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The business part of Montgomery st, named after the U. S. naval officer commanding at S. F. in 1846, extended southward from the cliffs at Broad- way, and beyond it, on the slopes of Telegraph hill. There were several dwelling-houses, among them Capt. P. B. Hewlitt's, who received boarders; yet the hill was mostly abandoned to disreputable Sydney men, and westward to the now assimilating Spanish Americans. In the section between Broad- way and Pacific sts, I find only the merchant F. Berton; Chipman, Brown, & Co. were grocers; Jas Harrison kept a gen. store at the corner, and Dr S. R. Gerry, the health officer of Dec. 1849, had an office here. In the next sec- tion, between Pacific and Jackson, Montgomery st assumed the general busi- ness stamp for which it was preeminent. Merchants, commission houses, and auctioneers were the chief occupants, the last being most conspicuous. At the Pacific corner were the merchants Harrison (Capt. C. H.), Balley, & Hooper, and A. Olphan; and at the Jackson end, J. C. & W. H. V. Cronise,
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street and at the foot of Telegraph hill, was filled with shabby dens and public houses of the lowest order,
mers and aucs (with them as clerk, Titus Cronise, the later author), Hervey Sparks, banker and real estate dealer, and Dewey (Squire P.) & Smith (F. M.), real estate. Intermediate were J Behrens, Geo. Brown, Davis & Co. (J. W. & N. R. Davis), J H Levein, Mckenzie, Thompson, & Co., H. H. Nel- son, Thos Whaley, G. S. Wardle & Co., all com. mers; Simon Raphael, mer .; J. A. Norton, ship and com. mer., an English Jew whose subsequent business reverses affected his mind and converted him into one of the most noted char- acters of S. F. under the title of Emperor Norton of Mexico. Until his death, in 1880, he could be seen daily in the business centres, dressed in a shabby military uniform, and attending to financial and political measures for his cmpire. Ilere were also the clothing stores of Raphael (J. G.), Falk, & Co., J. Simons, Louis Simons, and Dan. Toy.
The Jackson-st corner bordered on the neck of the lagoon, which pene- trated in a pear form on either side of this street more than half-way up to Kearny st. It was one of the first spots to which the fillage system was applied, and the bridge by which Montgomery st crossed its neck since 1844 had by 1849 been displaced by a solid levee. Jackson st began its march into the cove, and in Oct. 2, 1850, the private company controlling the work were fast advancing the piling beyond Battery to Front st, being 552 feet out, where the depth was 13 ft. The estimated cost was $40,000. Its section between Montgomery and Sansome was heavily occupied by firms: N. Larco & Co. (Labrosa, Roding, Bendixson), Louis Cohen, Quevedo, Lafour, & Co., Reihling, Edleysen, & Co., O. P. Sutton, mers; Bech, Elam, & Co. (W. G. Eason, J. Galloway), J. C. Catton, Huttmann (F.), Eiller, & Co., Wm Ladd, J. F. Stuart & C'o. (J. Raynes), com. iners; Christal, Corman, & Co., Lord & Washburn, wholesale and gen. mers; Beideman (J. C.) & Co. (S. Fleischhaker), Ollendorff, Wolf, & Co. (C. Friedenberg), B. Pinner & Bro., Potsdamer & Rosenbaum (J. & A.), Sam. Thompson, R. Wyman & Co. (T. S. Wyman), clothing; Adam Grant, S. L. Jacobs, Titman Bros, C. Jansen & Co., dry goods-the last named victims of the outrage which led to the vigilance up- ri ing of 1851-Hall & Martin, aucs; Roth & Potter, stoves and tinwork; White & McNulty, grocers; Paul Adams, fruit; Dickson & Hay, land-office; C. C. Richmond & Co., druggists, in a store brought out by the Eudorus, Sept. 1349. Here were also two hotels, the Commercial and the Dalton house, kept by J. Ford & Co. and Smith & Hasty, and the fonda Mejicana of E. Pascual dispensed the fiery dishes dear to Mexican palates. Sansome st ex- tended from here on piles sontliward, and in the section between Jackson and Washington sts, on the east side, was the office of W. T. Coleman & Co., com. mers, whose chief was prominently connected with the vigilance committee of 1831, and the famed president of the 1856 body. Near by were Jas H. Ray, Turner, Fish, & Co., Goodall (T. H.), Muzzy, & Co., Paul White & Co. (J. Watson), also com. mers; John Cowell, mer. at the Jackson corner; Bel- knap, White, & Co., provisions. Rogers, Richeson, & Co. (MI. Jordan) had a coal-yard, and at Jones' alley lay a lumber-yard belonging to Palmer, Cook, & Co.
