The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-31

on Lake Merritt.
PARROT estate. Claus Spreckels, Annex,
Wilson estate company, Zellerbach
paper company California castings
company. Durham. Carrigan & Hayden,
Goldberg, Bowen & Co, Hale Brothers,
Halleek block, Hooker estate company,
Shiel estate company. Union Square
investment company buildings and
many others too numerous to mention
Among their most recent installa-
lions were three swift running eleva-
tors in the Foxcroft building in Post
street. The service on these elevators
is as fast as any in town, and they
operate with the finest efficiency and
power. running like clock. The COM
pany's latest and largest installation In
the city is the passenger elevators in
the David Hewes building at Sixth
and Market streets. In building of
this kind. Is stories high. the success
full handling of the elevator engineer
ing problem means the success Of the
building a business investment.
After careful and exhaustive eXamina-
ton of all makes of electric elevators,
including the traction type, David
Hewes and his architects. Reid Broth
ers, who were also the architects OF
the Claus Spreckels building in this
city, decided to install electric pas
senger elevators manufactured by this
q travel of almost 200 feet and will be
the fastest electric elevators on the
Pacific coast. Among the company's
installations just finished outside OF the
city were four electric passenger ele-
vators in the IA story Dominion Trust
Company building in Vancouver, B. c.,
and the Seattle Securities Company
building in South Seattle. Wash. with
FIVE passenger and five freight ele
vators. This last contract alone
amounted to $4,000
The Van Enron company is capitalized
for 100000. It's stock holders are
all San Francisco people.
The Moore & Scott iron works is just
finishing two large specially designed
logging engines for the Hawaiian ISL
ands. and one is now ready for ship
ment.
On the special design necessary for
this contract, there was competition
from the east and elsewhere, but ow-
ing TO the character of work that can
be finished by LOCAL firms, the Moore &
Scott company secured the contract.
Other contracts that mean a great deal
to local ship building and dredger in
terests include the special designed
combination dredger and pile driver
cent to Mendocino county, and the
Transforming of the steamer South Bay
into special suction bar -dredger,
which dredges and carries its own mud
and sand for deep water by suction
propeller, and discharges, the load of
sand and mud. The pians OF this con-
tract are similar to those used by the
United. States government on the
giant dredger Chinook, and were never
used before outside of government in
stallation. This company is also do
ing some extensive repairs, overhaul
ing and new installations on the barge
~ A OF nj ma ny in cfa l.
ing new tanks and setting a new tail
shaft in the steamer Alcatraz now in
dock Besides this the schooner New
ark and the steamer Mayo are under
going repairs 70 the hulls and ma
chinery, also drydacking and calk-s
ing.
The repair work on these vessels
alone amounts to nearly $4,000 This
goes to show that San Francisco is the
most logical point Tor extensive re-
pair work that is necessary on all ships
and boats coming into the harbor, and
which necessitates many of the local
firms having ship building yards and
docks Millions are spent annually
on this particular work alone. With
out any doubt San Francisco Is the
greatest repair city in the world to-
day and is becoming more of manu-
featuring city, which it should be, and
was at one time.
The c. H. Evans company's cranks
fywheels, steam pumps, deep well and
power pumps, steering gears and
steamboat engines are some of the
most interesting and useful commodi-
ties made in San Francisco. Where
economy in use of fuel, relia bility and
durability, are desired instead of cheap
ness in first cost the Thompson Evans
steam pumps are used extensively
They are easily handled by engineers
and mechanics and easily adjusted, with
less liability of arrangement. They
are installed in many vessels in San
Francisco harbor.
This company's deep well pumps
with steam or belt power driving heads
for artesian wells are used in the Bal
boa building, Croker, Mutual savings
bank Phelan and Grant buildings and
hundreds of others made under local
patents are in use all over the country
The company's Gamers air pumps
are used in all the canneries on the
coast, besides Alaska, Puget sound and
on the Columbia and Fraser rivers But
more interesting than any of It's i'm
stallatfons are the Evans steam steer
ing gears on which the life of boats
gears are used extensively on the bay
having been recently furnished 10 the
Southern Pacific, eight on different
boats of the California TRANSPORTATION
company and three or four on boats of
the California navigation and improve
ment company. The Santa Re has one
and there are any number of others.