The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-06
ALUMNI FAVORED SUTRQ,
Held Meetings and Passed
Resolutions Right on
the Site.
CENTER's OFFER DISCOUNTED.
Affiliated Colleges Committee Meets
To- Night-May Take Decisive
Action

If it could be left altogether to the
alumni of the medical and pharmaceutical
colleges the question of selecting site for
the building of the Affiliated Colleges
would be easily settled, and the Sutro site
would be the one chosen.
Both this site and the Potrero-avenue site
were visited yesterday by the alumni as
sOciations of these two colleges, over two
score strong, with some ladies in the COM
pany, and when the final vote was taken
there was a unanimous preference Tor the
Sutro site.
They were promptly at the Stanyan-
street entrance to Golden Gate Park at 10
A. NJ, where several carriages and bus
were awaiting their arrival to convey them
to Adolph Sutro's property
Inc Mayor has large number OF teams
grading J street and First avenue, there at
his own expense, and these two streets he
VIII sewer and maCadamiZe as part OF his
gift More yet, Colonel Little, represent
ing Mr.. Sutro, said the little bank in front
Of the cul de sac where the building is to
stand If the site is finally selected by the
Board of Regents OF the State University,
would be leveled or rather, the hollow
would be filed in UP TO the side of the high
and tree-covered hill back OF 1t. and then
what was left of the bank would be gently
slOped downward toward street, leaving
practically nothing for the State to do in
the line of grading.
The hill and the accom- panying depres-
sion there stand in the form of an almost
perfect amphitheater, the hillsides sloping
toward the north. They constitute an
effective protection against the winds from
the ocean, as is evidenced by the thick
growth of straightforward evergreens
From the site grand view of Golden
Gate Park, the City, the bay and the
ocean can be enjoyed, and this in itself
was enough to make the alumni enthu-
siastic in its favor and eager to place them
selves on record by formal resolutions
recommending its acceptance. They did
not leave the Sutro site until they had
done so, and when they took look at the
Potrero-avenue site offered by John Center
they reaffirmed their action more emphati-
cally than ever.
The Sutro site, as is well known doubt
less by this time, extends to the top Of the
NIL from j street and runs west from
First avenue to Fourth avenue, comprising
about thirteen acres. 1t is salubrious and
the soil is easily worked, being a sandy
loan. Just across First avenue Mr.. Sutro
proposes to have his $780, 900 library.
The Affiliated Colleges building and the
Sutro library would face the park at an
obtuse angle to each other, the Affiliated
Colleges building fronting somewhat east
ward toward the City and the Sutro library
somewhat westward toward the ocean.
The grounds would be terraced and forty
foot macadamized or bituminized drive
ways would run in front of the buildings.
Among the alumni who visited the two
sites yesterday we're:
Dr. Washington Dodge, president of the
Alumni Association of the Medical College;
Professor F. A. Beckett, president of the
Alumni Association of the College of Phar-
macy; Professor Frank T. Green; Drs F. e.
7 T.
taTles S. Mann, s. P. Tuggle, J. Henry Bar
T5ar c. A. Glover. James McCone, Frank I.
r. F. Fleming. B. f. Ba1meisfer. william
D. CLARK, William Gilbert Hay, Frank B. Petrie,
N. B. MacInnis, Oscar J, Mayer, Edwin Bun
nell Lucy N. F. Wanzer, Mary W. Moody, Kate
J. Howard, Rosamond Cot, Millicent E. Falck
and Sarah Shuey, and Chemists C. A. Sheifert,
Richard J. Dowdau, Fred Keil, Otto A. Weihe,
Harry L. Ladd J. C. Badilla, Eugene d'Artenay,
q. l. Ross, r. Il. Hawkes. and several others.
After the Sutro site was pretty well
tramped over and all its advantages dis
cussed, DR.. Washington Dodge mounted
the bus and called meeting OF the Med
zeal College alumni to take some action
IN the shape of formal expression OF
opinion.
He explained that Mr.. Sutro had offered
10 do all the grading, thus relieving the
State Of that item OF expense, and would
put up library building at a cost of about
100000, containing wealth OF scientific
and literary treasures for the students of
the four colleges, and that he would also
have reading-rooms in the library for the
benefit of the students. On the other
hand, he said, the Potrero-avenue site
would need filling IN, great deal OF street
work and retaining wall, at an expense
TO the State OF between $4,000 and 100000.
He also mentioned that, while Mr.. Gen.
ter's offer was bona fde enough, there
were seven small pieces OF the site that
were owned by other persons and which
the State could not secure for less than all
aggregate outlay, perhaps, OF $4,000 or
DR.. Barbat remarked that Spectator
had bonded a strip of the Potrero avenue
site, ten feet wide, for $4,000, in anticipa-
ton of its possible demand by the State.
DR.. McMurdo at once moved that the
alumni recommend the acceptance of the
Sutro site AS soon as DR.. Beckett re
minde ed the open air audience that there
was S125, 600 at the States disposal for this
fiscal wear and that if it were not all used
up it was Attorney General Fitzgerald's
opinion that any residue could not be ap-
piled after the year for which it was APP
propriated had expired, DR.. McMurdo's
motion was carried with only two dis
senting voices.
A meeting of the Pharmaceutical Alumni
was Immediately Assem- bled by Professor
Beckett, and on DIR. Schmelz's motion the
following communication, embracing ia
vorable resolution, was ordered to be sent
to the Affiliated Colleges site committee:
Dr. r. BeyerIeu Cole, Chairman Of the Committee
e Select the Site for the affiliated ColLegeS-DEAR
We desire 70 inform you that at meeting
of the Alumni Association of the California
College OF Pharmacy, held September ,, reso-
luton was adopted unanimously as follows:
Resolved That it is the opinion OF this asso-
citation that the site offered by Adolph Sutro
ESQ. for the building of the Affiliated Colleges
should be accepted, and that the committee
chosen TO select site for the Affiliated Col
leges be requested to favor the same and to
urge its acceptance by the Board OF Regents.
+. A. BECKETT, President.
OTTO o. WEIHE, Secretary.
Professor Green was one of the greatest
enthusiasts for the Sutro site. He thought
its healthfulness and surroundings very
important items in considering the physi-
cal and psychological interests of the
students. Mr.. KeiI was another. He was
a trustee of the College of pharmacy for
fifteen years. In his opinion the Sutro
site. owing to its proximity to Golden Gate
Park, had botanical advantages which the
Potrero-ayenue site could not expect to
possess. Professor Beckett saw its esthetic
side as an attraction to people, based upon
ta 4 II l.