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The San Francisco call., 1909-04-18

into four stories fitted with every con-
venience that thought could devise and
artisans carry out, while The Hub
Charles Keilus & Co.--has a big build
ing farther up the block and a third
clothing house--that of the Hastings
company-occupies the Post street and
Grant avenue corner. Shreve's magnifi
cent 10 story building with its great
bronze arched mirrors rises on the
opposite corner, and Sylvain's nestles
next with the Hirsch- Kaiser building.
housing clubs and studios-the Sketch
club, Keith and McComas studios and
the Cercle de l'Union and Forum clubs
while S. and G. Gump & Co. are only
awaiting the completion of their three
story building in Post street between
Stockton street and Grant avenue, to
come down the end of April.
The Lavenson Schlueter company,
227 -233 Post street. is on the left side,
while Paris millinery and waists, un-
der the supervision of Olga" with the
Art floral company next. and Ahlers,
gem merchant, fill the space below the
newly opened store of Gould & Sulli-
van. The Mercedes building in Post
street houses more studios, and NJ
Friedman & Co. are scheduled to be
in their old location, Post and Stock
ton streets, about November l. Under
meath the Union square motel, In the
next block toward Powell, are BolIis'
silver factory. Pacific suction cleaner
company. and one or two millinery es-
tablishments. The Union Square build
ing is filled with offices and has two
large stores underneath, one of which
is rented to the Pacific surgical manu-
featuring and improvement company.
The Koenig shoe company opened up
on their Post and Kearny streets corner
some time ago, and Bullock e. Jones
face them from the opposite corner. Be
tween Kearny and Montgomery the
block is solid with real estate Offices
and insurance brokers' quarters On
the gore of Market, Montgomery and
Post is a group of banks-the First
National, the Crocker National and the
Wells Fargo Nevada national
Of the big music houses Wiley B.
Allen expects to be in his new location
in Sutter near Kearny in a few weeks.
and Clark Wise will be at 233 Grant
avenue by April IL. This store will
have 20 foot display window in Grant
avenue and an Is foot one in Stockton
place. Byron Mauzy has been in his six
story building, Post and Stockton, for
some time. Benjamin Curtaz & Son
will be close to Sherman, Clay & Co.
and the firm of Kohler & Chase will
have it's own building inO'Farrell street
near Grant avenue by October l. This
firm is planning to turn two floors into
big music hall, while the top floor
will be made into studios for ren.ng
purposes. Another innovation is in the
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on the third corner is being constructed
the future home of d. N. & E. Walter to
be occupied some time between August
and October. The floor space in this
magnificent building will be 100000
square feet, and 275 feet of show win
dows will make them rank with any.
O'Connor. Moffatt & Co. moved into
their new building in Post street sew
eral weeks ago and occupy lot 137 by
125 feet. The building is four stories,
all of which are in use by the store.
which has added several departments
to it's original number One of the
features OF this establishment, which
is finished in selected mahogany
throughout, together with every device
that makes for labor saving and con-
venience. is tiny French room for
the display of baby raiment. This firm
has been in business as years and is
one of those who have gone back to
the old stand. The recent acquisition
of property in Kearny street and the
erection OF an addition there give
the main store an entrance on Kearny
street. which is a convenience for shop
pers.
Wolfe e. Hawley, at Geary and Stock
ton, have a shop paneled and finished
in the finest of Circassian walnut fit
for lady's boudoir. The paneling
In the snow WINDOWS is mana carved
and is display in itself.
Armand Cail1eau has a magnificent
frontage on both Geary and Grant ave-
nue.. while opposite Magnin's rises FIVE
stories. Since the first shovelful of dirt
was turned on this site Magnin & Co.
have kept three shifts at work daily
including Sundays. making a "a hour
day in their desire to get into their new
building. The Golden Pheasant is
rushing work on its building in Geary
street Three doors above is the Wo-
mans Exchange Next to the Hotel
Graystone. in the same street, is
Siever's florist company, while the
Swedish American bank fianks the
other side of the exchange. with Hay
croft, milliner, next to Cailleau. The
Toggery has a display of feminine
things on the opposite corner, while
the shop of the Aircraft has two beau
tiful windows in harmonious brown
tones. Farther up Geary are the st.