Continuing along Jackson st, from Sansome to Battery st, we find the offices of Myrick, Crosett, & Co., gen. jobbers; Howe & Hunter, Jacoby, Herman, & Co., Savoni, Archer, & Co., N. H. Sanborn, Murry & Sanger, Vose, Wood, & Co., com. mers. Wm Crosett, com. mer .; C. E. Hunter & Co., F. Coleman Sanford, gen. mers; F. M. Warren & Co., White (W. H.) & Williams (J. T.), ship. and com. mers; the latter nearer Sansome st. Along the water-front W. Meyer kept a coffee-house. The latter part of this section was a wharf, and the narrow approach to the office of Dupuy, Foulkes, & Co., com. mer., at the Battery corner, revealed the splashing water on either si.le. Beyond them were the offices of E. L. Plumb, mer .; Gassett & Sanborn (T. S.), E. S. Woodford & Co. (J. B. Bridgeman), ship. and com. mers; O.
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frequented by sinister-looking men and brazen-faced females, who day or night were always ready either
Charlick, agent for Law's line of steamers; Gregory's (J. W.) express; Schultz & Palmer, grocers. Sonth of Jackson and west of Battery st lay the storage vessel Georgean, though some identify her with the prison brig Euphemia. On Montgomery st, between Jackson and Washington sts, were at least four of the characteristic auction-houses, Moore (G. H.), Folger (F. B.), & Hill (H.), Jas B. Huie, Scooffy & Kelsey, and W. H. Jones. At the Jackson-st corner were Haight (E.) & Ames (O. T.), com. mers, and Pratt (J.) & Cole (Cornel) (later U. S. senator), attorneys; while at the Washing- ton-st end rose the Merchants' Exchange Reading Room of L. W. Sloat- son of the commodore-S. Gower is also named as proprietor-and at the N. w. corner the offices of C. L. Ross. com. mer., who during the early part of 1849 acted as postmaster (in 1848 he had a lumber-yard). H. B. Sherman, and P. A. Morse, connsellor. Among the occupants of the Exchange building were Dickson (D.), De Wolf & Co., and J. S. Hager, counsellor, later U. S. senator; and in the Exchange court were E. D. Heatley & Co., com. mers; with S. Price, consul for Chile, as partner. In this section are mentioned among the inerchants, Rob. Hamilton, Worster & Cushing (G. A.), W. Hart, Stowell, Williams (H.), & Co., H. Schroeder, Van der Meden, & Co., Bennett & Hallock (J. Y.), L. L. Blood & Co. (J. H. Adams, G. B. Hunt), Worthing- ton, Beale, & Bunting, Jos. Bidleman, Ed. Gilson, Guyol, Galbraith, & Co., Mazera N. Medina, com. mers. Wykoff & Co. (G.), were wholesale dealers; Jas Dows & Co., wholesale liquor men (T. G. Phelps, their clerk, was later congressman and collector of S. F.); S. & B. Harries, S. Fleischhacker, Pugh, Jacob, & Co., clothing; McIntosh (R.) & Co., provisions; John Rainey, gen. dealer; Sabatie (A.) & Roussel, grocers; Conroy & O'Conner, hardware; Brad- ley, photographer; H. F. Williams, carpenter and builder, on E. side. C. Web- ster kept the Star house. At the foot of Washington st, which touched the cove a few feet below Montgomery st, were Franklin, Selim, & Co., gen. mers; Hosmer & Bros, A. P. Kinnan, and Maynard & Co., grocers; Leonard & Tay, produce mers, Chapin & Sawyer, com. mers, Camilo Martin, and J. F. Lohse, mers. The private wharf prolongation of this street extended 275 feet by Oct. 1850.
