The San Francisco directory: embracing a general directory of residents and a business directory : also, a directory of streets, 1879 , Part 7

Author: Langely, Henry G
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1196

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A temporary entrance to the building will also be made from the Market Street side, throug the main tower, giving direct access through to the McAllister Street entrance door.

The expenditures upon the New City Hall, up to the close of the fiscal year June 30, 187 have been as follows: Expended by the first Board of Commissioners, $1,366,000; by t. Board of Supervisors, $203,720; by the present Board of Commissioners, $823,927.88, tot $2,393,647.88. Estimated amount required to complete, from July 1, 1878, $2,000,000. T. final completion will necessarily require a number of years, as only a limited revenue applicat to its construction is raised in each year.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL .- This is a reformatory institution to which ungovernable boys a committed, either on complaint of the officers of the law, or, as it often happens, at the reque of the parents or guardians of the refractory youths. It is located on the San Jose Road, abo six miles southwest of the City Hall, and is designed to accommodate two hundred fif boys. During the year ending June 30, 1878, there were two hundred and thirty-three co; mitments-the average number of inmates being two hundred and thirty-nine. The ages of t inmates range from children of nine years to lads of eighteen, the greatest number being fre ten to seventeen. The boys at the institution are compelled both to work and study, four hot per day being devoted to the former, and four and a quarter hours to the latter. Some are taug various useful trades, and a large number are employed in farming and gardening-seventy-fi acres of the one hundred and thirty which compose the grounds being under cultivation. T

school-room will seat two hundred boys.

The Magdalen Asylum connected with this institution had last year an average number seventy-five inmates. Fifteen dollars per capita per month is appropriated for their suppo

THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION is situated on the San Jose Road, on the lot occupied also the Industrial School. The building, which is composed of brick and stone, was completed 1874, and cost about $120,000. The central portion is octagonal in form. Attached are t wings, containing in all two hundred cells, each capable of accommodating two prisoners. I plan contemplates three other wings, with accommodation for one thousand inmates. The ce are furnished for three hundred and ninety-four prisoners, with three dark cells for the purp of punishment. During the year, this institution was also used as a branch jail to relieve t pressure on the old County Jail. There were received during the year, sixty-one House Correction and two hundred and fifty-nine County Jail prisoners. The discharges for expirati of sentences and other causes amounted to three hundred and ninety-eight, leaving w.

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PROGRESS OF THE CITY.

imber on hand at opening of year, one hundred and twenty-seven prisoners. Several large orkshops have been built for the prisoners, all of whom are required to perform manual labor r eight hours each day. There is also a hospital and chapel.

THE CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL is situated on a ten-acre plot of ground, in the southern portion of the city, bounded by Potrero Avenue and Nevada, Sierra and Nebraska Streets. he main entrance is on Potrero Avenue. The buildings of the hospital, which has accommo- itions for three hundred and eighty-four patients, comprise the administrative and dining ulls, each wooden buildings, three stories in height, and situated opposite each other in the ntre of the block, a kitchen and laundry, gate-house, stable, morgue, operating rooms, etc., sides six long, two-story wooden pavilions, used as hospital wards. Each of these is capable accommodating sixty-four patients, besides nurses and attendants. Between the administrative id dining-hall buildings extends a long, covered corridor. During the year ending June 30, 378, there were three thousand and seven patients admitted to the hospital. Average number patients, three hundred and eighty-three. Total expenditures, $83,411.08. Average cost per tient, $218.05.

THE CITY AND COUNTY ALMS HOUSE occupies a portion of the old San Miguel Ranch, stant about six miles from the City Hall, and within sight of Lake Honda. The Alms ouse consists of a large four-story building, having a frontage of one hundred and sixty- venty feet, with wings at the northern and southern extremities, each forty-four by seventy- ree and one-half feet. It was opened September 12, 1867, and has accommodation for five indred inmates. During the last fiscal year five hundred and seventy-two were admitted, and the close of the year there were four hundred and thirty-three remaining. The number of mates is frequently largely in excess of the number which the building was originally designed accommodate. The cost of maintaining the institution for the past fiscal year was $66,872. - '; the average yearly cost for each inmate being $140.49, and the daily cost of each, 382 cents. he institution is under the charge of Mr. M. J. Keating.