Francis, the Alexander and the Stew
art hotels, with the Solari cafe under
meath the Alexander.
Paul Elder will be established in
Grant avenue near Sutter street as
soon as the masons and plasterers va
cate the premises. His place in Van
Ness avenue Is closed and the stock is
being carried down by degrees. The
Moss glove company is in it's old quar-
and Grant avenue has shop owned
by Bowman & Co. the first Chinese
merchant to move into the burned dis
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with the main store by is foot en-
trance.
Fronting the White House in Sutter
street and Grant avenue stands the Arm
Of Hammersmith & Co., while filing up
the block between Grant avenue and
Stockton street are the Spring Valley
water company, the Walters surgical
company and the Galen building with
its hundreds of rooms and Offices The
Hotel Victoria rises on the hill above
the Colonial in Stockton street Next to
Temple Emanu-El in Sutter street is
the McCloud building, housing The AR
gonaut and many professional men,
with the Davis sewing machine COM
pany, the office and pharmacy of the
French hospital and the New Bookstore
on the ground floor. Across the way is
the building OF the San Francisco and
Pacific gas and electric company
which will be ready for occupancy
about June Is. Next to it the shops
of Ickelheimer Brothers and +. B. Cour-
voisier face the synagogue. In the next
block is the Hotel Regent and grill.
Touring downtown again, one sees
the three big houses of the White
House, Davis Schonwasser Co. and
w & J. Sloane, and nearly filing the
block from Grant avenue to Kearny
street, with what is known as The Glass
House, occupied by H. Belts, Nine Lilly.
the California pleating company. the
Thomas dyeing works and Prescott. the
milliner, in between.
Pauson & Co, at the northwest
corner of Sutter and Kearny streets.
is one of the firms who came back to
the old stand. and Robert S. Atkins
the Aronson realty company. c. w R
Ford & Co, Mills & Hagbom and a
host of smaller firms fill the Central
Realty building in Sutter street be-
between Kearny and Montgomery. The
real estate firms of Mooser q st. Ger
main, Jerome Marx e. Co. the MCCARTHY
company, Baldwin e. Stetson. Truman
& Rogers and the Won Rhein COMPANY
take up all space to Lick place. and
the Underwood standard typewriter.
Grant & Co, j. w. Wright & Co. ].
Rich G. Co., real estate dealers take
up the block to the corner location of
J. NJ. Jacob & Co., haberdashers.
Across the way are Williams g.
Surrhyne, the French American bank
in the French bank building and the
Savings and Loan society at Sutter and
Montgomery.
The significance of this list of build
ings is enormous. 1t means that while
the giants of the city trade have been
raising monumental piles, the smaller
retail merchants had the same lively
faith in the citys future that the men
who dealt in millions showed For
every store that has welded itself into
the aggregate there has been so much
hard cash paid out-a criterion which.
in the face of the crushing disaster to
the financial interests. can not be gain
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said Not only was cash put into cir
culation, the merchants wanted Moth
ing but the best, and they saw that
they got it. Hardly a store in the new
shopping center which can not point
with justifiable pride to its interior
finishings of mahogany, of rosewood,
of fine grained oak; which can not
show an expenditure running far up
into the thousands for the most har-
monious and finely wrought chan
deliers, show cases, shelving, necessi-
ties and luXuries almost blending as
one The largest mahogany tree ever
milled in Honduras was taxed to yield
the crotch mahogany panels IA feet
wide for the new store of Henry Lyons
in Kearny street There are ,006 cleo
trio lights on the main floor, and the
entire store was put together by cabi-
net maker, there being not nail in the
place. Each panel of the superb.
crotch mahogany cost this firm $4,000
in its raw state. and when completed,
put together and veneered each panel
was valued at $4,000. There are nine
Of these panels in the line of windows
facing on Yer Mehr place. At night,
when the windows are lit, the grain
is so powerfully brought out that each
panel looks like a ball of fire.
