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12 SATURDAY EVENING, UAivLAND TRLBUNE. DECEMBER 1, 1 mm to LiVJ i ISP mm 1IM 1 mm IrlEre Of Ill 4 oo WONDERFUL BUILDING DP FOUR HUNDRED ROOMS OF TWELFTH STREET (New Local Retail District Between Broadway and Lake flerritt. PROVIDED FIR SHELTER Cottages, Apartmeri ouses and Theaters to Be Constructed Under Week'sirPerm its. The representative 'of an Eastern investment company, commanding a capital of recently visited this State for the purpose of studying the" situation in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. He spent some time in each city, and has made a report to his principals to the effect that the uncertainties associated with the location jpf the future business center of Sah Francisco makes it too risky a proposition to invest capital there at present.

The opinion of experts, he has reported to his principals, in this subject makes it too risky a proposition. Some of them have expressed the opin ion to him that Van Ness avenue will be the greater business street of the future. Others are convinced that Market street will be restored as the chief business street. Still others have advised him that the wholesale business will surely remain permanently in the immediate vicinity of the railroad terminals, south of Market street. Regarding Los Angeles, his conviction from a careful study of the conditions there was that the limit in business property values has been reached and he declined to recommend investment there in that kind of realty.

He made a thorough study of Oakland and reached the conclusion, which is certairly fully justified, that there are golden opportunities here for investment, and he recom A. There Is no 'street In this city which I Jim made such rapid strides in devel opment with the-past few months as Twelfth street, from "Broadway almost to the lake. Of course, it may not be truthfully said that all the structures which have gone up there are models of architecture. In many Instances, mended that the company he represented should take advantage of them and lose ho time in making liberal purchases of land here in the business quarters. In the record of the building work of this city which Is made a feature of this department of tho TRIBUNE every week, the showing covers in reality only four and a half days because Saturday aftrnoon is regarded as a half-holiday In tSie the Board of Public Work as.

Indeed, it is in all the municipal offices and, accordingly on that iafternoon no building perms are issued. This week, anofher beilday has been encountered, namely VThanksglving, 'and that removes another day from the contrary is the case, but, at the I same time, there are exceptions, and, In some cases, those exceptions are 'counted among the finest structures in H. Tenney two-story nine -room dwelling, northwest corner Park Way and; Mesa avenue, $6,000. A.hur Smith, two-story five-room dw4 'ing. west line Second avenuj, 50 feet; isouth of East Fifteenth street.

A. Muller, two-story fl-roonr flatsjjsouth line of Seventeenth street, 133 feet west of Castro street, $,800. I. W. Button, one-story 5 -room cot- -tage south line Sixty-first street, 25 feet -west of Shattuck avenue'.

$2,000. Max Koenig, enc-story repair north line Twenty-fourth street, 100 iei epst of Valdez street, $700. H. H. Moore, one-story four-room cottage, south line Rose street, U3 feeV west of Canning, $1,020.

Thomas, two-story 11-room fiats, north line Forty-ninth street, 185 feet east of Telegraph avenue, TJ tmas, two-story ll-room fiats, nort(j line Forty-ninth street, 2Z1) feet east of Telegraph avenue. ll.S0fc. CampinosI, two-story 10-room flat'( east line Miles avenue, 50 feet ithis city. By the term development used in this connection is meant the rapidity which the large number of vacant lots were turned into revenue-bearing sites, and where land which pied by the Bankers' Trust Company, which will be a part of the new home of the Oakland Bank of Savings. When this scaffolding shall have been removed and the new structure both for the bank and the company shall have been erected, the block in question will be even a great deal more imposing than the old one was.

FULLER BUILDING. Adjoining proposed quarters of the Bankers' Trust Company on the east is the W. P. Fuller Co. building, which was in keeping in the style of facade with the buildings which made that block famous.

The Fuller block has been sold, and, as soon as the lease on the structure expires, the building win be devoted to other purpose than those of an oil and glass warehouse. The sale took place about a month ago, as recorded in the columns of THE TRIBUNE at the time. It was not completed, however, until a day or so ago, because the purchaser "was given thirty days in which to complete the search of title. That search has been completed andj has proven satisfactory, and the purchase price has been paid over, and the building has gone Into the "hands of the purchaser, Mrs. Gorrill, of this city, the- consideration being $100,000.

