The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1895, Page 33

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1895 33 = | control the trade, commerce and naviga- tion of British Columbia, Sitka, China, Japan, Austraiia, the South Sea Islands, Mexico, Central and South America, An Encouraging Market. The outleok of the real-estate market is somewhat of a task to predicate, but from the indications of the past year it appears to be encouraging. There has been more unity of action the past year than ior- merly—more enterprise too—people have John Pforr. not waited for something to happen, but have set about doing whatever they could find to'do with the t In my opinion opportunities long ex- e n thereal-estate market are coming soon—when they come they will come in menifold shape. Immigration will have et in as a resvlt of enterprise on the part the people and liberal inducements offered by the railroads. The stranger will be among us and new life, new blocd, more people, more money, dustries will be the result. ? incre2se in numbers we will in- in strength and financial import- The time is nearer than most of us . There are grand opportunities this City and State compared with other tes and towns, and I predict a much larzer volume of business in real estate transactions the coming year than the last has shown. — e Inquiries Increasing. While the greater part of the last two years has been distressingly quiet and the market dull, we certainty predict a pros- s year for real estate. It is safe to that prices of property are lower now pero sa years. Not only the number, but also the character of business and residence im- an known. rest in real estate heretofore u The number of inquiries for prop- erty within the last two months is in- creasing wonderfally. Eastern capitalists are beginning to inierest themselves in our City, which is evidenced by the recent pur- chase of some of the large downtown prop- erties. Owing to the present rate of taxa- tion, banks will be obliged to reduce the present rate of interest paid to depositors; in consequence of which. persons having money on deposit will withdraw itand in- vestit in rea! estate, from which they will receive better returns. The “signs of the times” surely augur well for 1896, Property in Demand. Real estate here has always been in de- mand, and the improvement companies which of late years bave taken up outside lands, graded, laid out in streets, sewered and brought into the market homesteads, ready to be built on or have buili on them, James W. Burnham. that homes at moderate cost and on easy terms stand ready for the homeseeker, have done much for the development of the Gity. Electric and cable lines have with fore- sight been boldly run far beyond the set- tled portions of the City, only in a year or two to find the properties settled all along the line, the population following the roads asan army its leader. These lines have drawn the population steadily west- ward, while the same means of traps- portation has caused the highest billtops to be selected as favored dwelling spots. Slow in some respects, backward in public improvements, such as the repair- ing of the streets with noiseless material and extending the electric lighting of the town, San Francisco can boast of the energy shown by its real estate owners as a class in improving the properties held ana offering comfortable homes and hand- some business structares to those seeking quarters in either. The suburban towns have always been attractive to the busi- ness men of the City for residences, and it was only since the cable and electric sys- tems of the different corporations have been perfected and a network of roads | spread through the City that the tide fairly turned toward the fine residence propertie: close to the business portion of the C Improvements in City, sub- urbs and country go hand in band, all tending to build up a great common- wealth and a great City, and the future of this City and State are both exceedingly bright. e Realty Stands the Test. In reviewing the real estate market of the last eleven montns I must say that San Francisco realty has stood the test nobly. values, notwithstanding many fo We find a very different st in the country. Buyers of country land are scarce, and very probabiy for the rea- son that nearly every farm in the cocuntry is for sale. But I see in the yery near future bright prospects for the country. Men ifrom the Eastern States and from Europe are here looking around and many of them are prepared to invest. n they ever will be within the next ten | The only drawback is still the tightness of money market, consequently they | Revorts from Eastern points urthermore our farmers are becoming | more contented and are conducting their | places on better business methods, They | have become convinced that the smail farm is the only profitable one, and that they must farm differently and live