This is one instance of the royal
spending of money by the San Fran
cisco merchant. 1T Is one way oI btil-
ing to the world his faith in the city's
future. There is another way equally
effective. Every merchant of the city
has bought all the ground he could
get=in many cases more than was
needed for the erection of his building.
The reason for this is simple. If he
does not take ii now he will not be
able to get it afterward. These mer-
chants who have put up these magnifi-
cent buildings are not building for the
present San Francisco. They are build
ing for the future that must inevitably
be hers. And in so doing they are
wise They have looked beyond the
present and foreseen the mighty des-
tiny that looms on the horizon. In
short they have built for the million
population of the city that is to be.
The block in Sutter street from
Montgomery to Market is solid with
banks and buildings for daily needs.
The Donohoe- Kelly banking company,
the Phoenix desk and chair company
the Schwabacher- Frey stationery COM
pany and the Anglo and the London
Paris national bank, Limited which
will be it's new quarters soon,
about fill the block, with the Central
trust company in the gore of Market,
Montgomery and Sutter streets The
California notion and toy company is
rushing work on its two story build
ing in Market street facing Sutter that
it may enter its new shop about May
15. Entering Post street from Market
one sees the same picture At Post and
Kearny streets Alfred Lilienfeld in
tends to celebrate May day by moving
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-18

trIct. The millinery establishment OF
Zobe1 & Co. will come down to occupy
the first and second floors Of a class
A six story building In Grant avenue
near Market street. and the Owl drug
store announces the possibility Of
branch IN every block OF Market street.
Ruffeux, French caterer, is next the
Manx in Powell street and the j. Prince
trunk company Is just across the way.
At Powell and O'Farrel1 streets is the
Union League building. with Boericke
& Runyon and a multitude of smaller
stores beneath.
Charles Berwin, furrier, will be in
Grant avenue next to ZobePs in the
Fisher building by June 15, to occupy
three stories, and Robinson & Suhr,
also furriers, will occupy a shop with
Kuhn. milliner. Gardner & Goldsmith,
milliners, have place at Geary street
and Grant avenue, with Pm. Bruckner.
furrier, and the big shoe firm OF SOM
mer & Kaufman and a branch OF the
Moss glove company fill up space to
the intersecting alley.
= The Juvenile has a home in Grant
avenue between Geary and Post streets,
and next to it comes "Sweudom." a
cloak and suit house A Hirschman,
the old established jeweler and gem
merchant, is in the same block. while
a beautiful building accommodates the
Home telephone company in Grant ave-
nue. near Bush street.
A. NJ. Robertson the book seller,
comes down May 15 to a good location
in Stockton street at Union Square
avenue, and the BOwerman pharmacy
is in the same block in the SchrOth
building. RoOs Brothers have been in
their handsome store. with it's splen-
did housing and display. at Market and
Stockton streets for some time. This
store is one of the finest in the city.
The Emporium. S. N. Wood & Co.
Hales. Prayers and other big depart
ment stores returned to the burned dis
trict in the forefront of the tide. The
Emporium with Its system of double
show windows-the only one In the
world, Ii is said-Hale'S. with it's i'm
mense number of departments and itB
school. conducted from to 10 o'clock
every morning for the benefit OF the
younger employees: S N Wood & Co..
with beautiful and spacious quarters In
the Pacific building and It's various
useful and attractive Innovations.
backed by the multitude of smaller
stores which seem to have sprung
I'D overnight-a veritable mushroom
growth-are but indications Of the way
the tide is flowing. The city that was
is a memory: the city that Is signifies
a potential future; but the merchants
of San Francisco. keen in insight. firm
in faith. undaunted by calamity. have
poured their strength and vitalizing
forces out like water for the city that
is to be.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-18

." CITTS center Is fits shopping
district That district in San
"A Francisco, comprising an area
Of 10 square blocks in the heart
OF town, three years ago was a vast
heap OF ashes. Before one realized the
extent and magnitude of the heap men
sprang to work to cart the smoking
debris away. Wagons used for load
ing caught fire. Men put out the blaze
and went on with their work of re-
construction. For SO months that work
has gone on. urged by the indomitable
spirit which is the recognized heritage
of the San Franciscan, and today the
shopping district of the city has come
again into its hard won own.
