The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-31


parts of the country. THE CALL is
liked because it helps to build up
N all the praisewcrthy institutions
of the country. There appears to
be universal rejoicing on account OF IHE
CALLS marked prosperity. From the ava
lanche of plimentary notices printed
by our contemporaries some OF the charac-
teristic expressions are, chosen for repro
duction to-day.
Phenomenal Progress to Popularity.
The most attractive and the best equipped
newspaper building in the United States
and therefore in the world will soon be &C.
cupied by the San Francisco CALL, a news
paper whose progress during the past six
months has been phenomenal. The build
ing will be located on the southwest corner
of Market and Third streets. 1t will be 80
feet in height, comprising fifteen stories,
and will be constructed of steel, granite
and marble throughout. The cost of the
building. together with the lot upon which
it will stand, will approximate 81, 100000.
While The CALL is to be congratulated
upon its immediate prospect of occupying
a structure that will meet its growing re-
qulrements and be in every way worthy of
its enterprise and prestige, the projected
improvement is one in which San Fran
ciso and the entire State also have
a direct interest. The fact that Claus
Spreckels has determined to invest
a million dollars in a single bust
ness block in San Francisco should in it.
self be sufficient to strengthen confidence
in the future of that city and to induce
other capitalists to make similar invest
ments. And the combination OF massive
ness and architectural beauty in THE CALL
building Will make 1t striking ornament
to the City and an object lesson in design
and finish that cannot fail to educate the
public taste and stimulate a desire to de-
part from the dead level of architecture
now so noticeable there.
Mr.. SpreckeIs, who was the foremost
promoter of the Valley Railroad, will give
further evidence of his loyalty to this
State by using only Californian material
in the construction of THE CALL building;
the granite and the marble will be the
products of Californian quarries and the
woods of Californian forests. So that THE
CALL, which has done so much for the in
dustries of the State, will be housed in a
palace that is itself a monument TO those
industries.-Sa Jose Mercury.
Successful Papers Erect Buildings.
Seemingly short the time, yet many
years have o'erlapped themselves since we
first met Charley Shortridge as local editor
of the San Jose Mercury. He was then
just leaning strongly into the journalistic
harness. We have often talked with him
as be expressed it-about ''the emphasis
of his work. Now we have just received a
sample COPY of the San Francisco CALL,
over which Mr. Shortridge editorially pre-
sides, and the new home of that paper Is
to be dome-capped building, marble
palace 800 feet high. Buildings do not
mako S1pcp Lcf1l DaDpre bI1t successful
papers erect buildings and editors are
largely responsible for both. The inference
is obvious.-The West, Florence, Or.
a Delight to the Educated Eye.
Saturdays Daily San Francisco CALL
contained picture of new ffteen-story
building which Claus Spreckels will erect
on one of the corners of Market and Third
streets, San Francisco. 1t VIII surpass all
the other tail buildings in the City, both
in height and artistic finish and architect
ually. 1t is a delight to the educated eye,
and, as it is to be built of California ma
terial will be a noble monument to Mr..
Spreckels' generosity ard enterprise. The
CALL will have the handsomest quarters in
the world, when it gets in its white marble
palace.-Guinda Independent.
White Marble and an Imposing Dome.
The San Francisco CALL is to have
magnificent home. Claus Spreckels is
about TO erect a palatial marble business
structure on the corner of Third and Mar
ket streets. diagonaIly across from the
Chronicle building-and The CALL will oc-
cupy the basement part of the ground floor
and the two upper stories. The building
will be fourteen stories high and will be.
surmounted by an imposing dome. 1t will
be built of white marble. Its height-310
feet-will be 100feet greater than any other
building in San Francisco.-Ukiah Dis
patch-Democrat.
To Overtop Everything.
The San Francisco CALL is to have
marble building fifteen stories high for an
Office. Mr.. Spreckels recently purchased
the property on the corner of Third and
Market streets at cost of $500, 900, and is
having the old buildings removed prepare
tory to commencing the new edifice. Ac-
cording to the plans it will be the highest
building i'll the City, and will overtop the
Chronicle by eighty-fve feet. - Weekly
Palo Alto.
"The Calls" Lofty Views.
TEE CALL is to have the most magnih-
cent building in San Francisco, fifteen
story building on the southwest corner of
Market and Third streets, to be built by
Claus Spreckels. THE CALLS lofty views
have driven it into lofty building, with
more room to help increase It's circulation.
-Porterville Enterprise.
Spirit as Lofty as the Edifice.
Memory recalls time when earthquake
fear precluded the erection Of tall buildings
in San Francisco, but with other silurian
ideas thus has disappeared. The CALL