The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10

has. singIe-handed. built sixty houses for
clients. He reports the sale of two cot
tages the past month.
| The Joseph A. Leonard Company in
seven years has built over 800 houses, most
| OF which have been sold OH on small
| monthly payments.
Recently" said Mr.. Leonard a few days
ago, tive have not built SO many houses
on account of the lack of demand. Now
that money is easy and the disadvantages
OF other well advertised localities are be-
coming known, Alameda's building in
terests ought to prosper. That this is
favored locality by people rearing chill,
dren is shown by the percentage OF school
chlldren to the population, which is said
to be the greatest of any city west of the
Rocky Mountains. 1t is not necessary,
however, that should sound the praises
| OF Alameda, for she speaks for herself
r. u. Judd IL Co. of Alameda report the
sale OF what is known as the Canal prop
erty, lO0x240 feet, for $4,000, and lot on
Buena Vista avenue for $1,000 to Alexander
Johnson; lot, 50x130, and house on Lin
coin avenue to V. P. Yellmini for $1,000,
and lot, 50x130, adjoining to Mrs. Nor
genstern for $4,000.
Mcdonald, Mott & Co. of Alameda will
engage IN the building of houses to be sold
on the monthly-installment plan more.
extensively this year than ever before.
Within the next thirty days they will sign
contracts for no less than eleven new
houses to cost from $3.50 to $2S50
Colonel j. G. McMullen, a capitalist, and
president of the Oakland Investment Com
pany is putting up thirty-four room
boarding house in the heart of Oakland
0. G. May d Co. of Berkeley report the
following sales:
House and lot, Scenic Park Tract, to Jane
Cumberpatch, price $500; lot so by 13O on
Durant avenue, near College avenue, $3.50;
d \ w I1to
Santa Clara avenue, Alameda, so by 150 $14OO,
and lot on Warde street, near Fulton, 40 by
135, 500.
Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. will hold
their next auction at their salesrooms next
Thursday. The catalogue includes pro-
bate property, a fifty-vara on Presidio
Heights to be sold as whole or in subdi-
visions, neat house on Van Ness avenue,
cottages In the Mission and in Richmond.
Baldwin and Hammond report the fol-
lowing sales:
Lot on the southerly line of Fulton street,
137 IS west of Fillmore, 37:6x137:6 price
$3.50; lot on the easterly line of Eight
avenue, SO feet south of C street, at $105O,
size 25x120; lot on the westerly line of Second
avenue, 225 feet north of Clement street. 25x
100 at $1O5O; lot on the southeast corner
of Eleventh avenue and N street, 32:6x1OO.
at $3.50; lot on the westerly line of
25x106, $3.50; lot on the easterly line
OF Seventh avenue, 20 feet south of
street. 25x115, $3.50; lot on the southwest
corner of street and Tenth avenue 32 :6x10O
feet, $475; lot on the easterly line of Third
avenue, 100 feet south of California street,
25x12O, $11O0; lot On the westerly line Of
Fifteenth avenue, 125 feet south of C street,
25x127:6, $3.50; lot on the southwest corner
of Tenth avenue and M street, SO :6x1Oo, $3.50;
lot On the easterly line of Eleventh avenue,
100 feet north OF N street, 75x120, 1926; lot
on the northeriy line of Green street, 125 feet
east OF Van Ness avenue, 25x125, $2150 lot
and improvements on the westerly line of
hird ~, ,<xfT
25x12O, $1,000; also the following sales in the
Castro-street Addition: Lot % in block 4,
$425; lots and in block, 9, $3.50; lots so
and 81 in block g. $500; lot 5 in block z,
1878; lot 13 in block g. $3.50; lot in block
z, 1915. '-
The old Panorama building at Tenth
and Market streets has been changed
into most model and complete BIZ
cycling establishment, being the finest BIZ
clorama in the world. The old front has
been entirely torn down and all of the old
offices torn out, and in the place OF the old
front there is new plate glass front with
windows coming within fourteen inches of
the sidewalk, which make very impos-
ing entrance thirty-eight feet wide and
enable the passers-by to look into the
store, which is thirty eight feet wide by
eighty feet deep, being one large open
store fronting on Market street, used for
the bicycle saiesroom and showroom.
The circular portion of the building has
been divided into three stories the first
floor comprising the renting department.,
Adjoining this room is the ladies' parlor,
which is elegantly furnished and carpeted
The repair shop is also on the first floor,
and is arranged with all of the latest i'm
proved, power machinery and large
enameling oven. The shop is on the cor
ner of Tenth and Stevenson streets, and
has windows on both streets, making it
extremely light and perfect in every ap-
polntment. On the Stevenson-street side
is the entrance to the stock and shipping
room. This room is semi-circular in
shape, and the outside of the room forms
an arc about 175 feet long by about 40
wide, and is arranged to hold bicycles,
with capacity of 2400 Grated machines.
This com pletes the first floor of the build
ing.
The second floor of the building is ar
ranged into four separate divisions, includ-
ing the .gentlemen's parlors, smoking
room, tollet-room, baths, showers and
lockers; secbnd, the upper portion of the
repair shop, which is duplicate in size of
the main repair-shop; third, the upper
story of the stock and shipping room,
which is also the same size as the main
stock and shipping room; the fourth divi-
SION on the second floor is a deck to the
salesroom.
The third floor of the building is one
large open room $50 feet in circumference
and covering floor space of about Il, 900
square feet. 1t contains two riding acade-
mics, one for the ladies and one for gentle
men and ladies. The inside or ladies' track
is about 240 feet in circumference and is
used to teach beginners until they get ac-
customed to the wheels, after which they
can ride in the larger academy If they
wish.
The INCL ESIlE HlI dip.