The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 4

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The estimates of the males under twenty-one, and the females under eighteen, are based upon the figures of the School Census, June, 1873. According to these returns the number of

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children of fifteen and under, at that date, was 54,469; increase to March 1, 1874, (estimated 4,500. Total, 58,969, estimated as follows : Males, 29,342; females, 29,627. To these shoul be added thirty-five per cent. (the average of the Census throughout the United States) for th males between sixteen and twenty, both inclusive, and sixteen per cent. for the females between fifteen and eighteen. This will give the following result : Males, fifteen and under, 29,342 between sixteen and twenty-one, 10,269. Total under twenty-one, 39,611. Females, fifteen and under, 29,627; between fifteen and eighteen, 4,740. Total under eighteen, 34,367.

The remainder of the data in our estimate explains itself, and to those who are acquainted with the different elements referred to therein, the figures relating thereto will not be considered over-estimated.

The aggregate of the present year (200,770), as compared with that of last year (188,323), exhib- its a gain of 12,447, or about seven per cent., a much greater increase than has taken place for the same period for several years past. The number of names enumerated in the register of the present volume, exhibits an increase of eight per cent. over that of last year, an unmis- takable evidence of the rapid growth of the city during the past twelve months.

For the purpose of reference, we republish from the SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY for 1871, the figures of the Census of the City and County of San Francisco, as compiled in this city; also the official table of the Census Bureau at Washington. The totals of the latter diffe materially from those contained in the former ; for instance, the aggregate population is given at 149,473 ; the colored population at 1,341, and the Chinese, 12,018. The native populatu numbers 75,753; foreign, 73,720.

Federal Census of San Francisco, 1870. [SAN FRANCISCO COMPILATION.]

WHITE.

COLORED.

CHINESE.

WARDS.

Under 15. |B'rn in Cal

Undr 15|B'n Cal

Mal's Fm's Mal's Fm 's Ma'ls Fm's

M.J

M. F.

Mal's Fm's

M. F.

M.I

1st

7,187

3,239

1,389

1,397

1,158

1,188

5.868

5,500

2.026

2.260

1,803

1,898

3d.

1,966

543

132

144

104

108

4th

6,358

4,314|

1,016

939

808

775

229

160

3,898

1,593

191

140

102

5th

2,111

679

151

133

·2

6th

3,192

3,058

865

864

719

728

101

119

2,540

394

7th, Ist Precinct ..

3,087

2,395

759

797

523

532

107

2d Precinct ....

2.607

2,100

756

726

566

559

8th, 1st Precinct ...

3,875

3,202

976

1,020

829

863

1,393

...

211

10th, 1st Precinct.

2,814

2,40

902

810

573

2,302

2,158

833

858

614

11th, Ist Precinct ....

4,962

4,604

2,313

2,237

1,562

1.648

4,787

3,930

1,959

1,657

1,565

1,312

1,307

1,254

542

563

408

4th Precinct ..

648

511

200

261

160

216

12th, 1st Precinct ...

2,433

1.930

860

836

702

663

2d Precinct .....

4,214

3,766

1,837

1,692

1,424

1,362

112

Totals.

75.824 61.577 23.722 23.261 18.346.18,219

626

468

108

117

9,777

2,040|

877

271| 189 131

Federal Census of San Francisco, 1870. [CENSUS BUREAU COMPILATION.]

WARD.

Native ...

Foreign ..

White .....

Colored ..

Indian ...

Asiatic ...

TOTALS ..

WARD.

Native ...

Foreign ..

White .....

Colored ..

Indian ...

Asiatic ...

TOTALS ..

First

4,316|

6,451

10,385

305 10,767

Second

6,069

5,762

11,359

145

322

11,831

Ninth

5.964

4,725| 10,420

212

Fourth

5,527| 11,028

10,284

621

5,650

16,555

Eleventh

12,853

9,813|21,825

781 .22,66

Sixth

3,953

5,447

6,139

216

3,033

9,400

Seventh

5,178

5,201 10,228|

134 10,379

Totals.

75,753 73,720 136059 1341

55 12,018 1494

303

316

545

2d Precinct.

4,293

4,818

2,030

1,980

1,556

1,479

3,071

2.886

1,094

1,130

859

848

4th Precinct.

3,262

3,202

1,292

1,285

987

988

2d Precinct ....