THE TWENTY-SIXTH STREET HOSPITAL, located on the Potrero, near the corner of De Haro id Colusa streets, is specially set apart for the receipt and care of persons afflicted with con- gious diseases. The total number of patients treated during the fiscal year was twenty-six, which twenty-four were afflicted with small-pox. Recently, by order of the Board of Health, number of Chinese lepers have been removed to this Hospital, where they are kept in isolated tarters. John W. Foye is the Resident Physician.

THE COUNTY JAIL is an old two-story brick building, located on Broadway between Kearny and upont Streets. For years it has been utterly inadequate to accommodate the number of pris- Lers committed to it, and temporary expedients in the establishment of branch jails, and the casional use of the House of Correction have been resorted to when overcrowded. At the esent time the use of the House of Correction by the Sheriff for this purpose has been ordered opped, and the branch jail abandoned. It is expected, however, that quarters in the New ity Hall will be shortly provided for the relief of this institution.

THE CITY PRISON, located in the basement of the Old City Hall, at the corner of Kearny and Tashington Streets, is the most inadequate of all our city institutions. The prison consists of le long corridor, opening into which are several large cells, in each of which a score of prisoners 'e confined at once. At the upper end of the corridor are several rows of smaller cells, which vo or three prisoners can occupy at a time. The whole place is damp and almost without entilation.

In the northeast corner of the basement is an apartmant used as a receiving hospital for the ception and treatment of invalids found exposed on the streets, casualties, wounds, etc.

The vast number of arrests made at times during the year for violation of the cubic-air ordi- ince had the effect of converting this noisome institution into a veritable Black Hole of Calcutta. During the last fiscal year eighteen thousand six hundred and twenty-seven arrests were ade, nine being for manslaughter and forty-two for murder. Ninety-five suicides were reported. he police force was increased during the year from one hundred and fifty-four to three hun- red and twenty-five men.

SAILORS' HOME .- This building which was built for and formerly used as the United States Carine Hospital is located on the corner of Harrison and Main Streets. It is a large four- ory brick building of rectangular shape, having projecting bastions at each corner, the inter- ediate spaces between which are connected on the outside with iron balconies on each floor. ; is maintained by the collection of the legal dues imposed on sailors hailing from or arriving the port.

Street Railroads.

The system of intercommunication, as developed by our street railroads, is perhaps not sur- assed in facilities of accommodation by that of any other city in the world, and has grown to s present proportions within the past twelve years ; this, too, notwithstanding the fact that igineering skill, inventive genius, and mechanical appliances, new and foreign to the history of cior street railroad construction, were demanded by the rough contour of surface to which they ave been applied. Sharp ascents or descents have here proven no bar to their successful ilding, the only question being, when does a neighborhood require additional facilities ? and

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the solution is found whenever the question is definitely determined, regardless of the inter vening engineering difficulties or obstacles.

The first street railroad laid in the city-the Market Street-was operated for some year under legislative and municipal franchise, by steam, but has subsequently been converted into horse railroad. Since that time extensions have been made from time to time in its tracks branches have been added as fast as the development of the city has called for further accom modations, and in this respect the Market Street Railroad, as indeed all the subsequent addi tional constructions of new lines, have anticipated rather than met the requirements of the city' growth.

Up to the present year there have been built seven additional horse railroads, with branches duplicate lines, and double tracks, until at the opening of the present year there was laid in th city something over fifty-five miles of track, not inclusive of the cable roads.

The desirability of bringing within easy reach of the business heart of the city the more ele vated portions of the city which laid contiguous to it, as well as to enhance the value of thes properties for residence locations, early directed attention to the solution of the problem of cheaj and frequent communication. Horse railroads were out of the question, or only available by long and circuitous routes, and then susceptible of operation only by the heaviest expense

