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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
Dies from Eating Head Cuccsc.

Ferdinand Stadler, aged ~, died in
Mount Sterling from pt0mane poisoning
caused by eating head cheese that had
become tainted. lie was horn in Germany.
and had lived in Mount Sterling for many
years,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
FORK WHATEVER. Germany protect,
her people from plague.

FORK WHATEVER. Germany protects
her people from plague.
Why does the Beef Trust escape
Its just share Of taxes on Its pack.
ing pants!
Milk Fed Chickens. A correspondent
asks II milk Is proper food for chick.
ems. All authorities say not. No fowl
will live Oh fiuid food. Chickens have
gizzards which alone proves that nature
Intends them to he eaters Of grain and
other hard foods which, need crushing.
Milk IL utterly unfit for poultry and Is
likely to give poultry what It gives to
numerous human beings tuberculosis
Milk II the food Of calves and animals
born alive. but not OF any animal that
IL Matched.
The American people must nut M
chd to the Beef Trust or suffer the
consequences OF bad food.
%cA
IT the Beef Trust Is 80 immaculate
why Is 1t that packers forming one sec.
ton Of 1t pleaded guilty In Pennsyl
vania 10 the charge Of selling lmpurc
products and were fined: that another
set OF packers belonging TO II are now
ander indictment In Lexington. Ken.
lucky. for til" same ollense; that the
Pure Food Commissioner of North Da.
eota, In his report, openly names sew.
cral Chicago packers, and tells how
they adu!terated food?
%c5A
How many murders IL the Beef
Trust guilty Of In Chlcagoy How
many Innocent people are killed every
year by tuberculosis and cancer?
Thanks to the Beef Trust methods.
cancer numbered l,l0l victims In Chi.
cagO In li|O5. or ~ more than In 1904
TN Increase OF the rate per 10000 Of
population OF 2.03 per cent.
Tho increase In deaths from canoe,
In Chicago In 1905 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was lO.I
per cent, and over the average rate OF
tho decade ended In 1854 was 3i.l pe,
cenr!
What n fine figure some o! the beef
harons Will cut In Legislative inyes.
tlgatlon!
Tho Beef Trust is flooding the coun.
Try with advertisements telling how
much 1t likes the United States I'm.
spcctlon. The Beef Trust always did
love United states inspection, because
lt was owing to United States inspec.
tlon ana the absence of other inspec.
lion that 1t was able to work up n rep
utntion that has startled the world
with horrors.
Russia would scorn Il system Of gov.
eminent Inspection like the one which
has pleased the Beef Trust for 80 many
years.
The Chicago Beef Trust house which
pleaded guilty In Pennsylvania to the
clmrge OF selling poisonous ana adul.
tcrated sausages. was fined on two
charges.
~
The Beef Trust will get Its deserts
before many years roll by. The Trus,
press cannot hide the truth from the
people. Little by little they will learn
the facts. and when they do wal : up
You will hear an explosion.
~
The following Is taken from the Bull.
letin of the Chicago Health Depart.
ment, week ending December %, 1906;
"rhe inspectors ut the Union Stock.
yards condemned and destroyed 2i9,2
pounds of unfit meats"
Only One "BROMO OUINlNEv
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

Piles Cured In to IL Days.
PAZO OINTMENT Ia guaranteed to
cure any case Of Itching, Blind. Bleed.
Ing or Protruding Piles In O to - days
or money refunded. Soc.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
PEORIA THEFT Plot Dared.
Il. =. Tate Admits burning Proof of
y. q. Dougherty's Guf1t.

Revelations calculated to upset the
peace of mind of u number of prominent
citizens Of lcorin who were friends of
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
Firemem 70 Have $4,000 In prlscs.

