The San Francisco call., 1897-12-15
Important Change in the
Method of Holding Church
Properties.
Building Operations Dull of Late.
Record Review, Auctions, Sales
and Notes.

DGlAulHS OpSIdl IONS nave EeheIAlly DStn
retarded by the rains. Leasing of mer-
camille property is growing to be feat
ure, sew raj firms having lists 10 report
every week or two. Sales of ely realty
are made haltingly, the largest for the
week being that OF the Whittier Fuller
properties for an aggregate OF $266. 000
full report of which was made at the time.
No large sales of country property were
made last week, but several are in pros
pee.
Dealers are eagerly looking forward to
the expo cted reduction in rates of interest
TO Il per cent basis This is sure 10 bene-
fit the realty line. and must come soon, as
the banks are oveIl AIDED with money.
Review of the Records.
Mortgages mum berng ga were recorded
during the week, amounting to $l9S 94l.
For the SINE peIi d 80 releases were
passed to record, aggregarng the sum of
$l2S3Sj. The following were the princi-
pal mortgages:
By ,he Hfbernia Bank to Pauline II. and d.
NJ. Delmas, $4,000 for one ear at6l2 per cent
on Undivided oue-sIxth OF The .ot ana improve
m"nIS on the southeast H.. OF Market street,
225: northeasl OF sixth 49:3x170; SAM TO
Marr Lellah Narde Butler, 81 800 or one year
at o12 per cent on property ou he south u est
corn rof Pine and Battery streets, AS :lOX97 %;
Danle Never 10 J. Zenon and Maria POsAda as,
80 OOU Tor one year on property on the south
llne OF sacramento street 14l west nf Van
Ness avenue, west 1ol. south 127 81 east
S2:o, nortn 25 east 1S:4, north 102 81 Hi
bernia Bank 10 Abraham Aronsou, SIS 900 !or
one year at So per cent on properly on the
nor IN line Of Geary street, 165 west oI Powell,
5OKl31 IS; Humboldt Bank TO William and
Minnie knopf, 5000 for one year at z
per cent on property on the north
line OF sntteT, 1877 Az vest of Steiner % :73l4
137 IS; also on the south line OF lberi 200 -
east OF Lsavenworth, "a a. 12Il37 70. and west
line OF yan avenue. 80 south of Twenty
first street. 25X100; also $500 ins ailment;
nioernia Bank TO Nancy 6. and Janet (or
leannette) C. Blethin, SIS 900 for year a
o12 per cent on property on the northeast cor
ner Of California and Buchanan, 72xl37 IS
German Bank 10 Joseph f. and Mary A VA
lsms, Sl4 300 on property on the northwest
corner OF Pine and Buchanan, 81 :3x55: also
north line OF f, urteenth street lI5 east of
Howard; also nortn line of Fourteen III street,
15S: 5 east OF Howard Mutual Savings Bank 10
JUL ius and g Orce RsdsOn, Julia Lsu'er and
Lille Asher, $1,000 for one year at 81 per
cent on propery on the southwest line of
sixth, 10 northwest OF Folsom, 25xSO; also
northeast line OF Harriet, 175 nor Invest OF
Folsom, 25xS0
The following releases were for compare
uvelv large sums:
From the Security Savings Bank 10 Isidore
and Henrietta Breslauer, $500 on property
on The northwest linz OF howard, I75 north
east of Niuth, 50X90: Germau Bank to Wiz
liam Daegener, $I5 600 on properly o, the
So u neast corner oI Powell and Clay, 90 OK
%; Henry Sahlein to julius and TODe Flu X
en- >tein, $50 900 on property on the son heaS:
corner OF O'FaTrel and Stockton, 87:6xs2 10.
Auctions and Sales.
G. H. Umbsen, as referee, will entertain bids
for the sale OF three parcels of realty belong
ing 10 the estate Of Thomas Mootry Jr.. TO-
morrow. The first is the lot 65xl2O with
stores. flats and houses Ientins for 1916. on
the southwest corner OF Hayes and Cough;
the second is the lot 27 :6X120, with improve
ments renting for S67, on the southeast corner
OF Page and Octavla; the last Is the lot SO :6x
1I3, with improvements whicn rent lot
S37 month, on the southwest corner
OF Bay and DIpout. Other des4rabe parce.s
are listed as follows: Three-story Etstlake
residence and lot 50xl37 :6 on Hayes, be-
tween Lyon and CentraI av. ue. Fats OF five
ana SIX rooms and lot 27:6X106 81 at 1927
and 1928 Steiner. No. 1907 Tsy. or, between
Broadway aud Vallejo, as II who . or in sub
dlv SONS, 70 or 80 Ieet unlmproved ready 10
build on or 4Ox65x1O0 feet with improve
menls-two story hr use, ten rooms, two beIns
Lot 50x137:6 IS. on McAllIster, east OF Contra
avenue; lw0-story house of eight rooms and
lot 30 :3x70:7, at 1892 Green.
