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THE CALL is appreciated in all
parts of the country. The Call is
liked because it helps to build up
all the praisewcrthy institutions
of the country. There appears to I
be universal rejoioing on account of The j
Call's marked prosperity. From the ava
lanche of complimentary notices printed
by our contemporaries some of the charac
teristic expressions are* chosen for repro
duction to-day.
Phenomenal Progress to Popularity.
The most attractive and the best equipped
newspaper building in the United States
and therefore in the world will soon be oc
cupied by the San Francisco Call, a news
paper whose progress during the past six
months has been phenomena!. The build
ing will be located on the southwest corner
of Market and Third streets. It will be 310
feet in height, comprising fitteen stories,
and will be constructed of steel, granite
and marble throughout. The cost of the
building, together with the lot upon which
it will stand, will approximate $1,000,000.
Wnile The ("all is to be congratulated
upon its immediate prospect of occupying
a >tructnre that will meet its growing re
quirements and be in every way worthy of
its enterprise and prestige, the projected
improvement is one in which San Fran
ciso and the entire State also have
a direct interest. The fact that Glaus
Spreckels Has determined to invest
a million dollars in a single busi
ness biock in San Francisco should in it
self be sufficient to strengthen confidence
in the future of that city and to induce
other capitalists to make similar invest
ments. And the combination of massive
ness and architectural beauty iv The Call
building will make it a striking ornament
to the City and an object lesson in design
and finish that cannot fail to educate the
public taste and stimulate a desire to de
part from the dead level of architecture
now so noticeable there.
Mr. Spreckels, who was the foremost
promoter of the Valley Railroad, will give
further evidence of his loyalty to this
State by using only Californian material
in the construction of The Call buiiding;
the granite and the marble will b<> the
products of Californian quarries and the
woods of Californian forests. So that The
Call, which has done so much for the in
ies of the State, will be housed in a
palace that is itself a monument to those
industries.— San Jose Mercury.
Successful Papers Erect Buildings.
Seemingly short the time, yet many
years have o'erlapped themselves since we
lirst met Cha-ley Shortridge as local editor
of the San Jose Mercury. He was then
just leaning strongly into the journalistic
harness. We have often talked with him
— a-^ h<- expressed it — about "the emphasis''
of hia work. Now we have just received a
Bample copy of the San Francisco Call,
over which .Mr Shortridce editorially pre
and the new home of that paper is
to be a dome-capped building, a ''marble
palace."' 300 feet high. Buildings do not !
make succf.-sful papers, but successful
t apers erect buildings and editors are
largely responsible for both. The inference
is obvious.— The West, Florence, Or.
A Delight to the Educated Eye.
Saturday's Daily San Francisco Call
contained a picture of a new fifteen-story
building which Claus Spreckels will erect
on one of the corners of Market and Third
streets, San Francisco. It will surpass all
the other tal! buildings in the City, both
in height and artistic finish and architect
uallv." It is a delight to the educated eye,
ami," as it is to be built of California ma
terial, will be a noble monument to Mr.
Spreckels' generosity and enterprise. The
Call will have the handsomest quarter? in
the worid. when it gets in its white marble
palace. — Guinda Independent.
"White Marble and an Imposing Dome.
The San Francisco Call is to have a
magnificent home. Claus Spreckels is
about to erect a palatial marble business
structure on the corner of Third and Mar
ket streets, diagonally across from the
Chronicle building — and The Call will oc
cupy the basement part of the ground floor |
and the two upper stories. The building j
will be fourteen stories high and will be. j
surmounted by an imposing dome. It will j
be built of white marble. Its height— 3lo j
feet— will be 100 feet greater than any other j
building in San Francisco. — Ukiah Dis- i
patch-Democrat.
To Overtop Everything.
The San Francisco Call is to have a
marble buiiding fifteen stories high for an j
office. Mr. Spreckels recently purchased I
the property on the corner of Third and
Market streets at a cost of $300,000, and is j
having the old buildings removed prepara
tory to commencing the new edifice. Ac
cording to the plans it will be the highest j
building in the City, and will overtop the
Chronicle by eighty-live f eet. — W eekly
I'alo Alto.
"The Call's" Lofty Views.
