The morning call., 1892-02-20
THE NEW STREET.
Four Hundred Persons Pledged
to Oppose 1t.
Mission Street Property-Owners Determined
to Prosecute Their Protest to
Successful Issue.

owners assembled at Harmony Hall in re-
spouse to the invitation of the committee
appointed by the Protective Association
Tor the purpose of sustaining and indOrsng
the action taken at the meeting held on the
9Th Inst at Harmony Hall. At that meet
ing a resolution was passed protesting
against the granting Of a franchise extend
ing Mission street through West Mission to
Market at the expense of the property
owners along Mission street from Thir-
teenth TO Twenty-sixth.
Punctually at o'clock George E. Bowers
called Tor nominations for chairman and
John Mckee was unanimously elected to
NIL the presidential chair. On mounting the
platform he explained the objects of the
meeting and his opinions thereon in fluent
and torcible speech. After congratulating
the meeting on the large number present he
eh'reated them not to be led away by repre-
sensations that the proposed work could be
carried through at minimum cost.
After the ordinance has once passed,
SaId he, former pledges don't count. The
assessments Will 10 made and have TO be
paid for the cost as it is footed up. Many
nave signed the petition through plausible
mlSTePIeSentatlOn5 that Market street VIII
send her trade through to Mission. 1t Is
deluSlOn 10 think that any overflow west OF
YIN III otlGGL w III GRtE D6BEub MlSblOu IL IL
flows anywhere 1t flows north or west, not
south, and the district east Of Ninth street
mas no overflow at all. At the present mo-
ment MS5lon street south Of Sixteenth is
better street than Valencia. In the
neIghborhOOd of the latter thOTOughfare
rows OF stores and dwellings are inlet.
There is no sign of life, no eXubeTance OF
trade to come into Mission.
FAIRLY GOOD TRADE.
Now we have fairly good trade on
Mission, but If they put in these cable-cars
through the proposed new street, every one
Will take the local custom they at present
give TO their neghbOTs TO the larger and
cheaper empOriumS down Market, and the
trade on Mission will be ruined. The cable
car company IS under existing obligations
10 run road all the way down Mission TO
the bay; II il IS given this new franchise it
Will try and avoid this obligation"
The speaker then advocated delay and that
the scheme now mooted should be laid on
the shell until they had obtained their vested
nights. Until then he was opposed to any
thing which would take away any portion
OF what they now possessed, as be main
tanned this would. He then called upon
Frank j. Sullivan to address the assem-
blage, but that gentleman was not in the
hall, so DTury MeloRe was called UPON, and
that gentleman responded to the call of the
chair amld enthusiastic cheering.
1T was understood clearly" said Mr..
MelOne, that Frank sullivan was to be
present here this evening and he has broken
his promise, and | therefore move that he
be fined $1,000, 10 be distributed among the
poor Of Mission street" The fine was
unanimously levied ana caused much
laughter.
TO come to the vital business of the
meeting" continued the speaker. Il have
given It ny careful consideration. and FL
warrant If you'll follow my advice mat
your property will not be taxed. First l
want to ask. Who is TO be benefited by this
scheme-y0u or the promoters? Why. the
promoters, Of course. know most Of those
owners opposed 10 the petition, and many
VINO had been rushed into signing IT,
DON'T YOU BE FOOLED.
You all know what Abraham Lincoln
said: \ on can TOOL all of the people some
OF the time, some OF the people all the
time, but you can't fool all the people all Of
the time. Now, don't you be fooled. If
You are going to allow this ordinance TO be
passed, why I'll move my residence onto
my MlssiOn-streeC property and run for
Supervisor, or the Legislature, and While
God gives NE life and strength III fight the
ordinance to the bitter end.
Every one has a perfect right to make q
private street and deed 1t 10 the city,
but not at the public expense Suppose
for instance that the Supreme Court
should partition Woodward's Gardens
among che beuehclar!es, and there are two
cul-de-sacs Quinn street and Julian avenue,
upon The property. Suppose, l say, that the
Commissioners should continue these streets
and make them th0roughfaIes for the bene-
TT OF the persons entitled to the property,
would II not be absurd to ask the neighOOrS
to pay for putting some 100000 in
their pockets? l suppose If the neighOOrs
offered TO do it the benefciares would keep
quiet Yet this IS just what this all power
ful corporation is doing By mSrepreseuta-
ton 1t has induced many Of the property
owners on Mission street to the bay to pc IL
ton the Board Of Supervisors to be allowed
not only to put hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars into the corporations caDacious NAV,
bat TO beg for the privilege of paying the
piper for SO doing.
WHAT IS THE PUBLIC GOOD?
Then, again, the whole scheme comes
down to the prOpos ton that the man whose
property this street cuts through Will be
the only living individual benefited What
public good viii 1t do? Positively none.
The time will come, gentlemen, when
Market street viii be Oyercrowded, and
that Is just the reason why parallel streets
are built The next best street. therefore,
to Market, Is Mission. AS the former ad-
yances, tie latter must sympathttl cally
keep pace with it. l prODhes y that Mission
street must and Will become the great
Wholesale street of the city ii left al one
and untrammeled. Do you think that one
end of q street can be benefited by injuring
the other? As we'll say that tree or
flower, the roots of which being cut off, can
flourish. Tie whole must suffer; and | say
unless you stand by Mission right now you
will suffer VITA 1t, no odds which end you
are on.
Now as to the cost Of all this Have
you any Idea of it2 You have had expert
ence on Howard and Mission already.
Twelve thousand five hundred feet even at
$50 per foot assessment equals 1915 coo.
Then has it also come to your notice that
w. ). Hobart, who owns the property
through which this street must pass with
frontage on Market of 208 ieet inches by
$50 feet deep says that II he sells the prop
erty he must be eXOnerated from any assess
ment on the 100 feet he owns on Mission?
This demand alone shows how much the
gentleman who is to be benefited thinks
the undertaking will cost some say the
new street would facilitate the reaching OF
Golden Gate Park.
RIDICULOUS DELUSION.
Nothing of the sort; the present railroad
franchise round Twelfth street is only
block further. One of the most ridiculous
decisions in connection with this scheme is
that OF some property who think
that by not signing the petition they will
not be taxed. Why, if you keep silent the
few who have supported the petition will
have you taxed whether you like It or not.
Some, again. have been led to believe that
it will only cost fifteen to fifty cents per
foot. All | can say | would be willing to
pay ten times that amount and take a re-
lease OF all claims. If you keep your hands
out OF your pockets and sign the protest
now the road will surely be opened by the
railroad without it costing you one dollar
The fact is that this corporation wants
to back out OF its pledges to build a cable
road all the way down Mission street. If it
IS given this new street it will do so, and