At the junction Of Market, Kearny
and Post streets. where shoppers con-
Rregated every afternoon. are buildings,
completed and in course of construc-
ton. which make one forget that there
ever were gaps on the city's busiest
corner. Looking UP Sutter street from
Kearny one sees the valiant house of
sherman, Clay & Co. one OF the first to
prove its faith in the future of its home
city by signing the lease for its down
town building three weeks after the
IRE. rising eight stories above the busy
hum OF the street. The firm had four
stories before the fire, and the addi-
ftonal four IS not the only change that
has been made. The present building
IS the result Of the mistakes of years.
Every head of every department was
asked TO furnish an idea that would con-
suce 70 the perfect construction of the
building and the comfort of the en-
nloves and every idea that was prac-
teal was adopted Every room Is an
outside one and every room is arranged
for the maximum Of convenience with a
minimum Of labor. The firm pays 81 600
p month for this building. put up by the
Avre investment company In former
davs the rent was s1.70G. Yet, with
the rental more than doubled. last De-
~enber was the best month in a busi-
ness way ever known in the history Of
the firm
The 81 100000 stock Of the White
House is housed in its magnificent
building just above in Sutter street
rs white facades and glittering plate
glass windows, backed by the finest ma
hogany and rosewood paneling; its in
novation in the children's playground
on the fourth floor: its 4e departments
and force Of 500 clerks; its thorough
ness in the installation of every modern
ikventiou, which would benefit either
- Dloyer or employed, and the new de-
partments added, make it an impossible
thing to align this Aladdin shop with
many previous achievements. The new
store is four times larger than the
former one, occupying 100000 square
feet Of floor space. Not contented with
this. an annex on Post street viii be
opened soon, which viii be connected
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-18

Number of Building Per-
mits, 20,500.
Cost of Building Opera
tons, $142,000,OOO.
Number of Real Estate
Sales Recorded, $4,000.
Amount of Real Estate .
Sales, S93,763,00O.
Estimated Mortgage In
debtedness of the City, $1o8,-
10000. This is less than
the mortgaged Indebtedness
OF any other large city in the
United States.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-15

John NJ. Gardner, of Platteville.
was In Lancaster on business We'd
nesday.
DIR. ]. Fl. Reed arrived home
Sunday noon. from business visit in
Oshkosh.
"A baby girl arrived at the home
of Nh. and Mrs. John Gulke last
Thursday,
The Congregational Ladies made
nearly hundred and twenty dollars
at their bazaar.
The Ladies' Aid of the Congrega-
tlonal church will meet Friday after
noon with Miss Emma Schreiner.
Master Moulton Basford, of Mil
waukee. surprised his grand parents
by walking in one night last week.
w. J. Shade expects to leave
within few days for Chicago where,
he will spend Christmas with rela
tives.
Mrs. j. c. Parker, formerly OF
Patch Grove las purchased the Robert
Bailey house and expects to move
here this week.
w. J. Eberhardt and family at
tended the golden wedding of Mrs.
Eberhardt's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nadab Eastman, of Platteville.
Next week the Christmas holidays
commence. All of the out of town
teachers and pupils expect to avail
themselves of the opportunity for a
visit at home.
Don't forget the basket social at
Five Points Friday night, Dec. H.
Girls bring supper for two and boys
don forget your pocket books. Miss
Eta Blackburn, teacher.
The Boscobel Dial Enterprise is
nowl in the hands of o. L. Stinson,
formerly with the BaraDoo News and
]. s. Seftenberg, publisher of the
North Freedom journal. If present
indications count for anything the
paper will be greatly improved under
their management.
The new platform at the depot,
although uncompleted, has been used
daily during the past week. It affords
much more room than the old one.
1t is expected that the depot will be
ready for use within a few days.
