The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-09

on Third street. 1t looks too much as if were
going down hill. The Supervisors ought to
order all those shanties and rookeries torn
down. 1t is a shame TO see the condition the
street is kept In Look at the way the railroad
company cares for that part OF the street
between its tracks, the dumploads OF some
inferior rock that soon turns TO dust on the
street. But of course the railroad can do as it
pIeases and no one dares to say word. Ihere
is no reason why Third street should not pc
come great business street. 1t is the cont1ns
uatIon really OF Kearny street and is the main
artery OF the city out this way.
DR.. J. P. Richardson, SOC Third street,
said:
The street pavement here is nuisance. They
are constantly repairing it, and still 1t is IN
dlsgracetul condition. 1t must cost at least
ten times as much in repairs now as II would II
the street were properly paved 1 think that 1t
would be good idea for the property-ownerS
to meet and stir matters up and see what can
be done. Third street has great future as
thoroughfare and as business street.
A. Heyer, grocer, Third and Bryant,
Why don't the Supervisors go after the con-
tractors who paved Third street, between Mis-
sion and Howard, after their bondsmen2
The work was done last October, and that
block is now worse than any part of the street.
OF course, there are many poor buildings on
the street, but most OF the property-oWners are
people of small means. But why don't the capt.
talist who owns it do something with that lot
across the way with the old shanties on it2
Business is declining on this street. but the
rents are kept up.
c, Riegelhuth, owner of meat market,
532 Thlrd>street, said:
For fourteen years 1 have been paying the
same rent, but business has decreased very
much. l think that there should be little
more enterprise on Third street among the
prOperty-owners. A good deal could be done
toward making it n better business street.
There Is piece OF property across the street
worth at least $4,000 and owned by
wealthy capitalist. You see the miserable old
shanties on ii. Capitalists don't care TO 90
anything on Third street while il IS i'll its
present condition.
E. Lauterbach OF E Monnier & Co..
wine merchants, 368 Third street, said:
The CALL is doing good work in the matter,
and its account OF the condition OF Ihlrd street
is all true. II is all the fault OF the property
owners: The tenants can do nothing. If we
had q good street we could afford To pay cur
| rents, which are now altogether too high 1t
/ is outrage that such fine tnCrCu9htere
| should be kept in the condition it il and that
/ is the only draw back to il. II | WSs prop
/ erty-oYner on Third street ! should call
1 meeting OF all the owners and make complaint
| TO the authorities.
! George Rauber, meat market. 32s Third
! street, said:
had TO move not long ago on account Of the
! high rent. We have 10 pay taxes and license
| fees, and il seems as ii we should get some
! thing in return. but Tnird street is practically
| business street, and ought to be OI much more
| Importance than it is. There seems 60 be
! nobody to look out Tor us. I don't know
| whether the city fathers or tile prOperty-OWnerS
! are most to blame. The railroad people are
constantly bringing in gravel and dumping it
! along their tracks and dIhng our stores With
dust.
J. Freeman hardware merchant, 326
Third street, said:
The street ought to be put in proper order.
| If the property would come together
! they could do all%that is necessary. From its
natural position Third street ought TO Je the
great thOrOughfare in this part OF town. One
great trouble is The high rents imposed by the
go 10 ruins. They VIII do nothing III the way
of improvement. If the city would fix up the
street the property-owners could probably ol
compelled TO improve the sidewalks.
Oscar Fisher, dry-goods merchant, Los
Third street, said:
Comment is hardly necessary with those ruts
paved only last October. The street i:
worse now than il was before the work wal
done. Where the fault lies | cannot say, bu1
somebody ought to be brought to terms.
J. Joost, grocer, 1873 Third street, said:
Something ought to be done. You see tha
the curb is six inches above the sidewalk
which was laid too low; the street is full o
holes some of them as much as a foot deep
Then the buildings on the street are being neg
; lected. l am paying big rent here and NJ
| repairs have been made on the building for TIT
, las six or seven years. The condition OF Third
street is d shame. II is fearful, and yet thi
ought 10 be one Of the finest business streets o
: the city. The property-oWneTS don't seem L
= see their own interests.