The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

NEWS ITEMS.
+. G. Eckhorst is to erect a two-story build
ing on the northeast corner of Greenwlc n ana
| building ad joining.
ID. u Bullwinkle is to erect two-story
! ITane building of two flats Oh the north line
Vi Iwenty-hrst street. ITO feet east OF FOLSOM.
g.. MRS. Bertha Bamberger has let the contract
tIt tSa ,ne rt tpulalng OF two-story oeslaenee on
me north line OF Fell street, 2O6:3 west OF
| Ashbury.
Work was commenced last week on the lay
| Ing OF the foundations for the garbage incin-
orator orator on the block bounded by Thirteenth,
fourteenth, Rhode Island and De Haro streets.
'ti whsn the works are completed 1t viii do ava y
with the dumps, which have so long menaced
! the health of the City.
| The citizens of the Sunset District have
unoer consideration many improvements for
rltory south of the Park. At q recent meetin G
II was decided 90 petition the Supervisors to
open street from First to Seventh avenue,
| Wnlch Will give the district the outlet II much
needs. The residents of the Sunset District
claim that the objections of Adolph Sutro to
lhe opening OF this thoroughtare are not
| well founded.
The subject of improving several other
| sueets In the district is at present under con-
! slueration question OF much importance
now being agitated among the property-own-
outlet.
The sewer on First avenue between Clement
ana Lake streets, having not yet been COM
mud.
petition the Supervisors 10 erect twenty-four
electric lights in the district between First
and Twentieth avenues
Two new houses Will be commenced during
TINS week in the Heyman Tract, on the north
SIDE oil Alvarado street, between Douglass and
Through the efforts of the Van Ness avenue
improvement Club. assisted by the property
owners on Lombard ana Bay streets and Van
Ness avenue, the people of the north end of
the City will soon be able TO reach Market
street without finding it necessary 10 climb
several almost insurmountable AIDES.
The route OF he suggested boulevard s
from the al ce Hotel through X army or
Mon gomery ST eet to Montgomery aNenue,
t. Bay sire I, 10 Nsn Ne venue, 10 Lomb ,rd
stree and hence to the Presidio
Inc SURVIVORS have agreed to order t he
block on Bay street from 10: e' 10 Leaven-
worth to be paw d, and it s exp cted that
WI miInin IN thlrty or sky days the new rIvewsy
Will be ready for tra fiji
There will be a sp cial meeting tomorrow
evening OF the Stockton-street Improvement
Tub, to which the pro pery.owre along tie
line of tha thor ushfare wi, be invited. The
m oh MS inte nd 10 ask their a oIds to
nave a smooth pavement aid on Stockton
reett from Paci tc 10 Union streets. The store
keep.rs lave paid for lum rating the street
aud they think the property-owneTs should
now ass ist in the movement for progress
Alfred Ross, the owner of the property on the
south line of Twenty-seventh street, $50 feet
east OF Dolores, is to build on his lot a cottage
house to cost $I400
j. w. Kenerleber is to put up a two-story
frame building on the south line of Hayes
street, 125 feet west of Scott, 10 cost $3115.
Phoebe Lowenthal, the owner of the prem
lses on the north line of sacramento street,
6S y feet east OF Buchanan. is to add an addi-
tlonal story TO the premises.
The Supervisors are 10 be petitioned 10 erect
an electric light on Williamson street, be-
tween Point Lobos nd Richmond avenue
The middle ffty-vara lot on the north side
OF Jackson street, between Laguna and Bu-
chanan, has been sold by H. L. Van Wrinkle 10
Isaac Strassburger for something like S3S,-
0O0 Mr.. Strass burger intends to erect a
handsome building on the land in the near
future.
Although the local savings banks are not
making any loans on country property just at
present, there is an abundance of money in
the banks, and owners of City property can
borrow on mortgage in full proportion to the
value OF their buildings.
special meeting OF the Point Lobos I'm
provement Club wIll be held tomorrow even
irg, at which all the property-owners are in
vlted TO be present to discuss the advisapility
OF taking Point Lobos avenue from under the
control OF the Park Commissioners and plac-
ing il under the control OF the superintendent
OF Streets.
The annual meeting of the Argonaut Mutual
Building and Loan Association occurred this
week, when directors were elected as follows:
George w. Dixon (presidenD, DR.. A L. Ieng-
field (vIce-presidenO. NJ. J. Blackman, Sig
Baumann, 4. Ortion, E. Mes ager and NJ
Weiner. The report presented showed assets
amounting TO $66, 6,905. of which the sum of
1928 represents first mortgages real
estate. During the year the society has sold
$4,000 worth of real estate, ana borrowers
have paid up mortgages amounting to $500.
The trst series OF stock, on which So has
been paid, has q book value of $50 II. The
other officers OF the concern are: Secretary
Emil Gunzberger; treasurer, Daniel Meyer;
attorney. S. c. Scheeine.
Work in preparing for the foundation for
the new building on the Fair estate property
on Sacramento street, between Davis and
Drumm has commenced.
Thomas Breen is at present figuring on the
construction OF two-story brick machine
shop on the east side OF Fremont street be-
Miscin on md uarA
Bovee, Toy d Co. have been appoint ted agents
for the sale OF the lands of Sidney V. Smith al
San Anselmo and Ross stations.
William H. Lille viii shortly commence the
erection of two residences on Tenth avenue,
near II street. which will cost in the neigh
Dor hood of $4,000 each.
On the 23d instant Easton Eldridge & Co.
Will offer line of miscellaneous parcels OF
realty at public auction, and on the 25th in
slant Won Rhein will also sell some miscellane-
Gus parcels.
On March Bovee. Toy & Co. will sell at
auction the estate of the lale Mrs. julia Morri-
son. The estate comprises the followine pieces
of land: On the north side of Sacramento
street. 137 :6 east of Kearny, "a by 1876,
with improvements, renting at $40 month;
on the west line OF Valencia, 106 south OF
Twentieth, 35 by ITO, renting for $l10 month
| ly; on the north line of Lombard 1877 :6 east OF
Buchanan, so by 120; on the east line of Fill
more, 80 feet north of Lombard, l37 IS by 1877 IS
| and S5 by 11O, being L-shaped; on the south
| line of Greenwich, 1877 Is east OF Webster, 122 IS
| by i20; on the south line of Greenwich, 162 2
west ol Iougn, 20 py Ilo, anu one-slxteentn
interest on the south line of Chestnut, 137 IS
! east of Laguna, $50 by 1875, and on the
northwest corner OF Laguna and Scott; 80 by
11O.
The Eureka Valley residents are to petition
the Supervisors to erect six additional electric
lights in The district at the following points:
AT the corner of State and Castro streets; Sew
enteeEth, between Mars and Caselli; Caselli
and Glover; Merritt, between Hattie and Dan
vers; Corbett, between Mars and Caselh; and
State, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth.
The passage of the bill by the Sena te and the
Assembly 10 continue for five wears the work
OF building the San Rafael and San Francisco
boulevard with convict labor has produced
the greatest satisfaction throughout the south
ern part of Marin County. The completion of
the model roadway of California is now prac-
tically assured. The convicts have resumed
work on the roadbed near Greenbrae station
casting material from the marsh island TO the
line OF construction