The San Francisco call., 1909-11-06

story brick building occupied by the
Whittier-Coburn company. Next to the
Whittier-Coburn building is one story
brick building occupied for manufac-
turing purposes On the northwest cor
ner of Beale and Howard streets stands
a corrugated iron building of tenn
porary construction which contains the
plant of the Sanders 81 Co. copper
works.
On the northeast corner of Howard
and Fremont streets is three story
brick building and on the southwest
corner of Howard and Fremont stands
the building containing the Abner
Doble ironS and steel company plant
At the northwest corner of Fremont and
Howard is the office of the George w.
Dow pumping engine company, which
is adjoined by a one story old brick
structure used for manufacturing
work which runs TO the northeast COR
ner of Howard and First streets.
The southwest corner of Howard and
First streets is vacant Immediately
on the south on First street this is
adjoined by the warehouse of the Selby
smelling and lead company. From
East street up to First there are very
few vacant lots. Between First and
Second streets there are something like
10 vacant lots, which are mainly on
the south line of the street, but on this
block there are 10 brick structures of
three and four stories. Some of them
are of large frontage and all of them
of permanent construction.
FINE BRICK BUILDINGS
The northwest corner of Howard and
Second~street is adorned by a splen-
did brick building of five stories. which
is adjoined by six story fine brick
building on the west of the same class.
On the south side of the block there are
two small brick structures and few
small buildings of temporary construc-
ton. The large corner of New Mont
gomery and Howard streets is vacant.
This is one of the properties which
A. J. Rich & Co have announced will
be improved handsomely by the Sharon
estate company to suit a tenant. The
northwest corner of Howard and New
Montgomery streets is unoccupied and
there are some lots adjacent that are
vacant At the southeast corner of
Hawthorne and Howard streets, just
beyond New Montgomery street, large
sign Announces that Herbert f. Law
is ready 10 build to suit tenants.
on the southwest corner of Haw
thorne and Howard there is a two story
brick building Westward on Howard
from Hawthorne to Third street all is
of solid brick construction. On the
north line of the street. il is the same
with the exception of three small
wooden shacks. The same is true be-
tw cen Hawthorne and Third streets in
the south line of Howard with the
exception of two vacant lots and a few
small wooden buildings.
i The character of Howard street be-
gins to change between New Mont
gomery and Third streets. The build
ings, which are occupied below New
Montgomery almost exclusively for
business or manufacturing purposes,
are succeeded in part by hotels and.
lodging houses. On the southeast cor
ner of Third and Howard stands five
story brick structure occupied by the
Albany hotel The American hotel
five story brick structure, stands on
the north line of Howard street just
west of Third. In the same
neighborlrood' stands the Hotel Norden,
and the New York hotel is in a per-
manent brick building above the Of
fees of the San Francisco News com
pany. Between Third and Fourth
streets also stand the Hotel Netherland
and the Dewey house. Between Third
and Fourth streets there are also some
small lodging houses, some temporary
wooden buildings and some vacant lots,
but no small homes.
Between Fourth and Fifth streets is
the handsome two story Cluett build
ing and three story brick building
of the Home telephone company. Be-
tween Fifth and Sixth streets on How
ard some structures have been erected
which may be intended for fats. There
are several brick buildings between
Fifth and Sixth streets on the north
line of the street partly occupied for
mercantile and manufacturing uses and
partiv for hotel Three corners of How
ard and Sixth streets are improved with
brick buildings. Farther westward
there are small wooden buildings.
Along the line of Howard to Sixth
street there are few unfinished brick
structures in erection. All the way
from East street to Sixth on Howard
the CONSTRUCTION is entirely new with
the exception of one old building which
was repaired for manufacturing uses.
Howard street iss more largely i'm
proved than Mission street in the same
area reaching out toward Seventh
street. Prior to 1906 Mission street
led Howard in Improvements. This was
partly because it was nearer Market
street and had the start and also be-
cause, like Market street, it had the
advantage of back streets, including
Jessie and Stevenson.
MINT AND POsTOFFICE
Mission street has more value in
public buildings on it than any street
in San Francisco at this time or since
the city hail was demolished, as 1t can
boast of the postoffice and the mint,
which together cost millions of dollars.