differ- ently. As s00n as this radical change Is effected the sign For Sale will' come down from many places and the demand for land will increase and . prices. go up. Not. to- boom price, but to its productive value. Then our offices will be filled with buyers in- stead of sellers. The Mission District. the Mission district is very prosperous, This section of the City would very ma- terially increase if the street work was properly carried out. The Mission neels bituminized streets and patent stone side- walks thronghout. Farthermore its resi- dents should get together and make up a purse sufficient to purchase the property owned by theJewish cemetery, bounded by Dolores and Church streets, and Eigh- teenth to Twentieth streets, and convert the same into a public park. It is an omen of prosperity that there is a good feeling among the builders. Good, substantial buildings are being erected and the plans have been drawn for several fine buildings to be erected early next year. There have been some splendid sales made in 1895 in this portion of 8an Francisco, and the future outlook is very bright. The money market is somewhat easier and the purchasers are more numerous. I think that 1896 will prove a very prosperous sea- son. The appearances of the town would be enhanced greatly if persons owning va- cant lots on the principal streets were com- pelled to fence them, whilé in the outside districts there should be at least plank sidewalks. Towser’s Trick. Towser was growling at something, much to Jack’s amusement. “You funny old dog, youn,” said Jack, patting him on the head, “trying to make us think you'rea cat, purring away like that. You can’t fool me.” e ey Grandpa—Don’t get scared, Willie. The tiger is about to be fed. That’s what makes him jump and roar so. ‘Willie (easily)—Oh, I ain’tafraid of him, grandpa. Papa’s the same way when his meals ain't ready.~Standard. There has been no depreciation of | find it difficult to realize on their holdings, | indicate | | that foreign immigration has increased. | provements lately erected, are awakening | The outlook of the real estate market for | | ! THE BIG BLOCK ON MARKET STREET —ONE OF THE WORL Will Be the Home of The Emporium Department Store, the Greatest Mercantile Establishment of Its Kind in the United States, A Magnificent Improvement for San Francisco, That Cost F Within a few weeks San Francisco will have one of the largest retail establish- ments in the world in full operation. It wiil be housed in the largest and most magnificent building ever constructed by man for mercantile purposes and between three and four millions of dollars will have been invested in this vast undertaking. Viewed from the opposite side of Market street, the Parrott building, solid-looking and substantial as it is, gives no adequate | idea of its real proportions. Only when | you have entered the building, and, stand- ing beneath the great dome in the center, turn your gaze in all directions, lcoking through the myriad of columns which sup- port the floors above, do you begin to realize how stupendeus an undertaking the planning and building of this mer- cantile palace really is. The ground floor is one vast apartment without a single partition, having an area of 96,2 square feet, and the height of this won- | derful room ranges from 45 to 100 feet. The basement beneath is still larger, ex- tending as it does beneath the Market- | street sidewalk, and covering a ground | space of 104,500 square feet. The height | PARROTT D’S GREATEST. our Millions. employment for enterprising young men. The board of directors of the Emporium Company are: President, Frank Pauson; vice-president, Charles M. Cole, Robert Lustombe, and W. D. Harper the general manager. The attorney of the company is Judge R. Y. Hayne. The Emporium Company have a lease of the entire building for twenty years at a comparatively small round rental. “Every conceivable kind of merchandise will be retailed excepting ship-chandlery and un- dertaking goods,” said Mr. Feist, the pres- ident of the company, in a recent inter- view, “and each department will be larger than any similar store in this City. We are in the same position to sell goods as are the great department stores in the Eastern cities, which retail at 15 to 25 per cent less than the small stores which han- dle single linesof goods can possibly afford to. Doing a business edual in volume to that of thirty smaller stores, we concen- trate expenses—one rental, one set of exee- utive ofiicers, one delivery system, one corps of buyers, strictly & casi business, no collectors, no bookkeepers, no losses on steam can be used. Reducing pressure valves between the boiier and the main steampipe and back pressure valves on the exhaust pipe are so located that if the exhaust steam is not enough to fill the Ppipes of the heating system live steam is reduced in pressure automatically and fed into the pipe system until