This jpftlght -have been used ror pasturage twraa as SDeedilv covered with DrosDer- the working time of those engaged in the application for or the Issuance of building permits. This leaves only four and a half working days for the work but, regardless of that fact, the showing made this week is of the most en- couraging character. The record wliich has been compiled by Walter i Fawcett, secretary of the Board of Public Works, shows vthat, durfng that Short period, there were seventy- -1 MMIMMMMMMtv MMMtMMMMMM4MMMvMMttMMMtt iflRKR I KM yimd mVK'' ijliSwiii ilm iiiiiml ill ll ILI.J( Jllill in I ili' i -irt BlfiimiiiVi iiilt I mi urn In iw ilf i til ifM'iilf- ous business structures. RETAIL DISTRICT. Tnere Is rapidly developing that i Street a retail business district which will become all the more' Important (when the new hotel shall have been (constructed tin Thirteenth and Alice treets.

There Is now an almost continuous line of business structures ok both side of the street from Broadway to Lake Mirrltt. and there are more to -follow. As the years advance, Jhe character of the structures will improve andte unoccupied property one permits issued and that fhose call for the expendltcre of practically J275.000. This' Is a liberal sum of money, more especially when it Is considered In connection wltto the amount whlcli must be -put out In payment of contracts are now View of three-story structure by H. A.

Powell, at northwent cornp of Tenth and Wehstiip -ou of Summer street, $4,000. T.jrtn Gin alterations, corner Fifth and Webster streets, Emma N. Swift, two-story 11-room flats, south line Fourteenth street, 30 feet west of Chestnut street, $4,000. a tioors or wnicn win De occupied by wholesale grocery of William Cluff formerly of San Francisco, being carried out, audi bIiow that there will be no scarcity of means is at the rate of nearly. $2000 per front foot, although some allowance must be TERRESTRIAL PARADISE HAS BEEN made for the three-story building which stands on the property The reason the property was sold by W.

P. Fuller Co. was because the TURNED INTO BUSINESS PROPERTY business of that concern had outgrown the accommodations of the place. The bere for some time and that the work of development Is still In progress. In tho appended list no special ref-ence Is made to any improvement costing lass than $500.

The proposed structures provide for nearly 400 rooms for residence purposes, and fhls number is in excess of tbe accommodations- -which can afforded sometimes by half a dozen hotels in even the larger cities of the country. TWO THEATERS. firm has purchased a lot on the south tn the vicinity will be utilised to the business district which Is now flourishing on the main thoroughfare. TAKE 8 TWENTY-YEAR LEASE, The most -promising structure which Its looked for In, that neighborhood is la class A' building, which Is to be constructed on the southeast corner of Harrison and Twelfth streets. This lot Is the possession of G.

H. King, the well-known capitalist of East Oak Hand, but who has leased It for a num-jber of years to a well-known resident I of this city. The lessee took a lease west corner of Tenth and Alice treets.jFred A.Campbell Tells History of Potter Playter Gore, and on that place will construct a new Clarence Fogg, alterations, southwest corner East Tenth street and FJfth avenue (rear), $1,200. F'. A.

Hide, two-story slxroom dwt west line Thirty-seventh str jt, 40 feet south of Market street, $2,4 0. IjjJ. Langdon, two-story seven-roc pdwelllng, west line of Wayne avue, 250 feet north of Hanover street; George U. Cunningham, one-story five-room cottage, east line of Ninth avenue, 35 feet south of East Fifteenth street, $1,900. Taylor two-story seven-room dwj Jllng, west line of Watson 200: feet north of Newton, $4,000.

tl' i-ert nvr 11.vAtM. at Fourteenth and Broadway Site of New First National Bank. building, 100x100 feet, which wlil be modern In every respect, and which will be In every way adapted to the requirements of trade. OUTSIDE DISTRICT. will be in this connection.

at among the permits- taken were But the improvements th could have been made for a few thousand dollars then could not be made now for But the interest of new comers and. 'for ten years, but soon after realised that the lease was not long enough to The building; situated at the Junction ol Fourteenth street, Broadway and San Pablo avenue, and Jcnown as the Playter block, is being torn down to make way for a new, fine, seven-story, modern bank and office building- by the First National bank. to lunch in the summer-houses. It was, indeed, an ideal spot. I can remember that the first century plant that bloomed in Oakland did so in these grounds, and this was a great event.

The ladies took advantage of the occasion and held a a sum less than a million dollars. PLAYTER BUYS others In these Rustling times is not confined to the heart of the city. One can scarcely go to any part of the outlying territory that he will not find strangers and homeseekers striving to find places In' which they may for two theaters. One Of these permits calJs for the construction of a playhouse for the presentation of Chinese dramas and the other for giving vaudeville performances under the management. of the Orpheum circuit.