The first practical solution of the question was produced by the company organized for th construction of the Clay Street line, who in 1873 first demonstrated the complete success o the idea of the "endless wire cable," and practically leveled the mountains of our city, by giving us a means of passenger transportation which knows no hindrance from excessive grade to be surmounted, nor additional cost in operation. The steep grades of this line average fifteen feet in every one hundred. The success of this principle having been established, the Sutte Street Company was quick to avail itself of the improvement, and in 1876 provided the cabl. and necessary machinery for the working of its line from the junction of Sutter and Marke Streets to the crossing of Sutter and Larkin-a portion of their line which had prior to tha time been using extra horse power in its operation, and which was not in the enjoyment of any great public favor, owing to the slow time enforced by the grades to be surmounted. During the past year the Sutter Street Company has introduced the cable for the working of tha portion of their line lying between Sutter and Hayes Street on Larkin. This company using both the motive powers-horses and the cable-records its testimony in favor of the cable, both on the score of economy and character of service. On this line the continuous trips o the cars being only partially served by the cable motor, they are transferred without delay a the termini of the cables to the horse power, by which their trips are continued.

The crowning work in this class of lines is, however, represented in the California Stree Railroad, which was organized in August, 1876. Ground was broken for its construction July 5 1877, and the last rail of the track from Kearny to Fillmore Street laid on the 18th day o December following. The road was opened for traffic, April 10, 1878. A description of the character of the construction of this, the best road of its class, will illustrate the most complete perfection of the principle- The rails are of steel, and connected by fish joints, like the '] rail. The ribs, which serve as ties, are made from T rail iron turned bottom up, and bent to a curve, so as to pass under the tube which encloses the cable ; these are about four feet apart. and rest upon a solid and continuous concrete, the concrete being carried up so as to form the sides of the cable tubes and the foundation of the street paving between the track. Nc

wood whatever was used in the construction of the road-bed. At Kearny and Fillmore Streets. underground excavations walled up with solid masonry, each sixty feet long, contain the automatic tightening gear for the cable, which takes up, not only the occasional slacking, but any permanent stretching which may occur. The road crosses two ranges of hills, the summit: being at Jones and Octavia Streets ; between the two, at the crossing of Larkin, and in the centre of California Street, is located the engine and driving machinery, to receive which, excavations were required thirty-one feet in depth, one hundred and ten feet in length, and thirty feet in width. The engines and boilers are located under the sidewalk and company's building, corner of Larkin and California, the whole being surrounded and surmounted by solic masonry, the magnitude of which can only be appreciated by those conversant with works of like character. There are two engines of five hundred horse-power each, and are so arranged that either can be used, or both at once, if required. The cable is in two parts, each about nine thousand feet long, and weighs forty-three thousand five hundred pounds. It is made of flexible steel wire, one and a quarter inches in diameter, and was manufactured by A. S. Hallidie of this city, who is the original inventor and patentee, he having manufactured all of those in use in the city. The cable winds around immense iron wheels at either extremity of the line. maintaining a continuous circuit up one track and down the other while the road is in operation. The Clay Street Railroad differs in construction only in having its cable in one piece, and the engine located at the top of the hill, instead of between two, as in the California. The summit of the hill crowned by the Clay Street road is three hundred and seven feet above Kearny Street, this elevation being achieved in less than one quarter mile. The cars on all cable roads are drawn by dummy cars coupled ahead, which have gripping attachments that connect and disconnect at will with the cable.

Up to January 1, 1878, all the street railroads of the city then in operation were charging

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‹ and one-quarter cents for fare, or four tickets or fares for twenty-five cents, except the Clay reet Road, which only charged five cents from the commencement of its operation. Upon at date, by virtue of an act of the last Legislature, all fares on street railroads in San Francisco re reduced to five cents. A thorough inquiry among the companies affected by the change veals the fact that for the past year the reduction (of twenty per cent. ) has caused an increase the volume of traffic of about ten per cent., thereby leaving the companies with a loss of ten r cent. on gross receipts. It is questionable, however, whether or not a similar loss in gross ceipts would not have been experienced at the old price, had it been maintained, in view of e stringency of the year. Managers are hopeful of a better showing in the coming year.

During the past year, in addition to the opening of the California Street road, and the sub- tution of cable for horse power by the Sutter Street Company on a part of its line, the City ilroad Company has extended its Mission line from Steuart, through Mission and East streets the Oakland Ferry Landing ; the North Beach and Mission line has several small changes in e for the greater convenience of its route, and the Potrero and Bay View Company have com- :ted the conversion of their entire line from a single to a double track.

