The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 15

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Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
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has been selected in the neighborhood of Mountain Lake, in the Presidio Reservation, and plans have been drawn for appropriate buildings, including three pavilions, each one story in hight, to accom- modate thirty-two patients each. The structure is to be of wood.

The writer of this article has visited all the hospi- tals above named, some of them frequently. Their internal arrangements are creditable to their au- thorities, convenient and comfortable to patients, and calculated to afford excellent facilities for the cure of disease. Nearly all, if not all, the establish- ments are provided with bathing apparatus, not only for common use, but for special application in treat- ment. Thus a patient may have warm, cold, show- er, steam, or medicated baths, at the option of his physician. The medical staff of the different institu- tions is ample, and as will be seen, includes physi- cians of excellent standing in the profession.

The larger hospitals have now been considered. There remain to be mentioned, a few smaller insti- tutions inaugurated for special objects. The build- ings which these occupy were not built for such purposes, but have all been converted from dwelling- houses. The State Woman's Hospital, corner of Twelfth and Howard streets, receives only those with diseases peculiar to women. All who are able are expected to pay ; but a limited number of those una- ble to do so, are received gratuitously. Eighteen patients can be accommodated, and in 1873 this num- ber was constantly on hand. There were admitted during the year ninety-three patients. In explana- tion of the small number admitted during the year, it may be mentioned that most of the cases require months, some as many as eight, of treatment, before a cure be effected. The hospital is under the charge of Dr. John Scott, assisted by Doctors Raymond and Chismore.

On the corner of Clay Street and Prospect Place is the San Francisco Woman's Hospital, of which Dr. C. T. Deane is the physician. As the certificate of incorporation shows, this institution was established for the cure of sick females, and to provide them with a home, medical attendance, medicines, and proper care during such period of sickness. It is in fact a general hospital for females, who are received and treated gratuitously. There were received here during the years 1872 and 1873 three hundred and seventy-one patients. One hundred and sixty-four of these were admitted for various diseases. Two hundred and seven infants were born in the two years, a hundred and thirty-one of which were legit- imate. A little more than half of those admitted were non-residents. The Hospital, which contains thirty beds, had an average for the two years of from eighteen to twenty inmates.

In 1868 the San Francisco Lying-in Hospital and Foundling Asylum was incorporated, for respectable married women or unprotected single women, and for the care and protection of such children as may be born in said hospital, and foundlings without distinc- tion of color. The special character of the institution will be seen at once ; it will be appreciated that it differs from all other charities, in receiving no cases of disease whatever. The hospital and asylum has been in successful operation for several years at 269 Jessie Street, under the professional care of Dr. Ben- jamin F. Hardy. It provides a room for each preg- nant woman, of which it can accommodate twenty- one, besides providing room for the infants left in its charge. Arrangements are being perfected for ex- tensive additions, which will largely increase its use- fulness. In 1872 and 1873 a hundred and thirty-four women were admitted, who gave birth to a hundred and forty-one infants ; besides which ninety-four in- fants were deposited at the door, making two hun- dred and twenty-eight admissions. Sixty-one of the infants were given away and adopted ; forty-seven were taken away by their mothers.

A little more than two years ago the various Epis- copal churches, desiring to provide more fully for the sick and needy of their parishes, organized St. Luke's Hospital, and procured a building beyond the Mis- sion. Though designed for the poor of the Episcopal parishes, St. Luke's Hospital is not exclusive, but receives patients of all denominations, and is general in its character. It contains beds for twenty patients, fifteen of which are, on the average, occupied, and is visited professionally by Drs. W. A. Douglass and W. T. Bradbury. The managers are now raising

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funds for the purchase of a lot upon which to erect a suitable building.

It will be seen that exclusive of the Alms House and the Small-pox Hospital, the city, in its public and private charities, offers accommodation for near- ly a thousand patients ; that during 1873 nearly six thousand five hundred persons availed themselves of their advantages, of which over five hundred and fifty died ; and that the average number of patients under treatment was over seven hundred.

Cemeteries.