This latter enterprise alone represents an expenditure of $125,000, and will be found referred to In an enable him to make permanent Improvement? on it, and, accordingly, se-' cured an extension of the lease for ten years more.j As soon, therefore, as the temporary building which Is now on the site has been removed the i posed structure will be constructed, Xa, vnu-wivij J. i a UVJH' SlCLIrD, fAB llnjof Peralta street, 182 feet north of fourteenth street, $2,100. H. Reardon, one-etory five-room cottage, south line of Alleen street. Thus, one by one, the old landmarks fete and charged admission to see the Then times still continued i bad for Potter, and even the gore, thii last of his possession, was offered for pale, and it was on the market for a larig time, and no offer was made.

Nopuyer put 230k'feet west fit Grove street, $2,000. Playter in an appearance until Ell "Wj be able to select a home site and build thereon a home. There is not a week In which maps of several new tracts are not filed and placed upon the market. In some Instances, before the man are being removed to make way for a new and greater Oakland. It was only a few years ago that the property on which building stands was occupied by a beautiful home, the residence of the owner, George C.

Potter. The came along and after a great deal of procrastination and dickering Playter finally bought the property for about blooming century curiosity. The entire town was there, and the fete lasted two or three days. HOSPITALITY. The Potters in those days were quite prominent, and entertained a great deal, but a change came, and, owing to business reverses and unlucky speculations, Mr.

Potter commenced to sell and mortgage his property. It was subdivided and sold oft unt(il nothing remained but the gore. and It is the owner's Intention to make 'It one of the finest buildings In this city. OTHER MODEL BUILDINGS. Before the Inception of the move for line greater development and regenera-.

of Twelfth street, the block on rthe north aide of that thoroughfare be- from the Mr. Pdt- $125,000 in different parcels, San Francisco Savings Union ter having died, the property passing into the hands of that corporation. J. S. Burpee, who still resides here, made other part of this- department of THE TRIBUNE.

A detailed description of the Chinese theater was published in the department article of this paper in the issue of Saturday last. KIND OF IMPROVEMENTS. The number and classification of structures are as follows: Permits. Value. 4 -story brick apartment and theater $123,000 3-Story lodge building i 30,000 Stores and flats combined 1 3,150 Flats, two stories 6 26,300 Dwellings, two stories 9 83,300 the sale to Mr.

Playter. The latter was K. Nielsorf, one-story four-room shack, east lrne Nineteenth street, 45 feet south of East street, $500. Jfi A. Bishop, two-story seven-room, dw piling, west line of Kempton avenuj 22 feet west of Hawley avenue, $3,.

)0. I nrlca Iloihan, one-story five-room coage, south line of Fifty-fifth street; lOlijfeet east of Park, $2,000. Henrlca lllohan, one-story flv-rooro cottage, south line Fifty-fifth street 100 feet east of Park street, $2,000. J. Robbins, alterations, No, 841,, Broadway.

$1,349. Fr. M. Btfare, alterations, northwest coij )er Thirteenth and 4 Jefferson strj ts, $3,461. Uorge W.

White, two-story slx- not quite sure that he had riot made Mr. Potter moved his dwelling and dug an excavation extending over the for3 It. a mistake in paying so muc i ground upon which the present build rvaJuable Now it is one of the most pieces Of property in this city PLAYTER HEIRS: After Mr. Playqter died Is on the files a week. It is dotted with posters showing that nearly all the choice sites have already been seized upon by people who are able to recognize good property when they it This is not the less true outside as well as within the city limits.

During the pait few months the supervisors have filed more such maps than they ever did before in the given period. KNOW HOW TO ADVERTISE. An idea of the great diversity In the property offered for sale may be received by a reference to the adver-i tislng columns of THE TRIBUNE In this issue. All the local dealers In this line are men who know the merit of practical advertising, and those who desire to' find a home or a piece of property for investment purposes will be sure to find what they want in the classified advertising columns of this paper. bis two daughters became the ownerk of the property.

They have just leased it to ween xsroaaway ana rraiiKun streets, i was perhaps the finest combined clus-fjr of business structures in this city. IStat that appearance has been but only for a short time, however, by the scaffolding which jbeen erected at the northeast corner Of Broadway and Twelfth street, (which has been made necessary for itha construction of the magnificent new home of the Oakland Bankjof Savings. Another jP In that Imposing frorit ft) as been made, by the demolition of (the Graytone building, which adjoined bank in question on the east, and which has been razed to the ground tot the purpose of making room for the new structure which Is to be occu- house stood in the middle of the grounds, about midway between San Pablo avenue, Telegraph avenue. Fourteenth street and where Sixteenth street Is now. The entire property was a lovely garden, with hothouses, lawns, walks, drives and all kinds of foreign and domestic flowers and plants.

