The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-07
IT CAUSES MANY PROTESTS.
South San Francisco and the
Western Addition.
WILL BE LEFT IN sTATU QUO.
Bancroft Argues His Plan for Re-
numbering Houses-New Pave
ments for the Lick School.

AS was to have been expected there was
a great roar before the Street Committee
yesterday over the proposed wholesale
changing of street names.
A whole snowstorm of petitions had
been filed against 1t. There were Adolph
Sutro, A. F. Won Rhein & Co., Thomas j.
Glynn and J. II. Moore against the changes
proposed out toward the Cliff House; also
the Richmond Improvement Association
against the change of the name of Point
Lobos avenue to Geary street: property
owners against the change of the name OF
South Broderick street, aud long one
against all the changes of the alphabetical
streets in South San Francisco.
AS was stated in THE CALL of Wednes-
day many of these protests had been al
ready met by the committee Informally,
although no action had been taken. In
the revised list of reehristenings Point
Lobos avenue is allowed to stand as Point
Lobos avenue and therefore the objections
which were made by Park Commissioner
Stow in person simply confirmed the COM
mittee in the determination already
reached.
The forceful objections coming from the
further end of the Western Addition and
those from South San francisco, however,
caused general upheaval in the plans.
The pro testants from South San Fran
cisco had long tale of woe. They COM
planned that this was the third time that
the names of these streets had been
changed; that theirs were the original
alphabetical streets of the city; that one
time Board of Supervisors had robbed
them of the names and transferred them
to the Western Addition and given them
in exchange a lot of jaw breaking. out
landish names which it required liberal
education to be able to pronounce. In
response to general protest subsequent
Board Of Supervisors had changed the
names back to the alphabet, but added the
word South" which was Objectionable.
And now it was proposed to change them
again. They wanted their original names
or else they wanted to be left alone.
Now, as was stated in THE CALL, the
committee had determined, having a
knowledge of this opposition to the new
names, to set them back to their original
alphabet as requested, but in view of the
emphatic kick coming from the Western
Addition people against having the alpha
bet taken from them and entirely new
names substituted, the committee deter
mined to take the middle course and just
leave them alone, at least for the present.
The Western Addition names will, there
fore, remain as the plain alphabet while
| The alphabetical names in South San Fran
| cisco will retain the word South" as
now, on the recommendation of the COM
| mittee.
j. D. Robertson petitioned the commit
tee to change the name of New Montgom-
| ery street to that of RalSton street. The
petition was placed on file.
With regard to the scheme detailed in
| The CALL for REMEMBERING the houses OF
the city, A. l.. Bancroft addressed the
committee, explaining his system at length.
Mr.. Bancroft was referred to the Street
| fnr nrfh I6nr fiNr
| of the plan, and in the meantime no action
| was taken.
! Horace Davis, representing the Lick
| trust, WAS before the committee to secure
the fixing up of the streets in the vicinity
of the Mechanical School of Arts. He
said the school will be open, about Janu
| ary T. with $50 pupils and corps Of
twelve or fifteen teachers. and that the
street approaches were very bad. 1t was
decided to report in favor of paving thu
intersection OF Putrero avenue, Channel
| Brannan and Fourth streets with bitumi
nous rock and of building sidewalk or
Sixteenth street from Utah to PotrerC
avenue.
The committee favored giving private
contracts for the paving with btuminou'
rock of Van Ness avenue, between TURK
and Eddy; Folsom. Twentieth to Twenty
first, and the crossing of Van Ness avenue
and Eddy, to the Santa Cruz Rock Pave
ment Company.
The contract for constructing 5-foo
circular brick sewer in Fifteenth street
from How ard to Folsom, was awarded Il
j. j. Flynn at S4625.
The clerk was directed to readvertiIt
for the construction of the Edith-stree
sewer, the price, SO so. previously bic
being considered too high.
The grading of Utah street. between
Santa Clara and Mariposa. was favored.
Contracts for street work were awarded
as follows: Buchanan, from Vallejo tt
Green, TO Alva B. Chute; Park Lane
South, Third to Center. to Pacific Pavine
Company; Scotland. Gilbert to Green
witch, to James Hawke.