the required amount of steam s furnished. The plant throughout is so supplied with valves that the use of any line, or any number of lines, can be discontinued at any time without interfering with the balance of the system. In each office and throughout the stores and corridors cast-iron ornamental radi- ators will be placed, artistically decorated. These radiators are of the manufacture of the American Radiator Company of Chi- cago, whoare the largest radiator manufac- turers in the world, and who received the award at the World’s Fair in that city. All of the latest scientific appliances for the better control and regulation of steam systems are being used on this plant, which was put into the building by George H. Tay & Co., and it bids fair to be the most perfect system in use on the Pacific Coast: Trdigl e The Ornamental Ironwork In all mocern buildings there is more or less ornametnal ironwork, but 1n no build- ing in the West is there such a quantity as will embeliish the Parrott block. Some of the finest of this work has been done by the local firm of Coppieters & Mockel, pro- prietors of the California Artistic Metal ‘Works, on Jessie street. The general im- pression that such work can only be done in perfection in the East is disapproved by the beantiful grillwork inclosures for the four main elevators, the handsome stai vs on the Jessie-street side, the baiustrades of the mezzanine floor, all ECLECTIC SCHOOL. Theory of the Eclectic Practice Explained by Dr. Mac- lean—Hospital of Their Own—Interviews Witha Number of Practitioners. Dr. D. Maclean, dean of the faculty of the California Medical College, in a recent in- terview for the Cavy, gives the following interesting facis about the modern school of eclecticism in medicine, which, in view of the controversies during the past few months between the ‘‘old school’ and the “new school” men, will be of special inter- est. He tells clearly and concisely what eclecticism is, and how its theories are taught in this State. Here is the sub- stance of his remarks: “‘Eclecticism in medicine is not swallow- ing theories or systems as a whole, but selecting and choosing such remedies and measures as science hasdemonstrated, and clinical experience has taught. will change morbid conditions, relieve sickness and restore heaith. There is truth in the doc- trine of allopathy, that certain agents are curative by producing morbid phenomena differing from the existing disease. This is the principle of relieving congestion by the application of a blister. This law is not universal. It islimited 1n its applica- tion. There is truth in the doctrine of homeopathy, that certain agents are cura- tive by producing symptoms similar to those of existing disease. This is abun- dantly established by clinical evidence. As, for instance, use of ipecac in nausea, and to the Maclean Hospital, which is con- ducted under the supervision of the faculty. All classes of operations can be witnessed and methods of surgical dress- ings and treatment observed. Interesting medical cases can always be studied under the ghidance of a professor, thereby incul- cating at the bedside the knowledge im- parted in the classroom. Free clinics are also held at the college from 8 A. M. to 5 P. ¥. daily. “The college fees are reasonable: Matriculation $5, tuition for each session for three years $100, graduation fourth year $40, and demonstrator $10 each year.” The Maclean Hospital is pleasantly situated at 1534 Mission street, the mansion- | like building being surrounded by ample grounds, well-kept lawns and fragrant beds of flowers. The appointmentsof the build- ing are complete and in keeping with the necessities of modern surgery for cases that require operative procedure, and for the treatment of all other cases, both acute and chronic. L. F. Herrick, M.D., is the resident physician. The medical and surgical staff is composed of the faculty of the California Medical College, together with the resident physician. The doors of the institution are, however, open to all practitioners in good standing, to whom are accorded every courtesy and privilege in treating private cases. Dr. G. G. Gere oi 227 Geary street, a well- known and successful surgeon and profes- sor of surgery in the California Medical College, being asked about the surgical in- struction given at the college, says: ‘“The advances made in practical surgery by the introduction of important instruments and methods of operating, and especially by the use of antiseptics and aseptic pre- cautions, are matters of general knowledge. ‘We must remember, however, that sur- gery is an art as well as a science and, as in any other handicraft, the personal ele- 3ol E TH HANDSOMEST ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE YET INTRODUCED IN DEPARTMENT STORE. A MERCANTILE BUILDING — CAFE AND BANDSTAND IN THE EMPORIUM of the building on Market street is seven stories and on Jessie street