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BOOMING THE BOULEVARDS
South of the Park Property-
Owners Show a Burst of
Enterprise.
NEW HIGHWAYS DEMANDED.
A Whole System of Boulevards
Planned for a Big and Prom
ising Region.
South-of-the-park boulevard projects
ate enjoying a steadily increasing boom
and something definite in that direction is
about to hii;
The important street improvement
schemes that have been taken up by the
leading property -owners of that part of the
City during the past few weeks would
THE PRINCIPAL PROPOSED BOULEVARD IMPROVEMENTS SOUTH OF THE PARK.
[Drawn by a "Call" artist.]
amount to almost a new systeA of
thoroughfares for that region. All of
these projected improvements are badly
needed and would result in not only boom
ing the population and property values of
.several square miles of the city's unoccu
pied territory, but would afford new and
popular routes for pleasure, driving and
bicycling.
That is a part of the City which should
be easily reached and traversed. The
finest drives the City affords from a scenic
point of view are there, and then across it
is the natural and in fact the only prac
ticable route for reaching the stretch of
magnificent bay region to the south.
It has roads now; but, with their grades,
ruts, dust and mud, they are not much
used for pleasure driving. People spin
through tile park and then spin back and
go home because good and attractive road
ways do not invite to the beauties beyond. ]
The present road south from the park to j
the Almshouse is hilly and in bad condi- j
tion. It has never been macadamized and '
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is a bad country road. Where it joins the
San Miguel road at an angle a somewhat
better highway is reached. This latter
road runs southwest to Ingleside and a
junction with the old Ocean House road
which runs west past Lake Merced to the
ocean shore, along which the Park Com
missioners are now building a line boule
vard. The Corbett road is the only other
important way to this region. Several
blocks of poorly improved streets connect
the end of Market street with it. The Cor
bett road, however, ; s a well macadamized
but narrow road which winds alonsr the
steep slopes of Twin Peaks and, crossing
the ridge by easy grades, connects with
the Almshoose and San Miguel roads. The
Corbett road presents the most convenient
outlet for the Mission to the southwestern
part of the City.
The first idea which started the project
of a boulevard .south of the park a short
time a£o was to provide a way for people
to drive to the inviting country south of
the City. That idea of an outlet from the
City remains perhaps the most important
one, but the advantages local to the region
to be traversed are naturally being con
sidered most.
The movement for building the boule
vard has been gathering strength every
day ami t lie fact that so many large and
influential property-owners are in favor nf
it gives a promise that the scheme will not
end in talk. They propose to pay for the
! improvements themselves and nobody has
i done any objecting.
Mayor Sutro is taking an especially
active interest. He i vns an immense
! amount of property soikii of the park and
i wants the region developed. He has ideas
of his own where the boulevard should
■ run and he will stick to them. Everybody
agrees that the present road from the park
; to the Almshouse should be used for that
i distance. From the Almshouse Sutro
I wants the boulevard to follow the present
! San Miguel road, with the exception of
! cutting off an angle by swinging around
Italian Hill. From Ihgleside, where the i
i new racetrack is being built, the Ocean i
House road can be made a boulevard west
to the ocean.
A pood many people are urging another !
! route from the Almshouse that would take
! in Stanford Heights and the Sunnyside '
' Tract and along these hills would give j
superb views of the ocean, park, City and j
bay. This route passes west to the neigh- j
borhood of Ingleside and south to Ocean |
View, where the couhtv line would be !
crossed. All the owners of Stanford Heights j
and Sunnyside properties are enthuslas
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1895.
tically in favor of this improvement and
so are the smaller owners in the neighbor
hood of Ocean View.
Ex-City and County Surveyor W. M.
| Fitzhugh and James P. McCarthy are
• among the most active promotors of the
; boulevard and they say that a pretty thor
! ough canvass of the property-owners who
would be concerned in an assessment dis
i trict has shown that the proposition to
! build a fine boulevard south of the park at
! the expense of .the adjoining property is
I unanimously favored. Mayor Sutro had
|an engagement with a number of people
j yesterday to go out there and inspect the
situation, but the investigating trip was
I postponed for a day or two.
Besides the boulevard running in a gen
i eral southerly direction, Mr. Butro has
: long wanted an east and west thorongh
; fare running from the neighborhood of
the Industrial School west toward the
i ocean a mile and a half or so south of the
! park. During the past week he has had
I surveyors at work with this in view, and
he will probably make an effort to have
Sunnyside avenue improved from the San
! Jose road to the neighborhood of the new
! racetrack.