The Call is to have the most magnifi- j
cent building in San Francisco, a fifteen- j
story building ou the southwest corner of j
Market and Third streets, to be built by >
Claus Spreckels. The Call's lofty views j
have driven it into a lofty building, with j
more room to help increase its circulation.
— Porterville Enterprise.
A Spirit as Lofty as the Edifice.
Memory recalls a time when earthquake
fear precluded the erection of tall buildings
in San Francisco, but with other silurian
ideas this has disappeared. The Call (
will soon have a fifteen-story home, the
tallest building in California. It is fitting
that such a jonrnal should have a corre
sponding residence, and we hope its spirit
will ever be as lofty as the edifice it will
occupy.— Salem (Or.) Statesman.
Advantageously Located.
The Call building is to be a magnificent
, square tower surmounted by a dome.
Standing on the corner of Third and Mar
ket streets, and occupying one of the very
finest business locations in the City, it will
; be the tallest building west of Chicago,
I and will rise 310 feet above the sidewalk.
! It is to cover a ground area seventy-five
feet square and will be fifteen stories in
height. The design is to be Italian renais-
s ance. with all the combination of simple
outline and beautiful decoration which
i that style affords.
The first three stories will be of a very
; massive "rustification" richly carved. The
fourth story, rather less ornate, will be
surmounted by a string of balconies, and
from the top of this story to the level of
! the eleventh floor the walls and window
openings will be perfectly plain. A simple
; belt-course will divide the tenth and elev
. enth stories, and from the top of this belt
: cours<j columns will rise to the thirteenth
floor. Then, like the capital of a beautiful
column, the ornamentation will recom
mence. The thirteenth story, carried by
the columns of the lower stories, will be in
i the form of an elaborate frieze supporting
i a magnificent cornice. The fourteenth
; story, carrying the circular fifteenth
! story, the dome and lantern, will rest
i upon the cornice.
From the top of the fourteenth-story
! cornice there will be at each corner a turret
fifteen feet in diameter flanking the dome,
which will be sixty-five feet in diameter.
An interesting feature of the construction
is the fact that besides the piers at the four
corners there will be a ring of columns ris
: ing from the basement, supporting each
i floor clear up to and carrying the dome.
The first three stories are~to be of gran
; ite, the eleven stories above will be of sand
i stone, the fifteenth story will be of marble,
and the dome, with ribs of steel covered
with marble, will have panels of bronze
and glass. The interior will be fire-proof
throughout, built of steel and fire-nroof
tile. The only woodwork in the building
will be the doors, the floors and the win
dow-sashes of the offices. The landings on
every floor will be laid in mosaic and the
: walls of the hallway will be paneled in
marble.
The entrance to the building will be on
i Market street and is to form a strikingly
beautiful feature of the tower-like struc
: ture. It will be twenty feet in width and
thirty-five feet in height and will be
flanked by doubie Corinthian columns
carrying a balcony and balustrade in
granite. The outer vestibule will have it
floor in mosaic, walls and vaulted ceiling
in variegated paneled marbles. On the left
I of this vestibule will be the entrance to
Thi Call business office, which will ex
tend from Market street the length of the
TJaird-street.frontage. On the right of tnis
outer vestibule it is proposed to fit up
quarters for a bank. Beyond the outer
vestibule will be a large rectangular court,
or inner vestibule. Immediately facing
I the entrance to this will be three fast
! running passenger elevators, inclosed with
! the usual bronze grill work now so much
in vogue. To the right the main staircase,
j built entirely of marble and iron, will rise
I from the ground floor to the topmost story.
j The doors of the two vestibules will be
! bronze and every advantage will be taken
: of the Italian renaissance style to make
j them rich in decoration.
All the floors between the first and thir
) teenth are to be devoted to offices, and
I there will be fourteen offices on each floor.
j The thirteenth and fourteenth stories will
! be fitted up as editorial rooms, art depart
ment, type-setting rooms and stereo
; typing-rooms for the use of The Call.
i Ihe fifteenth story, which, in addition to
I the light from its own windows, will also
receive light from the circular windows of
the dome, is intended as a restaurant, and
something very original and beautiful is
J promised in this lofty eating-place. Its
I floors are to be of marble; its private
dining-rooms will be located in the four
j turrets, and the office will be in the center.
