The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-23
POTRERO AND THE SOUTH.
DR.. Todd Laboring for the I'M
prOVement of Railroad
Avenue.
Gossip Of the Western Sugar Refin-
ery-NeW Coffee Trade Tug
Launched.

DIR. David B. Todd Of South San Fran
cisco is working in a quiet way to have
Railroad avenue improved from Eigh-
San Bruno road.
The effort to have this thoroughfare put
into travelling condition is now an old
story. When it was first proposed strong
protest was registered with the Supervisors.
The six months time for that protest to
have its desired effect has. however, ex-
PRED and DR.. Todd is interesting the
Hearst estate and the Market-street Rail-
way Company to have the work under
taken without further delay by the City.
The intention is to have the avenue
macadamized all the way to the Five-mile
House. Some costly fills will be necessary
and the improvement may require quite a
little sum, but it is anticipated that it will
do more to enhance the value OF property
in that portion of the City than any other
proposed improvement could possibly do.
One advantage which it is expected will
be gained by the matchmaking of Railroad
avenue to the Five-mile House will be the
opportunity afforded TO the Market-street
Railway Company to extend its kentucky
street and Railroad avenue electric line to
where the Mission road now crosses. Such
an extension would enable people to travel
to and frc between the Mission and South
San Francisco without having to take the
roundabout way OF Third and Kentucky
streets.
Contracts will be let soon for the macad-
amzing of Fourteenth and Thirteenth
avenues in South San Francisco from Rail
road avenue to M street, so as to enable
the children to reach the school in the
rainy season without having to wade
through mud. 1t is DIR. Todd's opinion
that the contracts for matchmaking should
not include the macadamizing of sidewalks,
that the sidewalks should be wooden if no
better material be available, seeing that a
macadamized walk is usually allowed to
remain unchanged for years.
Twelfth avenue from n to 2 streets is to
be graded, Hogan Il Crummey having the
contract.
The Potrero district customs station has
been moved into nice little frame build
ing at the end of the new addition to the
warehouse of the Western Sugar Refinery.
Superintendent w. +. Goodrum of the
Western Sugar Refinery dock and wharves
has just returned from a visit to his
brother, Frank Goodrum, at Stockton.
While at Stockton Mr.. Goodrum, who is
one of the leading spirits of the California
Camera Club and the first lieutenant of
its bicycle annex, took a number of snap
shots at the unloading of the first rails
from the barges for the Valley road and of
the first attempts at grading, and secured
an interesting collection of Photographic
views that in time, he feels, will prove
valuable as historical data. Mr.. Goodrum
contemplates trip to Stockton soon on
his Wheel
The bark Martha Davis is at the Western
Sugar Refinery, unloading 29,964 bags of
sugar. Her captain, Arthur l.. Soule, who
is intensely popular with the seafaring
men of this port, will take q two-month
vacation to visit his relatives in Boston.
Captain Soule has been master of the
Martha Davis for nine years. Three years
ago, when he came out from New York
and pulled in at Honolulu, he started in to
surprise the natives with new song, the
air OF which had been in his ears ever since
leaving the Atlantic metropolis. 1t was
After the Ball." Chester A. Doyle had
learned the song by heart some time be-
fore the captain arrived and had taken
pains to have every musician in Honolulu
practice up on it. The result was that just
as the captain went ashore TO introduce
the new air all the musicians OF Honolulu,
having gathered there, commenced play
ing After the Ball. The captain has
never since attempted to import any new
tunes into the island republic.
The little but powerful stern-wheeler
which the Union Iron Works has been
building for the towing of coffee lighters
in and ont of the harbor of San Jose de
Guatemala was launched yesterday. 1t is
called the Santa Lucia, ana sat In the
water very gracefully.
The iron bark Annie Johnson and the
steamers San Mateo and San Benito are TO
go on the ways at the Union Iron Works
for repairs soon.