The San Francisco call., 1910-01-15
DISTRICT ENJOYS
MANY ADVANTAGES
Haight-Ashbury Section Logical
Portion of City for Erec=
ton of Residences
BY t. A. BROWN
Director of the Haight and Ashbury District
Improvement Club.

Ha1ght street VIII soon be brilliant by
night with large flaming arc lights. The
cost of these, amounting to $500. has
been provided by property owners in
this district with the proviso that the
merchants shall provide the money to
pay for their maintenance. This work
can be credited to the Haight and Ash
bury district Improvement club, which
is body of citizens representing the
| business interests of the section.
| We have several wants. In the first
place we are desirous of having the
bulkhead, which has been talked about
| for some time, placed along the line of
| the panhandle from Baker to Stanyan
streets and between Oak and Fell
streets. The old board of supervisors
promised to construct this bulkhead
which was planned to be two feet high,
| and would supplant the old countrylike
fence that has existed there SO long
| We also desire to have the park
emergency hospital re-established in
Stanyan street. Other matters that we
| have in hand will be brought to the
| attention of the board of supervisors.
| We have been assured that the new
administration will take an interest in
having the outlying districts improved
|
| be fulfilled.
GROWTH OF ORGANIZATION
] Our association has grown until it
| has large membership and overtures
have been made for a fusion of the
| Haight street merchants association
with this body The IIaight street mer-
chants associa ton also has quite a
large membership. IT includes the fol-
| lowing business men and women;
A
Brown, George d. Bunker. Charles
Buyer, William Buchholz, E. Belim, DR..
| c. NJ. Carter, s. Caleman, Clark & Dick
son, George B. Doyle, ]. de Lucca, Ber-
| ton Etter, Flemer & Grauffel, DIR. c. ..
Forester William Fabian, the Graves
Taylor company. j. T. Gallagher RE
| Gleason, r. Groves f. II. Gottschalk
Goldberg, Bowen & Co, II. Hughes. ii.
| l. Hines, w S. Hoffman, Harrison &
Esiner, F. w. Held, J. Hanak, s. Israel,
f. Istacescu, Frank w. Jackson. H.
Kispert, James +. Leyden. William
Meyer & Co. r. c. Moench. Alex. Mayer
| ]. A. Mccormick, A. McBarnes, b. c. Nc
MILAN, p. j. McGuinn, Nathan Sisters
Oppenheimer & Karsky, d. Rygei, h.
Rathburn, Sunset drug company. A a
Schau. e. p Sullivan, s. Schweitzer, w
E. Secombe, W. A Smith, A. j. Weber
g. NJ Withers Mrs. NJ. Westhaus, Dr.
Francis Williams, r. l. Weibel Mrs r.
S. Weir, August Walters and the Bon
Marche renovatory.
MANY STORES OPENED
Before the fire there were practically
no stores In this section, excepting
few In HaighN street. There are now
in the district about $50 business
houses, occupying good buildings. The
building up Of the district is progress
ing satisfactorily
tho Ia acf fQu
the Pope, & Talbot tract, including
about 20 square blocks, bounded by
Carl and Carmel streets, and extending
from Clayton to Stanyan, has been
sold and is now held by great num-
Der of persons. One property owner,
Mrs Fritz, has erected more than 200
houses in this district, on handsome
designs, collectively representing an
investment OF a great deal of money.
Probably the handsomest apartment
house in San Francisco. known as the
Casa Madrona, which stands In Fred
eric street, near Masonic avenue, is
owned by Mrs. Fritz.
FINE BUSINESS DISTRICT
These indications show that the peo-
pie of this district see the opportuni-
ties that are afforded for profitable
investment The desirability as a resi-
dence district has been established
since the creation Of Golden Gate park,
and the big fire which compelled peo-
pie to seek new and pleasing homes.
There is probably no place in any large
American city that has an equal area
of free pleasure grounds at it's door
The residents of our district are all
in favor of improvements. They de-
sire to make this the best section of
the city. We watch everything care
fully, and whenever there is even an
opening up of a street we see that it
is closed as soon as possible
TRANSPORTATION
1t is desirable that we should have
additional car facilities and the United
Railroads management has under con-
sideration our petition for a loop serv-
ice or something of that sort that shall
serve parts of the district that have
not yet full measure of accommoda-
tion.
OBJECT OF CLUB
This is a nonpolitical organization.
The membership is made up of prop
erty owners and businessmen and 9TH
ers who have affiliated with us. The
exact boundaries of the district over
which we have q care and also our gen.
eral purposes are defined in our con-
stitution, as follows:
The Improvement of the district
bounded by a line commencing at
Hayes and Deyisadero streets, thence
along Devisadero to Fourteenth, to
Castro to Sixteenth, to Lower Terrace
to Uranus, to Eighteenth, to Ashbury,
to Carmel, to Seventeenth, to First ave.
nue. to Frederick street, to Stanyan,
to Hayes, to the point of commence
meflt, and to promote the interests of
the district IN every legitimate way"
From Ashbury heights the marine
view is superb. This may be consid-
cred as a business asset of the district
as well as a source of enjoyment. We
do not think that we are saying too
much when we assert that, taking all
things into consideration, this is one of
the best parts Of San Francisco.