five. The front facade, built entirely of Ore- | gon gray sandstone in the modern rer sance style of architecture, beantiful and imposing. The eighteen massive Cor- inthian columns above the third story; the grand main entrance, with its Doric pilasters and archway forty feet high. open- ing into the great vestibule with its won- derful stone carving the vast expanse of plate glass which w form the iront of the main and mezzanine iloo the peautiful stone baiustrade which incloses the roof—these and many other architec- tural features of a striking order unite to form omne of the finest edifices in Ame ‘T'he interior w n keeping with the beautiful exterior. The finishings of the grezt store will be of marble, bronze, steel and polished mahogany, the beautiful grill work inclosing the main elevators alone costing 00. paved with marble, will be a veritable is 25 feet from both ends of the store and then to right to left in center of the store, forming a rotunda 140 feet in di- ameter. Above tie rotunda rises the grand dome, 100 feet above the floor at its apex. One hundred and twenty-five tons of steel have been used in the construction of the dome. The beautiful windows at its base will be of ornamental art glass in fig- ured designs and the main skylights of crystallized plate-glass in decorated design. Beneath the dome will be located the | | cafe and band stand, the handsomest archi- into a| tectural feature ever introduced mercantile building. The cafe, elevated six feet above the main floor, is fift feet in diameter. In the centerisa coun- ter fourteen feet in diameter. from which | the patrons will be served, and from which | rises ornamental iron supports for the band stand to accommodate the fifty mu- sicians. At intervals of about fifteen feet around the balustrade of the cafe are costly | eiectroliers of beautiful design, between which are urns of rarest ferns and choice exotics. : The vpeculiar construction of the cafe enables its patrons to see moving throngs in the great store, and allows of an unob- structed view of the magnificent dome. The superb stairways leading from the main aisles on the east and west sides of the rotunda are of white marble, with railings, balusirades and newel posts of ornamental bronze. Fifteen elevators, run by electricity, will be in operation for freight and passengers, The front of the five upper stories will be rented for office purposes, confined ex- clusively to professional and other callings of the highest standing. The United States Supreme Court occupies the entire upper floor, and more than forty promi- nent law firms have already engaged offi- ces in the new building. All the balance of the building will be occupied by the great department store to be known as ‘The Empoerium. The Parrott building messenger service is a unique feature which will be greatly appreciated by the occupants. Touch the electric button with which each office is provided and a uniformed messenger ap- pears; not the undersized, proverbially slow boy with the dime-nove! and cigar- ette babits, but a young man capable of transacting ordinary business affairs, such as serving legal papers, making col- lections, etc., or of attending the office during the temporary absence of the prof prietor. Here is a new field of temporary The main aisle, | Forty feet in width, it will ex- | | bad accounts, the buying power that im- | im e tosources and large orders com- mand-—for these and a hundred other rea- sons, we shali retail at far lower prices than any other store west of the Rockies. | “Among the features oi the Emporium will be th rant in the base- | ment, the main din oo 100x100 feet; the grillroom 64x#6 with mosaic floors, marble wainse < and unique and beautiful decorat The chen, storerooms, butcher-shop and hakery for the restan t alone occupy more space than the largest restaurant now conducted | in the City. There will be an emergency | hospital for those taken suddenly ill; an | | information bureau, where intormation | about arrival and departure of trains, pro- | grammes and prices of theaters, points of | | interest in City and surroundings, etc., | | will be given gratis. Ladies’ parlor, writ- | | ing and reading-room, and a nursery | where children will be cared for while | | parents are shopping, are on the mez- zanine floor. On the opposite side of the | building are Jocated the gentiemen’s read- | ing and smoking room and barber-shop. | The art gallery on the second floor, the | Japanese, Chinese and Persian bazaars and the big cyclery on the roof will all be | novel features. | “The Emporium band of fifty trained | musicians will give three concerts weekly. | | After the collapsible gates which inclose | | the various departments at night have ! been shut there will remain a space in the | aisles where 10,000 people can promensde | comfortably. A wonderful electric-light plant will make the Emporium a brilliant spectacle as