The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 5

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

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Street Railroads.

THE HORSE-CAR RAILROADS OF SAN FRANCISCO .- The multiplication and extension of lines of street railroad, when reasonable fares are charged, has a direct and most potent effect in assisting a city to build up and extend its suburbs. This is especially true of United States' cities in general, but of San Francisco in particular. The annexed statistics show that, comparatively speaking, this city ranks second to none in the Union in point of easy, rapid, cheap, and plentiful means of street locomotion by horse-cars. Out of the eight street railroad companies of the city, but six (Market Street, Potrero and Bay View, Central, Clay Street Hill, City, and North Beach and Mission) have furnished us with the number of passengers carried by them during the year 1873. Upon this particular branch of their business the managers of the other two companies (Omnibus and Sutter Street) are disposed to be stupidly reticent. We give estimates of them. With these exceptions, all other particulars are officially given.

CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY .- This company owns two (double track) main lines of railroad. One of the lines begins at the junction of Eighth and Brannan streets and runs to the corner of Front and Vallejo streets, a distance of two and seven eighths miles. The other main line starts from Taylor Street, between Eddy and Turk, and runs to the junction of Post Street and Cemetery Avenue, Lone Mountain. The distance of this line is two and one quarter miles. Total length of both lines owned and now operated by this company, inclusive of sidings, etc., five miles. A branch of this road is in process of construction from the corner of Turk and Fillmore streets, via Turk, Devisadero, and Fell streets, to the new Golden Gate Park entrance, a distance of one mile. This branch will be completed and opened for traffic as soon as the Park presents sufficient attractions to induce travel enough to warrant it. As the number of visitors to the Park is rapidly increasing, and the embellishment of the grounds being pushed forward with energy, the opening of this branch of the Central Road to permanent travel can not long be delayed. Twenty-two cars are in daily use on both lines of this com- pany-sixteen on the line running to the City Front, and six on the Lone Mountain line. The company has eighty employés on its pay-roll, and owns and works two hundred and fifteen horses. The conductors and drivers, one to each car, are paid at the rate of $2.50 to $2.75 per day. Four tickets are sold on this road for twenty-five cents, passengers receiving a transfer ticket, when desired, to ride the whole length of the road, by change of cars, on either line. The total number of passengers carried by this road, in 1873, was two million six hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and sixty-two. Its gross earnings during the same period amounted to $171,610.

CITY RAILROAD COMPANY (Woodward's) .- The cars of this line are small and light ones, drawn by one horse, no conductors are employed on them, the fare being deposited in a patent box, into which each passenger drops his fare upon entering the car. Communication is held with the driver, and change made by him, through an aperture in front of the car. The company own and operate one main and one branch line. The former runs from the corner of New Montgomery and Market streets, via Mission Street, to Twenty-sixth Street, a distance of three miles. The branch line runs from the corner of Bush and Dupont streets, via Dupont, Market, Fifth, and Mission, to Woodward's Gardens, corner of Fourteenth Street, a distance of nearly two miles. The company's books show that eighty men, in all, are employed by it.

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY circulates throughout the Pacific Coast.

ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, of HARTFORD, was established in 1819, and is the largest Fire Insurance Company in the country.

KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, represents $12,000,000.

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The number of regular cars running daily is twenty-six, and the number of horses owned is two hundred. The drivers on this line receive $2.50 per day. Five tickets can be purchased for twenty-five cents (including transfers). The total length of the City Railroad, double track, is four miles. The earnings of the road, for 1873, amounted to $130,000. The total number of passengers carried by it during the same period was three million five hundred thousand.

MARKET STREET RAILROAD COMPANY .- This line is owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. It begins on Market Street, between Spear and Main, and runs, via Market and Valencia, to Twenty-sixth Street, a distance of three and two thirds miles. The Hayes Valley branch of this road begins at the junction of Market and Hayes streets, and runs, via Hayes, Laguna, and other streets, to the corner of O'Farrell and Devisadero streets, a dis- tance of nearly two miles. It is, we believe, the intention of this company to extend the Hayes Valley Branch to the Golden Gate Park before long. Twenty-three cars are daily run upon the main and branch lines of this company. Two hundred and nine horses and eighty men are owned and employed by it. Its conductors and drivers are paid $2.50 per day, and five tickets, including Hayes Valley transfer, are given for twenty-five cents. The number of passengers carried by this road, in 1873, was two million seven hundred and eighty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, and the earnings amounted to $130,253.

