The morning call., 1890-05-16
MARKET STREET.
Supervisors Decide to Extend 1t
to Lincoln Road.
Fillmore-Street Wharf Leased-Missioa Widen
ening Linss-The Dolores Embankment.
Protests 0verruled.

1ne SuDefVlsGfs' street. committee yesterday
decided TO grant the California Adamant Wall
Plaster Company a lease OF the Fillmore street
Wharf for three years, with the privilege OF re-
newal for three years longer, at an annual rent OF
$500. The wharf has been bringing in nothing
and has cost SIS i month for Whariinger's
salary.
Contracts for street work were awarded as fol-
lows Pave with bitumeu Hyde street, from Green
TO Union, to the Southern California Bituminons
Paving Company, at 1884 cents square foot.
aggregate cost S24o0; also the crossing Of Hyde
and Vallejo streets, to the same company, al
3O12 cents, aggregate cost $3.50; also Twelfth
street, from Howard TO Folsom, to Thomson q
Williams, at 2S1s cents q square foot; also
Vallejo street, from Buchanan to Webster, to
Thomson s. Williams, at 20 ceuts, $685. to
grade Butte street, from Pennsylvania avenue
to Mississippi, to John kelso & Co., al 10 cents
cubic yard $3.50.
The following contracts, laid over at the former
meeting, were also awarded: Pave with basalt
blocks Prescott street. from Pacific TO Broad
way, 10 A. j. Raisch, at 43 cents a square foot;
also the crossing of Valencia and Twenty sixth
streets, 10 u. Harvey al 81 cents; also Valencia
street, from Twenty sixth 10 Army, to d. Har-
ney, at 81 cents; grade Steiner street, from
Hayes 10 Fulton, to {. ID. Vincent, at 5S12 cents
cubic yard.
PROTEST oVEERULED.
The committee overrued the protest OF the
SouEiCbdAlOu OutIlln lSIdti
Church street, between Nineteenth and Tweu-
teth, and also that against the manner in which
the grading is being done on Point Lobos avenue
and Collins street.
Mrs Sabrlna Fleetwood's petition to expunge
StaliOs alley of Suffer street. between Il yde and
LaTkn, from The Official map was referred to tue
City Attorney for his opinion as 10 whether II is
an open public street.
Superintendent Ashworth WAS directed to
notify owners on Mission street, affected by the
MlQRulnp
widening line, except where the matter IS in llti-
CATION. The City Surveyor was also Instructed
to give Il contractor, VINO Is constructing sewer
IN The street; his proper lines aud to establish
The lines OF The street as widened.
Tue petition Of tie Park Lane Tract aud
Seyenteenill-str Improvement Club 10 change
the grades on Seventeenth aud Douglas streets
was granted.
II was decided to recommend that proceedings
be taken for extending Post street from Central
avenue TO Clement street.
The committee will report In favor Of authoriz-
Ing the Mayor 10 sell all old Iron in The corpora
ton yard; also TO eXpunge Clipper street, from
Twenty-fourth TO Twenty-sixth, and Cedar ave-
nue. flom Van Ness to Octavla street, from the
0ftclal map.
superintendent AshwOrth was instructed 10
have the Southern Pacific Company remove the
embankment at Dolores aud Iweuly-seventh
streets.
MARKET STREET PROJECTION.
An afternoon session OF the committee was
held to consider the proposed extension OF Mar
ket street, from Seventeenth to Lincoln road
About fifty persons Interested Tor or against
the measure appeared before the committee
Some favored extending TO Nineteenth street and
then constructing a serpenrine boulevard leading
10 Golden Gale Park, while Others favored going
to Corbett road. 20 illustrate all OF which the
walls OF the committee room were almost GOV
cred over with maps aud prohles.
ID. II. Wulzen, one OF the directors. repre-
Sented by j. &. Bales, who urged mat Market
street could not be extended in twenty years. and
that The law under which the board proposed to
act Is unconstitutional.
X. e. HARRISON, attorney for Richard Chandler,
Directed, as Llle projection Is tOf lie DuDilc
good and The grades would be too steep. The
extension meant Lhe couIiscatiOn OF his clients
property
Mr. WulZen averred that the petition for the
extension contained 175 signatures, among
which are number of real estate agents, who
had signed mOle than once, and also butcher
boys and BARRIERS not owning any properly.
W. A. Peekhan claimed that the grades are so
steep as TO make road ilnpraetcable. The
only feasible route, he thought, is over Seven
teenth street.
ADoLPH sUTRo OBJECTS.
Adoph Sutro advanced similar argument as
10 the steepnesS OF he grades. lie favored going
out seventeenth street and Sc rIeutlle avenue 10
Park Lane, following the contour Of the country.
Another route is to extend Market street TO
Nineteenth, then winding around the hills Id
Seventeenth and Park Lane. Either of these
routes would give an easy grade: MI. Sutro
branded the extension in an air line 10 Lincoln
road as a scheme OF zeal estate SPECTATORS.
John J. Haley, agent Tor Senator Stanford,
SAID That the latter wanted 10 run the ea6e-Ioad
out over lhe route proposed but found the grade
too heavy. The only way 10 reach the park is
out Sixteenth street dyerging.
j. f. Bartlett, President Of the Market-street
Improvement Club, claimed that the arguments
OF the opponents OF the extension were grossly
inaccurate, and In turn made long argument in
favor OF extending i'll a straight line.
DIR. j. Ii. Miller called the attention of the
committee TO tile faeI that beyond Lincoln road
Market street had already been virtually ex-
Il nded, and by projecting Market street from
Seventeenth through 10 Lincoln foad tie thor
oushfare would be completed, running across
the whole peninsula.
POWER To CONDEMN.
The city has power TO Condemn property. but
1t Is not conhsea,ion,as claimed, because the
ers would receive more money than their proper
Ties are worth. The maps of the city showed an
Intention 10 extend the street in straight line
The proposed extension had been discussed early
in The SOS, when the speaker boy. The
time was now ripe Tor tile Improvement From
Seventeenth 10 Nineteenth street the grade
would be per cent, and from Nineteenth Street
to Lincoln road from 10 to Il per cent
On motion OF Mir. Kiugwel. tile committee de-
cded TO report N favor OF proceedings for the
projection of the road III straight line TO Lin
coin road