The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-22
NEW ROAD FOR BICYCLES.
Demands Already Audited and
Charged to This Years
Allowance.
PRESERVATION OF FORESTS
Sentiment in Favor of Selling Buena
Vista Park and Purchasing
One in the Mission.

UQe III the mlSSlOu.
Now that the Supreme Court, has af-
firmed the validity of the San Francisco tax
levy the Park Commissioners will push
forward the work of improving Golden
Gate Park Under the operations of the
one-twelfth act the park receives $25, 900 a
month. Since June 80, and including the
allotment for the current month of No
vember, the sum of $125, 900 has accmu-
lated III the fund, and that amount, less
than liabilities already incurred, will be
available at once.
Commissioner Joseph Austin estimates
that contracts already authorized and
bills payable will amount to 100000 The
books of the Auditor show that the de-
mands audited to date amount to 500, 9ii22
Other bills in the Office of the Commits
sioner which have not reached the Audi
Tor may bring the figures up to $500 600.
The audited demands embrace the labor
payrolls since the beginning of the fiscal
year. The demands for labor average
about SO, 900 a month. The audited bills
include among other demands the follow
ing items:
Owen McHugh, loan, September, S43o3.
Kilroy, loan, $3.50 40.
Jackson, loan, $3.50.
Southern Pacific, freight on loan, 1868.
Gray Brothers, artificial stone, $500
McGilvray, first payment on concrete for
Park lodge, $70S7 ..
F. W. Dohrmann, street-sweeping for Septem-
Der, $3.50.
Fitzhugh, loan, October. S1135 20.
Hogan, loan, October, 1902 40.
McHugh, loan, October, 1852.
Tuttle loan, October, $1455.
Cuff d Co., bird feed, $201 70.
Charles r. Allen, coal, four months $3.50.
Logan, part payment on deer lodge contract,
S2649.
Commissioner Scott is sick at home and
Commissioner Resented is East. Commits
siOner Austin expects, however, that a
meeting will be held next Tuesday, at
which Mr.. Scott, Superintendent McLaren
and himself can be present. Plans for the
improvements IN view were perfected at
the beginning of the fiscal year, so there
will not be much to do at the meeting be-
yond ordering the prosecution of the work
Contem plated.
Money is available to put the new music
concourse in shape, but it is doubtful if
the Commissioners can now see their way
clear to expend much money on stone
periStyIe. For the convenience of peGeS-
trians-the throngs of people who walk
from car-line terminals to the heart OF the
park-tWo tunnels will be constructed TO
afford safe and direct avenues to and from
the music concourse. The first or main
tunnel will pass beneath the main drive
way at d point near the old park entrance
to the Midwinter Fair. The tunnel will
open into the concourse near the museum.
This underground avenue will allow the
passengers from the Powell, Jackson,
Geary and McAllister street cars to reach
the music ground without crossing the
main driveway.
The next tunnel will accommodate peo-
pie coming on foot from the bird cage, the
deer glen, buffalo park and recreation
grounds to the concourse. The passengers
through this tunnel will enter the con-
course near the lofty tower. The music
stand viii be placed near where the foun-
tain PLAYED during the fair. There will be
a carriage drive in the form OF an S to the
music concourse. The avenue for car
riages IS so devised that the teams must be
kept moving.
fAThe Commissioners propose to extend
the bicycle course from the stretch at the
Casino direct to the ocean. This avenue
will De provided for the exclusive use of
BICYCLES. Under the ordinance contem-
plated the "wheels" will not be allowed on
any other of the park roads.
Money will be expended without unnec-
essary delay TO connect the driveways of
the park with the boulevard system at the
point where Seventh avenue enters the
mark on the south side. Similar improve
ments will be made on the other side of
the park where First avenue connects, so
that the Preside system of roads may be
connected by driving avenues through the
park with the magnificent system OF South
side roadway improvement along Seventh
avenue through Ingleslde to the great
highway of the ocean beach. Beginning
on Van Ness avenue. passing through the
RI nd n n OIL
and returning twenty-mile drive vii! be
afforded. The projected boulevard south
of the park is sure to be completed. The
Boulevard Association having the project
in hand began taking subscriptions yester-
day. The first subscriber, a. B. Spreckels,
signed for $500. The Park Commissioners
are not authorized to spend money on
roads outside of the reservation, but they
will provide good connections at park en-
RANGES.
Under the present appropriation the
new park lodge of stone will be completed.
This structure was planned to cost $42, 900.
The Auditor understands that the estimate
includes the furniture.
The expense of puttirg in loan, which
will probably amount to $4,000, is said to
be necessary to preserve and develop the
forests west of Strawberry Hill and to re-
place the soil destroyed by the building
and wrecking of the Midwinter Fair. The
loan comes from San Mateo County. The
Southern Pacific Company had intended
to use the loan for filling at Baden, but
gave 1t to the park III exchange Tor an
equal quantity OF sand. The Commission
ers pay freight on the loan and the cost
OF loading as we'll as the expense OF I'M
loading and distributing the material.
Buena Vista Park, which covers an area
of thirty-six acres, is under the jurisdiction
of the Park Commissioners. The site OF
water cannot be obtained to adorn and
cultivate it. The Commissioners can keep
the ground in some kind of order, bat it is
10 near Golden cate Park that sentiment
exists in the commission in favor OF get
ting permission from the Legislature to
sell Buena Vista and buy tract OF land
near the Mission for park purposes. The
Mission, which is quite distance from
Golden Gate Park, does not enjoy the park
privileges conferred on other sections OF