The San Francisco call., 1909-12-26
SANTACLAUS GOOD
TO SAN FRANCISCO
This Gty's 1909 Stocking Bulg-
7. ing With the Gifts of Pros
-
; perity and COntentment


counting OF them. The owners of real
estate. the realty broker, the banker,
the man OF affairs and all others whose
interests are tied up with the prosper
..Ity of san Francisco may pull enough
out of the city's collective Christmas
stocking this morning to make them
merry for a year.
p: Santa Claus can point with glee to
SO many new and costly buildings in
The heart of the city that it may be
fairly said that they have remade the
neighborhoods that existed one year
2 go today.
.. Chinks and crannies in prominent
t1oroughfares have been graced with
splendid structures that have welded
whole lines of buildings together and
have created solid and unbroken
frontages of permanent construction,
which are Justly the cause of admira-
lion and pride on the part of all san
Francisco. Santa Claus this morning
presents a stocking that not only is
Sufficient to cover the foot of Market
street, but that is munifcent enough
.in.its gifts to confer benefits on an en-
tire municipality. Here are some of
the things that are fit to make Christ
mas 1909. merry indeed.
b. one Of the first gifts of the year to
@1oe mentioned is the completion of the
Western Pacific railroad as d through
:iine and this involves by implication
the near at hand construction OF
= feeders and branches, without which
$40 competing transcontinental lines
can exist Thousands of miles of road
have been added to the rail highways
leading through and out Of California
by the Gould interests and many
4, l.
in this great work. 1t is easy TO get
people from abroad to say eompI-
mentaTy things about California.
When they express their confidence in
this state, and in San Francisco, by
making il a terminal point, their ac-
tions are complimentary indeed and
beneficial.
Next in Importance san Francisco
9nay pull from the Christmas stocking
she substantial beginning of a great
system of municipal water works and
the beginnings also Of a great auXili-
..ary water system to be used as a pro-
lection against fire. If the new trans
sentimental line has increased the
value of realty and Of all legitimate
investments by opening up a new ter
ritOry by promising competition in the
carrying trade, the municipal water
system and thea system for protection
against fire in themselves insure
values that have been created and pro-
Tided for the indispensable needs of
the great san Francisco Of the future.
which is also a decided element in the
stability Of. realty values. There is lit
tie question in the minds of most citi-
gems that the voters viii approve of
The Sierra water supply and also the
acquisition of the Spring Valley prop
critics.
COSTLY BANK BUILDINGS
Into the structural plant of San
Francisco, like plums in a municipal
. Christmas plum pudding. there have
been inserted costly bank buildings
Men OF money are now erecting ine
bank structures that will collectively
cost millions Of dollars in various
prominent business portions of san
Francisco.
3 The German savings bank structure
Sn California street has arisen from
ruins and has become a fine building
The Anglo and London Paris national
bank structure at Sansome and Sutter
streets is nearly completed, and is an
ornament to that neighborhood. On
the two sides of Grant avenue close TO
Market street the Union trust company
and the Savings and Loan society are
erecting their banking structures. both
Of which viii be costly and ornamental
At Mission and Sixteenth streets the
Mission savings bank has created a
large banking and Office structure. The
German savings bank viii erect a
structure for its own uses on the newly
acquired propert- purchased from the
Richmond Congregational church, at
the southwest corner Of Clement street
and Seventh avenue
For the tens of thousands of San
Francisco children the future rulers of
this municipality, splendid array of
new schoolhouses has been created.
They are Of high class construction,
fireproof, provided with all the latest
ideas in sanitation and lighting, stand
ing in all parts of the city where pop
ulation is large, ornamented with hand
some facades, surrounded by grounds of
ample size. Thus the health of the
children is provided for while their. ed
Hcation is looked after. Millions Of dol
lars have gone into grammar and pri-
mary school structures and the bureau
of architecture is busily engaged in
turning out plans for more.
Before another Christmas shall arrive
the provisions made in 1909 for a mil
lion dollar technical school plant and
the splendid new building Of the Lowell
high school viii be in evidence. In the
promise Of these buildings, the crown
ing achievement Of the year in the Gre
alton OF school facilities, there is an
CJnfE A<II4SllldS present. AOL AIlt H1MulGl-
pality that is OF great importance.
THE PALACE HOTEL
The Palace hotel has been completed
and the cost, including buildings and
grounds, is said TO represent value of
s1O.0OO.000. The opening of the Palace
was accompanied by such a manifesto
tion of the optimistic spirit of the pres
ent san Francisco that it has given rise
20 much local enthusiasm. With this
great addition to the capacity of san
Francisco TO entertain its guests the
limit for providing hotels has not been
reached by any means. Take from the
Christmas stocking the Palace hotel
and observe it from any point of view
and il is admirable Set it on the shelf
alongside the other gifts that have
been enumerated and close 10 it place
a picture Of the proposed enlargement
OF the st. Francis.
Then take also out of the Christmas
stocking a score of other hotels that
have either been begun or have been
planned in 1909 and that Will stand in
prominent streets in many localities.
So It will be seen that the eastern
capitalists. who build railroads. that
the city supervisors, who propose to
the city TO buy one great water sys-
TEN and TO construct another and who
have been engaged in the preliminaries