The San Francisco call., 1906-08-03
AGREES To ASSIST
HOME BUILDERS.
Relief Corporation De-
cides to Advance Sum
for New Dwellings

The building department of the Re-
lief Corporation, which is under the
immediate direction of Thomas Magee,
has issued bulletin setting forth the
plans for building and the method un-
der which the persons will be assisted
to build homes. Lot owners in the
burned district will be given bonuses
equal to one-third the amount expend-
ed in building, providing no bonus ex-
ceeds $500. Cottages and homes will
be erected and sold on the installment
plan and money in sums not to exceed
$1,000 will be loaned outright, security
being taken in the form of second mort
gage. The bulletin is as follows:
The San Francisco Relief and Red
cross Iunds, a corporation; Will expend
its disposal as follows:
To any lot owner In the burned dis
trict bonus OF one-third the cost of a
new house, not to exceed $500, will be
This bonus will be paid to the contrac-
tor as his last payment and after the
building is finished An amount not
set aside for this purpose This offer
is to remain open until October l. 1905,
unless the fund is exhausted before
that date.
Cottages, two-story dwellings and
flats will be built by the corporation
and sold for cash or on the instaIlment
plan, and no interest will be charged
on deferred payments. The terms are
small cash payment down, and a per-
centage OF total cost to be paid month
ly. To illustrate: home e-seeker wish
ing to buy $500 lot with $500 house
on it Containing four rooms and bath)
can purchase 1t from the corporation at
cost, as follows: Monthly payments of
SIS to be made for sixty months. Five
per cent of the total cost s45) to be
paid down, when a receipt will be given
for the payments covering the first
three months; then payment of SIS a
month to be made for the remaining
fifty-seven months. Taxes will be paid
by the corporation and charged to the
purchaser. When the $500 and taxes
given. The contract of purchase will
be non-assignable.
A sum not exceeding s2.5oo.ooo will
bona fide resident of San Francisco en-
gagged in some business or employment
is eligible, to apply, preference being
given to those now living in tents.
sum not exceeding 100000 will be
expended for a home for aged and in
firm people to be built on the Aims
house tract; suitable for the accommo-
dation of about 1000 people.
sum not exceeding 100000 will be
used in making loans to those-wheth-
er owners or tenants-whose places of
residence in San Francisco were burned
in the great fire, such loan to be used
in building new dwellings anywhere in
San Francisco on a lot owned by the
person to whom such loan is made. such
loan to equal one-third of the cost of
the building, not. however, to exceed
in any case $1,000, and no more than
one loan is to be made to any one per-
son or family. Security for such loan
is to be taken by way of first or second
mortgage upon the building and lot IL
necessary, the borrower to pay 8 per
cent net interest. This offer is to re-
main open until the 1st day of Octo-
Der, 1906, unless this appropriation OF
100000 is sooner exhausted
Portable houses will be erected on
the public squares, so that everybody
may be housed before winter.
The barracks on the Speedway will
be remodeled and improved. Applica
tion blanks with instructions will be
mailed upon request,