The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1897, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1897. 7= AIM AT MAKING SAN FRANCISCO A} GREAT PLEASURE CITY. 7:??::,, L7 L ,"" :( Cay,C 9% ¥ : S i i S % N i onscious growth, but for the e T3 58y 2 o S s | K 7 ITIES very often are an unc 3 o U 1y RS SR U T /7 st part, it would be much better if the founders and build- SN S0P ot o ey e 1Y most part, e h \‘\0 BTt ' o™, o p— ers of a city should lay before them an intelligent design ] —— R L DA ot B A LS. /I/.[/‘ and work on well defined lines. The enormous cost of producing i % eo¥ire o S w0 (S TovE. N2 Lodern Paris on the plans of Haussman and Alphland arose from === v N o 980 TS e o the fact that the French realized too late the destiny of their gay —— L O e T R AR G I M sl S — N) WO ¢ PP e O eV o Py 0% b /Z2=| capital. San Francisco, by reason of her location, her present v [e) MBS PSS P X stage of development, the character and spirit of her cosmopolitan population and other attending circumstances, is now and can be «° e made to a still gre'aFer cle%ireet fhple:i:;:jeec‘ia;ma;fio;;c;o which XO % oot 200 oo T T ne oo o e (o e ’/ the people of the Union an o e o! s b Bl c\\"‘“\c Mo ST 0 TN Vs L 90 8 2 od 4o @ 9 Keeping in view the consideration of health and pleasure, San ¢ Wt P 0P 9% 018 Wt of W BT o o '\ Francisco should improve its drainage. The streets should be T 51310 g WP oS08 ¢ 975 507 (e Foed f e g © paved with a smooth and modern durable pavement and kept R % D(weoé“ \\\\"\0« P ot o, & o g5e® Sk in as perfect repair as are the streets of Paris, for the com- “\6 . \2° “69‘“ *\\09‘& Vs Vs oo% 0¥ v“’ o2 ‘a_ o < fort, pleasure and health of all the people. An eminent O Q82 i5d 00060 ¥ G e Tho L WL e B landscape gardener should be employed at once and be- o8ee & e 00 Wipe S 00wt o8t e e ot e oo fore land values become too high, to lay out a chain of ?(\Be\‘w“a\“ > o‘\, = 1o € 19* 6\°L‘3°‘@‘5' <%t boulevards. The park should possess every attraction o0 (o5, @: 0% ¢ o o0 W 8 ',1}- and smaller parks should be made where necessary. - A great public library should be established in an independent building to the end that San Fran- cisco may become a seat of learning. Two great univer- sites on either side of the bay give every assurance that men of learning will respond with avidity to any improvements on these lines. Museums and art galleries, free to the public, will inevitably SN follow. With us the public is the patron. A grand opera house 3 2, 2 6’\ dedicated by private enterprise to the best musi¢ would in such S 7 & community find support and encouragement. d ;{\ ! == 778 There is no other city on the American continent having the ey h”./_safl,-/’ =l = climate, the local atmosphere and the position possessed by this \‘{IH‘Y } ”” t” ‘Western capital. It is the metropolis of a State which by reason of {1 f 1 b its extent and the variety and wealth-producing values of its pro- EERAEL 3 " ducts is second to none. JAMES D. PHELAN, Mayor. 7 IMPORTANT SERVICES OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. N It i 7 = e : . Al @ %" ?7 4 1 7 /0 54 S L Rl 1/ 1/l i AT (L ’ PROTECT OUR CITY WITH A PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT. | of the principal needs of this city, if not the pal one, is better fire protection by giving it a ful paid Fire Department. The conflagration hazard in San Francisco is enormous, and people who have no experience in such matters can form no adequate idea of how near thelr city comes occasionally to being swept off the face of the globe. t behooves us to protect this city as much as possi- le. It is growing in every direction. The Richmond dis- is filling up, Ashbury Heights neighborhood is full of fine residences, and from one end of the city to the other improvements are taking place. Seeing, therefore, how San Francisco is developing, is it not a mistaken policy to practice economy in the atter of fire protection? Should we not take warning the terrible fires that have taken place all over the world of late? 0o: ‘Were the city better protected from fire the insurance companies could charge lower rates and they would do so gladly. A new era is certainly daw ning upc San Fran- cisco. As for the “croakers” they will always be with us, and no city is without-them. It is refreshing, however, to see that for every croaker there are at least half a dozen energetic business men,who show their faith in San Fran- cisco by embarking in new commercial undertakings or by putting up massive buildings in ev part of the city. Look at those erected by the Spring Valley Water Com- pany, the Gaslight Company, and Claus Spreckels. There is 1ot a city in the world with buildings more modernly constructed than those. That is why I say that San Francisco can well afford to pay for proper and adequate fire protection. A fully paid Fire Department is what this city needs. W. J. CALLINGHAM. l crime to-day in San Francisco is due by day and by night. country. efficient in every respect. police in case of emergency. HAT the statistics show a marked falling off in petty in no small measure to the efficlent police force that guards it Notwithstanding that our force is smaller in propor- tion to population than in any other large seaport town in the United States, I am pleased to state that the pres- ervation of order and the suppression of crime will com- pare favorably with that of any other large city in the Although poorly equipped, our police force is I would rccommend, however, as has been suggested by my predecessors, that the city and county purchase lots and erect thereon station houses fitted up with dor- mitories for the accommodation of a reserve force of purchasing and owning suitable lots for the purposes I have indicated, I would suggest that steps be taken to ob- tain from the next Legislature an act enabling