In the basement of the building, which
! will be very deep to afford footing for the
lofty structure, the presses, electric
light plant and elevator machinery will be
I located.
From the sidewalk to the top of the main
! cornice will be 200 feet, or about four feet
• higher than the Chronicle tower. Above
I this will rise the dome, surmounted by the
lantern, an additional height of 110 feet.
The lantern itself will be 28 feet high. It
will thus be seen that this structure is to
tower over everything in the City, and will
j be visible, in all probability, alike from
j both bay and ocean. The uses of the dome
are a matter for after consideration. A
portion of it will necessarily .be devoted to
a kitchen for the restaurant, and there is
some idea of ultimately establishing the
Signal Service Bureau beneath the lantern.
The entire building has been designed by
Reid Brothers, who built the Hotel del
Coronado, the Emma Spreckels building
on Market street and the new Soreckels
residence on Van Ness avenue. It is esti
mated that The Call building will cost
$750,000. and as the lot cost $306,000, the
total investment will represent, in round
figures, a million dollars. The work of
tearing down the buildings now on the site
has already been.commenced, and it is ex
pected that some time in 1897 this new
monument to American enterprise will be
ready for occupancy.— San Francisco Ex
aminer.
Handsomest and Costliest.
Claus Spreckels, the wealthy sugar
baron, is about to commence the erection
of one of the handsomest and costliest
buildings in the world at San Francisco, in
which will be housed the offices and head
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1895.
: quarters of the San Francisco Call, a paper
| that has lately sprung to the front as the
j leading journal of the Pacific Coast. The
structure is to be fifteen stories high and
to cost several millions.-^-Dillon (Mont.)
Enterprise.
Branching Out and Spreading.
The San Francisco Call has been
branching out and spreading out at a
great rate since the late change of owner
ship, and now il is about to become yet
more prominent by having its offices,
headquarters and whole establishment in
the tallest and one of the most imposing
looking buildings of the Bay City. Claus
Spreckels, the millionaire sugar king, has
recently purchased the lot on the corner
of Market and Third streets, and pur
poses to erect upon it a building fifteen
stories high, and The Call will be quar
tered therein. The compoßing-rooma
are to be on the thirteenth and fourteenth
floors, and the printers will be about as
high as they will ever get unless they are
made angels and are given wings to fl.v.
The bailding will be first class in every
particular, both in adornment and other
wise, and will be a marked feature of San
Francisco's prosperity and greatness. A
large part of the building is to be fitted up
for offices, and the very uppermost floor
will be occupied as a restaurant. The
Call, as we have said, is spreading and the
new move it proposes to make shows its
spirit of go-aheadativeness. — Yreka Union.
Lifting Journalism Up.
The San Francisco Call in its onward,
upward flight has already attained an ele
vated plane in journalism, where it can
take in the whole field at a glance and, se
lecting that only which is highest, purest,
noblest and best, leaves the "common and
unclean" for such scavengers as dehght in
gathering it in. We note with pride that
it is to have a marble palace, the greatest
and handsomest newspaper building in
the world. Such a magnificent building
of such gigantic proportions, so perfect in
ail its appointments, towering heaven
ward, high above all its competitors, em
blematic of higher and nobler aspirations,
lifting journalism up out of the filthy
pools of low sensationalism and placing it
on the solid rock of truth and purity, ia a
fitting place in which to publish the recon
structed, rejuvenated Call.— Lompoc Jour
nal.
It Will Loom Above Everything.
The Call building, about to be erected
in San Francisco by Claus Spreckels, will
be the most magnificent structure of that
city. It is to be fifteen stories and 315 feet
hign, surpassing in height the tallest
building in the West. It will occupy the
corner of Third and Market streets and
will loom up in the shape of a 75-foot
square tower with a fine dome surmount
ing it. The location is one of the best busi
ness corners in the City and the building;
when completed will dwarf everything sur
rounding it. It will be a fit habitation for
one of the foremost Pacific Coast journals.
—National City Record.
A Proud Monument in the Heart of the
City.
