The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16

when 1t will be able to come to decision
of choice.
A great deal can be said in favor of either
piece. That on Potrero avenue extends to
Harrison street, and runs from Fifteenth
to Sixteenth streets, and is near the City
and County Hospital; the tract offered by
Mr.. Sutro will have the advantage of his
library close by; can be reached by the
Metropolitan electric line; will be only a
few blocks distant from the Aim shouse; is
a pretty site, and will be very near to the
park.
Mayor Sutro has made every concession
the commission has asked for, and went
still further yesterday in proposition he
submit tied to DR.. r. Beverley Cole, chair
man of the commission. He offered to
give the commission eighty feet more, so
as to extend the original offer to straight
line running continuously with First
avenue. This places tract at the disposal
OF the commission running from First to
Fourth avenues south of J street.
The topography of the land is such there
that natural amphitheater is formed,
with stretch of about 1000 feet between
the two extremes. The ground slopes
toward the northward, and it is the west
ern half of this amphitheater which Mr..
Sutro offers to the commission.
If the Affiliated Colleges were located
there they could enjoy magnificent view
of the park and the City and be seen in
turn from almost any point in the City
where high hills did not intervene. Mr..
Sutro's library would be situated on the
adjoining half of this twenty-six-acre tract
he has been holding so long in reserve
for it.
The commission will probably get to-
gether on Monday, but it is very doubtful
if final decision can be reached.
Charles Cole said yesterday afternoon:
There is such diversity of opinion that it is
pretty hard to say when the commission will
be able to make up its miEd. For my part
think Mr.. Sutro has made noble and gen.
erous offer and that we ought to take ad-
vantage of it. That is very valuable property
and in ten years the City will all be built up
with fine residences around there.
do not think the Potrero-avenue location Is
a good one for q State institution which we are
building not only for the present, but for all
time. 1t is true that its nearness to the City
and County Hospital is a strong reason in its
favor, and we could get great deal of clinical
material in that neighbOrhood which would
not be SO easily obtainable at the Sutro SITE
and besides all that, it is much easier of access
and is not so very far from the new City Hall.
But this argument, in my mind, is not enough
1t is strictly unitarian and does not take the
possibilities CT the future into consideration.
Now my reasons for preferring the Sutro site
contemplate the esthetic side of things as well
as the unitarian, they speculate somewhat
upon the future. To my way of looking at it,
the park and the peculiar topography of the
ground are great advantages-they appeal to
the sense OF the beautiful; and l think
it would be much better for the public
in general if the sense of the beautiful
were more needed in the location and
ocular sense is perhaps the most influential in
determining the character of any people. AS
to the speculative, consiuer the kind of prop
erty that is out there the tendency to build
fine residences and pretty villas around the
park and toward the ocean; the prospect of it's
being all quilt up in, say. about ten years, and
land, affoTding us plenty of ROOM
Concerning the City and County Hospital
there seems to be a constant desire to have
that institution removed, and every year or so
a movement is started having that end in view.
/, myself, am firmly opposed to it's removal. /
was one Of the commission that located these
eleemosynary institutions and the park, and
chose the particular site the hospital now oc-
cupies for the reason that considered it the
very best being protected from all disagreable
winds and fogs: But it is Just possible that the
would probably go to the Almshouse.
DIR. Cole said he had been East some
time ago making study of medical col
leges and that class of institutions gener-
ally, and, as result of his observations,
he would suggest the putting of all four
colleges into one building. Each would
occupy q distinctive and separate portion
of it, however, so that when, in course of
time, the capacity OF the building became
too small for the number of students, an
other building could be put up, and SO on
until, ultimately, the original purpose of
four buildings would be carried out, each
sufficiently large to meet all future de-
mands. By. such method, he thought.
both the present and the future could be
most economically provided for.
Speaking of the advantage of having the
Sutro library close at hand DR.. Cole re-
marked that member of the commission
had asked the Mayor if the library would
be endowed.
''This will endow it, was Mr.. Sutro's
answer, as his hand swept over all the
property on the map north of the library
and colleges sites and extending to Carl