The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
WHAT SUNNYS|DE WANTS,
Extension of It's Avenue Desired
Through Mr.. Sutro's
Property.
Ashbury Heights Property Owners to
Discuss the Question of
Franchises.

The Sunnyside improvements Club, when
it meets in Vice-President Eugene Dasse's
hall on Circular avenue Friday night
proposes to take up vigorously the ques-
ton of having Sunnyside avenue ex-
tended through Mayor Sutro's property.
SO as to connect with the Ocean boulevard.
"Three years ago." said e. Avery Nc
Carthy, "Mr. Sutro promised US that he
would have Sunnyside avenue so extended,
but he has not yet done anything toward
it. Our people have had Sunnyside ave-
nue. opened and put in shape for distance
of about one mile, at cost of $75, 900,
making fine roadway 100 feet in width
We are getting tired OF waiting for the ex-
tension"
Another question to come up is the con-
dition of the Southern Pacific Company's s
property on Circular avenue. The en-
Dankment there needs attention, it is said
and the fences are generally dilapidated.
The organization of south of the park
property-owners known as the South
Side" Club is preparing to celebrate the
| completion of the Ocean boulevard as soon
as Contractor Buckman finishes his job.
The time for the com mpletion of the con-
tract is April 1. President Charles W.
Pope has already consulted with Editor
Hayman, who owns the Ocean House,
with view to a big banquet The boule-
ward has been macadamized to within
three blocks of the Ocean House.
Mr.. Pope said yesterday it was the in
| tentlon OF the Market-street Railway Com
| pany to change the H-street m-dummy
line into an electric line and run it out
Forty-eighth avenue to the Ocean House.
The company owns about 1000 feet front
age now on the boulevard-three blocks
adjoining the Ocean House property
which, according to Mr.. Pope, the com
| pany proposes to convert into a resort.
| The Ashbury Heights and Stanyan-
street Improvement Club is considera b,y
agitated over the franchise recently ap-
piled for by Secretary Willcutt on behalf
of the Market-street Railway Company.
AS usual, condition of the franchise, in
tended to bar out every other bidder, re-
quires that the pieces of road applied for
must be "an extension of and adjunct to
and in connection with the street railroads
now owned by the Market-street Railway
Company"
President George A. Rankin could not
say yesterday afternoon just what action
would be taken in the matter. meeting
of the club is to be held at F. w. NJ.
Lango's house, 127 Carl street, on the first
Monday OF the month. Mr.. Rankin's
opinion of the Market-street Railway
Companys move was that it constituted
an indication that it anticipated losing the
SulC p1OugnI Dy tne cluD TO compel q tOr
felture OF the old Metropolitan franchise
and that it was preparing to quietly aban-
don the old franchise.
The franchise applied for proposes to
cover several pieces of road as follows:
Along Page street, from Masonic avenue
to Stanyan street; along Mason street,
from Market to Eddy, and along the block
on Hyde street from Ellis to O'Farrell.
and thence out O'Farrell to Scott.
There was no doubt in Mr.. Rankin's
mind that the Board of Supervisors would
grant the franchise, but from Mr.. Rankin's
point of view this franchise would not
legally be worth the paper written upon,
and in the same category Mr.. Rankin
placed sweepingly all the franchises now
owned by the street railway system.
Alfred Austin is entitled to draw the
accumulation of salary due to the Poet
Laureate since Tennyson's s death in 1892.