The San Francisco call., 1906-10-06

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these cottages.
Property in Chinatown has been att
tracing the attention of the investor,
and before z. few days pass by il is ex
pected there will be some big deals
made in that section of the city. The
class Of buildings that are TO be put
UP win be large and airy, and the old
Chinatown, with its small streets and
its horrible smells. will give place to
new and large and possibly clean
Chinatown.
DEMAND FOR WAREHOUSES.
Business men in general are COM
planning over the lack of warehouses,
and say that the prompt building OF
warehouses will insure the prompt re-
building of the city. Their complaint
material. The cement men are the
loudest in their protests. They de-
clare that it costs about 25 cents a
barrel to store cement. The cheapest
place is AIissien Rock, and fer the first
month the charge is cents a barrel
and fer the second it is 8 cents barrel
II does not pay to take over there a
few barrels, but by the shipload, and
when the cost of tewage and the re-
moval is taken into count, the storage
charges, the contend, amount to 25
cents a barrel. They also say that
the man who builds a warehouse will
make a handsome sum out of his ven
ture, and they urge upon property
owners to come to the aid of the inn
porter by building houses where stuff
can be stored.
According to the plans drawn by Ar
rlitage & Rewen for the ]. z. Davis es-
tate, an eight-story building is to oc-
cupy the plat on which was the old
Thurlow block on Kearny street. The
basement first floor and mezzanine
ieors are to be used fer a big depart
ment store. The upper floors are to
be used for Offices. The opening of a
department store on Kearny street
means that this thoroughfare will re-
sumo its lost place as a big retail
street This building is to have a
handsome exterior, and will be the larg-
est on kearny street 1t will cost in
the neighborhood of S5e0, ,00o
The Wormser estate has decided to
build on the lot at the corner of
Front and California, and the contract
was let last Thursday for a substantial
two-story building, which viii cost
about $4,000 The place has already
been leased by Nose Gunst.
Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. have
leased for R. R. Thompson to Henrietta
and Louis Gassner a six-story and base
ment class A building, TO be erected at
a lot on the east line of Kearny
street, 225k feet north of Post, fronting
30 feet on Kearny, by depth of so
feet Work on the building will be
commenced at once and it is expected
to be completed about September of
next year.
ON HARRISON STREET.
shainwald, Buckbee & Co have
leased for the Edward McGary Estate
Company TO the Union Lithograph Com
pany one-story brick building, with
pressed brick front, covering lot
fronting $50 feet on Harrison street by
a depth of 16o feet to Perry street,
with frontage Of 200 feet on Perry.
between Third and Fourth.
1t has been leased for a term of ten
years TO the above tenants. The plans
have been made by Bliss & Faville and
the contract has been let, TO proceed
with the erection of the building at
once. The location of this large con-
cern in that neighborhood, together
with that of the H. S. Crocker Com
pany, which viii occupy a large build
ing on Brannan street, between First
and Second: the Schmidt Label and
Company, which will again
located on its old site on Second and
Bryant streets. and the Stanley-Taylor
Company, which is permanently located
on Bryant street, near Third, draws
BdA dtLcAllOA 70 lndI SeCtlOn as
the center for the large printing con-
Germs.
A BIG GARAGE.
Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. also re-
port the closing of the lease for the
account of Mrs. NJ L. Wright TO Thomas
3. Jeffery & Co. of Kenosha, Wis.
Of the Rambler automo-
bile. the building TO be erected on the
lot on the east side of Valencia street,
IS feet south of Hermann, fronting so
feet on Valencia, by a depth of 1914
feet through TO Stevenson. The build
ing is to be one-story and will be oc-
cupied as salesrooms and garage The
building has been leased for Ave years
on private terms.
The same firm has also leased for
George G. Katz ct al. a lot 50x90 feet on
the southeast corner of Ninth and Fol
som streets, for term of seven years
at the total rental of S12 ,oOo. to Joseph
Eerrscher. Tt is the intention of
Herrscher to erect two-story and
basement frame building on the lot, to
be used as stores and dwelling
For Frank j. Deylin to the Star Wool
Company. for a term of
ten years. lot on the southeast corner
of Sixteenth street and San Bruno ave
nue., size 10oxls5, at a total rental of
$4,000.
For the Marson Company to James
Kendall, corner store in the new two
story building on the northeast corner
of Franklin and Sutter streets for a
term of about five years at total
rental of about $4,000. Also in the
same building. store adjoining same on
Sutter street to Z. Shimamoto and r
Hirums, for a term of about five years
at z total rental of about S11,50O.
Also seven Offices in the second story
Of the same building to Ackerman,
Yard & Manson, for one year at a total
rental Of $500.
In the same building, two Offices to
z. L. Marquis, for a term of one
year at a total rental of 5000.
For J. G. Walker TO c. Newman,
store on the west side of Powell street
between Ellis and O'Farrell. for a term
OF two years at total rental of $4,000
The firm reports an interesting sale
In the new wholesale district for ac-
count of the Moody estate Company,
II has sold TO Dr. Kaspar Fischel
and associates the lot on the southerly
corner of Fifth and Bluxome streets,
1870 feet on Filth street by $50 feet on
Biuyome street, with an IL extending
TO Townsend street. sexi2o feet. giving
the lot spur track facilities on the
inc of the Southern Pacific Conpany's