the city and county to purchase or transfer from other depart- ments suitable sites for police purposes. tion with this subject I would state that station houses should be constructed with stables for the horses and patrol wagons in use in the respective districts. The mounted patrol service of this city is as good as any in the East, and I trust that it will be increased in the near future. San Francisco is progressing in every way, and it will benefit us to adopt measures that have been tried in the East and which have helped other cities to attain the high position they occupy, and gain for us the admiration and respect that are granted them. And in connec- In view of the legal difficulties in the way of the city L W. LEES, Chiet of Police. SN 4 pS N\ N by DEVELOP OUR RESOURCES AND OUR FUTURE IS ASSURED, describing our needs, to indicate that which we may reasonably ho ‘AN Francisco’s needs are numerous; her desires even more so. It is, therefore, those things or conditions which experience has taught us cannot ture. California is an agricultural and mining State. center of the State. United States. shall manufacture special machinery for mining and other purposes; but in the manufactures of iron and many other productive lines the East, which has coal and iron, cheap and plenty, has an advantage over us which we shall not be able to offset at present. ; But while this is true, it is also true that Califor- nia has products which are so nearly peculiar to her that all other portions of the United States can look to us for their supplies in such lines. Our fruit, for instance, is equal to that grown anywhere else, and it can always be disposed of if it is only properly advertised throughout the East. What we need, then, in my opinion, is to develop ouxr resources to the uttermost and to provide for steadily enlarging our market. When the whole State has reached its full productive development the future of San Francisco will be assured. How shall we se- cure this? We should lose no opportunity to let the world know what we have. We should neglect no means by which our goods may be placed before the world attractively. Half the battle consists in making a favorable impression. I am satisfied that there are many residents of California who do not clearly see where to find our greatest prosperity. Much has been said concern- ing the lack of enterprise on the part of moneyed men in San Francisco. My experience has been that it has not been difficult to enlist capital to attempt to found new enterprises in San Francisco when upon the face there appeared to be a reasonable probability of success. Several enterprises, of which I have had personal knowledge and which were projected under peculiarly favorable conditions, having in advance the guaranty of co-operation on the part of large com- mercial houses in placing the wares to be manufac- tured, existed for a time, and then the stockholders found that competition was too keen on the part of the East to permit them to profitably continue. We do not need enterprises which, owing to the present sparsity of population and the Eastern competition cannot possibly succeed. Having enjoyed knowledge concerning much which has been attempted by our San Francisco merchants and moneyed men, I do not count among our needs those enterprises which must fail of permanent success. J. B. STETSON. San Francisco is the commercial and moneyed It is also the financial and business center of the enti But this city is not destined to become the seat of apart from certain special lines, for a long time to come. We shall more practical, in Pe to secure than to allude to be ours in the immediate fu- re Pacific Coast of the great manufacturing enterprises, build ships and other Vessels; we knowledge, courage and energy beyond all prece- dent. They came here as adventurers and specu- lators, attracted by the providential discovery of gold. They remained as citizens and they founded a great State, with a future which will eclipse the ““dreams of avarice.” 2 All this history has been made in about forty- eight years. The Pioneers labored and other men en- tered into and multipliéd their labors. Their joint achievements have been condensed into statistics, dramatized in history and illustrated in romance and in song. But they also greet the eye and salute the ear in every nook and corner of San Francisco and the State. I write in the Palace Hotel, the site of which I remember, first, as barren sand, and then as devoted to religion. A stone’s throw to the west rises the Claus Spréckels building, a solid and yet beautiful monu- ment of wealth, which was not extracted, drop by drop, from the veins and the arteries of the poor, but has irrigated the fields of industry as it poured its accumulating volume through the channels of enter- prise. And, as I obsérve there the new home of The Call, whence it is to reach the intelligence of the world with 300,000 copies of its commemorative issue, my memory rebounds to its humble birth, forty years ago, and I realize a splendid vindication of the saga- city of its founders, some, if not all, of whom have passed out of sight with the vanishing Ploneers. And still further west, on leveled sand dunes and buried streams, where fashionable women once fished for minnows, stand the Pioneer building, the Flood building, the Parrott building and the Baldwin Hotel, while half a mile beyond the Odd Fellows, edifice attests the munificence of the living and the new City Hall oblivion of the dead, above whose des- ecrated graves the finger of Justice points to the eternal home where their souls are at peace. And far as the eye can reach in every direction, on all the seven hills of the peninsula, and up and down the graded streets and over the spacious front of the city, where American speculators for block after block invaded the