The executive committee of the Illinois
Firemen's Association has decided to In.
crease the prizes for the State tOurna-
ment to be held in Eewanee this summer,
to $4,000. The tournament viii open
July III.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
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What fine figure some o! the beef
barons VIII cut In Legislative inves.
tlgutlon!
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The discovery Of tons Of rotten
canned goods ana decayed material In.
tended for food In the possession OF
Chicago business houses. bears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
deplored the attacks on the Beef Trust
because they were just Us guilty them
selves.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The following is taken from the Bul.
letin of the Chicago Health Depart.
ment, week ending December %. 1906:
"rhe inspectors ut the Union Stock.
yards condemned and destroyed 2i9,284
pounds of unfit meats"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The Beef Trust will get Its deserts
before many years roll by. The Trust
press cannot hide the truth from the
people. Little by little they will learn
the facts. and when they do wal up
You will hear an explosion.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The presence Of q sick or diseased
china! n q slaughtsr house shesslA
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The Beef Trust is flooding the coun.
Try With advertisements telling how
much 1t likes the United States In.
spcctlon. The Beef Trust always did
love Cnlted states inspection. because
1t was owing to United States inspec.
ton ana the absence of other inspec.
Ton that 1t was able to work up rep.
utntlon that has startled the world
with horrors.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The Trust press Of Chicago carefully
eliminates from the reports Of the CHI
cago Health Department which It pub
fishes. all reference to the condemns.
tion OF tubercuiar and cancerous
cattle at the Union et"ck Yards, The
aim Of the Trust press = - keep the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

Some Of the fellows who are al.
vertising cattle cars. electric cars and
other wonderful improvements and
who offer the stock Of same for sale
ut fabulously low figures, should be
looked after by the police. There are
too many Of them at large In Chicago
to-day.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

The following from the Bulletin Of
the Health Department for month OF
May: "rhe meat inspectors at the
stOckyards condemned and destroyed a
total of 4S1,705 pounds Of beef, pork,
veal and mutton"
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

q thirty years lease Of a forty-nS0|
foot lot, on which modern buildina|
Is to be erected at once.
Around the corner from the White
House will be Shreve & Co.'S tewelry
store. which is rapidly being recon
structed.
Across the street, on the old Bohe-
mian club site. handsome structure
is TO be put UP for the Hastings cloth
ing company Immediately opposite
the new White House, on the corner
formerly occupied by Leipnitz drug
store, the Macdonough estate company
is to erect a handsome home for Davis,
Schonwasser & Co, who have taken a
twenty years lease.
A block farther along, on the north
east corner of Gesry street and Grant
avenue, an eight story building will
be put UP for John Breuner e. Co.
Adjoining them on Geary street will
be Gantner & Mattern. who have leased
the five story building which has just
been completed.
Across the street, on the corner now
occupied by the Vienna Model bakery,
will be the I. Magnin building. This
hrm has signed twenty-five years
lease. and the Bankers investment
company Will erect first-class fire
proof structure of six stories and
basement for them. The terms OF the
lease are on a graduated scale. being
upon percentage of the value of
the ground and the cost of the build
ing, and the rent will aggregate con-
siderably over s1,000.000 for the term.
The block on Geary, between Grant
avenue and Stockton street, also prom
ises to be a popular shopping street
The Whittell, the Starr King and sew
eral other massive buildings will make
it far more attractive than it was
before the fire.
The lower floor of the Powers build
ing has been rented by the Vienna
Model bakery. which before the fire
shared with Swain's, the Peacock and
the Golden Pheasant the patronage
Of the shoppers
The City Of Paris is making a siren
uous fight to get back in its old quar-
ters in the former Spring Valley
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

vorfte among the ladies and was uni
versally referred to as tho black eyed
boy at Davidson's." Neyt to them was
the upholstery store OF the Ackerman
Brothers, who later opened the first
dollar store" on the Pacific coast
The flaming dry goods advertisements
Of the present day were then quite
unknown. In the Alta and in the Her
aid, tho two early daily papers, one
of the columns was headed Dry
Goods" and 1T contained the names Of
the stores and merchants who kept
them In a three or four line card.
Sometimes in the news items one would
SEE that Austin's. Belloc or one Of the
other firms had received line Of new
spring, summer or winter goods, as the
case might be. by the last steamer from
effort made to attract custom The
ladies knew what they wanted and
where they were likely to get It. and
old favorites had no fear of their Gus
tom being drawn away from them.
There were several stores that were
extremely popular and where during
the shopping hours. which then began
as early as 8 in the morning and usual-
ly ended about 8. one was sure to meet
her friends For instance. there were
Norcross'. on Sacramento street. where
you could buy exquisite embroideries.
dress trimmings and ladies' fne under
wear; Thomas Young's millinery estab-
lishment on Clay street. and just above
it Locan's, where one met day after
day every one worth knowing Locan's
was at first devoted purely to the sale
Of Berlin wool and other material for
ladies' fancy work. But by degrees.
and after he got the backing Of the
French banker F. L - PtochA he
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