Plans for the San Francisco Call's new
home have been completed and work on
the finest newspaper building of the Pacific
Coast will begin at once. The size of the
lot on which the great structure will stand
is 71 by 75 feet. The lot is located at the
southwest corner of Market and Third
streets— the heart of the City. The build
ing will run skyward 310 feet, or fifteen
stoiies. It will be a proud monument to
its owner. Claus Spreckels, and an ever
lasting ornament to San Francisco. — Med
ical Lake (Wash.) Ledger.
None Too Fine for the Paper.
A marble palace, 310 feet high, is to be
built for The Call by Claus Spreckels on
the corner of Third and Market streets,
San Francisco. W T hile the new building
will be the finest in the metropolis, it can i
be none too fine for that really great news- j
Eaper. When Brother Shortridge gets in j
is new home we country editors will i
hardly know whether to call or not. If J
we do we can brush the hayseed off on the
marble floors. — Healdsburg Enterprise.
The Editorial Sanctum Above the Chron
icle Tower.
The Call is to have a new building some
thing like steen stories high. It iB to be
located on the corner of Market and Third i
streets, and when it is completed Editor
Shortridge can sit in the window of his
sanctum, eat peanuts and chuck the shells ;
«iown on top of the Chronicle tower. No j
use talking, the Call is getting up in the
world. — Bakersfield Californian.
Forging Forward.
Work upon the finest building in San
Francisco, to be erected on Market street,
owned by Claus Spreckels and occupied by
The Call newspaper, is to go forward at
once. It will be a sky-scraper, the tallest
in the coast metropolis. The Call is
rapidly forging to the front as the leading
newspaper west of the Rockies. — Salem
(Or.) Statesman.
Highest in California.
A magnificent building to be erected in
San Francisco by Claus Spreckels will be
occupied by that excellent paper, The
Call. The structure will be the highest in
California, having fifteen stories, and will I
be located at the corner of Third and
Market streets. The Call has ample rea
son to feel proud of its new home.— Blue
Lake Advocate.
Above Its SnrroTindings.
The San Francisco Call has already
taken the lead as one of the greatest news
papers on the coast, and, besides being a
! great newspaper, will soon occupy the
' largest and handsomest building in the
j world. The home of The Call will be ,
■ fifteen stories— 3lo feet high. It will be at :
| the corner of Third and Market streets, ,
j and loom up 200 feet above the buildings !
! in that vicinity. The material used will ;
| be California marble, the best that can be
j obtained anywhere. This great building
■ will be erected by Claus Spreckels.— San
! Pedro Times.
An Immense but Beautiful Tower.
It is merely a matter of months n*>w
when Claus Spreckels' magnificent fifteen
story building in San Francisco will be I
completed. Then San Francisco will have
j one of the greatest modern buildings on |
j the continent, and The Call a handsomer
i and more complete home than any other
I newspaper in the world.
In exterior construction the new build
ing represents an immense but beauti
i fully designed tower. The first three j
j stories form the base or pedestal, and will
jbe built of granite in massive style, j
I with arched openings for windows. The j
; next seven stories, being the body or shaft
I of the tower, are very simple and plain.
] Above them the ornamentation begins
j again, culminating at the thirteenth 3tory
' in a richly carved and ornamental frieze. :
, The fourteenth story is treated in a lighter
| design, being in effect a colonnade with \
pilasters between the many windows, i
! while the fifteenth story, being circular in
contour, forms the base for the beautiful
j and imposing dome.
The dome rises forty-five feet above its
! foundation, and surmounting the dome is
I a richly ornamented lantern or belvedere!
i thirty feet in height. The entire height, I
I 310 feet in all, will be utilized. This is an i
j elevation nearly double that reached by j
i the highest point of any other building in
' San Francisco.
The most approved form of steel con-
I struction will' be used throughout the'
I building.
The floors will be of hollow terra cotta
carried on steel beams, while the parti
tions will be either oi hollow tile or steel.
The steel construction will be carefully j
| and thorougnly braced to withstand all
wind pressure or the possibility of earth
quakes.
The size of the lot on which the great
structure will soon be erected is 71x75 feet. |
The main entrance, a grand archway 20 j
feet wide and 35 feet high, will be on Mar
ket street.
In the basoment will be the pressroom.
