The San Francisco call., 1910-01-22
NOh Beach Districts Possess lIlSlId| N0fuO AdV0dg6S
POPULOUS DISTRICT
ENJOYS PROSPERITY
North Beach Residents Enjoy
Many Advantages and Dis
play Business Activity
Bv A. EsMIoL
Treasurer North Stockton Street Merchants
Association.

Treasurer North Stockton Street Merchants
Association.
The men who are doing business in
the North beach part of San Francisco
can trace its prosperity by the business
that it supplies and by the way that it
grows Taken on this basis North
parts of San Francisco and the future
is slled up with promises of good
things 1t has been felt BY some that
North beach has been neglected to an
extent by the daily newspapers. We
are glad TO see that The Call is doing
what it can for this populous neigh
borhood.
The speed with which the people in
this part of the city rebuilt their
homes and the speed that characterized
the building of new stores. of new fac
tories and the Improvement of streets
shows the enterprise that character
ICES the district.
Something has been said about the
steady growth of the population on
North beach until there are probably
as many people living there now as
there were before April, 1895, in the
part where 1t has been rebuilt The
rehabiIitated territory is large. Tele-
graph hill is better than il ever was
hill and Mason street. so far as they
have been rebuilt. contain much better
buildings than those that the FIRE
swept away.
THEATERS AND FACTORIES
1t is worth while. as a sign of the
prosperity of North beach. TO point out
the theaters and other places of amuse-
nent that have been provided and that
are we'll patronized every day.
theater Now we have eight and they
are all doing a good business North
beach has added millions of dollars
worth of manufacturing plants to it's
industrial resources in less than four
years. Among the plants may be men
toned big wineries. of which there are
three; new warehouses. each represent
ing a large cost in construction and
profit in operation; the plants of the
Merle company, the Otis elevator COM
pany, the gas and electric station near
the bay shore. the Music marble works,
and there are many others
The city has constructed the corpora
tion yard buildings in this part of the
town and new schoOlhouses and
churches have been erected. All pos
sible signs of having a good locality
calculated for thousands of homes and
large number of stores, in addition
to the manufactures of various kinds,
are TO be seen.
DISTRICT ATTRACTS CAPITAL
Capital for manufactures has come
to North beach because the capitalists
have seen that the section offers adj
vantages of the first class The
churches, stores, schools and other
buildings have been erected because
the population is large and is growing
constantly.
The North stockton street merchants
aSSOciatinD iS confined
tivity to the Improvement of Stockton
street. as the name might make one
believe. Other streets are cared for
and indeed the entire North beach is
a matter of concern to the association
Good sense prompted that work should
begin on scale that could be handled
we'll Gradually the scope has been
wfdened with larger membership ana
the prompt payment by the member
of their dues and their assessments for
electroliers. etc
stockton street. the north end cf
Grant avenue. Broadway and Montgom
cry avenue are the principal business
streets of the district. but there are
stores on some other streets at North
beach.
POPULATION AND PROGRESS
In addition TO water front. business
streets, grades that give sites for hand
some houses, building lots enough for
great pOpuldllOn ana various me DQlAu-
ings we have a park that adds 10 the
comfort and beauty of the North beach
section
We are so near to the belt railway
that network of spur tracks has been
laid to help the manufacturers. and
that is one element of growth. There is
no part of the city that is better sup
piled with trackage to warehouses and
factories. There is no part of the city
to which the population is attached
more than to North beach
The proof of the pudding. so they
say. Is in the eating. The proof of the
progress of the North beach neighbOr-
hood is found in the fact that il was
the first to rally as whole right after
the fire of 1906 and also that the popu-
Iation is back to where it was before
the fire. considering most parts Of the
district. This is a better North beach
in improvements and il will grow bet
ter and better all the time
ATHLETIC CLUB DANCE-Au arrangements
are completed for the first grand ball of
the Irish American athletic club. which viii
be held at the new Knights OF the Red Branch
halt 1888 Mission street. this evening Fol-
lowing - the committee Of arrangements in
charge Of the AFFAIR T.. J.. Kelleher (chair-
mani. NJ. O'ROurke secretary Captain
Thomas McNab0e I 0ufnlan D O-p,xVd