POTRERO AND BAY VIEW RAILROAD COMPANY .- This line begins at the junction of Berry and Fourth streets, and runs (via Fourth and Kentucky streets and Railroad Avenue) to Thirty- fourth Avenue, South San Francisco. It is also owned and controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Its total length is nearly three and a half miles. Fifty-eight horses and nine cars are owned by the company. An average of thirty-three men, in all, are employed by this road. Its conductors and drivers are paid $2.50 per day. Four fares on this line cost twenty- five cents ; no transfer tickets are issued by it. The number of passengers carried over this route in 1873 was five hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred and seventy-eight, and the total gross earnings in the same time amounted to $33,984. The greater portion of this road crosses Mission Bay by means of a series of substantial trestle-work bridges. As the Southern Pacific Railroad Company contemplate a change in their present trunk line from Valencia Street to the shore-line of Mission Bay, the latter will be gradually filled in and the present means of reaching South San Francisco by long wooden bridges will be done away with. The completion of such an undertaking will materially enhance the property and general in- terests of the Potrero and South San Francisco. This locality is destined in the near future to become the great ship-building and manufacturing center of the city.

NORTH BEACH AND MISSION RAILROAD COMPANY .- This company runs two main lines of double-track railroad. The one runs from the junction of Fourth and Berry streets (via Fourth, Kearny, etc.) to the junction of Francisco and Mason streets, a distance of two and seven eighths miles ; the other line starts from the junction of California and Montgomery streets and runs to the corner of Folsom and Twenty-sixth streets, a distance of three and three quarters miles. Total length of both lines (double-track), about six miles. Thirty cars are run regularly every day on both lines. The company owns two hundred and fifty horses, and employs in all one hundred and thirty men. Conductors and drivers are paid $2.50 per day. Five tickets are sold for twenty-five cents (including transfers). The number of passen- gers carried by this road during the past year was four million two hundred and seventy-four thousand seven hundred and two. The gross earnings of the road in the same time were $213,735.

CLAY STREET HILL RAILROAD COMPANY .- This road has been completed and regularly running since October, 1873. Inclusive of that operated by steam and horse-power, its total length (double-track) is two and two thirds miles. The initial point of the road is at the juno- tion of Kearny and Clay, and its terminus is at Chestnut and Larkin streets. From Kearny to Leavenworth, up a grade of almost three hundred and seventeen feet to the half mile, the cars are operated by means of an endless steel-wire rope, one inch in diameter, running in a sub- way, and in no way impeding the travel of ordinary vehicles. The motive power is furnished .

ATLAS INS. CO. OF HARTFORD; Assets $325,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agents.

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, Paper and Envelopes.

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by an engine of thirty-five horse-power, situated at the top of the grade. By means of "gripping- clamps " attached to a " dummy " in front of the car, which reach the running rope through a center groove in the subway, the latter is seized or abandoned when necessary to propel or stop the car. When stopped, the car is kept stationary by a brake, which acts directly on the face of the rails ; this brake is operated by the conductor when the holding clamps release their hold upon the revolving rope. When the car reaches the top of the hill, the dummy preceding it is removed, and the car continues on to the end of the road with horses attached. Both mechanically and pecuniarily this road is a satisfactory success to its managers. It is their intention before long to extend westward that portion of the line operated by the wire- rope (via Clay and First Avenue) to the Golden Gate Park. Ten cars and twenty-two horses are at present in use on the road, and the number of employés is thirty-three. The number of passengers carried for the eight months the road has been in operation is given at the rate of one million ninety-five thousand per annum. Five tickets are sold for twenty-five cents.

OMNIBUS RAILROAD COMPANY .- There are two main double-track lines owned by this company. One of them has its initial point at the junction of Fourth and Berry streets ; this line runs (via Montgomery, Sansom, Third, and other streets) to the junction of Powell and Bay streets, a distance of three miles. The other main line starts from the corner of Mont- gomery and Jackson streets, and runs (via Montgomery, Third, Howard, and other streets) to the junction of Howard with Twenty-sixth Street, a distance of three and a half miles. By last year's returns, eighteen cars were daily run on the former (North and South Beach) road, and twelve on the latter (Howard Street and Mission Dolores) line. At that time the company owned two hundred and eighty horses, and employed, in all capacities, one hundred and twenty- five men. Conductors and drivers receive $2.50 per day each. Five tickets are sold for twenty- five cents. Of the number of horses owned by the company twelve are daily used as "tow- horses " in the ascent of the steep grade on Jackson Street. The number of passengers carried in 1873 was about four million six hundred and seventy thousand, and the gross earnings about $233,500.