203

3d Precinct .....

403

129

3d Precinct ....

409

203

198

9th

5,480

5,084

1,590

1,672

1,331

596

2d Precinct ....

School Census, Children Fifteen Years and Under, June, 1873.

First Ward, 2,659 ; Second Ward, 4,249 ; Third Ward, 274; Fourth Ward, 3,022 ; Fift Ward, 282; Sixth Ward, 1,754 ; Seventh Ward, 3,303 ; Eighth Ward, 5,614 ; Ninth Ward 4,594; Tenth Ward, 9,120; Eleventh Ward, 12,425; Twelfth Ward, 7,173; Total, 54,469. .

SPRINGFIELD FIRE & MAR'E INS. CO .; Assets, $1,100,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agt

Eighth

9,474

7,029| 16,006

404 16,50%

Third.

945

2,019

2,400

551

2,964

Tenth

12,367

9,958

21,985

Fifth

1,671

1,142

2,758

2,813

Twelfth

7,436

5,145, 12,270

289

12,58

215 1

.....

234

171

178

10,68

285/22,30

584

Undr 15| B'n Cal

SAN FRANCISCO INSURANCE CO. (Fire and Marine), office 411 California. *

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny St., Importers and Jobbers.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

the United States) have alone advanced to the third era; San Francisco has entered on the Ilsecond. Old, small, cramped, and plain brick buildings, erected on our best business streets, e between 1849 and 1859, have become superannuated, and are gradually being supplanted by more stately, light, roomy, and ornamental structures.

; The most important building now in course of construction here is the Palace Hotel, owned by William Sharon. It will have a frontage of two hundred and seventy-five feet on Market Street (between Second and Third) by a depth and front on Montgomery Street South of three hundred and forty feet. It will be six stories high, and will cost about $600,000. The new building to be erected on west side Montgomery, between Pine and Summer streets, will cost $250,000, and will be known as the Nevada Block. Flood & O'Brien are the owners of the land. R. C. Johnson, the iron merchant, owns a large lot on Sutter Street, above Montgom- ery, on which he is about to erect a stately brick building, to cost $150,000. The Mechanics' Institute have secured a long lease, on nominal terms, from A. B. McCreary, of a lot of land on Market, Eighth, and Mission streets, two hundred and seventy-five by five hundred and fifty in size. A new Mechanics' Fair building, to cost $50,000 to $70,000, will soon be erected on this land, and a fresh opportunity will thus be afforded for the display of California mechanical, artistic, agricultural, and metallurgical skill, industry, and progress. The new United States Government buildings, on the lot opposite and west of the Post-office and Custom House, are progressing slowly but satisfactorily. The Congressional appropriation for the construction of these buildings was $408,000, of which but a comparatively small amount is yet expended. Much dissatisfaction has recently been expressed at the heavy cost of the new City Hall, and also at the unsuitable location of it on a site so far distant from the city center as that near Market Street, between Seventh and Ninth. In consequence of this dissatisfaction, the work will, for the next two years, be confined to the completion of contracts already entered into. The expenditure allowed under this legislative restriction is $750,000. The Board of City Hall Commissioners has been abolished, and the work referred to is to be carried on under the control of the Board of Supervisors. One of the largest and finest markets in the United States is now being erected by Charles R. Peters on the two fifty-vara lots on the southeast corner of Sutter and Dupont streets. The cost will be $75,000. This market will soon be ready for occupancy. . A new and stylish frame Amphitheater was recently erected on the southeast corner of New Montgomery and Mission streets, by Mr. John Wilson, the circus manager. The obstructions to the opening of Montgomery Avenue-from Montgomery to Stockton streets at least-have now about been removed, and a large number of new buildings are immediately to be erected on the line of the new street. A new and large brick building is now being erected, by John Parrott, on the northeast corner of Sacramento and Front streets, on the lot sixty feet square. A new three-story brick building, to be divided into elegant stores, is now being erected on the northeast corner of Post and Kearny streets, on leased ground. The gore-lot, at the junction of Market, Montgomery, and Post streets (recently sold at the extreme price of $300,000), is soon to be improved by the erection of a brick building and stores, which will cost $100,000. The calculation of the owner is that he can rent the building for $5,000 per month. A large, new brick building is to be erected by James W. Burnham & Co. on the lot adjoining on Market Street, on the west. The most of the block bounded by Market, Geary, Kearny, and Dupont streets is owned by one person. The property has long been under lease, and is now covered with old frame buildings. These leases will soon expire, and as first-class buildings are now a necessity on such valuable land, it is almost certain that such structures will soon be erected there. A new four-story frame and brick building, to cost $75,000, is now being erected on the gore-lot at the junction of Market, Ma- son, and Turk streets. A new building, to cost $70,000, is soon to be erected on the southeast corner of Pacific and Kearny streets. A commodious three-story brick building is now being erected upon the lot (sixty by seventy in size), northeast corner of Kearny and Sutter streets.

