The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20

special meeting of the association should
be called at Assembly Hall, Mills building,
April 2, at 80 Pm.
In the matter of the directory Tor the
the Board of Supervisors in authorizing
the merchants to place the dlrectory
throughout the hall at an expense OF $l2o
was read. The committee also called the
attention of the board to the objections TO
this made by the City Hall Commission
ers, and it was decided that communlca,,
ton be at once forwarded TO the City Hall
commissioners, asking them to state what
objections they may have to such an un-
dertaking.
The association is trying to devise some
means by which the sweeping OF the
street may be hauled to the park until the
electric roads are in such condition that
they may do this work. The park has not
received any of these sweepings since the
spur track was removed from it, The as
sociation is also endeavOring to secure the
use OF vacant lot in the Western Addl-
ton located SO that the sweepings may be
hauled there by the present contractors
and afterward hauled from this lot to the
park by the Park Commissioners at their
expense.
A letter from Ernest Adam, engineer in
charge of street and sewer work OF Newark,
N. j., was read. 1t stated that streets
there were cleaned for twenty-five cents
mile, the average width of the streets
being thirty-six feet, and the bulk of the
work being done by sweeping machines.
The city of Newark laid nearly million
dollars worth of paving and built 81 800
feet of sewers in the past year.
A communication was read from w. j.
Pollard of the Citizens League, New
Orleans, desiring that the association for
ward a copSWf the new City Charter, as
New Orleans proposed to get a new charter
also.
H. M. Wooley sent communication in
the interest of the Wilmerding school site,
which was referred to special committee.
Mr.. Wooley stated that the present status
of the matter was that Oakland, Alameda.
Berkeley, Stockton and San Jose have
raised purses Tor the buying of certain lots
and have offered any lots the Board of
Regents might select.
So far the choice of the regents has been
tract of land lying between Oakland and
Berkeley, known as "Ayala Park" as re-
ported by their committee on sites.
In the course of several interviews with
some of the regents OF the university,
while seeking to advance the interests of
San francisco, he has learned that the only
way for this City to gain the Wilmerding
School will be for the active public-spirited
ciiiZens here to take the matter in hand,
as the men of Oakland and other places
nave done, ana raise purse ana Duy
block that Will suit the regents.
Some four or five sites have been offered
to the regents for this school, at prices rang
ing from sec, 600 to $10O, 900 each, that would
SUIT them for this purpose if bought and
presented to them. Now the amount nec-
essary for the purchase OF one of these
blocks could be raised inside of thirty days
from the time the work was begun.
The writer closed, saying:
AS soon as you take the matter in hand you
will find that you will be aided by every news
paper in the City both by handsome cash sub
scrlptions and by their columns. This is not
mere suppcsition OH my part, for l have the
promise of substantial aid from one or two of
the leading papers OF the City. In addition
you will have the assistance of the Mechanics
Institute, the Chamber OF Commerce, the Board
of Trade and other representative and infiuen-
tial bodies who are already interested in this
matter.