SUTTER STREET RAILROAD COMPANY .- In 1872 this company had one main and three branch lines. The trunk road started from the junction of Broadway and Polk streets (via Polk, Sutter, and Battery) and terminated at the junction of Broadway and Davis streets, on the City Front, a distance of two and one third miles. The first branch extended from the corner of Sutter and Larkin (via Larkin and Ninth) to the junction of Ninth and Mission streets, a distance of seven eighths of a mile. The second branch extended from the corner of Bush and Polk streets (via Bush, Fillmore, and California streets and Cemetery Avenue) to Geary Street and Cemetery Avenue, a distance of one and seven eighths miles. The main line and these two branches are double-track roads. The Fort Point, Presidio, and Harbor View branch of this road forms a junction with the main line at its Polk Street terminus (corner of Broad- way), and runs out to Harbor View, on the Bay shore, a distance of three miles. This is a single-track, the cars passing each other by means of sidings diverging from the main line at regular intervals. The total length of the Sutter Street Railroad (trunk line and branches) is eight and a quarter miles. In 1872 this company owned one hundred and eighty horses and nineteen cars. It then employed seventy-five men in all. Conductors and drivers are paid $2.50 per day. Four tickets only for twenty-five cents, including transfers on all branches but the Presidio, is the rate charged. The number of passengers carried on this road in 1873, was about one million seven hundred and fifty thousand, and its gross earnings about $113,750.

The publication of the foregoing facts may be taken as a fair index of the rapid growth of San Francisco in all directions. None but large and growing cities have so many horse-car lines, employ so many men and horses, or carry so many passengers. The value of our street- car lines can hardly be over-estimated in causing building and settlement in suburban districts, and as an aid to increase in real-estate values. If it were possible to blot out the street-car lines of the city, property in the suburbs would immediately be shorn of half its value. It is certainly within bounds to say that, in such event, a reduction of fully $20,000,000 would

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

ZETNA INS. CO. of Hartford has a Paid-up Capital of $3,000,000, and Cash Assets of nearly $6,000,000, GEO. C. BOARDMAN, Manager. "

L. W. KENNEDY, General Insurance Agent, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

occur in the value of that class of property. The total length of all the street-car lines in the city (double-track) is about forty-three miles.

Steamship Lines.

THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY-OUR TRADE WITH ASIA, ETC .- It is unneces- sary to enter into a detailed review of the past of this great corporation. Its history and that of the city and State, are, in many respects, interwoven. The chief events of its existence are of national as well as local significance. With the exception of one English company (the Peninsular and Oriental), the Pacific Mail Steamship Company is the most important in the Anglo-Asiatic world. A few statistics as to its present condition and prospects is, therefore, sufficient for all purposes of this summary. The number of steamships owned or chartered by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company on its various deep-sea. and coast routes, is as follows : San Diego and coast route, four steamships, of four thousand and six tons; Panama route, seven steamships, of sixteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-six tons ; in the Central American trade, etc., five steamships, of five thousand six hundred and thirty-nine tons ; on the China and Japan route, six steamships, of twenty-two thousand three hundred and eighty-two tons; running between Yokohama and Shanghae, via Japanese Inland Sea ports, four steamships, of seven thousand eight hundred and eighteen tons; running between Yokohama, Hakodate, Matsumai, and other northern Japanese ports, one steamship, of seven hundred and ninety-one tons ; engaged in harbor duty in San Francisco, one steamship, of one hundred and sixty-eight tons. The Nebraska, Dakota, and Moses Taylor (five thousand six hundred and thirty-nine tons), are laid up at the company's works at Benicia. This makes a total of thirty-one vessels, of sixty-three thousand three hundred and nineteen tons, at present in use in Pacific Coast and Asiatic waters. These figures are exclusive of the various vessels owned or chartered by the company in China and Japan, the statistics for which are not at present available. The num- ber of tons of freight landed in this city by the company's steamships for the year 1873 was : From Panama, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven tons ; from China and Japan, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and forty-seven tons. The export value of mer- chandise per the company's steamers for the same period was as follows: By way of the Isthmus of Panama, $1,140,000; to Japan; $715,658; to China, about $1,400,000. The treasure export by the company's vessels for 1873 was : To China, $6,335,353.50 ; to Japan, $2,206,157.12. The misfortunes which have attended this company for the past few years through marine dis- asters, mismanagement at headquarters, etc., still seem to follow it, so far as relates to the former of these causes. Despite of this, however, its carrying business has recently been greatly increased, and this in face of the opposition it meets with on the China and Japan route from the new China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company. The latter corporation proposes to run steamships monthly from this port to Yokohama and Hongkong. These vessels are to be of the largest size and most powerful capacity in point of speed. The trade between the Asiatic and American continents has recently increased so rapidly that there is now more room for and need of two lines to meet the demands of freight and passenger traffic than there was for one at the time the Pacific Mail Steamship Company inaugurated its line to China and Japan. The competition of the China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company, recently started, has materially reduced the rates of fare and freight between San Francisco and the centers of foreign trade in China and Japan. From Yokohama to San Francisco, by the Pacific Mail Company's steam- ers, the rate of passage is now only $150 in the chief saloon, and $85 in the steerage ; from Naga- saki (the Long Branch of foreigners in Japan and Southern China) the fare has been reduced to 8205 in the cabin, and $100 in the steerage ; from Shanghai to San Francisco, through that beautiful lake of a thousand island-gems (the Inland Sea of Japan), the cabin fare is now but $280, and in the steerage but $100; from Hongkong to the western terminus of our overland railroad the rates of passage are only $200 in the saloon, and $100 in the steerage. Equally reasonable rates of fare (by reason of sharp competition) are charged from Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, and other Asiatic cities in which foreigners congre- gate, until the visitor to the Atlantic States or Europe reaches a port from which to embark on one of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's homeward-bound vessels. The rates of fare

