Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-28
OAKLAND HAS SCHEME

Syndicate Making Plans to Make Oak
land the Metropolis instead of San
Francisco-Vaues Across the Bay
Rising.
San Francisco April 2S.-Evidence
was discovered yesterday that a group
of financiers taking advantage of this
city's misfortune seek to snatch her
commercial supremacy from her.
A syndicate has been formed to make
Oakland deep sea port by building
docks and piers into deep water. One
of the syndicates is the Key Route
ferry and railway system COMPETE
tor of the Southern Pacific.
SIT is the intention" says the speaker
for the syndicate Ito make Oakland
the chief maritime shipping port on
the Pacific coast.
Means Enormous Fill.
1.-THE enterprise contemplates filing
out hundred acres of shoal water and
construction of mole capable to dock
ing the largest ships that enter the
bay"
The price Of Oakland city real estate
is going up by leaps and bounds. Com
plant of eXtortion in rents is wide
spread and powerful influences are at
work to keep the real estate boomers
within reasonable limits.
Hundreds of leases of business prop
I, Il Low f,,.
double and treble the figures original
ly paid by the sellers.
All vacant houses have been taken
and people who have country homes
are leasing their city homes at a fancy
figure apd moving out of town.
Frisco Pays Little Heed.
Meanwhile the extensive work of re-
building San Francisco continues, the
people, intent upon restoring the city,
disregarding the sinister threats of the
syndicate. In many cases the asser-
lions are laughed down with the state
ment that it is impossible in the first
place and that San Francisco will be
thriving city ere Oakland could be pre-
pared to bear half the burden.
Ruins Swept Away.
Ruins are melting away before the
armies of workmen, and builders soon
will follow the wreckers, working upon
the plans that large force of archi-
tects and engineers are perfecting. All
these contemplate better city than
the one destroyed, and the determine
ton that San Francisco shall continue
to be the metropolis of the Pacific
coast gains rather than loses converts
as time passes.
The scheme for building the new
San Francisco is in the hands of City
Engineer Thomas p. Woodward, who
is working his plans into shape.
If he has his way there will be no
narrow and clogging streets in those
sections of the city laid bare by fire.
Streets in the business district which
have been proven inadequate for the
rush of metropolis will be widened by
slicing the private holdings ON either
side.
Market street will be left as it is. SO
will Third and other streets that were
repaired shortly before the earthquake,
but the commission and wholesale sec
lions will be radically altered, both in
width and course.
Temporary Structures Go Up.
Within a month Market street will
be lined with temporary structures.
The Spreckles, De Young and Shreve
buildings, the st. Francis hotel, the
Merchants Exchange and many more
of the first-class structures can be put
into shape at comparatively little ex-
pense.
With these as nucleus, there is no
reason why the retail and wholesale
districts of the city should not be re-
established within a year.
Plenty of outside capital is assured, |
and many property owners living
abroad have cabled their representa-
tives here to begin reconstruction at
once.