There is, perhaps, no feature connected with a prominent city that occupies a greater degree of in- terest in the estimation of strangers and visitors than its cemeteries. One of the most attractive spots to the visitor to the great American Metropolis is the "City of the Dead" at Greenwood. The peace- ful shades of Mount Auburn have a melancholy charm to those who make a pilgrimage to the great capital of the Bay State, and no one enters the City of Brotherly Love, without seeing the classic monu- ments tastefully laid out, beautifully-adorned, and admirably-kopt grounds at Laurel Hill. Other cities of lesser extent and fewer years exhibit equal taste and regard for the depositories of their dead. Spring Grove at Cincinnati, Mount Hope at Rochester, the Albany Cemetery, and numerous others, are exam- ples of taste in the selection of the location and beauty of adorning and arrangement. In point of grandeur of locality, our own Laurel Hill and Cal- vary cemeteries, situated as they are in full view of that noblest of all monuments-the mighty ocean- are nowhere surpassed. There is a fitness and sub- limity in their contiguity to the waves of the Pacific and the entrance to the Golden Gate, that never fails to impress every beholder. In the way of mon- uments erected to the memory of the departed by the hand of affection and regard, many may be found in the city cemeteries which are alike models of ar- tistic elegance and pure and refined taste.

There are eight cemeteries in this city. The Mis- sion Burial Ground (no longer used as a place of in- terment), established in 1776; Laurel Hill (late Lone Mountain) in 1854; Calvary in 1860; Masonic in 1864; Odd Fellows' in 1865; Home of Peace in 1865; Sherrith Israel in 1865, and the City in 1873. The last is in- tended as a depository of the city's dead, and is situated at the termination of California Street. A new cemetary is proposed to be established in the vicinity of Lake Honda. A large plat of land has been set apart for the purpose, and the necessary improvements will be soon commenced to adapt it for public use.

Associations-Protective, Literary, Etc.

For a description of the different associations, the reader is referred to the Appendix, pages 956-965, in which will be found the officers and operations of each during the past year. The progress made by many of these associations reflects credit upon the members thereof, and is worthy of the liberality so generously extended in their support.

Manufactures.

The annual review of the manufactures of San Francisco shows a gradual advancement to the close observer; still the advancement is by no means such as the hopeful look for, nor such as the needs of the country demand, or in measure as the opportunity offers. A few years since, we noticed a forward movement along the whole line of local industries, giving promise to the hope that the consuming needs of the country would be supplied by the enterprise and labor, and to the profit of our own people. While success is believed to have followed nearly every branch of manufacture yet established in this city, and in many instances returning unexpected gains, the field is comparatively neglected for the more ex- citing adventure of mining speculation. This attract- ive field, made so by the great wealth acquired in the last few years by some of the principal mining operators, has driven the capital of the country to that channel to the neglect of other enterprises.

The enormous mineral and agricultural products of the country contributory to San Francisco, pour a constant stream of wealth into the city, now shown by the general prosperity and the rapid increase in

building, and promising in the future a revival of every industry.

The abandance of the agricultural products de- mand all the tonnage that can be induced to enter the port, thus inviting imports at exceedingly low rates which compete with and retard our local man- ufactures. This, too, aids the importer in his contest with the home producer-an opposition that has been fatal to many manufacturing enterprises, and one that requires constant exertion, unwavering en- ergy, and continued patience to overcome. Many articles of Eastern and Foreign manufacture have become favorites with consumers, and agencies of great profit to merchants have been established, and these conditions are difficult to disturb. Thirty mil- lion dollars worth of raw material of California pro- duct is exported annually, and forty million of treasure, which of course is returned in imported goods. This immense commerce passes its profits to distant lands, giving to our own but a slight percent- age. It is evident that the field of manufacture is but partly occupied, and that the opportunity is inviting.