Fire Insurance at Tariff Rates; Losses promptly paid by FARNSWORTH & CLARK.

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

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Glassware and Toys.

PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

above quoted, apply equally in going to Asia as in returning from it. Through tickets to or from all the places mentioned in Asia and Europe and Central and South America are sold according to a like schedule at all the agencies of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in China, Japan, the settlements in the Straits of Sunda, Java, the Philippines, etc., all of which coun- tries are crowded by Europeans and other foreigners, most of whom, when about to revisit their old homes, manifest an increasing desire to come by way of San Francisco and New York. Change from the route once passed over (that via the Red Sea and Brindisi), as well as the advantages gained in point of time and cost by taking the American route in preference to the tropical discomfort of that via the Isthmus of Suez, are the main motives commending them- selves to these travelers.

CHINA TRANS-PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY (LIMITED) .- Prominent among the indications from which to predict the commercial future of San Francisco, are the lines of ocean steamships making this port their headquarters. Within the past few months no less than two new and large steamship lines have been established to ply between this port and China and Australia. One of these lines, the China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company, with an initial capital of $2,500,000, has now on the route between this port and Hongkong and Yokohama, two powerful iron, Clyde-built screw steamships, of three thousand tons, and of 2,750 horse-power each. Another steamship, of the same class with these two, is almost completed for this company. and will soon be on her way out here to take her place in the line. The building of a fourth ship, of like tonnage and power, is immediately to be commenced at Renfrew, on the Clyde, by order of the Directors. When the latter is completed, the company will then have four steamers constantly running between this port and Asia, of an aggregate of 12,000 tons. As trade and the company's connections develop, other steamers of a similar class are to follow as rapidly as their construction will admit of. Each of these steamships will accommodate seventy-three saloon, and seven hundred and fifty steerage passengers. The service for the present is a monthly one, and the company contemplate at an early day the establishment of a branch line from Yokohama to Shanghai, via the Japanese Island sea ports, to connect with the steamers of the main line. The company also intend that their steamers will eventually call at Vancouver's Island on both outward and return voyages. As trade increases, their steamers will also enter into competition with both foreign and native craft in the coasting traffic of Chinese and Japanese waters. The present enormous trade between this port and China and Japan, with their reputed population of four hundred millions, makes increased first-class facilities for carrying on the same absolutely indispensable. Indeed, the day is not far distant when the demand for steam conveyance across the Pacific, as we have elsewhere stated, will fully equal that existing on the Atlantic. The competition of the China Trans- Pacific, and the Pacific Mail companies, not to speak of transient steamers and sailing vessels, will materially cheapen fares and freights between the two continents. The voyage between this port and Yokohama will now be shortened from its present average length of twenty-two to say nineteen days, making the inducement still greater to select the American route from Asia to Europe via San Francisco, in preference to the long and tedious tropical voyage through the Red Sea. From Yokohama to England, by way of this city, the voyage may now be accomplished in thirty-five or thirty-seven days, while the ordinary European route, via Suez, occupies forty-eight to fifty. By taking the American route, the journey between Hongkong or Shanghai and England can now be made in forty-five or forty-six days, while the Red Sea route consumes between fifty and fifty-five days. The route via San Francisco is also cheaper for passengers and freight than that traversed by the Peninsular and Oriental, the Messageries Maritimes, or any other European company. By the steamers of the China Trans-Pacific line, sailing hence about the middle of each month, the cabin passage to or from Yokohama is only. $150 ; steerage, $85 ; to or from Hongkong, cabin, $200; steerage, $100. In order to facilitate passenger and freight traffic between the centers of foreign trade in Asia and our Atlantic Coast, the Central Pacific Railroad and the China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company have recently entered into an alliance. The steamers of the latter will hereafter discharge overland freight directly into the cars of the former. Extensive accommodations for this