Between Washington and Clay, Montgomery st was marked by additions in the banking line, notably Burgoyne & Co. (J. V. Plume), at the s.w. cor- ner of Washington st, Ludlow (S.), Beebe, & Co., and H. M. Naglee & Co., corner of Merchant st, and by a literary atmosphere imparted by the San Francisco Herald, of Nugent & Co., the Journal of Commerce, of W. Bartlett (mayor S. F. and gov. Cal.), associated with Robb, and The Watchman, a re- ligious monthly by A. Williams, at the same office. Marvin & Hitchcock's book-store was in the Herald building, the Delmonico's hotel, by Delmonico & Treadwell, at the Irving house, on the E. side, while the drug-store of Harris & Parton was at the Wash .- st corner. At these corners were the offices of Finley, Johnson (C. H.), & Co., (J. W. Austin), Grogan & Lent (W. M.), both com. mers, and Horace Hawes, counsellor (and first sheriff of the county); at the corner of Merchant st, Barron & Co., com. mer., held out, and on its s. w. corner a three-story brick building was begun in Oct. 1849, on the site of Capt. Hinckley's adobe house. The Clay-st corners were occu- pied by Cordes, Steffens, & Co., Josiah Belden, com. mers; Bacon & Mahony, and R. J. Stevens & Co. (G. T. H. Cole), both ship and com. mers. In the same section were Earl, Mackintosh, & Co., Hayden & Mudge, Cost & Ver- planck, the latter two in the Herald building, Vogan, Lyon, & Co., Manrow & Co. (W. N. Meeks), all com. mers; Oct. Hoogs, J. C. Treadwell, mers; Ken- dig, Wainright, & Co., auc. and com. mer. in a long one-story wooden house; J. A. Kyte, ship and com. mer .; Corvin & Markley, clothing and shoes; Marriott, real estate; F. G. & J. C. Ward, gen. dealers. In the same or ad- joining section, if we may trust the confused numbering of those days, may
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for low revelry or black crime. The signs above the drinking-houses bore names which, like Tam O'Shan-
be placed Beech & Forrey, Vandervoort & Co., Rob. Fash, L. Haskell, H. Hughes, jr, E. T. Martin, Porter & Co., Sage & Smith (Stewart), all com. mers; Annan, Lord, & Co., gen. jobbing; Reed & Carter, ship mers; Jos. Chapman and Joel Holkins & Co., mers; Fitch (H. S.) & Co. (I. McK. Lemon), auc. and com. mers; Frisbie & Co., mer. broker; A. B. Southworth, metal dealer; El. S. Spear, broker; D. S. Morrill, Boston notions; Johnson & McCarty, provisions; Crittenden (A. P.) & Randolph, and S. Heydenfelt, attorneys; and the Pacific bath-house.