block. with an L to Sansome street.
There was little or no shopping on
Montgomery street south Of California
until the early COS. when the Lick
houss was built. Among the first OF
the large retail firms TO remove to one
OF the Lick house stores was j. W. Da-
vidson q Co.. whose dry goods empo-
ium became one OF the most fashion
able in the city, a prestige they In
creased when they occupied the White
House, on the northwest corner of Sut-
ter and Post streets Kerby & Byrnes
and Taafes were two other dry goods
stores that located In the Lick house
block, Houston & Hastings clothing
store opened on the southwest corner
of Sutter. where 1t was still located
at the time OF the fire. and Rosenblatts
Palace Of Novelties was opposite oths
Occidental hotel
The opening of the White House on
Sutter and Post streets in December,
1870, marked q new era in the shop
ping district. Slowely but surely the
shops removed from Montgomery, and
the adjacent streets north of California.
and the new shopping district came
south and west. on Montgomery and
Kearny from California to Market
The destructive nre of last April
wiped the shopping district out Of ex-
istence. and when IL reappeared q few
months later the scene had shifted to
Fillmore street and Van Ness avenues.
where all the leading firms are now
comfortably housed, awaiting the COM
pletion OF their permanent buildings in
the downtown district 1t is only
within the past three months that they
have begun TO announce their locations.
but now that the lead has been taken
all the best known houses are falling
into line and hunting for desirable
ranged for them. In a year from now
the old shopping district viii begin to
take on somewhat of it's old appear
ance. That 1t will remain practically
unchanged, once 1t is again settled. is
very evident, for nearly all the tenants
are taking leases that range from
twenty to thirty yeax2
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

greatly enlarged his establishment. M
cluding in his wares rare bronzsA
French clocks, articles in cut glass. ex-
ouisite fans and the finest kinds OF
bric-a-brac-
After the Lick house was built. Io-
can removed to the large store IN fe
near the corner OF Sutter street and fe
speedily became the rendezvous OF the
best people of San Francisco. To be
sure his prices were high. but every
thing that came from his store was os
the best and considered the correct
thing" LOGAN was an immense favor
tie with his customers. He was q
bright CHEEKY little fellow, ever In
good humor, and always had the latest
morsel of gossip to impart To bis LADY
patrons.
other notable retail firms on Mont
gomery street were Little's drug stcrs,
the book establishments Of Bancroft.
lie Count and Roman; Gensoui. the
French statfoner: Barrett q Shex-
wood. Shreve & Tucker. the Jewell
ers. all on the west side Of tbs street,
The prominent banks on Montgomery
street were Palmer Cook & Co.. John
Slime, Davidson & May, and Parrott.
There was some shopping done on
Howard. but the shops were mostly
very small. Hawley's grocery was
on the corner of Howard. and the
original SWANS bakery was within
half block OF IL. On Second street also
was the celebrated Captain Choppers"
where one could get a most appetiz-
ing dinner or a delicious supper. The
place was kept by a man named Hark-
ness. who was noted for his tsrrapfn
and fried oysters.
Marketing was almost exclusively
done at the Washington market. which
ran through from Washington street to
Merchant. behind tha Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
By Horatio F. Stoll