night. | | “Iwilladd that over fiity miles of wire | | have been used in the electric installation, | | to give some faint idea of the extent of the | electrical appliances which will be used for | light and power. { “Ar. Harper, the general manager, is | now in New York with ten experienced | buyers buying the opening stocks, and if | no untoward scpidcnt intervenes the great | store will open its doors on the 16th day of | March, 1896 1 | T T The Steam Heating Plant The building is to be heated by steam used at a low pressure, either the exhaust steam from the engine or steam taken di- | rect from the boilers and reduced in pres- sure. The systeln of piping used is the single pipe overhead gravity return sys- tem, working at a gauge pressure of from one to five pounds. This system is being used extensively throughout the Eastern cities in all the large buildings. A large riser main is carried from the boiler-room, in the Jessie-street end of the building, to the attic, where it is divided into two mains which run through the wings, one on each side to the Market-street front. The pipes supplying the radiators on the floors below are taken from the bottom of these main steam pipes and run down through the columns, cannections being left at each floor for raaiators, to the main return pipe in the basement. This latter pipe carries the water back to a receiving tank in the boiler-room, where the water is pumped back into the boiler, thus mak- ing the circuit leaving the boiler in steam in one pipe and returning in one pipe as condensed water to be used over again. The main steam pipe will be covered with sectional covering to prevent loss of heat by condensation. As the ‘pipes supplying the radiators are taken from the main steam pipe it is reduced in size. In the boiler-room the main steampipe will | S8an Francisco. from the works of this firm. manufactured the collapsi which will inclose the various depart- ments of the store at night-time. The problem was given them to build circular | folding rates, occupying when closed only een inches of wall space, and altbough ha tion to this problem,which meets all of the requirements, The Granite Work. Probubly $35,000 worth of granite has been used in the construction of the Par- rott building, and the only uses to which it has been put is for the columns in the basement, the bases, the window sills in the front of the structure and the door- steps. This will give some idea of the vast amount of material reguired to con- st the entire building. which is of the finest quality, is from the Raymond Granite Company’s quarry, at Raymond, in Madera County. the few California granites entirely free from iron. The doorstep at the main entrance is the largest piece of granite ever brought to Its dimensions are 24 feet 73 inches long, 6 feet 5}4 inches wide and 12inches thick. It weirhs seventeen tons. The Raymond Granite Company has furnished material for some of the hand- somest buildings in this State, among which are the German Savings and Loan Society, Union Trust Company, First Na- tional Bank and the granite for the Crocker building. The magnificent Ho- bart tomb is constructed of their granite. The company was incorporated three years ago. The president is T. E. Knowles, the secretary Abel Hosmer. The City office and yards are at Tenth and Channel streets. Didn’t Mention Him. There is a beautiful story of the late Pro- fessor Blackie standing in front of the fire at the lodge of Balliol, and slouting out with a roll of the famous plaid and a toss The granite, | 1t is one of | ving no stiffening bars to be rigid when | opened. They bave patented their solu- | | | | | | | | | They also | poison oak in erysipelas; but that thislaw iron gates | is infallibie or so general in its action as to include all remedies has not been proven. “It would be true if the conditions were always similar, and we could correctly in- terpret the symptoms presented in each case. Like conditions are always expressed by like symptoms, and are relieved by like remedies. This is the theory of the eclec- tic school of medicine, and is known as | specific medication. The physiclogical ac- tion of a drug gives its selective affinity for certain organs and tissues, and clinical experience has taught that the action of a drug under given conditions is invariable. A symptom @ the expression of a condi- tion, and, correctly interpreted, furnishes the indication for the desired remedy. The study of pathological conditions, their ex- pression by definite symptoms and the remedies indicated comprise the theory and practice tanght by the California Med- ical College. “The California Medical College bas adopted a higher standard than many of the older medical colleges of this country. It requires four years of attendance before students can present themselves for final examination, which, if satisfactory, enti- tles them to their medical degree. It has