This will have a larger superficial area ;
I than the mere measurement of the lot on
j which the building will stand, for both on
| Market and on Third streets the press
rooms will be extended the full width of
the pavement.
Electricity will be the one and only
j power employed for all purposes in the
building.
From the second to the twelfth stories
inclusive the floors will be arranged for
! offices. There will be fourteen of these on
e*ch floor, and each office will have its
lavatory, cloakroom, heating and venti
lating appliances of the most approved
pattern.
The thirteenth and fourteenth stories
will be occupied by The Call. On the
thirteenth floor will be the editorial and
art departments, and on the floor above
i will be located the composing-room and
j stereotyping department. — Santa Ciuz
j Sentinel.
Popular and ProgresslTe.
Work will soon be commenced on the
San Francisco Call building. When com
pleted it will be a "sky-scraper" of fifteen
stories, towering eighty-five feet above the
Chronicle structure. The first floor will be
occupied as The Call's business office,
and the thirteenth and fourteenth floors
as the editorial and composing rooms,
j while on the fifteenth floor there
will be a cafe. The remainder of the build
ing will contain offices, each story having
] fourteen. Taken altogether it will be the
j finest newspaper building in the United
t States. That The Call is taking a front
I rank in Pacific Coast journalism there can
j be no doubt, and the erection of this jnag
i nificent edifice attests the fact that The
Call is not only popular but aggressive. —
Pacific Grove Review.
The Call Will Continue Upward.
The Ban Francisco Call will soon have
a magnificent home. Plans have been
adopted and work will at once be com
menced on a building fifteen stories hisjb,
on the corner of Market and Third streets,
almost opposite the Chronicle building.
j It will probably be the finest newspaper
office in the world, modern, unique and
handsome. The Call, which is already
making wonderful strides upward, will
continue to go up when in its new building,
310 feet high.— St. Helena Star.
Tallest West of Chicago.
The new Call building is to be a mag
nificent structure and the tallest building
west of Chicago. It will contain fifteen
stories and measure 310 feet in height. It
will be constructed of granite, sandstone
and marble and finished throughout in
first-class shape.— -Lake County Bee.
"The Call" Deserves It.
The San Francisco Call is to have a
beautiful new home of iron and marble.
The Call deserves to have a fine home. It
j is one of the cleanest, ablest and best
newspapers in the United States.— Salem
(Or.) Statesman.
Above Other Western Sky- Scrapers.
The San Francisco Call is to have the
largest, handsomest, tallest and best
equipped newspaper building in the
world. It will be built at the corner
of Third and Market streets, occupying a
lot 71x75 feet, and will be fifteen stories
high. It will be the highest building
I west of Chicago. Its exterior will be of
! granite and marble, while the interior
| will be constructed of steel and the best
i fireproof materials. Its height will be 310
'■ feet and it will tower above all the other
sky-scrapers in the Western City. — Van
couver Register.
Ornate and Harmonious.
The tallest building in San Francisco will
be the structure which Claus Spreckels is
about to erect at the southwest corner of
Market and Third streets. Resting on a
base of 75x70 feet, it will rise 310 feet. to the
apex of the belvedere. Aside from its vast
height its distinguishing features will be
the ornate character of its upper stories,
set off by a floriated frieze and harmonious
cornice and surmounted by a magnificent
dome, inclosed by a colonnade and capped
by a glass-covered lantern, resting on
marble columns.
The location is one that will enable the
structure to be viewed from all directions.
Its entire outline will be seen from up and
I down Market streets, from Keafciy, Third
and O'r'arrell, while its crown will be visi
ble from the bay and all the elevated por
tions of the City.
The building will be in the form of a
j square tower to the cornice. The first
i three stories will form a sort of pedestal in
! gray granite with bush-hammered face.
Above this will rise for*even stories what
may be termed a plinth. It will be in
white California marble, as 'will all the
rest of the exterior. The treatment of this
portion of the edifice is severe in order to
give repose to the eye. Then the orna
mental style will be resumed in Italian
renaissance. The frieze already spoken of
will serve as a setting for the cornices be
tween the thirteenth and fourteenth
stories. Above will rise the colonnaded
dome, forty-live feet from its base, and the
belvedere thirty feet high. In all there
will be fifteen stories, with abasement.