OAKLAND'S EARLY HOMES. Oakland had hundreds of pretty homes with elegant grounds, in these days, but this was the best of all. The entire grounds were Burrounded by a picket fence, and, for a mile on either sloTe. of "Telegraph and San Pablo avenues, rose bushes hung over the fence, and, during the summer months, presented a beautiful appearance when the bushes were full of lovely roses. These grounds were used often by the ladles of the various churches for the holding of garden fetes for the benefit of some charity, and an admission was charged, and the general public was then admitted.

It was a treat that many availed themselves of to walk around the beautiful grounds and to view the hothouses hd lounge on th lawn under the beautiful trees and the First National Bank of Oakland Dwellings, one story ....12 22,080 Sheds, stables, work- shops, etc 15 6,150 Repairs, alterations, and for thirty years, and it Is this corpor ation that is now constructing the ele dwelling. west line of Regent south of Woolsey, roo strf': 50 feet gant building to be used for banking additidns 26 28,540 $2.1 and office purposes. ing now stands. The excavation was about twelve or fourteen feet deep. He then surounded it with a rough board fence, and there it remained for a year or more, and during the winter it would fill with water and the frogs would sing, and the engines of the fire department would come over and pump the water out.

EXTENSION OF BROADWAY. Mr. Potter offered to extend Broadway through his property for the sum of five thousand dollars before he built his building, but the "wise" peo--pie, who ran the government here at that time thought five thousand dollars an extortionate sum, and, also predicted that he would never build on the lines of hia excavation, but up went the building. This story should be a lesscin to the IB. Porte, two-story, seven-room 71 $273,520 REPORT BY WARDS.

The showing by wards is as 4 people of Oakland. There aire many Improvements to be made In our streets, and there Is no time irke'the present to attend to them, as broperty will never be cheaper than now, and every day it will be harder aiad more expensive to do. Let us get together and do things NOW. FRED A. CAMPBELL.

THE ODD FELLOWS WILL stqp and flat, west line of West strt, 75 feet north of Twenty-seven, street, $3,150. i J. Laymance, four-story brick apfrtments and theater, north line of Twelfth street, 150 feet west of Clay, $125,000. Porter Hall three-story lodge building, northeast corner Nineteenth and Grove streets, $30,000. Standard Underground Cable Co, tai tower, northwest corner First ant Linden streets, $1,500.

48,120 9,910 46.200 3,501 136.785 19,294 9,710 First 20 Second 11 Third 8 Fourth 2 Fifth 8 Sixth 14 Seventh 71 CONSTRUCT FINE BUILDING Porter Hall Company Undertakes Project to Aid Fraternalism and $273,520 MEN co( ige, south line Thirty -isixth street IN DETAIL. The structures In detail are as follows: Warnecke Michaels, alterations north line of First street, 75 feet west of Broadway, $1,000. Lem Gee Chinese theater. Aid Business. II INTERIOR that the owner, F.

J. Russell, is being kept busy most of the day signing contracts, since the tract haus been placed on the market. At least fifty prospective buyers from Sam Francisco and Oakland were on the grounds recently. Niles will shortly have a local bank. The preliminary work is now being done by a gentleman of means from San Francisco.

Shares In tfte new local enterprise are being subscribed for. A brick building will be greeted, and a bank with all the latest Improvements will shortly have its doors thrown open to the public. William Angus, general manager of the Surburban Electric Light Company, has purchased the Carroty place of twenty-three acres on the electric line, below Hayward, on which he has resided for some time. Mr. Angus will reserve several acres and the house for a home while the 10C pet west of West street, $1,060.: S.

C. Blanchard, oge-story fiv.room cottage, west line of West street, 107V4 feet north of ThtrtV- seyenth street, $1,800. William Hamelin, alterations. wst line of Webster street, 100 feet north of Second, $3,000. Alice southeast corner Second and streets, $7,000.

Sales and Progress Made in Some Towns of Alameda County. The second most prominent building provided for in te building permits of this week is that of Porter Hall company, which is to be constructed at the 'northeast corner of Nineteenth and Grove streets. The present plan calls for a structure of only three stories, ut, tha building will eventually assume proportions, the original showing a. structure nine stories floor there will be a. large assembly hall, which will be devoted to festivity and entertainment There will be two systems of elevators, and one Of these will be used by the department stores, and the other will be utilised by the renters of the various offices, the patrons of the lodges and those seeking recreation.

