The San Francisco call., 1910-06-08

railroad projects, the increa sing wealth
of the state and the position of San
Francisco as its distributing agent,
Friedman urged the merchants not to
overlook the least opportunity TO inn
prove the city's position. They should
particularly. he said, build up country
trade and tourist travel. He urged
them also to make San Francisco a
summer convention city. He continued
in part as follows:
Attracting visitors from far and near
VIII help US materially, but after all If
we can not attract permanent popula-
ton TO our city we can not progress.
After the fire we lost a large part of
our population to the suburban towns
on both sides Of the bay. Some Of this
population has been returned, but not
fast enough. Now we have no hostility
toward our sister cities. Let them all
prosper. even Oakland; for we are now
looking forward to the day when Oak
land will be a sparkling jewel in the
crown of greater San Francisco
ATTRACTING HOME SEEKERS
Many have now invested in little
homes and are lost to us forever as
residents of San Francisco Still
there are others anxious and willing to
come back. Let the real estate men
help them by getting in touch with
these people and showing them that
rents are now lower with desirable va
cancies to be had. But low rents alone
won't bring enough back; something
even more vital to our welfare is
needed, and that is adequate transpor-
tation facilities. We must reduce the
hardship and save the time of the peo-
pie in going to and from work and
their homes in the city.
PLEA FOR TUNNEL PROJECT
Communication with the retail CEN
ters should be made easy, convenient
and direct not alone for the pedestrian,
but vehicles and streetcars as we'll
To accomplish this Seattle is level
tunnels already. At North Beach we
have a large population practically iso-
lated from the retail center.
A tunnel through Stockton street
would bring that section within a few
minutes of the shopping district and
enable women and children to reach US
conveniently through a decent thor
oughfare instead of being compelled to
go in round about way or having to
pass through Chinatown or the Bar
barry coast 1t would also make con-
siderable property available for cheap
fats and apartment houses.
This would prove of great benefit to
many clerks and mechanics who would
gladly move back to the city if given
the opportunity TO rent cheaply within
| easy access of their places of business.
Adjoining real estate would enhance
in value and the North beach merchant
would increase his business through
the additional number Of people who
would reside in that locality or visit
it.
NEED FOR KEEPING ACTIVE
But public improvements, how ever
pressing or valuable, are subject to the
laws delays and others. So if you
want TO see that tunnel and see ii soon
you must keep right on the job.
When finished it will prove a strik-
ing object lesson and pave the way for
others.
Now, easy communication and ade-
quate transportation facilities are Won
derful helps, but If San Francisco is to
flourish we must attract population on
| a larger scale.
More employment must be created to
induce more people to settle here. We
must become an industrial center, but
until we establish proper relations be-
tween labor and capital this is impos-
sible.
If labor and capital in San Francisco,
instead of standing apart each with a
chip on its shoulder, will come together
with sincere and earnest desire to
promote their welfare and the welfare
of the city some way will be found to
insure our industrial peace and accel-
crate our industrial expansion.
That is the root of many of our evils.
We lack the get together spirit. Now
that we are on the eve of the Panama
Pacific exposition this is the most
auspicious time for starting an epoch
of getting together, an epoch that will
make the knocker ancient history in
San Francisco.
The exposition will be a municipality
in itself and five years is none too long
to prepare to receive the nations of the
earth with your city and your exposi-
tion thoroughly and completely
equipped to meet the demands of health
and comfort and safety and enjoyment
of the multitude to whom this city will
be the mecca in 1915.
Let us get to work with a unity of
purpose and a concentration of effort
that shall sweep every obstacle from
our path and place our city on a pin
nacle that will make San Francisco an
inspiration and an example to all the
cities of the world