The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-24
POTRERO AND THE SOUTH,
Mammoth Jobs Now in Hand
by the Union Iron
Works.
THE BRYANT.sTREET PLANT.
TWO Little Children Taken From
Burning Building on Sixth
Avenue.

When the improvements at the Bryant
street power-house shall have been COM
pleted the Market-street Railway Company
will have an immense electric plant there
that is to supply all the motive power for
the Mission, Folsom, Bryant Sixteenth,
Kentucky, Third and Kearny street sys-
TENS.
The concrete foundation is now being
laid for the first of four big generative en-
gines which the Union Iron Works is con-
structing for the power-house Each of
these engines is to be of 1900 horse power,
making total of 5000 horsepower. The
Union Iron Works will have the first en-
CINE ready by the time Superintendent
Lynch of the construction department of
the Market-street Railway Company has
| the foundation laid.
The operation of the Sixteenth-street
system will be delayed until the cut at
| Bryant street is put through. The Church
street contest will only stand in the way.so
| far as preventing connection with the Fill
| more street line. Until Attorney Van Du-
ger has that matter settled residents of the
Mission district will have to be content
with the Halght-street route whenever
| they wish to visit the Golden Gate Park.
| Anent the movement to compel, if posi-
| BILE, the Market-street Railway Company
| to run its electric line out Church street to
| Thirtieth, it is learned at the construction
department that the company did expend
between $40 and $4,000 on rails for
| cable line there, but when it ascertained
what the cost of running cable line over
the grades would be as compared with the
| cost of running the Sixteenth and Fillmore
streets system by electricity the original
project was dropped. at was simply
| matter of dollars and cents" is the ex-
PLANTATION.
1t will take until about the middle of
July to complete the alterations and gen.
eral renovation of the steamer Columbia.
on the ways at the Union Iron Works.
| She is having several new boilers put
into her of 100 pounds steam pressure, so
as to give her propelling capacity of 1000
| forced combustion. This will increase her
speed from ID to 15H knots, bringing her
| up to the Queen, Puebla and other fast
| coast steamers. Her engines are being
completely remodeled to suit the high
| pressure.
A large portion of the bottom plating of
the vessel is being renewed and an entire
new keel being put in. This has been made
necessary owing to the securing action of
| the water at the Columbia River bar. Her
cabins are being reftted and new forward
deck is being built.
| A complete new electric-light plant is
| going into heroine of 400 incandescent
| lights of Is candle-power. The old electric
| light plant was put into the steamer fifteen
years ago, and was the first to go into any
vessel.
She will also have powerful search
light, and her running lights are to be
| electric.
The Union Iron Works is building two
! sets of hoisting-engineS for the Anaconda
mine in Montana, which are the largest in
| this country and will cost about 500, 900.
The securing of this piece of work was a
| demonstration of the fact that the COM
| pany was able to best all other competitors
in the country in that line of work.
A 20-stamp mill is now being shipped by
the company to Mexico. The company
has been successful in obtaining some big
foreign contracts.
The tank-ship which the Union Works
is building for the Pacific Coast Oil Com
pany to bring crude petroleum up from
Hueneme to the Alameda refinery is to
have carrying capacity of 5000 barrels
and will be OF 400 horse power.
A new shed to take the place of the old
one damaged by fire short while ago at
A. Patrick & Co. 8 tannery on Sixth avenue
too, for new shed at the Legallet- Hellwig
sheepskin tannery. Martin Holes new
drier at his glove factory is among the
Improvements along Sixth avenue.
Electric cars will SOON be again running
! to Baden, the track between the cemeteries
and that point having been almost cleared
of the dirt and debris by which it was
covered from last springs landslide
| 1t is given out that change in the
route of the Castro-street railroad is con-
templated. The report is that the Market
street Railway Company intends to aban-
don that portion OF Castro street south
of Nineteenth, where the grades are pretty
| sic Eaf lin
where the grade is much easier.
| Tennessee street is soon to be cut
through the hill at the Potrero. The
Refs estate will bear the most of the
assessment, as it is the largest property
| owner there.
the South San Francisco Fire Department
to blaze on Sixth avenue, between and
K streets, in cottage occupied by F.
Shoemaker, an employee of Mil1y Bros.
| The cause of the fire was Give ash
barrel close to the rear steps. About $100
worth of damages was done.
Shoemacker's two little children were
locked up in the house at the time the fire
broke out, but neighbor happening to
pass by was attracted by the smoke and let
| the little ones out in time to save them
| from injury.
! While NJ. McSwain, whose home is on
Fourteenth avenue south, between N and
|
nue. with two friends, herd of steers COL
| lided with them. Mr.. McSwain was
thrown out and had his shoulder dislocated
and fractured.
| Hugh Chalmers, mineral water man,
reported at the Potrero police-station that
a former employe, P. Lettich of 926 Nine
teenth street, has threatened to shoot him.
Chalmers says Lettlch would not make
proper returns of the mineral waters he
sold and he had to let him go, hence Let
| tich's threats of mischief.
Jacob Oman, shipwright employed on
Frederick Siemers' ways at Hunters Point,
had leg broken Tuesday morning. A
plank fell on him.
The Holly Park improvement Club will
have meeting Monday night. A report
is expected from the committee chosen to
see the Spring Valley Company as to q
supply OF water from the Clarendon
Heights reservoir.
| Residents of Ocean View are endeavor-
| ing to get chemical fire engine in their
| district.
Tuesday night the past masters visitedNoe
| Valley Lodge, A. o. U. w., at Duveneck' s
Hall, corner of Church and Twenty-fourth
streets. Samuel Booth of Excelsior Lodge
| No. 126 gave an interesting talk on music.
| A twO-stOry frame buildinr On Church