The workmen have started filling in
the pit of the old turntable and ex-
pect to have everything tship-shape"
within a comparatively short time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-15


other eye was also affected slightly.
Although the injured optic is healing
as fast as possible Mr.. Rumble is un-
able to see but very little.
Each one of our citizens-great
and small-may help in the greatest
fight Of the century the fight against
tuberculosis. The amount received
for the Christmas stamps issued by
the Wisconsin Anti tuberculosis As
ISOLATION will be used in the noble
eff ort to stamp out the dread disease.
In Lancaster the Woman's Club has
charge of the sale of the stamps. They
may be purchased at ]. D. Hatch S j.
T. Benefits and L. g. Wheeler s.
The following officers were elecUed
for the coming year by the local
Masonic Chapter E. 81. Pr. A.
Watkins; king -George S. Rockwell;
scribe-R. B. Showalter; treasurer
R. Meyer Jr. secretary-F. W.
Rafferty,; G. of he. A. Critchlow
trustee-Geo. P. Goble. The Blue
lodge elected the following officers
W. M. N. E. Carthew; S. W.
Harry Gingrich; Jr. W.-Ralph
Irwin; treasurer. Meyer Jr.
secretary-A. J. Wiedenbeck.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-15
Donald Robertson to Return.

Donald Robertson who twice has
proven a favorite attraction will
return to the Reeds opera house in a
modern play, Sudermann's "Happi-
ness in a Corner" on Dec. Is. Suder-
mann is today one of the most power
full of the German dramatists and this
comedy is one of his most finished and
pleasing plays. 1t is an excellent
example of the g srman dramatic art
and possesses the highest literary
qualities. It has never been played
before in English in America until
this fall, when Donald Robertson
produced it. The translation has been
made by Grace Isabel Coibron,
grand daughter of old Commodore
Vanderbilt While the play deals
with the matrimonial triangle, it
ends happily and logically. The plot
is simple and the action direct and
the situations unusually intense. AS
the schooLmaster about whom the
action centers, Mr.. Robertson has a
role which Chicago critics agree is
one of the best he has ever played.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-15

Send The Herald for a year to
some friend or relative who would be
interested in the old home affairs. 1t
would be a we'll appreciated gift.
Miss Floyd Stevens, who has been
employed during the winter as
trimmer in millinery establishment
at Kenosha, came home last Tuesday
evening for the Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Clay Chapman, of Platte
Vile is at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt BROKER in this
city. She is suffering with. rheu-
matism and will perhaps take treat
ment here.
Our merchants have all laid in
elegant stocks of goods for the holiday
trade and the stores are already
thronged with Christmas buyers This
ought to be one of the best seasons of
holiday buying we have seen in years.
The First National Bank has
received liberal supply of brand new
gold pieces of various denominations,
So so, S.. $40 and 500. also a lot OF
new and shining Lincoln pennies.
Many persons making money present
at Christmas time like to give it in
gold and these new coins were procur-
ed mainly for that purpose. They
can be had at the bank in exchange
for other money.
Peter Paul Adams, of the Adams
Wheel Company, was here yesterday
from Turkey River. Mr.. Adams has
hopes of his patent wheel being a
money maker. 1t is surely an in
genious continuance and there is no
reason why the stockholders of the
company should not find an easy
market for it everywhere wagons are
used. The company will also engage
in the manufacture of other wooden
articles.
-Postmasters are notified by the
department that the following named
countries refuse to admit to their
mails articles bearing non postage
Christina" stamps or other adhesive
charity stamps or labels: Great
Britain, Orange River Colony,
Rhodesia of the South Transvaal.
Germany admits articles bearing such
stamps if affixed to the back, but
not when attached to the face. Articles
liable to he refused admittance to any
of the foregoing countries on account
of bearing charity stamps will be
returned to the sender if known or if
sender be not known, such articles
will be sent to the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster Division of Dead Letters.
All articles bearing Christina"
stamps for transmission in the in
ternational mails should bear upon
the covers the full address of the
sender. q "a