin
his benefactions. He is now building
below Sutro Heights, Immediately
the Cliff House, the largest
and most magniicently appointed bath
house in the world. Its dimensions
are simply colossal. The building
is four hundred and fifty fee
long by two hundred and twenty-five
feet wide and seventy-two feet high. |
will have six hundred bath rooms and
twelve deliberately appointed dressing
rooms. Tiers of seats rise from tht
swimming tanks to near the roof with
seating capacity of five thousand. TIL
structure will take couple of month,
to bring it to the finished stage. WateI
pumped from the ocean, of differen
temperatures, will fill the several tanks
so that the visitor can select that whici
pleases him best There is one immens
tank Ior bold swimmers In wnlcn tut
water will be quite deep. The structure
is massive and impressive in tbs
highest degree, and when completed
will have cost its liberal constructo
three-quarters OF million of dollars
A city that has citizen like Adolpi
Sutro can lay the fattering JUNCTION tt
ts soul that it is not yet moribund nor
likely to be so soon.
A little below the Sutro bathing es-
tablishment are the pumping works
and pier OF the Olympic club. This &C.
ahead organization, which embraces
membership of thirty-seven hundred,
mas gone out to the spread OF ocean be
low the Cliff house, and will pump the
fresh and unpolluted sea water into it
elegant and commodious quarters in the
heart of the city, thus affording it
members an opportunity of taking sea
paths without the necessity of hurrying
out to the north beach.
With the midwinter fair. engineered
oy enterprising San Franciscans, with
out dollar appropriated by any public
body, state or municipal, with Sutro''
superb bath house-the finest and
largest in the world; with an Olympic
club which brings the waters OF the
Pacific ocean in unlimited quantities
INTO the very center of the city, out
siders must concede the fact that the
Bay city is showing very decided sign
OF life. 1t is certainly doing well fora
.own only forty-6ve years old. All
that is needed is that it shall keep ny
it's lick and extend its enterprise i'll
other directions.