Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-05
BOY TELLS
HIS IMPRESSIONS
WRITES OF GROWTH OF SAN
FRANCISCO
EleVen-Year-oId Lad Who Visited
Northern City Just After Disaster
Finds Great Improvements
Taking Place

Eugene Brownstone, a pupil of class
AS, Grand avenue school, Los Angeles,
a lad whose impressions Of San Fran
such clear insight into conditions in
the north, has again visited the Golden
Gate metropolis and in an interesting
article he relates his impressions of the
growing city.
Young Brownstone is only a small
boy IL years OF age, but notwithstand-
| Ing his youth he writes with clear ex-
preston, remarkable in a boy of his
| age. Following is his story of the new
San Francisco:
Stepping off the ferry boat and walk
ing through an exit of the Ferry build
ing 1 again found myself in San Fran
cisco. AS l, with other passengers,
passed out into the open, we were
greeted by the cabbies and hotel men
who were saying, This way for Hotel
Jefferson" and other hotels for which
they were employed. 1 boarded a Nc
Allister street car and rode up Market
street as far as McAllister then out to
Broderick street. AS 1 rode along on
Market street could see vast improve
ments since the last time 1 was there.
| Foundations for modern buildings were
being laid everywhere.
Gives His Impressions
At the corner of New Montgomery
and Market streets are the walls of
the old Palace hotel, piled up in a mass
Of burnt bricks and twisted iron. These
walls were pulled down partly by the
wrecking company and partly by the
wind. Next to this building on Market
street is the Monadnock building, al
most entirely repaired. The only thing
that is not completed is the marble en-
trance. This building is already oc-
cupied. On the north side of Market
street is the Crocker- Woolworth Bank
building, now being repaired. The
Crocker building will probably be COM
pleted about the last of the year. The
car next reached Kearney and Market
street, known as the Newspaper Angle,
as that was where three newspapers
were located. There are only two news
papers there now, but the third is soon
| to be there again. The Newspaper
Angle consists of the Chronicle and the
Chronicle addition, Mutual bank, Flan-
ders, Claus Spreckels and site of the
old Examiner building The Chronicle
addition is nearing completion, but the
| Chronicle has just begun to be reftted.
The Chronicle addition will be classed
as one of San Francisco's many sky
scrapers. 1t is seventeen stories in
| iiSlSAt anu Is iHOhtIn III every way
The Claus Spreckels, better known as
the Call building, is already tinted up
to the eighth floor. The San Francisco
Morning Call is in this building.
The Mutual Bank building across the
street is occupied but is not entirely
refitted, The only floor that is not fin
ished is the bottom one. The Mutual
bank was one of the first buildings to
be touched after the disaster Adjoin-
ing this is the Flanders building, Ave-
story concrete office building, lately
completed.
On the south side of Market street,
near Fourth, is the Humboldt Bank
building. The Humboldt Bank build
ing is in course of construction now.
1t is being built of reinforced concrete
and is to be occupied by the Humboldt
savings bank. 1t will be a fire and
earthquake PROOF building. At the
junction of Eddy, Powell and Market
streets is the twelYe-story James Flood
building reftted from the twelfth to
the first floor. The James Flood build
ing will be one of the largest railroad
Office buildings in the country. The
Southern Pacific company will occupy
five stories OF II. The company is moy-
ing In now. Buildings from one to six