The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-29

Society to Peacock & Butcher, concrete work,
etc, to same; cost ST., 500.
Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home
Society to Thomas McLachlan, carpenter work,
etc., same; cost ST. 800.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
All taxes must be paid before P. NJ.
to-day, Monday, or they will become de-
hnquent and penalty OF 8 per cent Will
be added.
Wendell Easton is on his way to New
York to meet representatives of English
companies, with whom he has been In ne
gotiation recently and who stand ready to
loan from 81, 100000 to 100000 on Cali
fornia county lands.
Bids will be received by Mayor Sutro
upon the old City Hall buildings up to
May Is next. It is the order of the Super
visors that these ancient structures be re-
moved within ninety days, the intention
being to provide i'll the next tax levy for
the cost of the erection of a new building
On the lot.
The Market-street Railway Company
proposes to begin operations Immediately
on its franchise on Point Lobos avenue.
The route will begin at the junction of
Hayes and Stanyan streets, thence north
to Fulton, west to First avenue, north to
Point Lobos avenue and west to the Cliff
House. The proposed road will be run by
electricity.
Notable Improvements are going on in
the Potrero and it is in a great measure
due to the efforts of the Potrero Improve
ment Club. Electric cars, new sidewalks,
clean streets and many newly painted
houses are recent indications of new life in
this section of the city.
Claus Spreckels has invested in round
numbers 50, SOC, 900 in San Francisco realty
during the last eighteen months. His
latest acquisition was the property owned
1lr~N
located on the northwest line of Market
street, west of Powell, and running through
to Eddy street. This property involved
an outlay of $3.50, 600. Its notwithstanding
buildings will soon be supplanted by mod
ern Improvements.
The report comes over from San Leandro
that In real estate transactions and the
erection of new buildings the town is pick
ing up. A new system OF sewerage has
Just been completed at considerable cost.
It's peculiar features are the smallness of
the pipes and the big fushtanks at the
head OF each street. The system is giving
general satisfaction.
Figures are being sought upon the cost
of grading about 1900 lots in the Richmond
district, the boundaries being Eighth and
Fourteenth avenues and Point Lobos ave-
nue. and D street. Streets are to be
opened, graded, macadamiZed, curbed and
sideWalked, and the blocks fenced.
Louis Schloss has opened real estat tie
Offices in the Croker building. Santa
Clara County is speciality with him.
David Stern d Sons have entered their
new and handsome quarters at 20 Mont
gomery street.
On the 18th of May Shainwald, Buckbee
& Co. have catalogued an assignee sale for
account of Joseph Shain. The public will
be treated to the novelty of an evening
sale by this firm on the same day. The
object of this is to accommodate working
men who cannot attend a day sale. On
that evening forty-two lots will be put up
at auction.
David Bush of the country department
of O'Farrell & Co. reports the sale of 103
acres of orchard, grain and pasture land
near Walnut Creek Contra Costa County.
Sol Getz & Rro. report the following
sales during the week: 25x120 on E line of
Twenty avenue, 1872 feet n of @
street for $3.50; 25x70 on w line of Siegel
street, 100 feet n of Blaine street for $275;
57:6x100 on Sc corner of Forty third
avenue and street for $500; 50x100 on n
line of R street, 57:6 feet w of Nineteenth
avenue for $500; 25x120 on E line of
Twenty eighth avenue, 300 feet S of ] street
for $500; lots %, 80 and 80 in block 26,
Lakeview, for $500; 50x120 on w line of
Forty-sixth avenue, 175 feet N of ] street
for $500.
Jacob Heyman reports the sale in the
Heyman tract of two lots on Twenty-third
street for $1,000 each, one lot on Hoffman
for 5000, and one lot on Corbett road for
$3.50.