The Sutter Street Company have abandoned during the year their branch lines from the ssing of Polk and Bush, through Bush, Fillmore, California and Central Avenue to Point bos Road, and have leased that portion of their line from Octavia to Harbor View for one ur. They will extend their Sutter Street line at once from Polk to Central Avenue, after completion of which that part of their line from the corner of Polk and Sutter, through lk and Vallejo to Octavia, will be operated as a branch.

During the early part of January of the present year the California Street Railroad Company itioned the Board of Supervisors to consent to their abandoning of their franchise west of lmore Street, on the ground of the prior occupancy of the street by the Sutter Street Com- y, but upon the adoption of an order for the removal of the Sutter Street Company's tracks m California Street, the petition for abandonment has been withdrawn, and the California eet Company have agreed to complete their line to Central Avenue within the time of tir original franchise, ten months from date hereof (February, 1879), an extension of time its completion to First Avenue having been agreed upon.

Franchises are also in existence for the construction of lines as follows : One, known as the ean Beach Railroad Company, to run from California Street through First Avenue and vari- streets south of the Park to Great Highway and the southern boundary of the county, will bably be run by cable, and another cable road, to run from the corner of Washington l Montgomery, through Montgomery Avenue and Union Street to Steiner, its ultimate desti- ion being the Presidio. Work on this line would have been commenced ere this, but for le complications in regard to right of way for part of the line overland embraced within the Alcade grant. The prospect now is, that all opposition on the part of the property owners the Alcade grant will be abandoned, when the work will be pushed rapidly to completion aar as Steiner Street.

Still another cable road, to run through Geary Street, is projected, the lot on the northeast ner of Geary and Buchanan having been secured for the erection of the engine-house.

Sixteen fifty-vara lots, lying in the double block bounded by Cole, Waller, Frederick and yton streets, have been purchased by the engineer of the California Street Cable Road, acting Leland Stanford, looking to the building of a wire-cable road on Oak or Haight streets, from ) Market Street Railroad on Market Street, to the Park and Stanyan Street, and ultimately the ocean ; work has already been commenced. It is also in contemplation to convert the Vrket Street and Hayes Valley horse-car lines into cable roads. This determination has wilted from the experience acquired in the California Street line, which has paid one and one arter per cent. per month on the original investment.

The following statistics of the roads already built will be of interest :

CALIFORNIA STREET RAILROAD .- Runs from Kearny Street through California to Fillmore. Thas twenty-five cars, seating sixteen persons each, and twenty-five dummies, seating eighteen psons each. Round trip from Kearny to Fillmore and return is made in twenty minutes. I company's offices and buildings are located at the corner of California and Larkin streets. Il cost of the road was $430,000. Its officers are : Leland Stanford, president; N. T. Smith, ve-president ; T. W. Hinchman, secretary ; Thomas Seals, superintendent.

CLAY STREET RAILROAD .- Runs from Kearny Street through Clay to Van Ness Avenue; T: cable is nearly two miles long, was made in one piece, and weighs eight tons. One million si hundred thousand passengers were carried during past year, and one million pounds Sydney schenings consumed.

UTTER STREET RAILROAD .- Runs from the foot of Market Street via Market, Sutter, Polk Vallejo to Octavia. The leased portion of the line runs from corner of Octavia and Vallejo Octavia, Union, Steiner, Greenwich and Baker to Harbor View. A branch line runs from k through Pacific Avenue to Fillmore. Another branch runs from Sutter through Larkin, P Mycket, Ninth and Mission to Fourteenth Street. It has fifty-five cars, fourteen dummies, one h: dred and eighty-one horses, and one steam motor. Monthly dividends of $2,500 are being pil at present.

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THE NORTH BEACH AND MISSION RAILROAD COMPANY .- Runs from Townsend throug Fourth, Market, Kearny, Montgomery Avenue and other streets to the junction of Mason an Francisco streets. The Mission route runs from the ferry landings through Market, Californi: Kearny, Market, Fourth and Folsom to Twenty-sixth Street. Another branch runs from th corner of Montgomery and California streets through California, Battery, First and Folsom 1 Fourth Street. The company employs forty-five cars, three hundred horses and one hundre and fifty men. It carries about five million passengers annually.