The building will be of steel construction
and thoroughly fire-proof. The upper
stories will be finished on all sides alike.
The main entrance will be on Market street
and will be imposing and handsome. It
will be in the form of an arch, thirty-five
feet high and twenty feet wide. Corinthian
columns will flank it on both sides sur
mounted by a carved entablature, above
I which a balustrade will be placed. Between
i the second and third stories will run a pro
i jecting cornice supported by medallions
over a carved frieze, with windows set in a
heavy cornice of granite and surrounded
j by carved architraves and spandrils. A
; licht cornice will break the expanse at the
j tenth story; then at the twelfth will come
I the ornamentation already described and
the crowning of the edifice. The ribs of
the dome will be in marble and the metal
used will be bronze. The dome will be
utilized as a cafe and restaurant. White
glass will inclose the lantern. The interior
will be finished in natural hard wood.
In the basement will be located the press
rooms of The Call, while the thirteenth
floor will be devoted to the editorial and
art departments, and the fourteenth to the
composing and stereotyping rooms of the
same newspaper. The main entrance will
open into a rotunda of polished California
marble, while the floor will be of mosaic.
Three heavy bronze doors, supported by
polished marble pilasters, will afford en
trance to the main interior of the struc
ture. The central door will lead to three
elevators, one starting from the basement,
the otner two from fhe ground floor, and
all ascending to the fifteenth story. The
right-hand door will open into a store and
that on the left to The Call business office,
the area of which will be 25x50 feet, with a
balcony. Another store will be situated
on Third street. From the second to the
twelfth floor inclusive the building will be
arranged in offices, of which there will be
fourteen on each story, or 144 in all. To
each will be attached a lavatory and a
cloakroom. The main stairway will be of
marble, and the interior finish and con
struction will be of the latest and most ap-
S roved designs. The plans are by Reid
ros.j architects for all Claus Spreckels'
buildings.
The ground on which the new structure
will be" located cost $306,000. The edifice
itself will probably involve the expendi
ture of about 1400,000 more, making the to
tal outlay close to $700,000. It is expected
that the building will be finished in a little
over a year.— San Francisco Chronicle.
Guardian of Public Bights.
The San Francisco Call, which is
clearly the best general newspaper on the
Pacific Coast, is to have a new office build
ing erected at the southwest corner of
Third and Market streets, in that City, ex
pressly for its own use. The Register is
glad to note this evidence of success on the
part of The Call, because it deserves
success. The Call has not, like some
other great newspapers, used its power to
tyrannize over the masses, but has always
guarded the rights of the people. Long
jive The Call.— Vancouver (Wash.) Reg
ister.
Most Ornamental Feature of the City.
The San Francisco Call has a new
home at the southwest corner of Mar
ket and Third streets. A house built
of steel and marble, towering 100 feet above
the other tall buildings of the City and
treated with a skill that exhausts the re
sources of architecture in strength, beauty,
and convenience, will be the most con
spicuous and ornamental feature of the
City.— Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian.
The Enterprise of & Creator.
The San Francisco Call is to occupy a
magnificent building as a permanent home
in San Francisco in a few Bhort months.
It is to be the tallest and handsomest
building on the Pacific Coast. Thb Call
has grown to be a magnificent, up-to-date
| newspaper and it deserves such a home as
it is going to have. Long life to Thb Call !
Its spirit is the spirit of the wise ; its en
ergy is the energy of the fair; its enter
prise the enterprise of a creator.—Pendle
ton East Oregonian.
Leader of the Dallies.
The San Francisco Dailt Call has be
come, under its present management, the
fairest, the broadest, most comprehensive
newspaper on the coast, and it is to
be housed in the grandest building
in the United States when finished.
Last Saturday morning's issue prints
a full page illustration of the pro
posed building:, work on the foundation
of which has already commenced. Its lo
cation, if we are not mistaken, is at the
southwesterly corner of Market and Third
streets, occupying the site just opposite
the old Nucleus building. The front will
open on Market street. The structure will
be 310 feet high, and will be fifteen stories,
and surmounted by a dome; the whole
will rest upon a foundation 71x75 feet.