These plans will, of course, be changed to suit the incipient part of the structure, which is to be erected at once. Porter Hall Company is confposed of Odd Fellows, mainly members of Porter Lodge, No. 272, O. O. F.

The lodge, before the to hold its meetings in Loring hall at the corner of Eleventh and Clay streets, out that structure was destroyed by the earthquake. The lodge has not been very well satisfied with the places In which it has been meeting since. There was no room for the -lodge to meet in Odd Fellows hall on Franklin street, and. accordingly, the members determined to build a fraternal home for themselves. They therefore bought the lot at the intersection mentioned.

The erection of this structure In con-Junction with the Arcade Hotel, which The Russell farm, containing 243 acres, at Russell's Station, has been laid out into a townslte 1700 lots and has been placed on the market by San Francisco and Oakland firms. Fifty lots have already been sold and fifty more have been spoken for. The lots are being offered at low figures and such easy terms, 10 per cent down and $5 per month, market balance will be placed on the In lots. In height, and of most ornate design. Ject at the earliest possible moment, and will be rushed in order to enable the hall to be opened for business at an early The plans contemplate a class A building, which means that it will be proof against fires and earthquakes.

The frame will be of steel, and the floors of concrete, Tha exterior will be of brick and terra cotta. The style of architecture will be the French Renaissance. There; will be a mansard roof -and this will be covered slate. The three first floors will be used by department stores, and it is understood that they have already been spoken, for by one of the largest firms In that line of business in the country, HIGHER STORIES. The fourth floor will be reserred for offices, and on.

the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth stories will be located a number of lodge rooms. On the ninth The utilization of those plans will be adual and th'e projectors, in this re- Following the Flag, Wher our soldiers went to Ciilba. and G. R. Georgeson, one-story four-room cottage, east line of Dover street, 9S feet south of Fifty-seventh $2,000.

Mrs. M. Baker, two-story ll-roam southeast corner of Forty-flret and West streets, $5800. W. H.

Huntington, alterations south line of Twentieth street, 150 feet east of Telegraph avenue, $3,000. Jdhn Cpnant, two-story eight-room dwellllrtg, north line of Twenty-seventh street. 400 feet west of Telegraph avenue. $4500. F.

Cross, one -story four-room bungalow, southwest corner Van Buren avenue and Perry street, $2,050. F. S. Morsman, one-story slx-r'jom cottage, north line Fifty-third street, 175 feet eas of Grove' street, $2,000 pect, will be guided by demands made Wells, Fargo addition, at Sixteenth-street depot, $1,800. W.

S. Parker, one-story flve-roora cottiage, north line Aileen street, JO0 feet' west of Grove. $2,250. A .1 Liquor Cure would, not under any circumstances en fse a remedy for the cur of the drijM habit until we had absolutely iat-1st i 1 ourelva that it did 'all it claimed. Orr ie is tha only cure for the drink ham that we know of.

and the only one that' we ever knew of. that had enough merit to be sold under a positive guarantee to refund the money if It does not cure. It has stood the test of years of use and we know of many whom it has cured of the drink habit. i The guarantee giVen with each package i thoroughly protects the buyer. Or-rina' Is in two" forms: No.

1 for secret use and No. 2 for those who wished to be rured $1 a box. Mall orders ilJed. Thi Orrin Washington. D.

or tni Co-. ISth and Rroulwav. is now In course of construction on the adjoining lot at the intersection of Grove and Twentieth streets will change the residence aspect of. that quarter, andi there is no doubt that, be- the Philippines, health was the most important consideration. Willis T.

Morgan, retired Commissary Sergeant, S. of Rural Route 1, ConcoTd, N. Hi. says: "I was two years in Cuba and two years in the Philippines, and being subject to colds, I took Dr. King's New Discovery trpon thm by lodges, and merchants who wish tolocate in that vicinity.

The lot upoa the structure is to stand. wai bght only a few months ago for the ew 0f $18,000, but now It i or onsurapuon. wnicn Kept me. in per In fore long, some of the pretty homes-1 feet health. And now, in New Hamp- has mote thai doubled the purchase lino, iniu iu uesi mcuicmfl in inp which are there located, will be sacri world for coughs, colds, bronchial troubles and all lung diseases." Guarantieed by Osgood Brothers, druggists, corner of Seventh street and Broadway and corner WORK fro COMMENCE.

ficed and be moved to some other section In order to make way for coming business places Work wUlblcommenced on the pro- or Tweirtn and Washington jetreets. Price 60c and $1.00. Trial bottlet iree..