The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-17
POTRER0 AND VICINITY,
Brick Walls of Miller & Lux's
ButChertoWn Cooler
Finished.
DR.. Todd Will Bring the Railroad
Avenue Extension Matter Up
Again..

The four brick walls of Miller g. Lux's
cooler in Butchertown are finished, and
the carpenter is proceeding with his por-
ton of the work.
Erwin G. Rudolph of the firm says the
cooler is somewhat of an experiment,
but he expects nothing short of success.
Miller & Lux's cattle are very richly fed
on alfalfa, and the necessity of some cool
ing apparatus is apparent. The cooling
process is done by means of pipes filled
with an hydrated ammonia, the tempera-
ture being kept about so degrees, unless
lower one is thought desirable. About
$23, 900 will be expended on this adjunct to
the slaughter-house.
Mrs. Heinrich Meissner, who lives in the
Bay View district on Twenty-ninth street,
has been suffering with an aggravated
form OF hysteria ever since one of Miller
& Lux teams collided with an electrician
on which she was riding on Kentucky
street, near Nevada, last week. Her
physician says he cannot yet tell to what
extent she was injured.
The shock she received has left her in
distressed condition. Her husband is one
OF a settlement of clam-diggers.
The regular driver, John d. Barry, was
not in charge of the team when the acct
dent occurred, Charles L. TAYLOR having
enjoying a short visit to Castorville.
| Taylor has the reputation in South San
| Francisco and Butchertown OF being an
| expert with the lines, and has frequently
| distinguished himself with an eight-horse
team along rough and muddy roads and in
critical places. He manfully exonerated
| the motorman and conductor or the
electrician from all blame. It was clearly
I a mishap. as one of the lead lines broke
| and Taylor had no way to properly manage
| the horses.
Both of the injured horses have had to
! be shot. The team had been rather un-
| fortunate one. While George Fairbanks
| was driving it, acting as substitute for
Barry about two years ago, he was killed
| in a runaway. Previous to that man
named Waterman, also driving as substi-
tute was seriously injured.
An effort will be made by Dr. David b.
Todd to have the matter of the extension
of Railroad avenue to the Flve-mile House
brought again before the Board of Super
visors. When the petition for the extern
sion was submitted to the board, it was off
set by protests from property-owners on
two blocks. Now, however, that the six
months time limit has expired, DIR. Todd
proposes to push the project.
The Market-street Railway Company
would then extend its Kentucky-street and
Railroad Avenue electric line to the Five
mile House, and that would give COM
| plete electric railway circuit for the
| Potrero, South San Francisco and the Mis-
sion. People desiring to enjoy the salu-
| brity of the bay-side suburbs could go out
via the Potrero and return via the Twenty
ninth and Mission street line.
The South San Francisco and Mission
Mail is an exceptionally interesting paper
| devoted to the entire southern portion of
the City. The sons of E. B. Grifiths, an
old newspaper man, for many years con-
-
duct this journalistic enterprise and cover
the ground pretty we'll. The CALL repro
duces from it the following editorial:
The Halfmiilion Club is q good idea and
will undoubtedly be the means of benefiting
San Francisco to considerable extent, yet the
employment for the many idle workingmen
who are here. Keep the workingmen at work
and hard times will be unheard OF, and the
population will soon reach the half-million
marx and go still higher.
David w. Todd, son of DR.. David B.
! Todd of South San Francisco, will finish
his course at the Annapolis Naval Academy
| this month. He expects to be assigned to
| the Olympia, which is to take the place of
| the Philadelphia soon at Honolulu and be-
come the flagship of the Pacific squadron.
| Mr.. Todd will enjoy the customary three
months leave of absence.
The informant of the CALL was laboring
under slight misapprehension yesterday
when he alluded to the postofice needs OF
| South San Francisco. There is a sub
station there at DIR. NJ. A. Mclaughlin s
store, on the corner of Railroad and
Eleventh avenues, which gives very good
satisfaction to the people of that vicinity
| There are between 500 and 600 school
children in South San Francisco who every
winter are compelled to wade through
mud to reach the school, which is located
on the corner of Fourteenth avenue and
L street. A movement will be started to
have that portion of Fourteenth avenue,
between NJ and L streets, macadamized