The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27

ana 1ndcaQdmlZeu at own expense.
1.-The proper paving OF the streets in any
city should take place at an early date in its
history, and Is in fact, necessary to any con-
siderable degree OF fame as great city.
1.-THE streets of Rome, as well as the high
ways, were paved in an elaborate manner.
Portions of the ancient pavement of the streets
or Rome are in use to the present day, and the
pavemento of Pompei remains intact.
'fThe plan now adopted in all the European
cities is to secure solid foundation, varying in
thickness according to the amount of traffic it
substratum is not of solid kind, by covering
the street with solid bed of concrete, having
slope from the middle to the sides TO throw
off the water. On the concrete is placed the
asphaltum, making an almost everlasting
pavement, and a comfort to both man and
beast. The great obstacle in the way of laying
cisco is the necessity of breaking up for the
laying and repairing of water, sewer and gas
pipes. The true remedy, and in the end the
cheapest would be TO have, in the chief streets
at least, subways or tunnels for all drains and
pipes which would be accessible without
breaking up the pavement"
W. E. Fisher of Will E. Fisher & Co..
had the following to say of Richmond s
growth:
1t is difficult to mention any one section of
the City which has not witnessed a steady in
crease in the number and value of the inn
provements which have been made during
the past year. Perhaps that section of the
CITY where the most noticeable Improvement
Here private enterprise enforced by railroad
extension and street work, including sewer
construction, has worked transformation.
The D cent fare to the Cliff House has
attracted many investors from among the
renting class, who have bought lots and
erected on them cottages. We have a credit
OF twenty-six such; built by parties to whom
we sold lots in Richmond during the past year.
The building and loan societies have given
most favorable terms to their Richmond
clients and the result has been that many have
pnQhin6 n hnrnpo no vii
In monthly sums. very little in advance of
That they formerly paid for rent. 1t is safe to
predict that more buildings will be erected in
Richmond during 1896 than there will be in
any other section OF the City.
c. H. Reynolds, whose operations have
been largely conducted in the Richmond
district, is also elated over the prospect of
better car facilities. He said last Satur-
day:
The completion of the Sutro line to the Cliff
House marks the beginning of d new era for
Richmond. Property-owners in that district
have been bottled up, as it were, with a go-as-
you-please steam car on Sundays half way out
on street and no car at all on Point
Lobos avenue, was originally the finest
driveway the peninsula. In view of the
rapid westward development of the Western
Addition, l am surprised that the Market
street Railway Company did not promptly
comply with its franchises. AS a consequence
OF its backwardness in this respect there is no
telling how much this district has been re-
tarded.
For short time past out as far as Seventh
avenue there has been. accommodation by the
Geary and Sacramento-street lines, but beyond
there has been practically no streetcar service.
As Sutro's road, which goes into operation
on the first day of February, passes directly
through the heart of Richmond, every man,
woman and child in the district ought to feel
deeply grateful to him for the new road and
new order OF things.
Should San Francisco take a rapid
growth she certain to do tho 0ea p
future, her suburbs would develop faster
than the average city, being bounded on
two sides by the bay" said A. NJ. Speck in
commenting on the City's prospective de-
velopment.
friend of mine living in Western city,
continued Mr.. Speck, had the relation OF the ex-
tension of city suburbs and real estate values,
emphasized to him in way so impressive as
to be the means of making his fortune. He
bought lot IN an unimproved district and
built small cottage, which was occupied by
himself and wife. He worked away for a few
years on an income none too large to afford
comfortable living. Gradually houses began
to spring up within a few blocks of him, and
kept getting closer and closer until he found
himself surrounded by group OF near neigh
bors.
He asked one of them the cost of the lot on
which newcomers house was being built and
was surprised to learn that the said lot cost
just twice as much per foot as his own lot cost
him only few years before that. This set him
TO MISUNDERSTANDING seriously-and he talked
the matter over with his wife. He reasoned
that II the slight improvements and the street.
car line, which had recently come within two
blocks, had caused an advance of 100 per cent
IN five years, why could not he move little
farther out and accomplish the same result in
year by enterprising movements. He sold
and increased his possessions farther out, and
in less than five years he had made mis- fortune
by speculation in suburban property in pros
porous Western town.
REVIEW OF THE RECORDS
The real estate loans made last week
numbered ninety-two, and amounted to
$305, 289. The following abstract from the
records shows the principal sums and the
security accepted:
BY the California Title Insurance and Trust
Company, $4,000 to Peter and Mary A. Crich-
ton for one year, 81 per cent, on property at
the northwest corner of Suffer and Fillmore
streets, 53xl00; by the Hibernia Savings and
Loan Society, 500, 900 to James Cosgroye for
one year, 612 per cent, on the northwest corner
OF McAIllster and Leavenworth, west rs.
perth 81 g, west so, etc; by the same bank,
one year. 81 per cent, on property
on the north line of OFarrell street,
SIG west of Taylor, S7:6x25; by James
Finlayson, $4,000 to L. NJ l.. Nelson for one
year at z per cent on property on the south
east line of Mission street, 400: Is southwest of
Fifth, 90x160; by the Hibernia Savings and
Loan Society, SOL 800 to Mary A. O'Sulliyan
for one year at 81 per cent, on the northwest
corner of Pine and Front streets, 90 :6x6O: by
the same bank, $4,000 to Margaret Finegass for
one year at 81 per cent on the following prop
erty: 25x120 on the north line OF Eddy street,
275 west of Larkin, and 60x120 on the north
line of Green street, 65:6 east of Leavenworth !;
by the Atlas Building and Loan Association,
$4,000 TO Maurice and Eta Brandt for six years
att per cent per annum, on % 6x123 on the
west line of Van Ness avenue, 81 south OF
Vallejo street.
The releases placed on record last week
numbered fifty and represented $751;, 45S.
The largest ones granted were the follow
ing:
By the Equitable Building and Loan Associa-
ton SILL 900, to Henry and Cecilia Falken-
stein on property on the south line of Jackson
so east of 0ctavia 40xI27 81; by the Hi
hernia Savings and Loan Society $54 600 to H
f. and ]. +. Bruins, on the northwest corner of
Pacific and Sansome, 34:415x67 IS, and the
southwest corner of Mission and Sixteenth
100x100; by Jacob Dusenbery $4,000. to
Frederick KatZ, on the northeast corner of
Folsom and Ninth, 50x9O; by the Hibernia
Savings and Loan Society $12 900, to Jennie
G., Charles II. and Jennie II. Stanyan, on the
northwest corner of Buchanan and Bush
137 :6x137 IS, and property the south line
OF sacramento, 155 west of Polk, 81 :6x127 81
and by the same bank to the same parties
$4,000 on property on the south line of Sacra-
mento, 155 west OF Polk, 81 6x127 81.
There were III deeds recorded last week
and builders contracts to the number of
Z, representing a pledged outlay of
S32, 042.
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