Then, as related in the Call yesterday,
Behrend Joost, Maurice Dore and a num
ber of other owners of property about
Twin Peaks have started the enterprise of
having a connecting boulevard run from
the present terminus of Market street by
way of the Corbett road to a junction with
the Almshouse and San Miguel roads and
the projected boulevard southward from
the park. They will not only try to get
I Corbett road widened as far as the slopes
i on which it runs will permit, but they are
I getting on their war paint to save Corbett
road from the imminent grasp of the
I Market-street railway people, who want to
push their electric system into this big
I region south of the park and to the new
■ racetrack.
The Corbett road will join the others in :
I terested in south-of-the-park boulevards if
! a general agreement on routes and plans
j can be reached, and the improvement of
Corbett road as another form of the Market
street extension promises to be embraced
in a scheme of highway improvements,
which will be carried out under the street
extension law by commissioners appointed
by the Board ofSupervisors.
The accompanying map explains the
main highways which it is proposed to
improve or establish. From the park
southward Seventh avenue and the Alms
house road are agreed on as the route to be
widened, macadamized and set with trees.
Near the junction of the Almshouse and
San Miguel roads Mayor Sntro demands
that' the boulevard swing around a hill
there and follow the present San Miguel
road southward to Ingleside, thence gome
by a new route south along the line of the
Spring Valley Company's Merced ranch
into San Mated County. The other route,
also indicated, stays on higher ground for
two or three miles ana is a very pictur
esque one. The Stanford Heights and
Sunnyside people i propose that the boule
vard follow the best ■ route through their
properties, from a topographical stand
point, regardless of present lots and streets.
They have decided that a macadamized
main thoroughfare shall follow that general
course anyway, regardless of where the
main boulevard goes, and as they would
have to foot the bills anyhow, if an assess
ment district was formed, they propose to
put through the improvement, and have
already gone so far as to secure estimates
of the cost of grading and macadamizing.
They are an enterprising lot of property
owners and propose to push the improve
ment through. , :•
The map also illustrates the importance
to a large part of the City that the im
provement of Corbett road would be and
the wisdom of preserving it as a driveway
free from streetcar tracks.
This, magnificent scheme of improve
ments will be taken up by the Half-million
Club in a week or two, along with other
boulevard enterprises. The club will this
week effect permanent organization, ap
point committees, and take up various
matters systematically. With the Half
million Club, nearly all the property
owners interested, and possibly other or
ganizations, backing the enterprise, there
is a practical certainty that the City's
pleasure drives will be multiplied very
soon by taking advantage of some of the
superb opportunities that still remain
open.
SOUTH SIDE BOULEVARD.
Projectors of It Depend on the Next
Tax levy.
The projectors of the Folsom-street
boulevard are in nowise deterred by the
lack of funds in the city treasury. A very
enthusiastic meeting was held in Mangel's
Hall, corner of Folsom and Twenty-fourth
streets, last night, and after an entirely
one-sided discussion in its favor by A. B.
Maguire, C. C. Terrill, J. C. Wiester,
George L. Center, Harvey C. Som
ers, P. Curtiss and J. F English
it was decided that an executive
committee of the organization, which is
known as the South Side Improvement
Club, do its utmost to induce the Board of
Supervisors to include an appropriation
for the project in the next tax levy. The
committee consists of the following: G. L.
Center, John Ryder, Harvey Somers, Eli
jah Gilmore, Joseph Kellv.CaDtain George
Raab, A. B. Maguire, J. C. Wiester and J.
F. English.
Superintendent E. P. Vining of the Mar
ket-street Railway Company was also
present and repeatedly gave the assurance
that his company was as anxious as the
gentlemen present to have the project go
through, seeing that it would help to in
crease 'ts revenue.
In reply to a letter addressed to H. K.
Huntingdon on the 22d ult., Mr. Vining
had written one in which he stated the
position of the Market-strePt Railway
Company as follows:
We have been delayed in opening the Fol
soni-street line by the fact that the City has
not completed the necessary grading. For in
stance, between Fourth and Sixth streets our
part of the way is finished and the City's part
is not yet completed. Between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets Folsom street is now below
the public grade and needs to be raised. Be
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets there
is a defective sewer, which needs attention
before cars can be rnn on the street.
