The San Francisco call., 1907-06-15


A. p. Giannini. vice president of the
Bank of Italy, who has been in the
east for the past three months. has
returned He expressed surprise at
the changes that had taken place dur
ing his absence
THE development of North Beach
and Chinatown is really amazing" he
remarked "and one cannot go away
for short time without being struck
at the work that is being done here.
Chinatown especially is to be spoken
about. and it would 60 any one good
to take stroll through that Sec
stion and also out to North Beach. 1t
Simply shows what can be done. Our
bank blHlding would have made the
record had it not been for the strike
of the stone workers.
SUBURBAN PROPERTY
There has been quite boom in prop
erty down the peninsula and consider
able inquiry for residence sites along
the proposed line of the Peninsular rail-
road This road is the electric ally OF
the Southern Pacific and 1t is an
nounced that before the expiration of
Il months an electric road will be in
operation between this city and. San
Jose. The electric line, 1t is said. Will
make the run between San Francisco
and Congress- Springs in one hour and
a half. The railroad people intend to
make a magnificent mountain resort at
this place and the country along the
route is naturally being looked upon
as a good Investment for suburban
homes. Real estate men who have kept
close watch upon the development of
the. peninsula declare that its growth
in a few> years will be unequaled in the
state. The southern approach to the
city has in the years past been some
~ fc 70 h.,
changed and there will be tremen-
oious development all along the line in
a few years f. O. Mccormick, assist
ant traffic director of the Hartman
lines. when he was here a short time
ago said that he believed that within
the span of mans life there
would be one continuous town between
San Francisco and San Jose. The cleo
tric line Aown the peninsula promises
to. reyolutionize all this part of the
country, for it will be far enough away
from the steam road to open up an
other country Already three towns
along the route have been laid out and
the settlers will be people from the
city who will build fine homes in the
vicinity of these towns.
Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley
also are experiencing boom and there
has been considerable building done in
these cities. during the past few
months.
J. S. webster and A. Strassburger
report they have leased for the Gala
CHAN estate the gore on Market, Nc
Allister and Jones streets to Maurice
Rosenthal for 20 years. A two story
building is to be put on the lot and
the foundations will be strong enough
to sustain a four story building. 1t
has a frontage of 153 feet on Market.
100 on McAllister and depth of 115
feet.
SALES or PROPERTY
The following sales haye been made:
Herbert S. Morton to DR.. T. e. Bailly. resi-.
dence southeast corner of Masonic avenue and
lot S1x1o7. north side of page street between
Steiner and Fillmore, $3.50; Laura c. Headley
to a G. Wocker lot 2axl2o @ with thin, improve, ,se
north Of Lake street, 400; Mabel r. Stone
berger to Charles S. Aiken lot 25xlol. east
side Of e. st avenue e m eosn
Eeay ieaG lot ssx1s ert nertS side 81 T%entet %
street. s205 east of Dolores, $3.50.
Baldwin & Howell have sold about
half of the lots in Central addition
to San Mateo and the contractors are
the streets and laying the cement side
walks The Central addition to San
Mateo adjoins Burlipgame.
The same firm has issued the first
number of a unique folder containing
list of property for sale. A number
of halftones are interspersed through
out the pages of the folder, showing
views of the firms building and in
terror lofffce arrangement.
sol GETZ & SONS
Sol Getz & Sons report the following
recent sales:
2Jx12O east line of Twenty third avenue. 100
north of California, to Frederick c. Eaton:
25x120. west line of Forty third avenue, 275
south of j street, TO III. Wismer; 50x120, east
line of Forty fourth avenue 300 south of B
street to Joseph Pomner 25x1o7:6. east line of
Forty eighth avenue, 75 north of S street. to l..
Lebenbaum 50x120 west line of Forty sixth
avenue, ESQ south of street. to Roy s. STRAIT
tom. lot II. block Sc, City land association, to
L. IS. Browne.