The San Francisco call., 1896-06-09
RICHMOND'S POSTOFFICE
A New Branch to Be Located in
That Progressive
District.
Meeting of the Point Lobos Club To-
Night-Scooping Up the Old
Racetrack.

Tonight the Point Lobos Improvement
Club will hold an important meeting at
Crosthwaite's Hall, on Fifth avenue, be-
tween Point Lobos road and Clement
street. The principal order OF business
will be a strong opposition to any extern
sion OF the Geary-street Railway franchise,
which will expire in 1908.
The Richmond people are strongly
against the proposition and they intend to
make their influence felt. They hold that
their locality is fast building up and be-
coming more valuable to the Geary street
concern, which taps the district. In few
years-say about the time their present
franchise expires-somebody else may be
anxious to pay the City for so rich a
privilege as running q railroad alon G
Geary street from the bay to the ocean.
This the Market-street company sees. and
is desrous of securing or rather of resecur-
ing so rich a plum.
Another idea which the Richmond dis
trict improv ement people propose in their
US ually strong way to carry out is to work
by themselves. They do not intend to
ioin the confederation of Improvement
clubs and have refused to do so.
1--WE must stay at home and work for
ourselves, said President Fletcher of the
Point Lobos Club yesterday. "All that
Richmond has ever received she fought
for and she won without the help of out
side clubs"
Another indication of the progress of
the district is in the fact that a branch
Postoffice is to be located there. The
building selected for that object is on
Sixth avenue, between Point Lobos road
and Clement street, near the center of the
In1 Df h.o or
The rapid growth of the place has moved
the postal authorities to establish the
branch in that section.
The nearest delivery station at present
is F, situated on Dav sadero near Post
street, far away from Richmond, and the
letter distribution there is very irregular.
Even this station will be farther away
when it is moved eastward down Sacra-
mento street. as is intended when the
street-railway delivery is put on.
The Richmond station, which will be
known as NJ, will be opened in about two
months. 1t will be provided with five car
riers and mails will be distributed out
as far as the Cliff House.
Warren & Malley, the graders, are be
ginning to scoop away the old Bay Dis
tTict Racetrack. The high fencing and
number of buildings have already been
torn down and six-horse teams are plow.
ing up the great hard track, where for a
score of years fleet hoofs have beaten the
turf so solid.
To-day 100 men and number of teams
will be boarded and lodged in the old
grand stand and stables and the work of
clearing up the grounds will begin in
earnest. About 100000 cubic yards of
earth will be moved in the leveling of the
hills inside the grounds. The southern
part will not require much scrapirg, but
the northern half will be entirely removed
to make the tract surface again correspond
with the natural dip of the ground to the
north, as it did twenty years ago.
When the grading is finished the streets,
which heretofore have halted on all sides
against the old track fence, will be ex-
tended on through the grounds, severed
and macadamized. In few months not
even a memory of the old Bay District
will remain.