Turning down Clay st toward the water, we find in 1849 the beginning of a wharf, just below Montgomery st, which by Oct. 1850 extended 900 ft by 4) ft in width, and wouldl before the end of that year be carried 900 ft farther, at a total cost of $39,000. In its rear, at the N. w. Sansome-st corner had been left stranded the old whaler Niantic, converted into a warehouse with offices, by Godeffroy, Sillem, & Co. At the corresponding Battery corner lay the storage ship Gen. Harrison. Along this wharf strect were established Ira A. Eaton, B. H. Randolph, Hochkofler & Tenequel, J. G. Pierce, F. Vassault, mers; J. J. Chauviteau & Co., gen. bankers and com. mers; J. B. Corrigan, Green (H.) & Morgan (N. D.), Ogden & Haynes, Z. Holt, E. Mickle & Co. (W. H. Tillinghast, later banker), H. C. Beals, J. H. Chichester, Wm H. Coit, Geo. Sexsmith, Simmons, Hutchinson, & Co. (Simmons died Sept. 1850, see biog. preceding vol. v.), com. mers; Woodworth (S. & F.) & Morris, ship and com. iners (Selim E. Woodworth, the second vigilance president of IS51, leader of the immigrant relief party of 1848, and later U. S. commodore); Moorehead, Whitehead, & Waddington, Valparaiso flour mers; here was also the office of the Sacramento steamers; T. Breeze (later Breeze & Loughran). Many of the stores were of zinc. Buckley & Morse, shipsmiths, Schloss Bros, wholesale dealers; Jas Patrick, Jas B. Weir, provisions; Dunbar (F.) & Gibbs, grocers, on Sansome st. The southern half of the Wash. - Clay block on the corner was owned by R. M. Sherman, for a time, in 1848-9, of the firm Sherman & Ruckle, and he still owns the property.
Returning to Montgomery st toward Sacramento st, we find at the s. w. Clay-st corner the first brick house of the city, erected by Mellus & Howard in 1848. This appears to be the so-called fire-proof Wells building, occupied partly by Wells (T. G.) & Co., bankers. At the Clay-st corners were also Fay, Pierce, & Willis, O. C. Osborne, sr and jr, com. mers; M. F. Klaucke, gen. mer .; Delos Lake, counsellor, and Cooke & Lecount, stationers. At the corner of Commercial st, James King of William, the assassinated editor of 1856, had a banking-house; here were also N. Bargber & Co., mers; Jas Murry, ship mer .; and on the s. E. corner stood the noted Tontine gan- bling-house, managed by W. Shear, and also by Austin & Button (Austin was later tax collector of the city). A two-story-and-a-half house on the opposite corner, with projecting eaves, once belonging to the Hudson's Bay Co., had also a gambling-saloon ninch frequented by Mexicans. In this circle figured the Eureka hotel of J. H. Davis & Co. At the Sacramento st end were J. R. Rollinson, ship & com. mer .; H. E. Davison, gen. merchandise, and Taaffe (W.), Murphy (D.), & McCahill (G.), dry goods, etc. Intermediate were the offices of Moore (R.) & Andrews (Steb.), the long-established Howard & Green (T. H., the former being before of the firm Mellus & How- ard), Capt. Aaron Sargent, Gildemeister & De Fremery (J.), all com. mers; Grayson & Guild also had their office here; A Hausman, Goldstein, & Co. cloth- ing; J. W. Osborn, chinaware; Rob. Sherwood, watchmaker, later capitalist. Crane & Rice, proprietors Cal. Courier.