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 1874-6, H. G. Langley, Pub'r, S. F. Price $5.

ATNA INS. CO. of Hartford, has been established 54 years, and has paid over 840,000,000 Losses.'

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

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

purpose are to be built at the foot of Second Street, a fact which will tend to materially enhance the value of property in that portion of the city. Through passenger tickets, by steamer and rail, are also issued by both companies. It is needless to reiterate that San Francisco will be the great entrepot for the traffic created by the rival lines of American-Asiatic steamships now existing, and of all others to follow in the future. The great American firm of Russell & Co., of Shanghai, and the well-known Oriental house of Macondray & Co., of this city, are the agents of the China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company at both ends of the route traversed by the vessels of this line.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Paper Rulers, Leidesdorff Street, corner of Clay.

AUSTRALASIAN AND AMERICAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY .- The establishment of this line of steamships during the past year supplies the want long felt for more regular and rapid communication between California and the Anglo-Australian colonies than that hitherto afforded by sailing vessels, however numerous. The similarity of pursuits between the people of those colonies and our own, and the greater comparative freedom from political and social trammels inherent to older States which is enjoyed by both, has caused the inauguration of this enterprise to be viewed with unanimous satisfaction by the public both in Australia and California. Five powerful, Clyde-built, iron screw steamships now constitute this company's fleet for the service of 1874 between San Francisco, New South Wales, and New Zealand. These are the Macgregor, of two thousand one hundred and sixty-seven tons ; the Tartar, of two thousand two hundred and fifty-two tons; the Mongol, of two thousand two hundred and fifty-two tons ; the Mikado, of three thousand and thirty tons, and the Cyphrenes, of two thousand tons. These five steamships are only chartered by the com- pany until their own magnificent fleet of six iron screw propellers, built on the Clyde, and now nearly ready for launching, arrive in our bay to take their place permanently in the line. These vessels will all be of first-class construction, dimensions, and equipment, specially adapted for the service in which they are to engage. They are all of two thousand five hun- dred and three thousand five hundred tons, respectively. On their arrival here it is the inten- tion of the company, we believe, to increase the service between the points named to two trips per month, instead of once every four weeks as at present. The ships of this line are now dispatched hence on the fourth Saturday of each month, or as soon thereafter as the closed mails from Europe for Australia arrive in San Francisco, via the Overland Railroad from New York. On the outward and return voyages the vessels of this line touch at Honolulu (Sandwich Islands) and at Kandavau (Fiji Islands). Through connections, on as near schedule time as possible, are made by this company with all points in the Atlantic States and Great Britain to or from any part of New South Wales or New Zealand.' The following scale of fares from San Francisco to the places annexed have been adapted by the company for 1874 : To or from Honolulu, in the saloon, $75 ; in second cabin, $50 ; in steerage, $30. To or from Kandavau, $150, $125, and $90; Auckland, $200, $150, and $100 ; Wellington, $280, $175, and $120; Lyttleton, $230, $175, and $125; Port Chalmers, $235, 8177.50, and $127.50; Sydney, $200, $150, and $100; Melbourne, $225, $162.50, and $110; Brisbane, $220, $160, and $107.50 ; New Caledonia, $220, $160, and $107.50. This company is, in the strictest sense of the term, an international one, the capital invested being about equally divided between English and American shareholders.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 5

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