taken the lead in requiring a higher stand- ard of admission and the extension of the curriculum of medical studies. Ifs aim has been to give the highest medical edu- cation. ‘It is the exponent of liberal practice on this coast and aims to teach a system of physiological medicine founded on the action of remedies in health and disease and the indications for their therapeutic use. It recognizes the principle oi evolu- tion in medicine, realizing that not suf- ficient facts have been collated to consti- tute it a definite science and establish a. universal law for the application of reme- dies to diseased conditions; acknowledg- ing the claims of -allopathv and home- opathy, as far as clinical experience has demonstrated their trath; subordinating all theories to results; proving all things; holding fast to that which is good, irre- spective of its source. “The Jrst course of lectures in this insti- THE MACLEAN HOSPITAL. of the equally famous wila white hair: “We don’t mention you at all.” ———————— Lord Salisbury will kindly proceed to be valved, so that eitherthe live oy exhaust 4 +limb down off that pezch. “r should like to know what you Oxjord fel- lows say of me behind my back!” Aftera moment’s pause, Jowett replied mildly, tution was delivered in 1879, and yearly lectures have been continued since that time. Its graduates now numberone hun- dred and ninety-seven and are found among the most skillful and successful practitioners of medicine in our State. ment of well-trained hands, skilled in tha necessary manipulation, is required to give the best results. “In this respect we claim that the meth- ods pursued in the California Medical Col- lege are much better than former customs of hospital instruction, so called, in which seores or hundreds of students of all classes sat in a great amphitheater and ebserved at a distance, perhaps through opera- glasses, a few professors and attendants perform some minor operation. In adai- tion to the students practicing on the cadaver, my rule is to take with me in rolation two or three members of the senior class, or fourth year students only, to the patient’s bedside, whether in pr- vate residence or hospital, where, under my personal supervision, they observe and assist in some of the most important oper- ations. “For instance, in the last year or two, in addition to ampatations and minor sur- gery, one or more of the students have taken part in the successful operations of hysterectomy by both upper and lower methods, ovariotomy, cystotomy, herniot- omy, perineorrhaphy, colporrhaphy, ex- cision of the appendix and varioustumors, removal of the lower rectum, cure of hemorrhoids by incision or injection; of strictures by incision, dilation and electro- 1ysis; of diseased bones by curettement and injection ; of ununited fractures by drilling and nailing, and of fistulas, ulcers and fis- suresof the rectum by a variety of methods and of deformities by plastic operations,and many others. The application of the vari- ous forms of electricity also is shown to be effective in many cases which formerly would have been subjected to cutting operations or tediousand unpleasant medi- cal treatment, often without avail.” Dr. H. Xylberg, professor of osteology, California Medical College, and secre« tary of the San Francisco County Society of Physicians and Surgeons, contrasting American methods of education with those of European countries, says: “The American medical education is decidedly practical, and a course of four years’ studies, in conjunction with con- stant clinical work, as required by the California ‘Medical College, is surely tend- ing to the development of practical med- icos. And when the American seeks for scientific attainments in the profession he invariably finds them. “This I must say for the American— that, being myself a foreigner, having re- ceived my earlier education ‘across the pond,’ and consequently somewhat partial to the institutions of my native land— were 1 seriously iil to-day and had- the consciousness to:direct who should be my physician, my preference for safety and hopes of recovery would remain with the American eclectic M. D. How does the education of the medical man in America compare with that of the European? ““We must consider that there are two sides to the question; and it must be con- ceded that our European confrere has the advantage of a more thorengh ground- work of classical education. Then, taking for example my own native country, Sweden, where it requires from eight to ten years of constant medical studies to qualify for graduation, the question arises, Are they overdoing a good thing? I | frankly believe they are. All these very scientific pursuits and studies will cer- tainly develop a corps of scientists of the highest order; but the practical, every- day successful bedside physician is hardly “Students of this college have free access | ever developed on these lines,”