Commercial street received a great impulse from the projection in May 1849 of the Central or Long wharf, by a company which embraced such prominent citizens as Howard, W. H. Davis, S. Brannan, Ward, Price, Folsom, Shilla- ber, Cross, Hobson & Co., De Witt & Harrison, Finley, Johnson, & Co., etc.,
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ter, Magpie, and Boar's Head, smacked of English sea-port resorts, and within them Australian slang
who subscribed $120,000 at once. By Dec., 800 ft were finished at a cost of $110,000. In June 1850 the great fire destroyed a portion, but work was re- sumed and by Oct. it was 2,000 ft out, so that the mail steamers could ap- proach; repairs and extension cost $71,000. This drew trade rapidly from other quarters and led to wharf extension in different directions. Capt. Gil- lespie was wharfinger. Leidesdorff, so named after the U. S. vice-consul, whose warehouse stood at its junction with California st, was originally a beach levee. The office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., at the s. E. corner of Com. and Leidlesdorff sts, was at first a two-story house, 20 ft square. After the fire of June 1850 it was moved to the Sacramento corner of Leidesdorff. Here was also the Kremlin restaurant and saloon of Nash, Pat- ten, & Thayer, with lodgings above. On the N. E. corner stood Hall & Ryck- man's (the latter 3d president of the vigilance committee of 1851) New World building. At the head of the wharf was a brick building bearing the conspic- nous sign of Dan. Gibb, com. mer .; his neighbors were R. B. Wilkins, Jas H. Goodman, Theo. Norris, Huffman & Brien, com. mers; Endicott, Greene, & Oakes, mers; Smith & Block, grocers and com. mers; Wm Thompson, jr, com, and ship broker, occupied the Commercial building. Ellis & Goin, of Clark Point, had an office here for a time. Along the wharf were G. B. Bradford, Huffman & Brien, Ottinger & Brown, Gosse & Espie, Hamilton & Luyster, Hewes & Cutter, com. mers; Quimby, Harmon, & Co., shoes; Bonva- lot, Roux, & Co., variety store; Ferguson, Reynolds, & Co., Smith & Gavin, grocers; Hoff & Ambrose, at the Battery corner; the Prices Current office.
Before the Commercial-st wharf and its rivals attracted traffic, Sacramento st stood prominent as a reception place for merchandise. It had now to join in the race toward deep water; to which end Henry Howison prolonged the southern side of the street till it reached, in Oct. 1850, a length of 1, 100 ft, with a width of 40 and a depth of 14 ft at high water. Stevenson & Parker extended the street proper to Davis st, a distance of 800 feet, by Oct. 1850, and erected near the end a commodious building. At the end of Howison's pier were the storage brigs Piedmont and Casilda, belonging to Mohler, Cadne, & Co. C'aduc, later ice-dealer, assisted in building the pier. The Thomas Bennett, brought out by a Baltimore firm, and controlled by Trowbridge, Morrison, & Co., lay at the Sansome-st corner for storage. None of these appear to have remained, according to the map of 1851, but the Apollo, at the N. W. Battery- st corner, controlled by Beach & Lockhart, did become a fixture. On the s. w. corner of Leidesdorff st stood prominent the office of Dall (Jos. & John) & Austin, till the fire of June 1850 drove them to the Sansome-st corner. On the other side, above Leidesdorff st, rose the three-story wooden building of J. L. Riddle & Co., auctioneers, wherein acquaintances could always receive shelter. Near them were Lovering & Gay, S. F. Wisner, Boardman, Bacon, & Co., Butler & Bartlett, Hawley (F. P. & D. N.), Sterling & Co. (G. W. Wheeler), com. mers; Totten & Eddy, gen. jobbers; R. F. Perkins, mer .; R. D. Hart & Co., dry goods; Tower, Wood, & Co., gen. store; D. C. Mc- Glynn, paints; Kennebec house, kept by T. M. Rollins. Along the wharf itself were Loeke & Morrison, com. mers, and Beck & Palmer, ship and com. mers, at the head; followed by Robinson, Bissell, & Co. (M. Gilmore), Blux- ome & Co. (J D. C., Isaac, jr, and Joseph, Isaac being the famous vigilance secretary in 1851 and 1856), Caughey & Bromley, Everett & Co. (Theo. Shil- laber), Gardner Furniss, Jas C. Hasson, Hunter & Bro., Dungan, Moore, & Prendergast, Orrego Bros, Rob. Wells & Co., Hussey, Bond, & Hale, com. mers; Jos. S. Spinney, shipping; Plummer & Brewster, wholesale mers; B. Triest, store; W. C. Hoff, grocer, at end of pier. On Battery st were Collins (D.), Cushman, & Co., mers.