THE OMNIBUS RAILROAD COMPANY .- Runs from the Southern Pacific Railrord Depot, c Townsend Street, through Townsend, Third, Market, Montgomery, Montgomery Avenu. Pacific, Stockton, Union and Powell to Bay Street. A branch runs from Montgomery alor Market to the ferry landing. Another branch from Third Street along Brannan to Pacific Ma Steamship Docks. Their "Mission Ronte " runs from Montgomery through Washington Sansom, Market, Second and Howard to Twenty-Sixth Street. The company has forty-six car twenty four of which are "bobtails," three hundred horses, and employs one hundred ar thirty men.

THE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY .- Runs from ferry landing through East, Jackson Sansom, Bush, Kearny, Post, Stockton, Geary, Taylor, Sixth and Brannan to Eighth Stree Another line runs from ferry landing through Market, Pine, Sansom, Bush, Kearny, Post, Dupon Market, Turk and other streets to the corner of Post and Central Avenue. The compar employs in daily use twenty-eight cars, three hundred horses and one hundred and fifty me: Three million seven hundred and fifty thousand passengers were carried last year.

THE CITY RAILROAD COMPANY .- Runs from ferry landing through East and Mission Twenty-sixth Street. Its other line runs from ferry landing through Market, Sutter, Dupon Market, Fifth and Mission to Twentieth Street. It has fifty cars, all " bobtails," two hundre and fifty horses and requires forty-five drivers daily.

THE POTRERO AND BAY VIEW RAILROAD .- Runs from ferry landing via Market, Pos Dupont, Market, Fifth, Bluxome, Fourth and Kentucky streets and Railroad Avenue Thirty-fourth Avenue, South San Francisco. The greater portion of the southerly section this road is over water, crossing Mission Bay and Islais Creek on substantial and expensi bridges. It uses the " bobtail " car.

MARKET STREET RAILROAD .- Runs from ferry landing through Market and Valencia Twenty-sixth Street. The Hayes Valley branch runs from ferry landing through Marke Hayes, Laguna, Tyler and other streets to corner of Devisadero and O'Farrell streets. T] Fifth Street line runs from ferry landing through Market and Fifth to the Southern Pacit Railroad depot. The company has seventy-seven cars, five hundred and fifty horses al employs two hundred and fifty men. The number of miles ran by the cars of this company 1878 was one million four hundred and twenty-four thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

BERRY STREET RAILROAD .- Runs from Seventh through Berry and Third to Chann streets. This road was completed during the past year, but cars have not as yet been plac on it.

Steam Railroads.

CENTRAL PACIFIC .- This railroad extends from San Francisco to Ogden, Utah, a distance eight hundred and eighty-two and eighty-nine hundredths miles ; there is also embraced the property of the company, by consolidation, the Western Pacific, the California and Orego the San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda, and the San Joaquin Valley railroads, which, togeth with the leased lines, make a total mileage operated by the company of two thousand one hu dred and eighty-seven miles. There is also operated under this company two hundred aj ninety-four miles of steamer line, on the Sacramento River. The amount of stock subscribed the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California is $62,608,800, of which $54,275,500 h been paid up. The receipts for the year 1878, from transportation of passengers, $5,284,913.0' of freights, $10,802,276.40 ; and from other sources, $1,443, 669.08 ; total, $17,530,858,55. T. operating expenses for the year were $8,780,312.48, leaving net earnings to the amount $8,750,546.07, the proportion of operating expenses to gross receipts being a shade over fifty cent. The indebtedness of the company at the close of said year amounted to $82,740,680, which there is due to the United States $27,855,680. The value of the road, including its land steamers, rolling stock, machine shops, and all appurtenances, is estimated at $187,003,680.6

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The San Francisco directory: embracing a general directory of residents and a business directory : also, a directory of streets, 1879 , Part 7

Author: Langely, Henry G Publication date: 1879 Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co. Number of Pages: 1196

Author: Langely, Henry G
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: San Francisco : Francis, Valentine & Co.
Number of Pages: 1196