The San Francisco call., 1895-12-23

northwest corner of Sacramento and
Laurel Streets being portion OF the estate
of Samuel Lewis.
Nine builders contracts were recorded
last week, representing pledged outlay OF
$56, 15S go.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
After an absence of four months Henry
2. Umb bsen has returned from pleasure
trip to China and Japan.
Early in the coming month Shainwald.
Buckbee & Co. will hold probate auction
sale.
January 16 0. F. Won Rhein & Co. will
offer at auction large miscellaneous cata-
logue, including the property of several
estates.
On the same date the property of the
Pacific Improvement Company in the
blocks bounded by Market, Mission,
Twelfth and Hermann streets will be Of
fered at auction by Baldwin & Hammond.
The annual meeting OF the Palermo
Fruit Company will be held January at
sos California street.
Shortly after the beginning of the new
year the Western Meat Company con-
templates the erection of a large pork
storage warehouse to cost $4,000.
Baldwin & Hammond report the sale of
forty-two lots in the Castro-street Addition
within ten days, and that many OF the
future.
Engineer Holmes of the Harbor Com
mission is preparing plans for coal-bunkers
to cost about SO, ZOO for j. D. Spreckeis &;
Bros.
Next Saturday the Murphy Grant block
on the northeast corner of Bush and San
some streets, will be put up for sale by G..
II. Umbsen q Co.. This property is classed
among the best wholesale realty in San
Francisco, being substantially improved
and we'll rented.
Charles K. Clark, for number of years
secretary OF the Citizens Building and
Loan Association, has resigned that posi-
ton in consequence of i'll health and pres
sure of other business. The board of di-
rectors have recently elected Fremont
Wood to fill the vacancy. Shortly after
the first of the new year this association
will move into new quarters, at 232 Mont
gomery street. Their report showed over
half a million dollars outstanding in loans,
5000 shares in force and the enviable record
OF maturing its first four series of stock in
less than ten years.
The accompanying illustration is of
houses to be erected for Herbert E. Law,
on Van Ness avenue, between Chestnut
and Francisco streets. The arrangement
OF the houses Is all adaptation of the
English basement plan, made to suit the
needs OF the day.
Each house will contain on the entrance
floor a vestibule and a roomy reception
hall, from which the stairs lead up to the
main floor. On the same level there will
be furnace and store rooms, laundry and
servants bathrooms and the servants
| hall. The llvlng-rOoms of the main floors
will have open brick fireplaces and null
lioned bay windows, the transoms of the
latter filled with glass set in red bars. In
addition to the main hving-room there
Will be roomy dining apartments facing
! on the avenue, and library in each corner
house connecting with the hall and the
living-room. The mantles, sideboards and
| trimmings of the main floors are to be of
| quartered antique oak. There will be com
| pletely equipped buffers pantries connect
! ing the kitchen with the dining-room.
| The upper floors are to be done in white
cedar, each floor above the main story to
! contain four bedrooms with two more
chambers in the attic, besides store and
trunk rooms. The plumbing work is to be
of the latest pattern, with all traps and
pipes exposed. The style adopted for the
exterior is a free application of the six
teenth century forms as found on the
manor houses and the town buildings of
the period.
OF the recent large sales on Market
street Poehlman's Real Estate Circular
says:
These large sales at good prices speak for the
future business AMI real estate prosperity OF
San Francisco, as the purchasers are "well
posted" and qualified to "know which way the
wind is blowing"
Timid buyers should take courage and real
lZe that If these persons, who have every op-
portunity for safely and profitably investing
their wealth, voluntarily select San Francisco
real estate as a safe vehicle TO bring them
greater wealth they, too, can invest what
money they have in San Francisco land and
rest easy as TO the ultimate result.
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