A large portion of our track is placed and
we have all the metal on hand for the remain
der, ana can complete the entire line in very
short order whenever the City does its part of
the necessary work.
Letters were also read as follows from
James D. Phelan and Director R. P. Doolan
of the Mechanics' Institute:
A. B. Maguire— Dear Sir: I regret that
another engagement on Saturday evening will
prevent my attendance at the meeting called
to discuss & Mission boulevard project.
Your proposition to make Foigom street a
boulevard wouUi, if carried out. be a great
boon to the Mission and an act of long-delayed
justice. I wish you success in your enterprise.
Yours very respectfully, James D. Phklan.
A. B. Maguire— -Dear Sir: The Mechanics'
Institute heartily approves of the plans ad
vocated by the residents of the Mission for the
improvement of Folsom street and will co
operate with the property-owners for bitumin
izihg the street. Yours respectively,
R. P. Doolan.
A very encouraging letter wag also read
from Supervisor bpreckels, which speaks
for itself. It is here given :
To the member* of the South Side Improvement
Chib— Gentlemen : While regretting my In
ability to attend the meeting set for this *atur
day evening 1 take this means of expressing
my fullest indorsement of the purposes for
which you are gathered. The converting of
Folsom* street into an acceptable boulevard,
from the 6hore line to Army street, will make
one of the grandest and most needed improve
ments that now command attention.
As a member of the Hoard of Supervisors and
chairman of the Street Committee, I will
cheerfully do all in my power to further the
objects sought to be attained by your club.
The fact is, the interests of the South Side
have been too long neglected that preference
miftht be given to other parts of the City in the
matter of street and other Improvements. As
a resident of the Mission district, I can
appreciate the neglect that has mainly
been our portion in the past, and now
that healthy sentiment has been aroused,
looking for a betterment of condi
tions to be emphasized by the establish
ment of the proposed Folsom boulevard, I am
too willing to fully co-operate with all others
in promoting its success. I hope the efforts
thus begun may not be abated until this and
many other improvements directly affecting
the south side have been carried to a success
ful termination. Yours, sincerely.
A. B. Spreckeus.
The following resolutions, which were
adopted, best show the sentiment erf the
movement:
Whereas, There is a great public necessity
of a modern paved street as an outlet for the
City ; and whereas, Folsom street is best adapted
in every respect for such outlet; and whereas,
Folsom street is now so much below the
official grade that the reconstruction of the
railroad tracks thereon makes regrading
and repaying absolutely necessary; and
whereas, in the past this portion of
the City has received no favors from
the City officials, but on the contrary hag had
imposed upon it nearly all the annoying public
institutions such as the City and County Hos
gital, City and County Pesthouse, City and
ounty House of Correction, Women's Jail,
etc., and has been neglected in its public parks
and streets. Therefore be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting
that the Board of Supervisors be asked aa a
matter of justice to this district to pave Kolsom
street with bituminous rock, instead of replac
ing the present pavement of stone blocks and
cobbles.
A petition will at once be circulated for
signatures, of which the following is a
copy :
To the Honorable Board of Supervisor* nf the
City and County of San Francitco— Gentlkmen :
The undersigned property-owners on Folsom
street and adiaeent streets respectfully
submit the following facts for consid
eration by your honorable board: That
Folsom street, between Third and Nine
teenth streets, will have to be repaved after
reconstruction of the street railway tracks
thereon, as the street is now so fur below the
official grade that repaying is absolutely neces
sary; that there is a public necessity for a
modern paved street connecting the Mission
district with the City, and Folsom street is the
best street for such purpose, both as to loca
tion and grade, and an outlet for the city,
that the portion of Folsom street between
Nineteenth and Twenty-sixth is already
paved with bituminous rock. Therefore your
petitioners ask your honorable board to pave
Folsom street from Third to Nineteenth with
bituminous rock, instead of replacing the
present pavement of stone blocks and cobbles.
Captain George Raabe, presiding, an
nounced that another meeting would be
held at Folsom and Eighth streets to
morrow night.
"Out of Sight!" is the "Captain Marryat"
cigar. It's so popular that the first shipment
is nearly exhausted. Tried it yet? Made by
Harburger. Homan & Co., New York. •
Academy of Sciences.
The Hon. D. g. Kichardson, late secretary of
the legation, City of Mexico, will address the
Academy of Sciences to-morrow evening. His
subject will be : "An Hour Below the Border."
