The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-25
THE NEW MARKET STREET
IN BUSY SAN FRANCISCO
Vista of Sky-Scrapers---The New Palace Hotel
1.-The Directoire Gown. Backing Boots
by Electricity for Nickel.

er is at the head, will, in the near flu
ture. put up some slightly office build
| ings. just above the Call building ls
4 the Bulletin building, small, but
modern building, and aanked on either
side by buildings which are new and
which would be a credit to almost any
street except Market. just above the
Bulletin the Humboldt Bank building
rises. This is indeed skyseraper and
one of the most important office build
ings in the city. 1t overtops every
thing about it except possibly the Call
building. Across the street is the new
Phelan building covering over half a
block, and rivaling the Palace Hotel IN
size. The building is on gore and
much resembles the Flatiron building
of New York 1t is not belittling the
other buildings to say that the Phelan
building is possibly the most magnifi-
cent structure on Market street,
though it cost million or SO less than
the Flood building, block above it.
1t can be seen from far down Market
street, and as the small end is facing
, the Market street gore, by standing on
Market one can see two sides of the
/ building, and the longest sides too. The
, building is of steel with a cream color
ed facing, which increases the general
appearance of its size. The building Is
in the course of construction but all
the work is being done finishing up
the inside, and it should be opened up
before many more months.
On the opposite corner is located the
Pacific building, the largest reinforced
concrete building N the world. OF
i various colors, including cream, drab,
and green, made by different eolored
tiles, the building makes most strlR-
ing appearance. 1t is built around
large covered court, SO that every of
fee in the big building is well lighted.
In the basement of this building is San
Franeiseo's finest and largest restaur
ant. It somewhat resembles TAFT s old
restaurant in the Flood building be-
fore the fire, but is larger and finer,
with Beefsteak garnet, = and great
wine or tap room, open for inspection.
1t is so large that coming down from
one entrance you walk along a minfa.
ture street with lamp posts and can
enter one Of several small one-room
cottages and have your meal served in
your own home, fguratiyely speaking.
This comes nearer to, and yet is an
Improvement on, the famous old San
Francisco restaurants so popular before
the fire.
Just above the Phelan building is the
Westbank building, fairly large build
ing ordinarily, but dwarfed by the big
structures around it. On the upper cor
ner is the $5,000.000 Flood building.
headquarters for the Southern Pacific
in the West AMI home of the transeon-
tinental railroad Offices. Built before
the fire. and rebuilt after the fire, it is
almost one of the landmarks of Market
7'heft- IN SCtiE dtfUSS the street IS the
remodeled Parrot building. the home of
the Emporium. This building will be
ready for occupancy in October. and the !
big department store, when it occupies
ITS new home, should be one of the fin
est in the West, as we'll as one of the /
largest. 1t viii possess some new fea-
lures TO be found in few stores in the /
United States, the most notable of
which is double set of show windows. /
one set behind the other. A passageway
has been run the entire length of the .
front of the store about ten feet from
the sidewalk, and three entrances will
permit shoppers to walk into the pas
sageway. go down behind the front !
windows, and at the same time look into
another set OF windows in the store
proper. What is said To be the largest
skylight dome in the United States has
been already pat in place, and this viii
serve to light two large floors
The block above Powell street Is de
void Of any large buildings until the up
per corner is reached, where the new
Mechanics Savings Bank building is