The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21
THE NEW BOULEVARD.

The work which is now under full head
way on the new boulevard is one of the
things most deserving of public attention
at the present time in the City. 1t is not
only a great benevolence-it is a great
bargain. To furnish employ ment to men
who are in want though willing to work
is praiseworthy deed. 1t takes away q
reproach that would lie against any so
ciety that leaves labor unemployed
where there were surplus dollars and
presumably brains enough to devise ways
and means of preventing human energy
from going to waste.
San Francisco has made q great record
in the past in this way by expendine
$93, 600 to Danish want, among the un-
employed while creating at the same time
the beauties OF the Golden Gate Park, and
in the work on the boulevard just started
she is preparing to sustain her reputation.
No one who hes studied the reports about
the unemployed can doubt that this is a
gr at benevolence, and no one who will
drive out and look at what the men are
doing can doubt that it is great bargain.
The economy with which this new addi-
ton to San Francisco's attractions will be
acquired IT the enterprise so auspiciously
begun is cordially sustained by the public
is consideration enough to bring forth the
nerdiul funds even if there wero no force
in the argument that the method pursued
was the wisest form of charity. Not only
are the men doing hard days work for a
small wage, but the City gets the benefit
of skilled supervision absolutely without
cost. The plan pursued is for every dollar
of the fund to go into the pockets of the
deserving men who have failed to find en-
ployment elsewhere.
Both the chairman of the general COM
mittee and the chairman OF the construc-
tion committee are giving their personal
attention to the work, and they are men
of wide experience and special fitness for
the task. Their supervision is guaran-
tee that not only will every dollar go to
the right place in charitable sense, but
that every dollar will be made to accom-
piish in a strictly business sense so much
work that 1t will be like placing it in some
permanent and safe investment.
The boulevard Is to be a hundred feet
in W dth; it will start from the Golden
Gate Park at Seventh avenue; it will curve
around among picturesque hills and val.
levs and ravines; it will take the pleasure
seeker by the beautiful Trocadero and che
racetrack at In leside; it will lead into
the IngIeside road, which is to be widen ed,
smoothed and perfected, and down this
fine avenue of tall trees the people in their
happy outings can spin behind their
spanking teams to the broad and breezy
driveway that lies along the ocean beach.
from there they can pass to the main
driveway of Golden Gate PARK, and
through those winding ways back to their
homes in the City, after having circled
through combination of lovely scenery.
scarcely equaled on any other driveway
OF the world.
While we rejoice in the undertaking of
this new enterprise and felicitate ourselves
on the addition it will make to the attrac-
tions of the City let US not forget those TO
whom the credit is due. To ex-Mayor
Sutro, who gave the right OF way, 10 the
promoters of the plan, to those who are
directing the construction and to those
who are assisting to pay for it all honor
should be given. The public spirit dis.
played by hese men is as credltable to
San Francisco as the boulevard itself.