The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-04
Folsom Street Property Owners
Make an Encouraging
Canvass.
SUPERVISORS WILL ASSIST.
Why the New Line Has Been
Delayed.

The property owners of the Mission dis
trict interested in the movement to have
Folsom street converted into fine drive
way all the way from Third to Twenty
sixth received encouraging assurance from
two sources yesterday that did much to
change apprehensiveness into sanguine
hope.
Last Wednesday evening meeting was
held at Mangels Hall, corner of Folsom
and Twenty-fourth streets, at which
Elijah S. Gilmore was made president, and
H. f. Wynne secretary of the Folsom
street Property owners' Association, and
committees were chosen to confer with the
Board of Supervisors, the Market-street
Railway Company and the paving con-
Germs.
The personnel of the committees was
made up of such men as A. B. Mcguire,
H. c. Summers, w. F. Tillman, Thomas
Gillespie, G. I. Spader, George and Henry
Mangel, George Bagala P. Curtiss, John
Center, and others largely interested.
1t was then estimated by Mr. Mcguire
that to make Folsom street the south bou-
levard of the City would cost about $23, 500,
as it involves the changing of the pave
ment from basalt blocks to bitumen This
from Nineteenth to Twenty-sixth streets,
so it was thought the repaving of the re-
mainder was feasible proposition.
The committees did some active work
yesterday Mr. Mcguire called upon Su-
perintendent Vining of the Market-street
system, and Mr.. Gillespie consulted several
Supervisors. Both reported encouraging
results of their canvasslng at committee
meeting in Mr.. Centers Office during the
afternoon. Mr.. Mcguire said that Mr..
Vining had assured him that he was per-
sonally in favor of the project and, while
he could give no positive assurance that
the street railway company would be will
ing to fill in between the car tracks with
bitumen, he thought a meeting of the
board of directors would so decide, and
Mr.. Gillespie stated that tho Supervisors
he had seen had promised their support of
a measure to make the necessary appro-
priation.
mass-meeting will, therefore, be held in
Mangel's Hall tonight, at which the re-
ports of the committees will be received
A letter from Mr. Vining will also be read
in which Mr.. Vining throws the blame for
the hardness of the Folsom-street line
upon the Board of Supervisors. Mr.
Winnings letter in substance says that the
delay is occasioned by the necessity of
raising the grade between Fourth and
Fifteenth streets and reconstructing the
sewer between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets. Until these things are attended to
by the City the railway cannot go ahead
1--WE think" said Secretary Wynne last
night, chat this improvement is due the
Mission district. The south side has been
taxed for all general improvements of the
city, including the Golden Gate Park, and
we have not asked anything until now.
''Folsom street is thoroughfare, about
eighty feet wide, and with much shorter
curve than Howard, Mission and Valencia
streets, and, connecting with Army street,
makes short cut into either Mission street
or the San Bruno road. If man leaves
Kearny street and goes out Third to Fol-
som, thence along Folsom street. he can
reach Twenty-sixth quicker than by any
other route. l do not believe there will be
any objection to making it a fine boule-
yard.
1.-THE basalt blocks, if taken up and re-
placed with bitumen, will not be lost; in
fact since the resolution of the Supervisors
requiring beds OF concrete to be laid under
any and all circumstances a repaving
with bitumen will be actually cheaper than
putting the blocks back"
A petition has been circulated among
property-owners along the San Bruno
road which is soon to be presented to the
Board of Supervisors. 1t will ask for an
appropriation for the paving of a portion
OF the road. Some of the road near Ocean
View Bay is now being covered with
crushed rock.
Twenty-fourth street, from Castro street
to Hoffman avenue, is being made six feet
wider.
The new electricians for the Folsom
street line are being delivered at the car
house on Twenty ninth and Mission streets.
Their color is bright yellow.