The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
A BAY-v|EW BOULEVARD.
Its Practicability and Advant.
ages to Be Publicly
Shown.
A Club Has Been Formed to Secure a
Picturesque Drive to the
Preside.

| The proposed bay-view boulevard to the
Presidio will be brought to the attention
of the Supervisors and members of City
| improvement clubs tomorrow.
| Business men and property-owners who
have the project in mind have got up cir
culars setting forth the practicability and
| advantages of an easy driveway from Mar
ket street through Kearny and Montgom-
cry into Montgomery avenue and round
| North Beach to the United States military
reservation.
The route for the entire distance is so
nearly level that it is practically SO for car
riages and bicycles. With the exception
of two ungraded blocks on Bay street there
is now continuous, easy thoroughfare
round the north side of the City to the
Preside, distance of about FIVE miles.
In the circular to be sent out tomorrow
the projectors of the plan call attention to
| the fact that the new driveway would pass
through what is naturally the most beauti-
full part of the City, the extensive north
slope overlooking the bay, AlcatraZ and
Angel islands and the hills of Marin, Con-
ira Costa and Alameda counties They
show by diagrams, copy of which ap-
peared in Yesterdays CALL, where it is
proposed to extend the boulevard so that
from the very heart of the business dis
trict to the park by way of the picturesque
shore route on one side and by Golden
Gate avenue on the other.
Already a club has been formed with
mem mbership to be extended to any tax
payer that may feel interested in the
effort to clear away the slight barriers that
have so long made it possible for the most
beautiful part of San Francisco to remain
unseen by visitors and possible investors.
| The members of the club are expected to
support such reasonable movements as
may be thought necessary to bring about
| Improvements along the boulevard and
have them cared for by the proper authori-
| ties after they have been made.
A prominent hotel man and member of
| the club when seen last night said:
sit is the intention first to present the
plan in a simple manner to the Supervi-
| sors as individual citizens and to the i'm
provement clubs, and that is the purpose
of the circulars. After that the Super.
visors will be approached officially.
| "That part of Lombard street that we
propose to traverse has already been desig-
mated in the new charter as boulevard.
| Through the efforts of the Van Ness Ave-
nue. Improvement Club the north end of
| the avenue is being paved with bitumen,
and that is another part of the proposed
boulevard. The present condition of
Montgomery street is a disgrace to the
City, particularly when SO many of the
| banks and insurance offices and hotels are
situated in the immediate neighborhood.
| "Allth business men and strangers that
come here must spend part of their time
in the hotel and business section. Now if
this boulevard were completed possible in
vestors would naturally go through part
of San Francisco that would appeal to
them as particularly suited to residences.
| When that northern district is once seen
in its natural advantage of unobstructed
marine prospect the poorer houses will
have to give way to respectable residences.
That is too good part of the City to re-
main always practically unknown. Inn
| provements and respectability seem to
spread when once start is made and Wig
orously pushed forward"
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