The pressing demands of the mining interest gave a stimulus to iron manufacture, and the many found- ries in the city, as well as throughout the country, are the consequences constituting a leading industry. Some of these are quite extensive establishments, and the work turned out will compare favorably with that of any country. The principal of these are, the Union, Miners' Fulton, Vulcan, Ætna, Pa- cific, Golden State, Phoenix, Pioneer. Portland, Cali- fornia, Eureka, Occidental, Colombia, Risdon Boiler Works, and the Pacific Rolling Mills. These are quite complete in all their appointments, and capa- ble of turning out from three to five million dollars' worth of work annually, employing about fifteen hundred men. Locomotives for several railroads have been made at the Union of fine finish and great power. The castings for the Stetefeldt Furnaces, are also produced here, as well as numerous other specialties. At the Golden State are made the cast- ings and iron work for quicksilver furnaces; and as this branch of mining has recently been greatly ex- tended by new discoveries, the business of preparing furnaces promises to be large. At the Miners' & great deal of mining machinery is always in course of construction, and the interesting experiments of many inventors are often seen on trial. Specialties of manufacture and many new inventions are found at every establishment.

The Pacific Saw Company rank amongst the iron workers, and constitute a very important and inter- esting portion. At this establishment on Fremont Street, are made the principal part of the saws used in the lumbering regions of the Pacific Coast. Hav- ing the Spaulding patent tooth, it maintains a mo- nopoly of circular saw manufacture and supplies & great and growing demand. But its operations are not confined to this class, as saws of every description are made from the tiny ivory cutter to those of six or seven feet in diameter. Much of the machinery used is of the invention of Mr. N. W. Spaulding, and the style of manufacture in many respects is peculiar to this house.

Of notable importance are the Selby Silver and Lead Smelting and Reduction Works, covering a vast expanse, and fitted with every appliance for conduct- ing these operations on a grand scale. They are the most extensive and complete in the Union, and are susceptible of being greatly enlarged. This estab- lishment is most advantageously located at the very edge of deep water where the heaviest ships can load with facility and dispatch. The works are now capa- ble of consuming one thousand two hundred tons of lead and silver ore per month for refining, and one thousand tons per month for smelting and reduction. On several occasions, one thousand tons of pig lead per month have been landed in New York, and & regular monthly supply of from four hundred to five hundred tons is maintained for exportation to the East, besides the large quantities required for inte- rior and domestic consumption. The superiority of our lead is now universally admitted, while the qual- ity of the sheet lead, lead pipe, and shot turned out at the Shot Tower-which is an auxiliary to the Smelting and Refining Works-is not equaled by the liko fabrics of other places. Two sets of hands are employed, night and day, and number collectively over one hundred and thirty men, many of them hav-

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ing families which are comfortably and independent- ly supported through the agency of this great indus- try. In addition to the lead obtained from the ores by these works, large quantities of gold and silver are also extracted. The chief source of supply for these works, has been the argentiferous galena mines of Cerro Gordo in Inyo County, whence has been derived during the past year some ten thousand tons of lead bullion. The silver-lead mines of Eure- ka, Battle Mountain, and other points in Nevada also send here a portion of their products.

This, both in mining and reduction, is a rapidly growing interest, and as there is no limit to the sup- ply there is, practically, no limit to the market. In view of this, other works of a similar nature are pro- jected in various parts of the country, some Eastern cities making most strenuous exertions to secure & precedence of the business. In Alameda County are two lead reduction works, where it is contem- plated to so refine the metal as to fit it for the manu- facture of paint, of which many thousands of tons is used annually. Here again occurs one of the anoma- lies of our business, that while we produce everything that enters into the manufacture of white lead paint, we send it all to foreign countries whence we re-import it with the added costs of freight, manufacture, waste, interest, other profits, and customs duties. As this is so connected with mining, the prospect may not be obscured by the brilliancy of that interest, as in the case of other branches of industry.

