The San Francisco call., 1897-06-23
FROM THE PARK
! TO THE OCEAN
Cutting Through the Sand
hill to Open Up Nine.
teenth Avenue.
Property.Owners in the Sunset
District Anxious to Start
Improvements.
Captain John Tutle Expects to Eegin
Work on the Boulevard in a
Short Time.

The property-owners in the Sunset Dis
trict are about to open Nineteenth avenue
from Golden Gate Park TO the Oaean
House road. Negotiations are about COM
plete by which Captain John Tuttle. the
welI-known contractor, will start a force
of men and horses in removing thousands
OF yards OF sand on the line OF this syenue.
from its northern terminus at the base of
Strawberry Hui in the park 10 its south
ern connection with the Ocean House
road, short distance west of the IngIe-
side racecourse.
1he prime mover in this undertaking is
Cnarles w. Pope, the real estate agent,
who has secured the cooperation of Carl
G. Larsen, proprietor of the Tivoli Cafe,
who owns large slice of this sandhili
proper ~ west of the proposed boulevard.
with Larsen's influence in starting the
improvement other property owners
agreed 10 bear their share OF the expense
IN opening this avenue, thereby giving an
impetus 10 the scheme OF turning the
brown sandhtlls into a residence section
Of the City.
The contract for putting the boulevard
IN good condition will reach $40 600 which
amount Will give en- pioyment 10 large
force OF wOrkmen for the next twelve
months. The promote of this improve
ment have an assurance from the Market.
street Railroad Company that when the
roadway is finished the Ingleside electric
car line Will be extended from its present
terminus out the Ocean House road 10
GREENS ranch, where Nineteenth avenue
viii connect and follow this route north
TO the park, where the Park Commission
ers VIII in turn open a roadway leading
up 10 Straw berry Hill, Immediately unoer
the bluff where Sweeney's observatory
stands.
With Nineteenth avenue opened from
the park 10 Lake Merced, a distance of
twenty-four blocks and the Balboa boule-
ward, just finished from the AImshouse
road 10 the Ocean-House road, properly
owners IN the Sunset District wlll have no
real complaint to make as regards neg
lected open streets
Considerable work yet remains to be
done on Seventh avenue from NJ street 10
where Balboa boulevard enters at the
Corbett road before suitable avenue is
open between the park and Ingleside
But as ex-Mayor Sutro and few other
operty-owners on this line are wiling
70 have Seventh avenue completed the
City Will do its share on the property
known as The Almsnouse Tract.
The opening of this avenue, with other
Improvements in the district was fully
discussed at meeting of the Sunset I'M
provement Club last night.
Edward Ewald, for the executive com.
mittee, reported that the committee ap-
pointed TO view the district with Mr..
Sutro's representatives would agree to
almost anything reasonable to overcome
the objections of Mr.. Sutro to the location
oi the main sewer but that the com mittee
was satisfied that even if Mr. Sutro's pro-
posed changes were made he would de-
mand something else in order to delay
and defeat II possible the construction of
the sewer for another year. Nr. Ewald
also stated that the survey of Nineteenth
avenue is rapidly progressing.
Dayle Foley reported on behalf of the
com mittee that the petition for a fire.
house on Tenth avenue had been referred
to the Fire Commissioners by the Super
visors, and that Chief Sullivan had told
the committee that he would recon- ID
the placing of an apparatus in the district
as soon as some of the streets were graded
He stated also that the committee had
been trying to induce Mr.. Sutro to grade I
street 10 give Sunset district an outlet
and incidentally make the Affiliated COL
leges accessible through the raising of the
street, but that Mr.. Sutro had steadily
opposed it.
President Keller stated hat the execu-
tive committee recon- nj ended some of the
electric lights promised by the Super
visors should be placed on Sunset Heights.
1t was stated that c. @. Larsen would
grade P street from Ninth to Sixteenth
avenues If an avenue was macadamized d
up to that point.
James KavanaUgh urged the enforce
ment of resolution 1924, directing the
Street Superintendent to have the prop
erty-owners on the west side of Tenth
avenue bulkhead their property 10 pre-
vent 1t being nuisance.