The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
DR.. SALF|ELD
ADVISED FORCE
He Would Take Summary
Action on the Pest
house Site.
Improvement Clubs May Form
a Rival Company to
Spring Valley.
The Governor Asked to Interced.-l
Wordv Comm unication From
Mayor Sutro.

notwithstanding the inclemency of the
handle and Ashbury Heights Improve
ment Club congregated last night to dis
cuss the location of the Pesthouse in the
Almshouse tract, and other matters.
The indignation of some present took
the form of such utterances as that the
location OF the Pesthouse in the tract
mentioned should be resisted by force il
it came to the worst, and that 1T was q
most damnable outrage" President
Salheld, who had resigned the occu-
pancy of the chair to Judge Ait.
ken even told of the man who
lived in Sunset District and had said that
he had laid in good supply of kerosene
oil for the winter, as gas was so high.
priced, and that if the Pesthouse was
located in that region it might come in
handy
Deeper in significance than this was q
resolution that q committee be appointed
to exploit the region of the Panhandle t Q
see if artesian wells were feast Bile propo-
sition. In case the Pesthouse is finally To-
Gated on the Almshouse tract they intend
to use none of the Lake Honta water, but
contemplate starting an opposition to the
Aitken at least explained this as the real
meaning of the resolution.
Judge John K. Aitken, as chairman OF
the committee, reported that meeting
had been held at room SIS, PARROT build
ing and that the committee advised that
H street be opened from First avenue to
Stanyan street. The report also dilated
upon the benefits that would result from
such extension. 1t was adopted with no
dissenting vote.
A resolution was also offered and
adopted that the Park and Ocean Railroad
Company cease maintaining 'those I'M
slightly platforms and fences on the STAN
yam street sidewalk near the Haig hts treet
entrance 10 the park, +" and that no atten-
ton be paid the request of the property
holders that the Board of Supervisors be
called upon to take action in the matter.
By resolution, also, the Park Commits
and Panhandle of the park with electric
lights of 1000 candle-power each. The
club put itself on record in opposition to
light produced by the vaporization of
kerosene oil and gasoline.
Then came the reading of the resolution
condemning the locating of the Pesthouse
on the Almshouse tract. DR.. Salfield
acted as reader.
The document was very long. 1t re-
September l weightv reasons we're SEM to
the Board of Supervisors and the Board of
Health, Mayor Sutro and Governor Budd
why the location was undesirable; that
the Almshouse tract is almost the geo.
graphical center of the City, and that the
waters of Lake Honda, which supply
nearly three-fourths of the City, would
be in danger of contamination; that the
thickiy settled districts ofAshbury II ghts,
Sunset Heights, Stanyan-street Heights,
the park panhandle, the Western Addi-
ton. Eureka Valley and the western por-
ton of the Mission are in the direct line of
the trade winds from the Almsh tract,
and that the only convenient ground by
which the tract could be conveniently
reached by am bulance lay through the
park and close to the children's play
ground.
After stating that the representatives to
the next Legislature had been asked to
introduce bill making the pesthouse a
State institution, inasmuch as it was
claimed il had been used in the past by
many from the interior suffering with
various diseases, the resolutions were
reached.
They were to the effect thai the presi-
dent and secretary of the Association of
Clubs sign the resolutions and that copy
be sent respectively to the Governor, the
Mayor, the Board OF Supervisors and the
Board of Health, and asking the Super
visors to resclnd their resolution choosing
the Almshouse tract as the site of the
Pesthouse.
In speaking 20 the resolution, DR.. SAL
field characterized the action of the Board
of Health as most damnable outrage"
and said the people should use force to
prevent it. He explained that he spoke
for himself and not for the club. He then
spoke of the kero 'ene-oll proposition
made by somebody whom he said for ob-
vious reasons he did not care to name.
In his opinion there were many small
peninsulas along the coast that were per-
feet sites Tor a pesthouse, and that if it
were made a State institution ii might be
located in the hills of Contra Costa or San
Mateo counties. His remarks were heart
lily applauded.
julius Frankel of the Sunset District
spoke in the same strain and added that
sewer three miles long opened upon the
sands nearJ street where the germs would