The section of Montgomery st between Sacramento and California had, in 1849, been transformed from an outskirt to a thickly settled business quarter,
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floated freely upon the infected atmosphere. It was in fact the headquarters of the British convict class,
and its prospects were significantly foreshadowed in the location of the cus- tom-house in the four-story brick building erected in 1849 by W. H. Davis, at the N. w. corner of California st. Access was by outside double stairways, leading from balcony to balcony on the front side. It appears to have been occupied by Collector Jas Collier in June 1850. In May 1851 it was burned. View in S. F. Annals, 282. At the California-st corner were also A. Swain, com. mer., and Runkel, Kaufman, & Co., dry goods. Northward in the sec- tion were situated the offices of J. B. Cannon & Co. (S. J. Gowan), W. G. Kettelle, aucs and com. mers; Hinrickson, Reinecke, & Co. (C. F. Cipnani, S. V. Meyers), Edwin Herrick, S. Moss, jr, Hy. Reed & Co., Winston & Sim- mons (S. C.), S. A. & J. G. Thayer, Wm H. Davis, com. mers, the last long established; M. L. Cavert, J. A. Clark, P. F. Hazard, John H. Titcomb, Titts & Tilden, P. D. Woodruff, mers; S. Brannan, real estate broker; John S. Eagan, paints, two doors above the custom-house; S. Neagebauer, stationery; John Curry, counsellor (later chief justice). A notable feature of the section was the presence of several express agents, Adams & Co., soon to become a banking-house, Haven (J. P.) & Co., Hawley & Co., Todd & Co. Here was also the office of the Cal. Courier, and Rowe's Olympic Circus formed a strong attraction to this quarter. It had been opened Oct. 29, 1849, with Ethiopian serenaders, as the first public dramatic spectacle of the city.
Between California and Clay sts I find a number of firms, whose offices are numbered from 243 to 269, as Aspinwall (J. & Ph.) & Bro., A. B. Cheshire, Jas Clark, Van Drumine & Clement, Macc & Cole, B. H. Howell, J. S. Mason, E. R. Myers, Turnbull & Walton, Cook, Wilmerding, & Tracy, Winter & Latimer, com. mers; Win Meyer & Co. (Kunhardt, H. R.,), importers, Capt. Thos Smith, Fred. Thibault, F. C. Bennett, Gus. Beck, O. P. Sutton, mers; John Aldersley & Co., ship brokers; Hedlcy & Cozzens, wholesale grocers; Middleton (S P.) & Hood (J. M.), Payne (T.) & Sherwood (W. J.), ancs; Hy. Meiggs, of North Beach and Peruvian fame, lumber dealer; Austin (H.) & Prag, tinware; F D. Blythe, hardware.
California st was in 1850 acquiring recognition as of business importance, and Starkey, Janion, & Co., who had long been established near the s. w. corner of Sansome, in an enclosed two-story house, gave strength to it by then erecting a fine brick warehouse. So did Cooke (J. J. & G. L.), Baker (R. S.), & Co., and others speedily followed the example, assisting, moreover, to advance the water frontage, which by Oct. 1850 extended 400 ft into the cove, with a breadth of 32 ft. There was a small landing-pier at Leidesdorff's warehouse, at the Leidesdorff-st corner. Here was the store of S. H. Wil- liams & Co. (Win Baker, jr, and J. B. Post), in a one-story frame house, bor- dering on the later Bank of California site. On the opposite south side, Dr John Townsend, the large lot-owner and former alcalde, had his office and residence West of him were the stores of Glen & Co. (T. Glen, Ed. Stetson), De Boom, Vigneaux, & Griser, Backus & Harrison, com. mers, and farther along in the section, Jas Ball, Mack & Co., A. McQuadale, Probst (F.), Smith (St. A.), & Co , J. B. Wynn, Zehricke & Co., Alsop & Co., Helmann Bros & Co., Hastler, Baine, & Co., also com. mers; T. W. Dufau, importer; Gladwin (W. H.) & Whitmore (H M., a large lot-owner in S. F.), jobbing. At the corner of Sansome st were Ebbets & Co. (D.W. C. Brown), Mumford, Mason (B. A.), & Co , Wm J. Whitney, com. mers; and on the site of the present Merchants' Exchange stood Mrs Petit's boarding-house (subsequently on California st, N side, below Stockton). An agency for outer bar pilots was at Burnside & Nelson's.
