The San Francisco call., 1896-02-15
SOUTHERN IMPROVEMENT
Better Transfer Facilities From
Solano Street De.
manded.
Petition to the Harbor Commissioners
for a New Wharf on Kentucky
Street, Near Tulare.

The Southern improvement Club held
an enthusiastic meeting last evening at
its rooms, on Twentieth street. near Ar
kansas. R. PengeIly presided and James
Glackin acted as secretary.
A petition numerously signed was pre-
sented calling upon the Board of Super
visors to lay plank sidewalk on Solano
street from Kentucky to Missouri. The
street has recently been graded, and at the
time this work was done the sidewalk was
contemplated but was never constructed.
Solano street has the only car line in the
vicinity. and for this reason most of the
residents of the southern district are par
ticularly. interested in its improvement,
though some doubt was expressed as to
the willingness of the residents of the
street to bear the necessary expense.
James Glackin moved that committee
be appointed to wait upon the Board of
Supervisors to urge the completion of the
work.
The motion carried unanim ously, and
Messrs. Raymond, Davidson and Glackin
were named.
Attention was called to the inconvenient
system OF street railway transfers under
which the southern residents now suffer.
AS it now is, in order to reach the central
portion of the City for one fare one must
take the SOlano-Street cars, thence transfer
to Bryant and from Bryant transfer to the
bobtailea cars on Sixth street. This takes
them to Sixth and Market streets. The
cal, and as result the residents are COM
PEELED to pay two fares to get to Market
street.
N. Thompson, who was present as a
representative of the Potrero Improve
ment Club, said they were equally inter
ested with the Southern Club in having
some improvement in the transfer svctem
He expressed indignation at the way they
had been treated, and he said the Potrero
residents wished to cooperate in demand
ing concessions. Numerous others spoke
in the same strain aud Messrs. Pengelly,
Strand. Felt, Raymond and Davidson
were appointed to wait upon the officials
of the Market-street Railway Company
and request that transfers be issued at the
juncture of Solano and Kentucky streets.
The following petition, which has been
signed by the majority of the residents of
the district. was presented and enthusias-
tically indorsed:
To the Honorable Board of Harbor Commits
si0nerS Of the City and County of San francisco,
State of California: The increasing needs of
the southern portion of the City render 1t i'm
peretive that wharf should be erected at
Tulare street. from Kentucky street to Massa-
chusetts, adjoining lslais Creek channel
your honorable board will make provision for
the erection of such wharf at your earliest con-
venience.
A committee composed of Messrs.
O'Brien, Raymond, Glackin and Seymour
was delegated to wait upon the Harbor
Commissioners in regard to the matter
A discussion of the poor water facilities
in the district was had. At present the
pressure is so low as to be extremely in
adequate in case of fire. On some of the
hills it is impossible to get water from the
mains at all.
The chairman was appointed q COM
mittee OF one to urge the water company
to connect the mains with some higher
reservoir in order to get increased pres
sure.
Attention was called to the necessity of
electric lights at the corner of Missouri and
Eighteenth streets and between the school
house and engine-house and at Sixteenth
and Bryant streets. All three points are
very dark and there is much travel by
them. 1t was suggested that there should
be lights along the Solano-street car line.
A committee was appointed to investigate
and see what could be done.