The Woolen Mills of San Francisco show a healthy condition, but not the progress it is generally thought the interest demands. The large profits in wool growing, and the many million pounds shipped East for sale, prove the adaptability of the country to its production, while the imports of woolen goods show the demand for fabrics of that material. Some of the products of our mills are of such a superior qual- ity as to be exported in large quantities, competing successfully with those of any country. The two mills, the Pioneer and the Mission and Pacific, show a slight advance over former years. The first, situ- ated at Black Point, is a factory of nineteen sets of carders, seven thousand eight hundred spindles, and sixty-seven broad looms. The building and machin- ery cost $400,000, and the capital of the company is $450,000. Last year they used one million five hun- dred thousand pounds of wool, worth $300,000. They made five hundred thousand yards of cassimeres and two hundred and sixty thousand yards of blankets, etc. The total value of the manufacture was $750,000. The amount spent in labor was $30,000, which gave employment to three hundred and fifty hands, in- cluding one hundred white men, twenty-five wo- men, twenty-five boys, and two hundred Chinese. The Mission and Pacific Mill takes first rank among the mills of the Pacific Coast; and proud of it as San Franciscans justly are, it appears insignificant when compared with some of the great mills of the Eastern States. The capacity of woolen mills is reckoned by numbers of sets of cards. The Mission and Pacific has twenty sets, and on the whole Pacific Coast are but eighty. In the State of Massachusetts are three thousand sets, a single mill at Lawrence having one hundred and twelve. Even the new State of Kansas exceeds California in its woolen manufactures, and little Rhode Island has one hundred mills and eight hundred sets of machinery. The Mission and Pacific, although having but twenty sets, claims a capacity of thirty-six sets, from the manner in which the mill is run. Added to these are seven thousand spindles and eighty-seven broad looms. The value of goods manufactured in 1873 was $1,100,000 ; this year it will be $1,300,000, showing an advance of over eighteen per cent. in one year. There was used altogether one million eight hundred thousand pounds of wool ; this year there will be used two million two hundred thousand pounds. Of the wool used last year, there were one million four hundred thousand pounds Cal- ifornian, three hundred thousand pounds Australian, and one hundred thousand pounds Oregon. Besides the wool there was also one hundred and fifty thou- sand pounds of cotton used, or about fifteen per cent. of the whole. The department for the manufacture of hosiery turns out about $200,000 worth a year, the rest of the manufacture being made up of cassimeres, tweeds, shawls, flannels, blankets, and every variety of woolen goods. Some of the goods appear to be equal in make and finish to anything imported or foreign, and many of the cassimeres and tweeds are

of remarkable beauty. There are here constantly employed three hundred and eighty-seven white people and four hundred and fifty-six Chinese. Of the white people, eighty are men with families, eighty-five to one hundred boys, and the balance women and girls. The average pay-roll is from $18,000 to $21,000 per month. The white men employed earn, on an average, $2.50 per day ; the women from $30 to $40 per month, and the boys from $4 to $7 per week, averaging perhaps $5. The Chinese employed earn about $1 per day. The buildings of the factory on Fifteenth and Folsom streets, are seven hundred and ninety-three feet long by an average of fifty feet wide, and are two stories in hight. The hosiery department by itself is two hundred feet long, and two stories in hight. Besides these there are a dyo- house and workshops and a large stone storehouse, one hundred and thirty feet long by fifty feet wide, two stories high, and capable of receiving two million pounds of wool. On arriving at the factory, the wool is first assorted and scoured. Then it is colored, picked, carded. spun, and afterward wove into cloth, blankets, etc. There are but two hundred and twenty thousand yards of cassimeres, tweeds, etc., made annually, which are worth from 95 cents to $1.60 per yard. Every week there is sent from this factory, East over the railroad, a car load of goods, worth from $25,000 to $30,000. They work largely for the Government. Their goods go everywhere over the coast, to Japan, China, and British Columbia. The capital of the company, which is a close corpora- tion, is $650,000. The mill occupies three blocks of land. which were bought at a nominal price, but which are now worth from $600,000 to $700,000. The buildings and machinery are worth, at least, $400,000.