The height of the building is such that it
! will take the style and form of a tower in
design and finish; the first three stories
forming the base, the next seven the thaft,
the last five the cornice and dome, which
j latter will be highly ornamented. There
will be three elevators, thoroughly
modern in every way and swift
in motion. One" of the elevators
will start from the basement. The other
two will start from the ground floor, and
all will run clear to the fifteenth story,
where it is proposed to have a magnifi
cently appointed and perfectly conducted
cafe and restaurant. The thirteenth and
fourteenth stories will be occupied by The
i Call; the thirteenth floor will be the edi
torial and art departments, and the four
teenth the composing-room and stereotype
department. The presses will occupy the
entire basement, which will De consider
ably larger than the foundation, because it
will extend under the sidewalk of both
fronts to the edge of the street. Electricity
will be the only power uaed in the building
for any purpose. The ground floor will be
fitted up for stores, while the other floors
npto the fourteenth will be fitted for
offices of splendid appointments. Clans
Spreckels, the sugar manufacturer, is au
thor of this great building enterprise, aud
The Call will occupy the thirteenth and
fourteenth stories, as before stated. The
vigor, enterprise, fairness and broad lib
erality of The Call is rapidly lifting that
! paper to the "head of the procession" of
newspaperdom on the Pacific Coa&t, if, in
deed, it has not already reached that posi
tion. The Examiner must hereafter take
a second position unless it very materially
changes its course and broadens and lib
eralizes its policy. The Call is in the
contest for the lead, and we think its spirit
of fairness, its disposition to recognize ail
sections and interests, will soon cause the
Pacific Coast public to Tote it the "leader
of the dailies. —Western Watchman (Eu
reka, Cal.).
It Deserve* a Palace Home.
The San Francisco Call of Saturday last
devotes a page to a view and description
of the new building which Claus Spreckels
will soon erect on the corner of Third and
Market streets, San Francisco, for its oc
cupancy. It will be a magnificent struc
tnre, and the greatest, handsomest and
most lavishly equipped and furnished of
any newspaper building in the world and
a "home worthy of a journal that has
reached such an exalted position among
its contemporaries. The great marble and
steel palace will be 310 feet high, fifteen
stories, and will tower far above every
structure in the City, and be nearly double
the height of any building on the Pacific
Coast. The Call is a great paper and de
serves a palace home.— Downey Champion.
Up to Date in Every Particular.
Claus Spreckels intends to build one of
the handsomest buildings in the world.
It will be up to date in every particular,
and will be occupied by a paper that is up
to date and one that is dear to every man,
woman and child on the Pacific Coast.
San Francisco may well feel proud of the
fact that she now possesses one of the best
papers in existence and soon will claim
the distinction of having one of the hand
somest sky-scrapers in the world. The
Call will occupy this structure.—Yering
ton (Ner.) Rustler.
In a Magnificent Bnildlng.
The San Francisco Call, under its new
management, is not only taking rank as a
great newspaper, but will Boon be provided
with accommodations in a magnificent
building, fifteen stories high, to be erected
by Claus Spreckels. This will be one of
the greatest newspaper buildings in the
world.— San Diego Advertiser.
Of Steel and California Marble.
The San Francisco Call is not content
with being the best daily on the coast, but
has commenced the erection of a magnifi
cent fifteen-story home for itself. It will
be the tallest building west of Chicago, and
eteel and California marble will be the
chief construction materials. — Reclaims
Citograph.
Keeping the Money in the State.
The magnificent Call building will be
of California production, and we are as
sured that it will be the handsomest and
most perfectly appointed newspaper build
ing in the world. This means the develop
ment of local industries on a large scale
and keeping our money at home. — Ala
meda Telegram.
The Best Paper Deserves the Best
Building.
The tallest and handsomest building
west of Chicago is to be erected in San
Francisco for The Call. It is to be fifteen
stories high and the only woodwork in the
building will be the doors, the floors and
the window sashes. The Call is the b<?st
fiaperin San Francisco and is justified in
eeling proud of living in the best build
ing.—Newman Tribune.
Wide -Awake San Francisco Will Be
Glad.
In the last eighteen months Clans
Spreckels has invested about $3,000,000 in
San Francisco real estate. When Mr.
Spreckels bought the lot at the cor
ner of Market and Third streets specu
lation was rife as to his building inten
tions and all sorts of rumors were afloat.
