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 sss the First Team Drive Through
the Big Notch.
TONS OF POWDER USED.

They're through They're through 7"
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 wrotb, but now that
is all over.
The big cash extends from Twentieth to
] 'Twenty-irst street. and 1t 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. '.is as wide as Van Ness avenue,
and viii in time be twice as beautiful"
The upper part of il is a fine street now
| thai toward Twenty-ffth street-but the
| lower end, toward Market street, is cursed
| by tannery and two graveyATdS.
| They've moved many bodies away in the
| past year" say the residents hopefully. re-
| ferrng TO the grayeyards. "and perhaps
| they'll all be gone By this time next year.
| Ne'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
! NTH streets there are some very handsome
| residences, and 1t Is here that Dolores
street is seen Ct its proudest. They are all
Of the oldnew architecture that has so
changed the appearance OF San Francisco
Of freeent years, aud some of them are very
large and have fine grounds.
i Why so much time has been consumed in
! DBlOTAs-straRf dv
seems 10 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 Twenty-frst streets. Ed
! Briggs, the cigar nan, whose house you see
! up there in the sky. back from the edge OF
the ehasm, has had the toughest time Of
| anybody, and he don't 60 a cent on this sort
of thing. In order to save his house from
falling down into the cut he has had 10
move II back, and now the grading of his
| lot is going to take lot of time and ex-
pense unless he should be lucky enough TO
get somebody who wants the rock to grind
| up for macadam."
isn't the street graded rather low?" was
| asked.
"Wen, should say so, and there's just
| where the kick comes in. All the people
who Rre interested In the work from the
assessment standpoint swear that the city
has establish ed 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 pu,
down so low where tile work has been OF
| such a character as this. It's too expensive.
Il understand some of the recent work
has been done by persons who wanted the
rock to use Tor macadamizng purposes, but
not much has been taken out In that way
There has been some talk OF running an
electric railway over Dolores street but the
residents would make great protest If this
| were done.
Guerrero street is sick OF its electric line.
with its network Of wires and its buZZing F."
| they say. land we don't want 10 spoil what
is going 10 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 at
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