The morning call., 1892-08-30

A Big CASH In A HILL.
The Great Dolores-Street Cut
Is Through.
TONS OF POWDER USED.
The Mission Residents Are Pleased When
They See the First Team Drive Through
the Big Notch.
IONS OF POWDER USED.

They're through They're through
cried the Mission folks yesterday as they
saw the daylight streaming through Do
lOres-stTeet hill.
1t has been a long Job.
Tons of blasting powder have been
burned and the whole neighborhood has
been subject to small earthquakes for the
past two years. Broken window-glass and
clogged up eaves-troughs have made the
nearby residents very wroth, but now that
is all over.
The big cash extends from Twentieth to
Twenty-frst street. and ii has been made
in the solid rock.
The Mission people were more than well
! pleased when they saw the first team drive
through the cut. They are proud of that
street.
Dolores street." they say. lingering on
! the name, lis as wide as Van Ness avenue,
| and Will In time be twice as beautiful"
| The upper part Of ii is fine street now
| that toward IWeDty-nfth stTeet-but the
! lower end, toward Market street. is cursed
| by tannery and two graveyardS.
| They've moved many bodies away in the
| past year." say the residents hopefully, re-
| ferrng, to the graveyards, land perhaps
| they'll all be gone By this time next year
! We're in the warm belt. and those grave
! yards cannot stand any longer in the way
| of our progress The city ought TO have re-
moved the bodies long ago."
Between Twenty second and Twenty
| fifth streets there are some very handsome
residences. and it is here that Dolores
street is seen Gt its prOudeSt. They are ali
| of the old-new architecture that has so
l+chaDged the appearance OF San Francisco
OF recent years, and some of them are very
large and have fine grounds.
Why so much time has been consumed 10
/ making the DOloTes-street cash nobody
seems to know, but now that the thing is
| done, or practically so, the residents are pre-
pared to overlook the shortcomings OF the
| contractors.
This work Is going to make heap Of
difference in the prices of lots along the
street. said Dolores-street man Yesterday.
But good deal has got TO be done to make
| those lots slightly. particularly between
/ Liberty and Iwenty-dTst streets. Ed
Briggs, the cigar man, whose house you see
up there in the sky. back from the edge OF
the chasm, has had the toughest time Of
| anybody, and he don't go a cent on this sort
of thing. In order to save his house from
| falling down into the cut lie has had TO
move 1t back, and now the grading of his
| lot is going 10 take lot of time and ex-
pense unless he should be lucky enough to
get somebody who wants the rock TO grind
up for maeadam."
| isn't the street graded rather low?" was
asked.
"Wel, should say so, and there's just
| where the kick comes In. All the people
who are interested In the work from the
/ assessment standpoint swear that the city
| has established grade that gives the con-
tractors every advantage. The idea OF max
ing as low grade as that when there was
such an awful lot Of rock to move beats me-
OF. course il is an advantage to teamsters
and for everybody who drives. but there
/ have been very few streets in the city put
down so low where the work has been oi
such a character al this. It's too expensive
81 understand some of the recent work
has been done by persons who wanted the
rock to use Tor macadamizing purposes, but
not much has been taken out in that way. y
There has been some talk of running an
electric railway over Dolores street, but the
residents would make great protest II this
were done.
Guerrero street is sick OF its electric line.
with its network Of wires and its buZzug'
they say, "and we don't want to spoil what
is going TO be one of the handsomest streets
in town by anything of that sort. Why, in
Philadelphia the people are already crying,
The trolley must CO. and that will be the
cry here before long.
Give US underground wires, or none al
all"