The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09
TOWN OF GOLDEN CATE,
1t Is One of the Most PROSPER
Gus and Pretty Suburbs
Around the Bay.
GROWING POPULATION.
Has an Avenue Fifteen Miles Long
and Streets Thoroughly Graded
and improved.

| There are two Golden Gates in Califor-
| mia.
| One is known the world over as being
that point where nature affixed her final
crest in forming the entrance to San Fran
cisco Bay, and the other is a thriving town
that has come to the front within the last
ten years as one of the prettiest and most
prosperous suburbs around the great har-
Dor of the Pacific Coast.
Golden Gate is incorporate, has $500 in
habitants and is situated on the east
side of San Francisco Bay on the line of
the Berkeley railway.
| 1t is in Oakland Township, at the juno
| ton of San Pablo avenue and Berkeley
road two and half miles from Oakland.
The town is about mile and half square
and contains 600 handsome residences. 1t
! has been one of the most rapid towns in
| its development in the county, and its adj
| vantageous location, salubrious and equa-
| BILE climate lnsures it future second to
no other town in Alameda County.
| San Pablo avenue, 100 feet in width and
twelve miles in length, without an angle
or bend, from Oakland to San Pablo,
was the old emigrant road, and divides the
| tOWH III ndlI. III is Un6 only IuOIOuSpldIt
| leading out of Oakland to the north, and
Golden Gate has the advantage of the haul
ing traffic between San Pablo and Oakland,
as we'll as direct railway communication
| with half-hour trains to San Francisco.
The town is built in the midst of per-
fectly level stretch of country extending
from the bay ON the west to the foothills
on the east. Its streets are improved, be-
ing finely graded and shaded, and the
rapid multiplication of its handsome resi-
dences is proof conclusive that the superior
inducements for home making are fully
appreciated.
! Among the public buildings are Meth
odlst, Presbyterian and Baptist
church, a town hall and a $4,000 school
house. The town is we'll supplied with
mercantile esta including three
grocery stores, drugstore. two hotels, two
blacksmith shops, harness-shop, wood
hay and coal yard, two shoestores and two
| works and smelling and short
distance below the town is located the
stock yards, where upward of 100 900 head
| OF cattle are slaughtered and shipped to
the Oakland and San Francisco markets
annually.
The residents are enterprising and pub
lic-spirited, and allow no opportunity to
go by for promoting the growth of their
town and increasing its prosperity. That
has been their policy since the first street
was surveyed. The land on which the
town is laid out was owned by Mrs. Par
sons, % acres; William O'Neil, 40 acres
Beaudry Il Peladeau 100 acres; James
Laudreian, so acres; John Doyle, so acres;
Butler & Klinkner, 20 acres.
The first boom followed the cutting up
OF the land, and was chiefly attributable to
the selling of lots on the installment plan
Houses were also built in the same way,
and enterprising contractors and real
oS "a 70 ms ha he MI
since then. AS result many men work
ing on small salaries in this City own their
cozy, quiet homes in Golden Gate, with
pretty gardens and a fine climate to re-
fresh them after their work in the noisy
and busting metropolis.
1t is a sanitary district, and the oldest
inhabitant cannot recall the time the town
ever had more than one case of sickness at
one time. There has never been an cpl
demlc in the town, and an election has
just been held, resulting in the issuance of
bonds for the construction of sewers and
| the carrying on of other i'm provements.
1t has taken Golden Gate about ten years
to attain its present size, and it is still
growing.
Among the principal business men and
growth of the town are the following: J. 0.
Watkins, Mr.. Martin, John l.. French,
| William Prick, Staten Bros, Miss Sarah
Young (postmistress), T. W. Hessemeyer,
James Hayes, Leach q Sons, J. E. Glen
denmng, J. Wehrli, H. Steinmann, Will
liam O'Connor, w. Bessant, Mrs. Case,
Mrs. Lamb, Mr.. Cook, Drs. Tucker, Collins
and Hodghead
The San Pablo-avenue cable road, which
passes through the town, will soon be con-
verted into an electric line and the addi-
tional transportation facilities will furnish
an extra impetus to its growth. The prin-
cipal streets, which are we'll graded and
have excellent drainage, there being
natural fall of eighty feet to the bay, are
! named as follows: San Pablo, Matte, Cen
tral, Stanford, Klinkner, Butler, Golden
Gate avenues; Parson, Menlo, Sutter, Los
Angeles, FELTON,, Alcatraz, Dalton, Powell,
Folsom, First, Second and up to Fifteenth
streets. The patriarchs of the town pre-
dict growth of 500 inhabitants year
from now on, and the superior induce
ments for home-making they have to offer
would seem to warrant them in their
prognostics.