Our wooden fabrics are diversified and important, although for some of the materials employed we are dependent upon Eastern supplies. This is especially the case in the manufacture of wagons, buggies, car- riages, and other articles requiring the use of hiek- ory, white oak, and walnut. We are fairly furnished with saw-mills; sash, door, and blind factories; coop- erages; furniture manufacturers; billiard-table con- structors ; piano makers ; wooden ware and broom manufacturers; boat builders and other similar con- cerns, numbering one hundred and twenty-two, turn- ing out an aggregate annual value of millions of dollars of perfected articles.

A. S. Hallidie is proprietor of the only wire and rope works on the coast. The establishment went into operation in 1857, and has met with a large measure of success, the demand being somewhat ur- gent and steady. This gentleman has recently in- vented a cheap and ready mode for the conveyance of ores to mill, by means of buckets or cars suspend- ed on wire ropes, which traverse mountainous ridges inaccessible to ordinary modes of transportation. The works are capable of supplying from twelve hundred to fourteen hundred tons of wire rope per annum, besides manufacturing largely in the way of screens, sieves, wire cloth, cables for suspension bridges, and other like articles.

The San Francisco Cordage Factory was organized in 1856, and has now grown into large proportions. The rope-walk has an extreme length of one thousand eight hundred feet, and the spinning department occupies a building two hundred feet long by fifty feet in width. The products of the works exceed four million pounds of cordage annually. The success of this establishment has induced the erection of a sim- ilar one near Alameda, on a large scale, which is now in successful operation.

Twelve tanneries supply the leather used in the city, with a considerable surplus for export. The products of leather constitute an encouraging feature in our manufactures. But a few years since, the boots, shoes, slippers, harness, saddles, etc., were almost entirely imported, the shoe and harness mak- ers exercising their trade mostly in repairing. Now these, in a great measure, are of home manufacture, and the wealth derived has so stimulated enterprise in that direction that we now rank shoemaking as one of the most prominent of our local industries. Devoted to this branch are several large establish- ments, employing from three hundred to six hun- dred persons in each, turning out from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 worth of goods annually. In the large facto- ries, about half the employés are Chinese. These peo- ple quite monopolize the making of slippers, which

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were formerly imported at considerable cost; but the cheaper rates at which they are furnished have caused the importation to cease. The success of the Chinese in this department has raised an envious cry of denunciation of cheap labor ; but as in this case they entered an unoccupied and neglected field, the act is more for congratulation than regret.

Our harness makers now export their wares largely to the Eastern States, and orders are so extensive that it is impossible to meet the demand. This is not the rough and cheap work, but costly sets of from $300 to $500 a pair. By some it is averred that this would only be possible from the fact that harness and saddles are the work of State Prison convicts, and made at rates impossible to free labor.

Great hopes have been entertained of the silk manufacture, but the progress is slow. At South San Francisco the California Silk Manufacturing Co. are operating successfully in the manufacture of sewing silk, twist, etc. This factory occupies a building of fifty feet front by one hundred and twenty-five in depth, and employs forty hands. chiefly women and young girls, who earn from $3 to $15 per week. The Union Pacific Silk Manufacturing Co. organized about two years since, with a capital of $100,000, which has recently been increased to $250,000. The works of this company are situated in Visitacion Valley, and are capable of turning out about $6,000 worth of goods weekly. The principal product has boen ribbons.

The manufacture of cigars is rising to unusual im- portance. There are about one hundred and fifty establishments in this city, of which sixty-two are owned and superintended by Chinese, engaged in the business, employing about six thousand men and turn- ing out ten million cigars monthly, valued at from $30 to $35 per thousand, or an annual product of about $4,000,000. The chief business is in the hands of American citizens, but the employés are almost ex- clusively Chinese, of whom many are young boys and girls. The work is usually done by the piece, the operators making from $5 to $15 per week, working ten hours per diem. Without the Chinese there would be no available labor that would enable this branch of manufactures to attain the position it has. The to- bacco is principally Havana and Connecticut, and about two and a half million pounds are used annu- ally. The tobacco of California, cured by a new pro- cess, is said to be superior to all others, and the prospect bids fair for our supplying the world with the seductive weed.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 15

Author: Publication date: 1874 Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G. Number of Pages: 1128

Author:
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
Number of Pages: 1128