Children's School Hats. New goods. 15c
THE FERRY FOUNDATION.
Governor Budd Did Not Au
thorize Donohoe to Em
ploy a Chemist.
IS A SURPRISE ALL AROUND.
The Governor Wanted Samples and
the Report Presented to
Himself.
Sacramento, May 1, 1895.
Thomas Price & Co., San Francisco— Hzkb. Sir:
Yours of April 3 just received. Governor Budd
instructs me to inform you that he did not au
thorize Mr. P. J. Donohoe to make any chemi
cal analysis or physical tests of any material
from the ferry foundation at the foot of Market
street. Very respectfully,
E. D. McCabe, private secretary.
Thomas Price was surprised when he
received the letter of which the foregoing
is a copy. He made the analysis believing
that it had been ordered by the Governor.
Mr. Price said: "Sometime in February
Donohoe brought me samples of the con
crete used in the ferry foundation, and
represented to me that he was authorized
to order an analysis. As a matter of fact I
do not know that the borings came from
the ferry foundation, but Donohoe said
they did, and I have no reason to question
the accuracy of his statement. I per
formed the work desired, and the detailed
analysis published in the Call was the re
port made to Donohoe.
"It is correct in every essential. I found
the material to be as the specifications re
quire. That is the fact. I saw by the
papers at the time that the Governor had
employed Donohoe to examine the ma
terial in the foundation."
"What is the object in trying to prove
that the concrete was inferior and not ac
cording to specifications?"
"That I cannot answer, but some one is
endeavoring to create the impression that
the work is inferior. As my analysis
shows, it is 0 K."
On this topic Governor Budd was inter
viewed yesterday. He said: "I authorized
Donohoe to make borings, obtain samples
of the concrete and bring them to me. I
did not authorize him to employ an ex
pert chemist and bring In a bill against the
State. He came to me and said he could
make the examination without any ex
pense to the public and I told him to go
ahead and do it. So far as the bill is con
cerned, if it is small itcan be paid from my
contingent fund. The chemist's report is
all right. I have no fault to find with it."
The following communication was mailed
to Sacramento yesterday by the Board of
State Harbor Commissioners:
Hon. W. F. Fitzgerald, Attorney-General, Sacra
mento, Cal. — Dkar Sir: You are requested by
the Board of State Harbor Commissioners to
advise them whether the act entitled "An act
to regulate the erection of public buildings and
structures," approved April 1, 1872, is in
force and controls the board in the employ
ment of an architect for the proposed new
depot and ferry-house to be erected at the foot
of Market street in San Francisco. Also
whether, if in the employment of A. Page
Brown as such architect the provisions of the
aforesaid act requiring that competitive plans
be advertised for were disregarded by the board
and a contract entered into with the aforesaid
A. Page Brown, that contract is valid and the
said A. I'age Brown is legally employed as such
architect.
The Board of State Harbor Commissioners
also desire that y v should inform them
whether the $600,000 provided by law for the
erection of said depot and ferry-house was
designated to cover the cost of the foundations
and superstructure, and whether such cost can
legally be in excess of that amount by the con
struction of the foundations with money de
rived from the harbor improvement fund,' and
the whole amount of the $600,000 being re
served to pay for the sujjerstructure.
Tiie board* also desires to be informed as to
the steps necessary to be taken to have the mat
ter here referred to adjudicated in event that,
in your opinion, there has been irregularity in
the employment of the architect on the con
struction of the foundations, and with money
other than the $GoO,o<x) provided for the erec
tion of a depot and ferry-house, the object
boing to protect themselves and have all
further proceedings of the board in these mat
ters conform strictly to the requirements of the
law. Very truly yours. E. L. COLKOK,
President Board State Harbor Commissioners.
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Ample Facilities* Famished to See the
KOBB Carnival.
In honor of the rose carnival, to be held
at Santa Rosa on Thursday next, the 9th
met., the San Francisco and North Pacific
Railroad Company announces that a
special train will be run to that city at the
low iigure of $1 for the round trip.
To connect with this cheap excursion,
the boat will leave Tiburon ierry at 7:40
a. M. and the return journey will be made
Irom Santa Rosa at 7 :45 p. m. On May 8,
9 and 10 round trip tickets will be sold
which are available for return on or before
Saturday, May 11. The price for these lat
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