The San Francisco call., 1896-11-23
added to all accounts which may then be un-


The Van Ness improvement Club and the
Polk-street improvement Club have nleo peu-
tions with the Supervisors requesting that
contract for grading down The hill on FOLK
street, between Greenwich and Lombard, De
let at once.
Much building is at present going on in the
Castro-street and Sunnyside additions. Among
the new homes that are soon to be built N.
roster intends to erect dwelling on Surrey
street, near Douglass; Mrs. Susan G. Neil hes
contracted Tor cottage on the adjoining lot:
G. &. Gottung Will buid a tWo-story residence
on Castro street, near Diamond: j. W. Johnson
has made arrangements for a cottage to be
constructed on his lot on Diamond street, near
Chenery
The property-owners and residents in the
vicinity OF the City and County Hospital have
organized Tor the purpose of preventing if
possible, the housing OF the lepers now con-
City and County Hospital
The new Mission High School which Is IN
be located at the corner OF Dolores aud Eigi-
teenth streets, will be a three-storv and base
ment building OF brick, terra Gotta and stone,
The interior will be OF modern design, and the
structure Will VIII, De as nearly hreproof as pos
gymnasium with 700 square feet of space an
bly, hall with a seating capacity of 1000
persons and physical and chemical labora-
tory. The building is to cost within $137 600
The grading and sewerlng of Precita avenue
north and south OF Bernal Park. in Precita
Valley, has been ordered, ana the contracts
will be let to-day.
The San Mateo Electric Railroad Company is
at present contemplating extending its line Oh
Eighteenth street from its present terminus, at
1t also proposes to reconstruct the roadway
on Eighteenth street and 10 make the park
branch belt line, the cars running west on
Eighteenth street to the park and returning
east on Seventeenth.
The merchants on Sixth street, between
Market and Folsom, will organize an I'm prove
Inent club shortly for the purpose OF further
ing their interests. One of the first matters
that the proposed organization will take up
fNrrfn ka. dow TO- HAITI q
place the cobbles. Another matter OF I'M
portance to be considered is the lighting OF the
tnoroughfare with electric light.
AT a recent meeting of the Mission Improve
ment Club the subject OF bitumin1Zing
Guerrero street, between Fourteenth and Six
teenth, and of Fourteenth street. between
Guerrero and Dolores, was discussed. 1t was
declared q necessity to reDIace the present
macadam with hard pavement, and these
improvements will be petitioned Tor in the
near future.
The Richmond District Improvement Club
is preparing bill which will be introduced in
the next Legislature to bring about the closing
of the cemeteries. Two years ago the Legisla-
ture was appealed to TO pass an act prohibiting
further burials within the municipality. This
measure, however, failed to pass, but the
Richm ond residents believe that their chances
of getting legislation at the next session are
much better than they were two years ago.
Easton, Eldridge 4 Co. viii resume their
auctions this week On Tuesday they viii offer
at public sale eight parcels of City property,
consisting of the following subdivisions:
House ana lOL on Lle southeast corner OF rage
and Cole streets; lot and Improvements, 2107
Howard street. south of Seventeenth: resi-
dence and lot, 924 Page street. near Devisa-
dero; five lots on Devisadero street, between
Broadway and Vallejo; two lots on Vallejo
street, west of Deyisaoero; dwelling and lot,
1920 Castro street; cottage and coalyard on
Church street, near Twenty-hfth; dwelling
at 449 Jersey street; cottage and lot, 3S1 Ar
lington street.
meeting of property-owners and business
men along the line OF Valencia street VIII
soon be called for the purpose of organizing
an improvement club with view of betteTing
the business conditions of that thoroughtare.
The first subject that will probably be brought
up by the new organization will be move
ment for the lighting of the thoroughfare with
arc lights.
SOME RECENT SALES.
Baldwin & Hammond report the following
recent sales: Lot on north line OF Washington
street, 1906 east of Webster, 50x127:6 IS, at
$I1 900; lot on south line of Page street, S7:6
west of Octavia, 25x120, through to Rose
avenue. with improvements on Rose avenue,
$4,000; lot and improvements on north line
Of Perry street, 77:6 east of Third, 2oxSo,
| $500; lot and Improvements on west side OF
Fourth avenue, 124:9 north OF Point Lobos,
! 25x120, $500; lot on north side of Twenty
fifth street, II east OF @ @valencia. 46 81 by an
side of Dolores street, 33 feet south of Army,
75x9O, at $2400: five lots on the north line of
Lake street, 81 :6 feet west OF Seventeenth
line OF Mission street, rs feet south of Tingley,
! 25x108, 5000; lot and Improvements at Is
IL,
lot and Improvements the west side OF
Shotwell street, 175 feet north of Twenty-fifth,
lot 25x122:6, $500; lot and Improvements at
% Zoe street, near Bryant, lot 20x75, $4,000;
six lots in the Castro-street Addition at prices
ranging from $3.50 to $400.
This firm also reports very large inquiry
| for lots in the blocks bounded by Frederick
Stanyan, Cole, Shrader and Beulah streets and
sales of lots in these blocks follows: Six lots
! on Cole street, between Frederick and Beuiah
| including the southwest corner; two lots on
the south side of Beulah, between Shrader and
Cole; six lots on the southeast corner of Shra-
der and Beulah streets. Most of the recent
sales have been made to builders and i'm
provements will be made ona number of these
lots at once.
Jacob Heyman has disposed of three lots,
25x114 each, on the north side Of Alyarado
street, west of Douglass, On which three dwell
ings are to be begun next week. he is also
building on Twenty-third street, 100 feet west
of Douglass.
H. E. Poehlman reports the sale of two lots
on Lake street, west of Ninth avenue, each lot
25x72 feet, for $1,000 apiece, on which the
purchaser intends erecting at once q haud-
some residence. The property at the south
west corner of Clement street and Second ave-
nue., 80 :6x100 feet, is also reported sold by the
same agent for $2350. as well as the lot 81 6x
100 feet at the southeast corner of L street and
Forty-sixth avenue for $175.