At the s. w, corner of California and Montgomery sts stood Leidesdorff's cottage, occupied by W.M D. Howard, and also at the corner were the offices of Jas Anderson & Co , brokers, J. H. Eccleston, mer .; V. Simons, clothing; and T. J. Paulterer, auc. At the Pine-st corner Lazard Frères had a dry-
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whose settlement, known as Sydney Town, extended hence north-eastward round the hill. It was the ral-
goods store, and intermediate on Montgomery st were Crocker, Baker, & Co., water-works; Fry (C.) & Cessin (F.), Evans & Robinson, Kuhtmann & Co., com. mers. The first house on Summer st was a 1}-story cottage, 20 by 40 ft, erected by Williams for Edm. Scott. Near by were the coal-yard of A T. Ladd, and two hotels, the Montgomery and Cape Cod houses, the latter under the management of Crocker, Evans, & Taylor.
In the next section of Montgomery st, between Pine and Bush sts, stood Lutgen's hotel, facing the later Russ House. A strong two-story frame building with peaked roof and projecting second story, it presented a quaint old-fashioned landmark for about a quarter of a century, and formed one of the best-known German resorts. On the s. E. corner of Pine st figured a corrugated iron house imported by Berenhart, Jacoby, & Co., and on the s. w. corner a one-and-a-half-story cottage, occupied by the German grocery of Geo. Soho. Adjoining it rose a three-story pitched-roof wooden hotel, the American, kept by a German, and opposite, on the site of the later Platt's hall, Dr Enscoe had a wooden house. At the N. w. corner of Bush st O. Kloppenburg (later city treasurer), kept a grocery. This west side of the block was owned by J. C. C. & A. G. Russ, the jewellers, who had a house on Bush st, and who later erected the well-known Russ house. The cloth- ing-store of Peyser Bros was here, also the syrup factory of Beaudry & Co., and the confectionery store of H. W. Lovegrove. At the Bush-st corner was the office of Haas & Struver, com. mers, and beyond, toward Sutter st, that of Pierre Felt, wine mer. This region was as yet an outskirt; sidewalks ex- tended but slowly beyond California st after the summer of 1850, and the pedestrian found it hard work to go through the sand drifts to the many tents scattered around.
Sansome st, as bordering the bay, had rather the advantage of Montgom- ery st, for here business houses stretched along in considerable numbers from California to Bush st. Neighbors of Starkey, Janion, & Co., on the California corner, were Wilson (J. D.) & Jarvis, wholesale grocers; and at the junction of Pine st were the offices of Macondray (F. W.) & Co. (R. S. Watson), in a two-story house; M. Rudsdale, E. S. Stone & Co. (F. T. Durand), com. mers. One of the corners was held by the Merrimac house of Williams & Johnson, northward rose the New England house of W. B. Wilton, and toward Bush the New Bedford house of John Britnell. Near it was the office of Town & Van Winkle, and the lemonade factory of Al. Wilkie. On the east side, between California and Pine sts, the India stores of Gillespie (C. V.) & Co. extended over the cove. In the same section, mostly on the west side, were located Dewey (S. S.) & Heiser, C. M. Seaver, E. Woodruff & Co., mers; G. W. Burnham, lumber dealer; Davis (W. H.) & Caldwell's (J., jr) lemonade factory; E. S. Holden & Co. (J. H. Redington). druggists; S. W. Jones & Co., coal and wood yard.
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