XasaasS F:ssi:ss Fl: s:ss' .,ssss ss,s;'' .A.' s'
Wv way through Market street
few days after the de-
structive fire OF last April. with their
eyes fixed on menacing ruins and their
feet stumbling at every step on bricks
and blackened debris. it was difhcult
. picture the rehabilitation of the
downtown district. The streets de-
touching to the north from Market
especially the once crowded shopping
district, seemed equally hopeless. And
when all the principal retail stores
tumbled over one another in a wild
scramble for locations on Fillmore
street and Van Ness avenue. signing
leases that ranged from two to five
years, there We're pessimists galore
who predicted that it would be at
least five years before any Of the
larger firms would dare to venture
downtown.
But it is very evident. after only
twelve months. that these wise
prophets were very much in error, and
that IN another year majority of the
best known retail stores will again be
doing business in the old shopping dis
Trict bounded by Kearny and Powell
and Sutter and Market streets In
fact, within radius of FIVE blocks
from the intersection OF Market and
Kearny streets there are over $50 fire.
proof buildings OF brick, concrete and
steel In course OF construction or re-
hsbilitation, and every day there is
some Interesting new announcement
in the papers to gladden. the hearts of
downtown property owners.
Sutter street and Grant avenue. both
busy thoroughfares before the fire and
already in comparatively good condi-
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

ton as lar as street and sidewalk
work IS concerned seem 10 have won
.rnost Of the ptums so far, and when the.
beautiful buildings planned are COM
ple4ed:s they viii present a sight that
will FAR surpass the Suffer street and
Grant avenue OF old.
On 2 the southwest corner OF
Kearny6 and aSutter streets. for ex-
ample, the Eyrie investment COM
pany IS putting up q handsome
eight story structure which Is
40 be- occupied by Sherman, Clay &
Co whose piano establishment has
been on the same site for many years.
AT the other end OF the block. the
southwesta corfier of Sutter street and
Grant avenue Raphael WE'LL & Co. are
20 have "a. permanent four story home
erected for the White House by Mrs.
q frank J. Sullivan She will receive q
ground rental ranging from $500 to
$4,000 per month during the term of
she twenty year lease, and she is also
t6 receive 6 per cent interest on the
cost OF the building. The total amount
~ rent which willo be- paid during the
fease will aggregate about 50 10000.
For many years this siteswas occupied
bxs tie Central market In 1896 the
building was remodeled. the cost of
the improvements amounting to about
$50 600 At the time. OF the fire most
Of the lower foor was occupied Dy
20 Samuels' Lace House. while the up
her floor was given to the club rooms
Of the Elks and Steinway hall. where
many notable concerts were heard
Acrass the street, Goldberg, Bowen
& Co. will erect six story building
ON their valuable lot and adjoining
Item will be the well known furni-
styre firm. w. & J. Sloane & Co. They
lave secured a twenty years lease of
"a eight story and basement class A
build4ng to be erected by Mrs. Andrew
" Rose. daughter ofe the late Alvinza
Hayward es
eIn0 the block above, on the south
side of Sutter street, between Grant
avenue and Stockton, the firm Of Call
ieau, Inc, which has made speciality
OF ladies' sclosks and suits. has taken
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
WEST SbE o
MONTGOMERY ST FR0M
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MO
IN 1866

of nearly 100000 inhabitants, Fifty
years ago the shopping district was
confined principally to the Washing
ton street side of Portsmouth square
then usually referred to as the Plaza"
down to Montgomery street: along
Montgomery and Kearny from Clay to
California, and on Clay and Sacra-
mento streets, between Kearny and
Montgomery. In fact, the latter was
THE shopping street of the city.
There was some shopping done, too.
on Stockton street. Between Wash
ington and Pacific there were a num-
Der of small shops, notably that of
Andrew Kohler, at the end OF whose
toy store there was small counter
devoted to the sale of music; and
Mansbach & Bine's modest shop near
Washington street, where one could
purchase buttons, ribbons and trim
mings generally. Mrs. p. F. Butier
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