The above is, of course, necessarily, only a partial list of the buildings projected on our best business streets. Everywhere the old buildings of the past are being torn down to make room for costly, modern, substantial, and ornamental structures. These changes clearly indicate

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the growth of the city, the great increase of its business, and the enhancement of rents and real-estate values. Banking, insurance, and other property, on California Street, and on Sansom and Montgomery streets, contiguous thereto, has greatly advanced in price, and the buildings there are generally very fine. The new London and San Francisco Bank building would be an ornament to any city. It is situated on the northwest corner of California and Leidesdorff streets. Another new bank building is projected on the north side of California Street, west of Battery. The building formerly owned by an insurance company, on Cali- fornia Street, adjoining the Bank of California, recently changed hands. The building is now being remodeled.

In few respects has San Francisco increased more within the past seven years than in first-class private residences. That of William Sharon (not yet completed), on Sutter Street, above Powell; that of R. C. Johnson, southwest corner of O'Farrell and Leavenworth streets ; that of William C. Ralston, on Pine, west of Leavenworth, being especially noticeable and ornamental. Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific Railroad Com- pany, owns most of the block bounded by Powell, Mason, California, and Pine streets. He intends soon to erect on it a mansion which will cost at least $100,000. Charles Crocker, one of the managers of the same company, last year purchased a lot, two hundred and seventy-five by one hundred and thirty-seven and one half feet, on the northwest corner of California and Taylor streets, on which, on his return from China, it is understood he will erect a large and costly mansion. This is but an outline of what has been done or projected in the building line in this city during the past year. There has seldom been such a dearth of houses as existed here all of last year. Despite the unusually large number of new buildings erected, the supply was not nearly equal to the demand. In consequence of this fact, the cheapness of money and lumber, the unprecedented prosperity promised from large crops and a fruitful yield from the mines, there is no doubt but that more buildings and dwellings will be erected this year in San Francisco than in any previous year in its history since 1849 or 1850. The total cost of the buildings now under construction will not be less than $3,000,000, not to speak at all of several hundreds of other dwellings, to cost from $2,000 to $6,000 each, which will shortly be built. Those mechanics, therefore, who can not find work in the Atlantic States may confidently calculate on finding employment if they will direct their course westward.

NUMBER OF BUILDINGS .- The number of buildings in the city and county is estimated at twenty-two thousand six hundred, of which four thousand two hundred are of brick. The Federal Census of 1870 returns the number at twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty- six. (See Article on Population, page 13.)

VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY, ETC., IN SAN FRANCISCO .- Some one has said that capi- tal seeking investment in a city will look to the manner in which it is provided with churches, schools, colleges, and charitable institutions as one of the true tests of the progress, stability, morality, and law-abiding character of the people resident in it. In this connection San Fran- cisco will bear favorable comparison with older, less isolated, and, therefore, more favored cities. The following table shows the present value of the land and cost of the buildings owned by the various religious sects of this city :

Catholic Churches, Convents, Colleges, Asylums, Hospitals, etc. $3,250,000

Presbyterian Church property.

500,000

Hebrew Church property 405,477

Episcopalian Church property .. 380,500

275,985

Congregational Church property.

265,000

Baptist Church property.

118,750

Lutheran Church property

80,000 165,000

Unitarian Church property ..

Total miscellaneous property owned by all the religious sects of San Francisco (exclusive of the

Catholic), Young Men's Christian Association, Ladies' Protective and Relief Society, St. Luke's Hospital, City College, Chinese Mission houses, Protestant Orphan Asylum, Bible Society, University Mound College, etc., etc ...

750,000

Grand total.