It finally transpired that he intended to
erect a modern business building on the
lot, with the view of ornamenting that sec
tion of the City and properly housing The
Morning Call. Within the week con
siderable progress has been made in demol
ishing the building on the Third and
Market street corner, and in ten days al
most the last vestige of an old dilapidated
and fully undesirable landmark will have
disappeared. There will be the usual re
grets expressed by ,onr esteemed contem
poraries, and those of our pioneers who
live in the past and who have little use for
the present and none for the future will
shake their heads sadly as the bricks come
down. But new, wide-awake San Fran
cisco will rejoice and be exceeding glad.
Mr. Spreckels will erect a fine, handsome
fifteen-story building on this conspicuous
corner of Market and Third, and pians of
this building contemplate a structure
eighty-five feet higher than the highest
point of the Chronicle building, on the
northeast corner of Market and Kearny
streets. Mr. Spreckels paid $300,000 for the
corner and the new building will cost $500,
--000.—Nevada City Transcript.
Earning Prosperity.
Clans Spreckela is to build for the San
Francisco Call a magnificent home. The
building will be fifteen stories in height,
with a dome, and will be constructed in
the finest style of modern art. It will be
310 feet in height, or nearly a half taller
than any other structure in San Francisco.
On all this The Call may be congratu
lated, but it is for another thing that the
Republican feels even more inclined to
felicitate that paper. It is earning pros
perity by its conduct. It is on the right
side of questions and stands for decency
and high tone in newspaper management.
It opposes lotteries, Southern Pacific ex
tortion, political corruption as represented
by San Francisco's Solid Eight, muck-rak
ing in reporting criminal cases and other
evil things. In brief, The Call is high,
and it deserves popular support, for,
withal, it is a first-rate newspaper. The
Republican is glad it is going to have the
finest newspaper home in the world and
hopes and expects it will continue to de
serve it.— Fresno Morning Republican.
Prosperous Breezes Blowing.
There is perhaps no better exhibition
of a just recognition of merit which has
attended the San Francisco Call since it
passed into the hands of Charles M. Short
ridge. Mr. Shortridge's name is a house
hold word in this valley. His tireless
energy and keen business foresight has
already worked a marvelous transforma
tion in The Call. The latest announce
ment that it will be compelled to move
into larger quarters is another straw show
ing the strength of the financial breeze
that is blowing The Call right out into
the open Bea of prosperity. Continued
success to it.— Santa Clara Journal. ,
Doing Yeoman Service.
The San Francisco Call, which, in the
short time it has been conducted by Mr.
Shortridge, has leaped to the front of Ban
Francisco dailies, is soon to have the finest
building in San Francisco for its home.
The old traditions of poverty and sawdust
pudding, which were at one time insepar
able from newspaper life, have all gone
now, and the daily papers are the leading
aristocrats of the big cities. The Call de
serves a good home, for it is doing yeoman
service for the City and State, and much
to elevate the City press.— San Andreas
Prospect.
Nearly Double the Highest.
Perhaps by the close of 1895 the San
Francisco Call will be installeJ in its
fifteen-story marble palace at the corner of
Market and Third streets. When finished
it will be the grandest structure on the
Pacific Coast. The building will be 310
feet high, an elevation nearly double that
reached by the highest point of any other
building in San Francisco. Thb Call is
climbing up, and that's a fact. — Alameda
Encinal.
Coming to the Front.
The San Francisco Call is rapidly com
ing to the front, and has taken a leading
position among the great dailies of the
country since the new management took
charge. It is to have a building fifteen
stories high, of steel, granite and Califor
nia marble, constructed by capital fur
nished by Claus Spreckels, the sugar
kin g.— Jacksonville (Or.) Times.
Handsomest in the State.
The new building to be erected by Clans
Spreckels for the San Francisco Call will
be the handsomest and most complete
structure of its kind in California. It will
be fifteen stories in height, and will be con
structed almost wnofiv of steel and
marble.— Albuqueraue (^f. Mex.) Citizen.
Booming and Happy.
The San Francisco Call is having an
office building taller than any other in the
City and is happy. The Call is booming
under its new administration.— Pasadena
Star.
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