water line the Creator had established, and through the local thoroughfares, the lights are glimmering and the cables rattling, and life in-all its aspects reveals the ceaseless panorama of the most restless of the centuries. It is a mighty story—this product of American ‘elvilization within forty-eigiit years. San Francisco has been unique in its past, it is unique in its present, it will be unique in its future. It may be and it is justly criticised. Pessimists may rail at the many evi- . T HE Pioneers of California combined intelligence, SAN FRANCISCO’S GROWTH IN FORTY-EIGHT YEARS. dences of demoralization which it reveals. Its politics may be impure. Corrupt bosses may have unduly in- fluenced its government. Its society may not have attained the polished solidity of older communities. Its enterprise may have been checked by monopoly and by torpidity. Its rectangular streets, its contrast- ing architecture, its ragged excavations, its lack of boulevards, may affront artistic taste and fail to sat- isfy educated curiosity. But, when all this is admitted, vet San Francisco, for its age, is the most phenomenal seaport on the globe. Chicago has progressed more rapidly within the last thirty years, but Chicago is the center of a conti- nent, while ‘San Francisco is one of the commercial and financial centers of the world. Vast as has been its growth, the limitation upon Chicago is obvious. There is none to the San Fran- cisco of the future. The scepter of commerce and of finance is in process of transfer from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Wise statesmen, deep thinkers, great political economists, sagacious financiers and mer- chants, have foreseen and predicted this fact for many years. Europe is in a transitional condition, and its present governments will not endure. The stream of civilization is tearing down all barriers and pouring toward the west. Our Government needs the present aid of every intelligent mind and of every patriotic heart, but it is founded upon a rock, and it will survive all the tempests that darken the closing years of the nineteenth century. It is the most stable form of government. It will live when all the monop- olies and radical experimentalists that now seem to threaten its vitality are dead and buried. And its highest adaptability to the wants and to the exigdncies of mankind will be exhibited in the West. Alaska will yet be divided into thriving States. And if the line of demarkation between America and Asia can be kept clear and distinct, if we can only reach out to every part of the Pacific for commerce and trade, and avoid unnatural and degrading political union with commu- nities alien to and incapable of association with our- selves; if we pervade this continent between the two oceans with genuine Americanism, based upon our con- stitutional system, and held down to the limitations enjoined by Washington and the Fathers of the re- public, we shall signalize the twentieth centurybysuch § a triumph of disciplined humanity as history has never recorded nor its prophets discerned. 1 firmly believe that these vast results are within the designs of Providence and that the descendants of the Pioneers are secure of their inheritance. HENRY E. HIGHTON. LET US ALL STAND TOGETHER AND WERE BOUND TC WIN. for our progress, is that whenever there is an opportunity for a Californian to be appointed to some prominent position in the gift of the Government, whether it is an original appointm a promotion, the people who are not fortunate enough to secure an appointment themselves— and, of course, oniy one man can fill one position—do not commence to work against and undermine the reputation of the man who may have been selected for that position. stances of this of late, and such conduct does not redound to our credit, either locally or in other O NE of the most essential things necessary for the proper development of this city and State, and ent or We have had many in- parts of the country. It behooves us to work for the | appointment or promotion of men who have devoted {' the greater part of their life to study and thought fitting them for the high positions to which they may be called; and if the petty animosity displayed against such men by others who have been disappointed would cease, this city and State would be greatly benefited. Our streets are in a bad condition and they should be put in good condition immediately. In September last, along with several other Cali- fornians, I was in Buffalo, attending the Grand Army National Encampment. The only news that we could find in the Eastern papers relating to San Francisco and the State was some murder, suicide, burglary or other disreputable episodes, and we talked among ourselves as to why the Associated Press furnished such news instead of nothing at all if nothin; i ble could be said of us. e If we want to benefit S: to be favorably spoken of :‘hreem;e dispatch be sent ated Press, and let this dispatch contain - ing information: Temperature at San B‘:::cif:cl-::ov:t noon, so many degrees; atmosphere clear, cloudy, or Just whatever it happens to be. I feel sure that w’hen an Francisco and cause it - in the East, let only one forth daily by the Asso- , With the pr - ertion and effort on the part of our citiz;z: p%: :xx:- duced to come here. The convention usoc!;uon 1s § working hard in conj unction with the local Turn Verein to have the meeting of the GcrmaG:ranIT-l tional Turn Vereins held in this city, and there is a B00d prospect th: ' iy ezt at San Francisco will be favored in ff The benefit accruing to the Francisco in particular. fro; , from calculable. Not only do the; ;1;:::': v.vll‘gn us, but they form golden opinions of Cal- ey "veml.ny Teturn to us at some period of their . R. H. ‘WARFIELD, Brigadier General, National Guard ot California. | Pacific Coast, and San