had miIliner's store In Virginia
block. the upper part of which was
occupied by a fashionable boarding
house kept by Mrs. Yates. Adjoining
Buffers was the small dry goods
store of D. Samuels, OF the present day
Lace House.
Fifty Years Ago
The large dry goods stores were all
down town. They included Belloc
Freres on Clay street, just east Of
Montgomery. where Henry Barroilhet
presided over the silk counter; F. J. de
ST. Ours, on Sacramento near Kearny:
Verdier & Kaindler--the City of Paris
ON Kearny near Sacramento: Cue
rims, on Montgomery near California:
and next door to it Austin's, which
ranked them all In popularity. Alex
ander Austin, the head of the establish
ment. was a big hearted Scotchman and
q general favorite His brother, Joe
Austin, who was chief floor walker.
was perhaps even better liked among
the ladies, for he was so untiring in
his efforts to please them.
Near Austin's, but not in any y4ense
ranking with It, was Skerritt's dry
goods store. 1t was peculiar in its
way inasmuch a everything that could
not be found elsewhere was sure to be
obtained at Skerritt's, especially IL 1t
was not quite up to date. Poor Skier
ritt. who was also a Scotchman, was
long afterward found murdered in one
Of his houses on Ellis street He was
the owner of much real estate and a
fake buyer Of one Of his buildings made
q pretense Of looking 1t over. and when
he got Skerritt alone murdered him.
Another favorite dry goods store was
Davidson & Lanes, on Sacramento
street just west Of Montgomery. Here
Raphael WE'LL made his start In this
line Of business BE. too. was a IA
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
TSAENET 81 BEFOEE. TNE. FiRE

temporary home on its old site. The
Palace hotel on Market and New Mont
Eomery will again figure prominently
In the social life of the city, and the
grill will offer a charming rendezvous
at luncheon time for fair shoppers.
Many Of the choice corners on Mar
ket will be monopolized by banks.
The Wells Fargo Nevada national.
the First national. the Metropol-
itan trust and the Crocker-Wool-
worth will all be advantageously
grouped at the intersection of Market.
Post and Montgomery streets. Near
the gore of Geary and Market streets
is the Mutual savings bank and half
a block further up on the south side
of Market is the tall Is story Hum
boldt savings bank. At the inter-
section of Grant avenue. O'Farrell
and Market streets the Union trust and
San Francisco savings union will be
located. At Powell and Market Is the
Western national bank and at Sew
enth is the Market street bank.
The PACIFIC building, on Fourth
street and the Phelan building, at the
O'Farrell gore. will add number Of
attractive stores. On Kearny street
Roos Brothers are to erect an eight
story building on the southwest corner
of Post. A half block below, on the
southwest corner OF Kearny street and
Union Square avenue, Alfred Lilienfeid
Will be located an seven story build
ing which the Stern. brothers will put
UP for him. This site was identified
with the firm OF Raphael's before the
fire. Across the street Maskey will
put up a new building for his Ice
cream and candy parlors. which be-
fore the fire was crowded every after
noon with a fashionable throng OF
young folks.
Return of Theaters and Cafes
On the site of the old Orpheum, be-
tween Stockton and Powell, new
$400, 900 theater is to be erected at
once, and there will soon be other
theaters coming further downtown
than the American, Colonial and the
Central. This will mean the return
of the cafes and restaurants and will
doubtless bring about a revival of the
old Saturday matinee dress parade,
which, since the fire, has been divided
between Fillmore street and Van Ness
avenue.
While many of the old firms are
going back to their former locations,
there will be marked changes in the
different sections of the shopping dis
trict. Take, for example, the block
between Ellis and Eddy on Powell
street. The Columbia theater will
rise, not on it's former site, but on
Geary and Van Ness. And instead
OF the tempting windows of S. N. Wood
& Co. in the Flood building we shall
have to be content with the bewilder-
ing array of multicolored railroad
signs. The once crowded Tait's, later
the Cafe Fiesta, is gone End is now
only q memory.
But II the reconstructed shopping
district is going to seem strange to
the younger generation, think how un-
familiar it will appear to tho pioneer
who has lived to see San Francisco
grow from a village of tents and
adobe houses with q few thousand
residents to prosperous modern city
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
NoNTG0WERY st kETNEEN
C0rNheEL1hIA ACAHI
n 1886

monopoiize the western side of Union
square, which is to be surrounded by
q group of pretentious structures that
will make this green breathing place
even more inviting than when it stood
in the midst of exclusive clubs, restau-
rants, hotels and modern business
houses.
Market street from Post to McAllister
will be lined with alluring shopping
establishments. The Emporium has
been released for 25 years, and.
it is expected, will be opened
again within a year. The style OF
architecture of the entire exterior and
interior are to be reproduced by the
Parrott estate on the lines Of the
former building. The whole seven
stories will be occupied by the
Emporium. A few blocks farther up
Market Hale Bros new class A six
story edifice is being rushed to COM
pletion, and on the corner of Meal
lister Prayers is established in a