The San Francisco call., 1896-03-28

propos ed to focus and concentrate the
opinions of the Mission people upon the
movement already begun to obtain from
the Supervisors and the School Directors
such measures as are in their provinces to
grant. The Mission taxpayers feel that
they should be in a measure recompensed
by the citizens in general for their coop
Grafton heretofore in the many schemes OF
Improvements in other parts of the City.
The following invitation will be gener-
ally circulated throughout the Mission
district during the coming week:
You are cordially invited to attend a mass
meeting OF the citizens OF the Eleventh Ward
to be held in Mission Turn Verin Hall, Eigh-
teenth street, above Valencia on Saturday
evening, April 4, 1896 at 8 o'clock, for the
purpose of securing High School and Park at
the Mission and for the further Improvement
OF that portion of San Francisco. If unable to
attend the meeting please communicate your
views upon the subjects indicated. Address
communications to the chairman OF the COM
mittee, at 26 Montgomery street. yeryrespect-
fully, F.W. VAN REYNEGoM, Chairman,
GEORGE WALCOM, Secretary,
A. B. MAGUIRE,
DANIEL KELLY,
JOHN A. LEHMAN,
Committee OF Arrangements.
In addition to this general invitation
Mayor Sutro, the Board of Supervisors
and the Board of School Directors will be
specially invited, together with SUCH other
public officials as have resident or prop
erty interests in that section of the City.
Judge Van Reynegom, the chairman of
the committee on arrangements, is busily
engaged in laying out line of action. In
speaking on the question of the needs OF
the Eleventh Ward, the Judge said:
"The Eleventh Ward, including all that
portion of the City and County west of
Seventh and south of Thirteenth streets
and Golden Gate Park, comprises nearly
two-thirds of the area of all San Francis 90.
1t is largely district of homes, and coE-
tains about 25 per cent of the voters of San
Francisco. 1t is sadly fettered and most
inadequately represented in the City gov
eminent by the provisions of tie consoli-
dation act, which only gives to it one
representative in the Board of Supervisors.
"The result is that the Eleventh Ward
practically gets nothing in the annual ap-
propriat1ons for public Improvements. Its
position toward the rest of the City is
analogous to that of conquered province
which has to pay heavy tribute for the
dubious privilege af being snubbed when
it asks for anything in return. A small
percentage of the taxes paid by the section
that would be benefited by making a park
OF the old Jewish cemetery grounds would
not only pay for the land but would make
IL
of Golden Gate Park. This is the only
,hance the City will ever have to get suit
BILE land for park in the Mission"
q At the mass-meeting James d. Phelan
will be asked to act as the honorary chair
man and principal orator of the evening.
1t is the intention of the several clubs
heretofore existing in the southern por-
ton, com prising the San Miguel Defense
Association, the Noe Valley Improvement
Club, the High School organization, the
| Mission Defense Association and the
Park organization, TO consolidate into one
general Southside improvement associa-
| ton.
| The Folsom-street boulevard organlza-
| ton, of which body A. B. Mcguire is the
president, having succeeded by dint OF
| hard work in obtaining their end, will dis
organize as distinctive body and assimi
| late with the general progressive o-ganiZa-
| ton.
| Since the inception of the High School
| movement it is amusing as we'll as in
] structive to notice the exertions mani
| tested by real estate spectators in picking
| out suitable sites for the school and
buzzing the promoters of the scheme with
the advantages of each and every location
| picked out.
Mr.. Phelan, it is said, favors locating the
High School as closely as possible to the
California School of Mechanical Arts, bet
| ter known as the James Lick School, on
| the block bounded by Sixteenth, Nebraska
Utah and Ell Dorado streetsf his reason
being, among others. that the Mechanical
School has now an attendance of $50 pu-
| pills. With the High School close by, pu-
pills could, if they so desired, avail them
selves of the ben efits of BOTH