The San Francisco call., 1909-12-26

of Market street In the coming years
here the horn of plenty win perpet-
ually overflow. AS if to add to the
accommodating advantages furnished by
long frontage. i. on Sam Francisco bay
the land is pierced by an inlet, which
is naVigable and open for the uses of
commerce.
The extent of the second south of
Market street may be defined by begin
ming at a point about midway on the
expensive structure in East street
known as the ferry building and then
following curved course around the
bay front, down past the transport
docks, along the pierheads devoted TO
the uses of Chinese steamship lines
down to a point beyond the great rail
road yards of the Southern Pacific COM
pany and onward 70 a point opposite
the foot of Ninth street; then by be-
ginning on the south line of Market
street and running in practically a
straight line out beyond the site of the
old city hall and then extending down
toward the bay and crossing a score
of leading but less important streets
to navigable water.
INDUSTRIAL LIFE OF WORLD
If a birdseye view were secured of
this territory, an impression would be
created in the mind of a careful OBJ
industrial life of the world. Gathered
into the warehouses are the products
of looms and mills of all descriptions
that originate in practically all the
lands OF civilization. Here are pur-
sued so many different vocations that,
collectively. the working of textile in
dustries excepted, they represent mod
ern workaday life on vary large and
interesting scale.
Hammers claug on feel- SibilaDt
saws tear their way through fragrant
planks and logs brought from the al
most ineXhaustible forests of the Pa
cific coast; lime and cement building
stone and lumber and thousands of
articles are daily vended in the way of
trade; and trains that puff southward,
starting on transcontinental journeys,
carry large and valuable quantities of
the native productions of California,
these including the output of mines and
fruits of the farm and orchards; and
from every dock fruits, vegetables,
wines and lumber proceed on their way
to foreign or domestic ports.
South of Market street is much differ
ent in its leading characteristic from
the south of Market street prior to
1906. Business and manufacturing
structures have been erected on a scale
commensurate with the new and
greater order of things in San Fran
cisco. In the streets that run south
ward of Market street the building
construction is far superior and vastly
more expensive and ample than the
older time could boast. There are
splendid eight and ten story build
ings that few years ago, in fact, less
than ten years ago, would have pro-
voked individual comment in any part
of the city, but that now are accepted
as a matter of course The taller
buildings are for commercial uses;
those of less height are generally for
manufacturing. The factories are not
only generally ip freproof buildings.
entailing a vastly increased cost in
construction, but they also are equipped
with all modern appliances that are
required to enable San Francisco TO
keep abreast industrially with COM
peting ports.
POPULATION is LESS
The old dense population disappeared
with the fire. Between Ninth street
and East street there is nothing to
compare in numbers with the myriads
of human beings who were wont. d,r-
ing the long series of years, to haunt
the popular thoroughfares. Less has
been accomplished in the way of erect
ing homes, when placed in contrast with
the care, expenditures and great scale
of construction embodied in the exist
ing commercial and manufacturing
buildings.
There are thousands of people living
between Market street, East street
Townsend street and Ninth street. but
there is room for many thousands more
Patriotic and public spirited men have
allied themselves to improve the south
of Market street district, and what
they plan and what they have accom-
plished are matters of so great de-
gree Of public concern that they are
embodied in the words of the president
of the South of Market Improvement
association.
San Francisco was first settled in
the Mission district. The shelterinr
hills that temper the winds from The
Pacific, and the freedom from fog ware
observed by the wise Spanish nriors
when they selected the place for their
first location, with absolute freedom or
choice, from the entire available teri
ritory. The earlier American pop,,la-
tion, who disembarked their goods near
Telegraph hill and who built their first
wharves north of Market street. nat
urally had their dwellings in the region
north of Market street. but natural.
causes are stronger than the plans of