The San Francisco call., 1909-06-12
SOUTHERN PART OF
CITY PROSPEROUS
Remarkable Development of the
Section Contiguous to Great
Terminal Yards
Better Car Service Demanded
by Big District That Is Rap
idly Being Settled

the city are located a large number Of
Industries and daily it is receiving ac-
cessions in the way of warehouses and
new manufactories. Since the fire vast
sums OF money have been expended
here. Both the Southern Pacific and
the Santa Fe have extended their rail-
road facilities and on China basin alone
d small fortune has been spent
The Western Pacific. 700. IS spending
large sums of money here Freight
slips are being built Big terminals are
planned and work has been commenced
already upon the construction OF in
coming and outgoing freight sheds.
South OF Channel street is destined in
= short time 10 be one OF the most i'm
- 1rtsnt and also the busiest sections Of
city, and as new and larger indus
r-ies are 10 be located in this district
there viii be z corresponding growth
~ homes in South San Francisco.
EFFECT OF DUMBARTON CUTOFF
The building Of the Dumbarton cutoff
has had much 10 do with the present
inquiry for sites for the ests bhshment
of Industries in San Francisco. After
the disaster many Of the large business
houses moved their warehouses to Oak
"a nd. and even after conditions became
more settled here they decided not 10
abandon Oakland. as il was a more con-
Venieut distributing point Now that
the railrosd company has intimated
that san Francisco. by the building OF
the Dumbsrton cutoff viii be the
future distributing posut there has been
a sudden change I'm the attitude of our
merchants. and consequently inquiries
have been started for locations for
warehouses that are now on the other
side Of the bay.
BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY
Large numbers Of people are en-
ployed i'm these warehouses and indus
tries. and strange as il may appear
there is a great number OF working
people living on this side who work in
Oakland. The early morning boats are
crowded with laboring men going
across the bay. and II can not be denied
that this entails a hardship on them.
Many Of these people have been forced
ID abandon their homes in this city
for Oakland who would return gladly
10 san Francisco If their work was
here.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
With the return OF many Industries
now across the bay 10 San Francisco
south san Francisco viii experience
something ia the nature Of a. boom
This is the only part OF the city where
industries can be established TO good
advantage. owing 10 railroad facilities,
where track and ship can be brought
together. This viii attract population.
and IL may be expected that within
short time a large city viii be built up
there.
The residents OF South san Francisco
assert that this district has not made
corresponding as large . growth as
other portions Of the city. To the man
not familiar with South San Francisco
the presence Of so many well built
houses and cottages in a section which
IL was thought was given over 10 fac
tories is little short OF astonishing
The streets on either side of Ken
tuckv street beyond the refneries are
lined with trim built houses, and there
is every appea rance of comfort about
these domiciies.
HILLS COVERED WITH HOUSES
The hills south Of Seventeenth street
and west Of Connecticut street are COW
cred with homes and these people are
practically without transportation Ia
ciiities II does appear as II this Sec
lion had been neglected by the trans
r,orfation companies, for it is not right
that people who work north of Market
street should be compelled to ride for
half an hour to reach South san iran
cisco. The car service to South San
Francisco is intermittent Via Third
street.
MANY WORK UP TOWN
II would seem from the attitude OF
the streetcar company that South san
Francisco. being q city in itself, did
not require better car service car
runs once in = while from Third and
Market streets TO one Of their barns.
and then transfer is made 10 the
car which runs TO the terminus of the
line II is 2 dreary, wesrisome ride al
the best. and worse still when the
bridge - open for the passage OF
stenorrspher for the California
barrel company. whose Offices are in
the Monadnock building, but whose
home is near the terminus of the road,
said the other day:
There are many girls and men
4 vorlxing in uptown offices who live in
u South san Francisco. We ike 10 hVe
out there because we believe we are
protected from the winds and we are
better able TO afford a comfortable
home than il we lived in the city.
Most OF us own our homes. and many
are building out there but we DO not
get any assistance from the street
railroad people in the matter of trans
portation. 1t takes sometimes nearly
three-qua rters Of an hour to get home
from the Monadnock building, and often
we are held up for the bridge to close.
We are date getting TO the once
and we are late getting home. 1t does
not make people feel like building and
having ones home when we run the
danger Of dismissal for not being
punctual. Does it?''
LINES PAY WELL
The complainant was right The res
idents Of south san Francisco deserve
better treatment from the streetcar
company. II is true that there is
car line feeding this territory, via
Eighth street. and the patronage Of
both carlines is heavy. during and after
working hours. and this should make
the streetcar company more liberal in
their treatment Of this section of the
city.
IT. as real estate men say, there
fs inquiry for the location Of ware
houses and industries in South San
Francisco there Is more need than ever
that something should be done for the
Improvement Of the present car service
INFLUENCE or GOOD SERVICE
What streetcsr service can DO for a
city is shown br the Mission. There is
no part or the city better served than
Mission. and the result IS that II