The remainder ol the William T. Coleman
estate. on the southwest corner of Washing
ION and Taylor streets, has been sold by the
fer $4,000. The new purchase has from tage
OF ITO feet on TAYLOR street aad depth OF
l31 70 on Washington, the latter being in
creased to 175 By former Possessions. Pissis
d Moore, the architects, are preparing plans
Tor handsome res dence 10 be erected
thereon in the near future.
A n Speck e. Co. he ID q n auction on Thurs-
day last, at which the lot 26:6xlIO with co.,
tAge in the rear, situated a 53I Dolores street
was dlsposed OF for $3.50. ann the house and
lot at 1923 fifteenth. street IUr $I25O This
latter l. 30 frontage BY 10 IS feet IN the rear
wi tn deptir OF 100 and lO2 ieet. ItIs morl.
GO ged for $1,000. Several other parcels of CITY
realty were offered, but the bids all fell below
owners prices.
Easton, Eldridge & Co will hold an auction
OF miscellaneous city properties on the 2Ist
inst. The catalogue includes properties on
Beale street, near Folsom; Green, near Hyde
ana residence properly IN the Mission.
Random Notes.
Jacob Heyman has b}gun the construction
OF hve-room and blth cottage on the south
line OF Alvarado street, 165 east OF Hoffman,
for J. F. Laws six-roUm and bath cottage
on Hoffman street, between Alvarado and
Twenty-second. for J. Z. Coats and q four.
room and bath cottage on the east line of Pu.
laski street, between Jefferson and Cortland
avenue for I. J. Su Ivan.
Percy & Hami ton have drawn plans for a
two-story building to cost $50 0O0 which will
be built for Alexander Young, the Hawaiian
sugaI-pia ter on the southeast line of Yer
non street, 300 southwest OF OAK land avenue.
oakland. The work of construction viii be
performed by w. T. S r. NJ Veitch.
The following r, csAJ lenses ara reported bv
BOVee, To. & SonnIag: The store and pAse.
ment OF the building at 35 Market street
from Ms +. &. OF onnor 10 Detjin & Meupels
ior i've years at $40, 800; the two upper floors
OF the building AZ 3 Market stree, from the
same owner 10 lre Carson Glove COMPANY for
five years at $4,000; tae two upper flooIs OF
the building thc sou Invest corner of San
some and Sacramento streets fr m Sidney v
init" Ia .tnof BahlS :or five wears al
$4,000; the building at 53 Stevenson street
rom William Cam beI to Porter Sle,-
slnLer d c.. at 1920 n year; the ttor, and
basement at 40 una AZ G AIRY street for
a term OF years from Isaac Levy {, Sperrv
Hutchinson, a $3.50 a month; he bui ding at
200 ana 20S Post street, from JAcob schweilzer
To Gar lduer & Glasstn. Tor term OF wears al
$500 per aunum; The three-sio building nj
80 ana 30 Main street. from Mrs. Jennings To
the Sperry Flour Company, for five years at
1900 month; the building at t2l3 aud 2l5
Pine street from the estate Of Charles Mayne
% NIX ca hen & Co.. for Ave years at $500 a
month; The store at 20 Geary street 10 ickel-
heimer Brothers, for five years mt a graded
rental running from $500 to $3.50 n mon IA
aud the bul. dlrg on the northwest corner OF
SGnsome and Jackson streets, from A. Grogan
TO the Havden Packing Company, Tor FIVE
years at $500 per annum.
The work of grading Eleventh avenue BE-
tween ii and l streets, has been comple eted.
and the tnoroughfare viii soon be macadam-
ized
For the sum of $17,424 the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Reversio4ary Interest Company
uas reconveyed TO Lady Yarde- Butler all
interest Ia the properties described as follows: