The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25
BUILDING At RICHMOND.
In Every Direction Neat Homes
and Fine Blocks Are
Going Up.
THE NEW FRENCH HOSPITAL
It Is to Be Occupied In July-Other
News From a Lively
District.

The sound of the hammer is constantly
heard in the lively Richmond district.
New buildings are going up in all direc-
tons.
Charles Hawthorne has completed fine
Queen Anne house at the corner of Fourth
avenue and Clement street, with marble
steps. Contractor McGrath is putting up
four two-story houses on Clement street,
near Fifth avenue. Mrs. Frohman's hand
some residence on Second avenue, between
Clement and California streets, is fast
nearing completion. ]. Wolff is putting
up model two-story building on the
northwest corner of Point Lobos and
Fourth avenues for a drugstore and offices
on Robert r. Kinds property.
Chris Bunger now occupies his new two
story building on the northwest corner of
Point Lobos and Fourth avenues. Irving
Ingerman is building a two-story fiat of
sixteen rooms on Clement street, between
Fourth and Fifth avenues. On the north
west corner of Point Lobos and Fifth
avenues are two new two-story buildings
owned, respectively, by Henry Meehan
and Miss A. Colombat. T. G. Parker is
putting up home for himself OH Second
avenue, near Sacramento street. I. Levy
is building a cottage on Fourth avenue
between Clement street and Point Lobos
avenue.
Frank G. Baxter has purchased c. M.
Stoltz's new res idence on Tenth avenue,
between Clement and California streets.
Mr.. StoltZ will now begin the erection of
another house in the same block. G. P.
Kalston Is ABOUT to build two cottages for
the Bailey brothers on Twelfth avenue, be-
tween Clement and California streets.
| Charles Hartman is commencing two
| story store, fronting on Point Lobos
avenue, near the streetcar house. Fred
| Holstis having neat little cottage built
| on Ferrie street, near Point Lobos avenue.
These are few of the many architectural
! improvements there.
Stewart Menzies is also a valuable con-
tributor along this line. He has Just let
| the contract to Pettus & Campbell for six
two-story cottages on Second avenue, just
south of California street. John G. Pelton
| is the architect, and the style is to be old
| English, patterned somewhat after Shake
speare's house at Stratford- Avon. The
timbers of the houses will be exposed and
stained. Plaster will cover the exterior
walls. The interiors are to be in finished
| oak. The houses will be very novel, and
will cost nearly $4,000.
| Superintendent of Construction Louis B.
Permanent says the new French Hospital
| Maison de Sante, or House of HEALTH
which the French Mutual Benevolent So
ciety has built south Of Lobos avenue, ne-
| tween Fifth and Sixth avenues, at a cost
of nearly $500, 900, will be occupied about
| July l. This institution has been admir-
! ably designed, and all its Improvements,
accommodations and apparatus are of the
| most advanced order. 1t is of stone and
brick, with antique and lincrusta interior
decorations. The plans were by Goustiaux
of Paris and Depierre of this City. 1t ex-
tends through two blocks to A street,
covering ground area of 240x600 feet.
The hospital will be lighted throughout
by electricity and the temperature can be
kept at any desired degree by means of
hot-air registers and ventilators in every
| room and ward in the building. Commu-
nication will be by electric bells through
out the entire hospital, and system of
speaking-tubes radiates from the suDerin-
| tendent's office to all departments. The
operating apparatus has been imported
from Paris. 1t mbraces the latest results
of applied surgical science.
Richmond has two improvement asso-
Citations, Charles II. Hubs being president
| of one and L. g. Parker of the other. That
| OF which Mr.. Hubbs occupies the chair met
last Wednesday and adopted resolution
asking Governor Budd to appoint Dr.
Frank b. Petrie member of the Board of
Health to represent Richmond. 1t was
| thought that Richmond's peculiar position
entitled 1t to some consideration in this
| matter.
Richmond has postotfice now, that is,
| sub-station 3, to be conducted by Mrs.
William Somers, at 215 Clement street,
will be opened by the 1st of June.
J. II. Bond, the Richmond boomer, runs
a very interesting weekly in the Richmond
Banner, which he has published for thirty
six weeks. Mr.. Bond is an old newspaper
rustlerr, having done many detail on San
Francisco and Denver dailies, and he knows
how to make his paper "meaty." The
| matter here printed.
Street and rapid transit Improvements
are everywhere apparent. Work on the
| Sutro electric road is progressing nicely
along Clement street and Eighth avenue.
The Market-street Railway Company is
about to begin to utilize its franchise on
Point Lobos avenue for an electric line,
/ too. The route will be from Hayes street,
| along Stanyan and Fulton streets and First
and Point Lobos avenues out to the ocean.
u. e. McMullin is grading Twenty-tifth
| avenue from Point Lobos avenue south to
| the park. E. F. Dennison is about finish
| Ing Ninth avenue from A street to the
park. A sewer is being run along Thir-
teenth avenue from Lake street to Clement.
President George r. Sanderson of the
| Presidio Heights improvement Club has
been informed that the engineer of the
| Merchants Association will at once pre-
| pare map showing upon what property
owners will fall the assessment for the
change of grade along the First-avenue
| boulevard.
| The Devisadero-street Improvement
Club has organized with H. w. Miller.
president; Adolph Meyer, vice president;
| +. B. Gibson, secretary; Thomas Shumate'
treasurer, and A. Meyer, F. B. Gibson, Ira
Hayes, E. ]. Gallagher, ]. V. Collins, exec
| utive committee.