The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
SAVING CORBETT ROAD,
A Movement Toward Making
1t a Connecting BouIe-
ward.
JoosT IS READY TO FIGHT.
1t for Its New Electric
Line.

Behrend Joost and some other owners of
property about the eastern slopes of Twin
Peaks have begun an agitation to have
Corbett road widened and otherwise i'm
proved so as to afford an attractive drive
way from the present terminus of Market
street at its junction with Seventeenth and
Castro over the divide to the region south
of the park.
Corbett road is now macadamized high
way meandering along the sides OF Twin
Peaks, crossing Stanford Heights and con-
Meeting with the Almshouse and Ocean
House roads. 1t is the only thoroughfare
reaching that region except from the park,
and, as it is route that affords magnificent
views of city and bay, it is much travelled.
Corbett road promises to be a subject of
discussion and contention in two ways.
Joost and his friends have tackled the i'm
provement Of Corbett road on to the agi-
tation for a boulevard south of the park,
and said that they will fight any boulevard
enterprise that does not include Corbett
road.
Mayor Sutro has strong idea. about bou-
levards south of the park, and wants them
to run his way. 1t is said that he and
Joost have agreed that they will stand
| together Joost will favor the boulevard
from the south entrance of the park alon
the Almshouse road, and southwest te
| Ingleside, the new racetrack and Lake
MERGED, if it is laid out according to Sutro's
plan, which would take it some distance
west of the route proposed by w. NJ. FitZ-
| hugh and other owners of land in the
vicinity.
| The Mayor will favor making Corbett
road a connecting boulevard, which would
be great convenience to the people of the
Mission and many other parts of the City.
| There is likely to be a fight when the
Market-street Railway Company tries to
get its rails on Corbett road which the
! people out that way expect it to do very
soon. The question will be whether Cor
bett road should be saved as one of the few
| driveways the City has left or whether it
| shall be ruined by an electric road. Joost,
who is something of fighter, is getting
ready to join Sutro in a combat with the
street railway combine when it gets ready
| to take Corbett road.
| Corbett road is Just what the combine
wants in the course of its extensive devel-
| opment of a system of electric lines. 1t
| has recently completed two branch lines,
| from Mission street along Twenty-second
and Twenty-sixth to Hoffman avenue
near the base of Twin Peaks. These
branches do not reach any important des-
| tination now. They are to go on over the
hills into the region south of the Park, and
one branch will reach the park.
The building of the new racetrack near
Ingleside will hasten the extension into
that region. Corbett road over the hills
and the road to Ingleside beyond present
q well-graded way to where the streetcar
people want to reach, and the property
owners concerned don't expect anything
else than that the combine will advance
on the hills in a few weeks.
This is an historic thoroughfare, more
than forty years old. 1t was a toll road
once, and, with the connecting Ocean
House road beyond, gave the only way to
reach the old racetrack, the Ocean House
and the beach. In those days it was a
popular driveway.
Along the slopes of Twin Peaks it is 400
and 500 feet above the bay, and so affords
charming views.