$6,190,712

FARNSWORTH & CLARK, Gen'l Fire and Marine Insurance Agency ; office 230 Cal. St.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Stationers, Printers, and Bookbinders, corner of Clay and Leidesdorff Streets.

Methodist Church property

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny St., Importers and Jobbers.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

THE LEADING HOTELS, ETC., OF SAN FRANCISCO .- San Francisco is not surpassed by any city in the United States, and probably by very few in the world, in the size, number, and excel- lence of its hotels. There are seven of them, in addition to the new Palace Hotel, now in course of erection. It will be the largest and most costly of them. The seven hotels alluded to have accommodations for two thousand one hundred and fifty guests. The value of the land on which they stand is nearly $3,000,000 ; the buildings cost $1,365,000, and their fur- niture nearly $825,000. The rents paid by their landlords is from $1,000 to $4,000 per month. The largest of our present hotels has accommodations for four hundred guests. Their rates of board are from $2 to $3 per day. The number of hotels of all grades is sixty-five; of buildings devoted in whole or in part to lodgings, five hundred and twenty; occupied as boarding and lodging houses, three hundred and eighty.

RATES OF INTEREST AT THE SAVINGS BANKS, ETC .- The ten savings banks of San Fran- cisco had, in the beginning of the present year, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and seven depositors, and deposits amounting to $47,362,555, or an average of about $910 to each depos- itor. These banks loan mostly on city and country real estate securities of the safest and most productive character. Their rates of interest range from eight to nine and a half per cent. per annum on city loans, and ten to eleven per cent. on country loans.

United States Mint and Post-Office.

THE UNITED STATES MINT, MINING, ETC .- The San Francisco Mint is no longer, as for- merly denominated, a " branch " mint. By the Coinage Act of 1873 it was rendered inde- pendent of, because it has become far more important than, the old parent Mint at Phila- delphia, to which ours has heretofore, officially, been but supplementary. During the year 1873 the following classes of coin were turned out of the Mint here: One million forty thousand six hundred double eagles-value, $20,812,000; twelve thousand single eagles-value, $120,000 ; thirty-one thousand half eagles-value, $155,000 ; twenty-seven thousand quarter eagles-value, $67,500. Total number of gold coins made, one million one hundred and ten thousand six hundred-total value, $21,154,500. Silver Coins : Seven hundred American dollars -value, $700 ; seven hundred and three thousand trade dollars-value, $703,000 ; two hundred and thirty-three thousand half dollars-value, $116,500; one hundred and fifty-six thousand quarter dollars-value, $39,000 ; four hundred and thirty-five thousand dimes-value, $45,500; three hundred and twenty-four thousand half dimes-value, $16,200. Total number of silver coins, one million eight hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred-total value, $920,900. Combined gold and silver pieces of all denominations coined in 1873, two million nine hun- dred and eighty-one thousand three hundred. Total combined value, $22,075,400. The total coinage of 1873 shows an increase of $5,727,956 over that of 1872. The importance and capacity of the San Francisco Mint is greatly restricted by the small and unsuitable building in which its operations are now conducted. The New Mint, a spacious and stately structure occupying the lot, two hundred and seventy-five feet square, on the corner of Fifth and Mission streets, will soon be completed and occupied. When finished, the business of the Pacific Coast, in connection with coinage, will be greatly facilitated. The San Francisco Mint is already the most important in the United States. The business of mining for the precious metals, next to agriculture, is the most important industry on the coast ; yet, in twenty years hence, twenty mines will be developed and worked where now there is but one, This prediction can be made with safety, without any allowance for new discoveries in the interim. The veins and lodes already discovered and partially tested will, of themselves, suffice to cause this increase ; while, remembering the vast districts in California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana, which are yet both undeveloped and unexplored, positive assurance is given that mining on this coast, vast as its present proportions are, is yet but in its infancy. The value of this fact to the agricultural and manufacturing interests is very great. In no portion of the world do the great industries of farming, mining, and manufacturing become of greater value, or act as more stable supports to each other than in California.

THE POSTAL FACILITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO .- Among the leading post-offices of the United

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY contains Addresses of over 50,000 Merchants.

ÆTNA INS. CO. of Hartford has been established 54 years, and has paid over $40,000,000 Losses.

KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

States that of San Francisco takes rank as about the third or fourth in point of importance. This position is due, not only to the local business transacted, but also to the fact that the San Francisco office is the point of distribution for a great portion of the European open and closed mails in transit to Asia, Australia, etc. These mails are received per overland railroad, and depart hence, by American steamers, for the countries named, monthly and semi-monthly. One hundred and eleven persons are on the pay-roll of the Post-office here, of which number forty-two are indoor employés, thirty-three are postal clerks and railroad and stage route agents, and thirty-six are employed in the distribution and collection of written and printed mail matter throughout the city. The system of iron postal boxes placed at convenient distances all over the corporate limits of the city is of great benefit and public convenience, facilitating rapid delivery, and saving the journey heretofore necessary to the General Post- office. The city is indebted to Postmaster N. B. Stone and his predecessor Colonel Coey for the introduction of the public convenience referred to. The present able and efficient Post- master (Mr. Stone), is also to be credited with the introduction of many needed reforms in our local postal administration since he has held the office. Among others, his persistent efforts have been the means of introducing a new style of post-office box and lock, which greatly increases the available space for such conveniences, and the number of boxes before in use, as well as adding a greater rental from the extra box-holders accommodated. These boxes are so constructed that the opening of any of them, by means of false keys, is impossible. There are now two thousand three hundred and sixty-five of these lock-boxes in our Post-office. The money-order system, adopted a few years since, has been found to work well, is of great public service, and is extensively availed of by all classes of our population. The sum of $615,579.46 has, by this means, been sent to various portions of the world, through the San Francisco Post-office in 1873. This domestic and international method of sending money abroad has the tendency to direct and facilitate emigration hither, especially by the persons thus receiving the postal drais. The money-orders issued from other post-offices in the United States during the same time, and payable here, amounted to $591,484.40. The San Francisco Post-office is the depository for the money-order receipts of all the other post-offices of this coast under United States jurisdiction. These various offices deposited $1,106,962 with the San Francisco Post-office during the year 1873.

The Central Pacific and other Railroads.

NUMBER OF EMPLOYÉS, THEIR PAY-ROLL, THEIR FREIGHT STATISTICS, ETC .- During the year 1873 the annexed railroads brought to, and carried away from, San Francisco the appended number of tons of freight of all kinds :

Name of Company.

Received at S. F., tons. Sent from S. F., tons.

149,287

By Central Pacific R. R. Co ...

149,612

37,862

By Southern Pacific R. R. Co.

91,944

53,140

By California Pacific R. R. and Steamers.

51,516

240,289

Grand Totals.

293,072

The above statement of the Central Pacific Railroad does not include freight received at and shipped from Oakland. The business of all our railroads is increasing very rapidly. The unfinished lines are not being extended as rapidly as could be wished, owing to the difficulty of negotiating railroad bonds in Europe. This difficulty was, in part, due to the late commer- cial and financial panic, and, in part, to the hostility of a portion of the press, and the recent unsuccessful efforts to reduce railroad fares and freights.

The Central Pacific Railroad Company now employs, in San Francisco, Oakland, and on the ferry steamers, eight hundred and sixty-six persons, in all capacities, whose aggregate monthly salaries amount to $76,396, or about $920,000 per year. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company employs two hundred and fifty men, whose monthly wages amounts to $17,000, or about $204,000 per year. The California Pacific Railroad employs on its steamers two hundred and eighty-seven men in San Francisco, whose aggregate monthly wages account is now $9,220, or about $110,500 per year. The other employés of that company, resident here, number twenty-four, whose monthly salaries amount to $4,000, or a total of $48,000 per year.

FARNSWORTH & CLARK furnish Safe and Reliable Insurance against Fire.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Bookbinders and Job Printers, corner of Leidesdorff and Clay Streets.

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Trunks and Valises.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

These figures show that the three companies above named employ here and in Oakland, a total of one thousand four hundred and twenty-seven men, whose aggregate yearly salaries or wages amounts to $1,282,500, or an average of seventy-five dollars per month to each man employed. We frequently hear how the railroad has destroyed this or that small business which flourished prior to its advent, but we think these figures prove that it has destroyed in the atom only to restore in the lump, and that on a much more enduring, extended, and independent basis. It must be remembered too that, as yet, we have only begun to experience the benefits of railroad communication, and the consequent development of the mineral, agricultural, and manufact- uring interests which it fosters.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 4

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