The San Francisco call., 1897-09-09
"SQU[RRE[ HOLLOW IS
THE E(JPHON[O(JS NAME
Of THE NEW PARK LAND
Professor Jordan Builded Much Better Than he Knew
When He Tried to Be Poetical Over
the Zoo.

! drum of how to provide the division OF
the mum bers to the learned president, the
secretary, fearing that the Mayor might
throw something IN the way, next m oyed
that q committee o. five be appoinIed 10
wait on him, with the same persuasive
powers as those others on the Supervisors,
the five additional ommitteemen to be
also absiracted from the original twelve"
This additional load of committeeman
was too much for the president in one aft
ernoon, consequently he announced that
he would make his selections by and by.
Before ad iOurning each OF the twelve
, phi!anthlopIsts pledged each other 10 do
all in their power between now and the
day set apart for the purchase OF "Sq ulrreI
Caleb 10 see each OF the Supervisors ana
urge upon him and them 10 vote the peo-
pies money away for the monkey ranch.
numerously signed petition was pre-
sented to the Board OF Supervisors yester-
day, asking that body to purchase a tract
of land and establish park and zoologl-
cal garden in the Mission.
Eight men who constitute club favor
ing the location of the zoo in Professor
Jordan's Squirrel Hollow assembled
in the basement OF E. A. Hackney dwell
ing a 1922 Diamond street last night and
| talked over the proposed park and the adj
vantages it would bring to Noe Valley
should it be located there. There were
n o dissenters present. ALI eight favored
the scheme and all eignt regretted that
sucn a powerful morning paper as The
CALL is recogn zed 10 be had opposed the
proposition.
Dr. E. Beverly Cole, physi-
clan and surgeon OF many
years standing in this City:
TINS Is all age Ot necessity and not one
OF luxury. We do not want any addi-
tional parks. We have an excellent park
as ii is and one sufficiently large for al!
the requirements OF the people. IL is a
real-estate deal, pure and simple, and one
got I'D to obtain some OF the money OF the
PEOPLE without having TO work for it,
! Our streets, sewers and public buildings
are sUrely in need OF attention. We hear
| the cry for greater school facilities from
| all over the City, and this 10 my mind is
of far more Importance than the stocking
of section of outside land with lot OF
wild animals. Attend to the urgent ne
| cesSities first"
General Samuel w. Backus;
| II have Just returned from a trip East,
and | must say that l am proud OF our
! Golden Gate Park. To my view it would
| be a burning shame to have this grand
resort neglected for anv new-fangled toy
in shape of a zoo. Oar taxpayers are
| heavily burdened as it IS, and to add 10
| their taxes at this time for any such thing
as an additional park would be wrong;
and besides this, people do not want
! park out where 1t is proposed 20 locate 1t.
1t Is the ouicropping OF some sharp real
estate schemer to unload at a time when
| he-or they, for believe there are more
than one master mind at the bottom of
! this ders we have weak Board of
| Supervisors, which may be ind uced to vio-
J late its pledges and vote away the peoples
money"
General H. HI. yyarlieId, pro-
] ~ n.
lit Is re eal-estate JOB. am orposen TO
! it right through and through. Whatever
] money we can spare, let Us put into
Golden Gate Park. Our stree are in
disgraceful condition, and the people are
in no condition to be taxed for any such
! foolish proposition"
Edward Saaher. merchant. IL
| Fair Oaks street: Il have large real
estate holdings at he Mission and have
lived there twenty years. The people OF
this part of the City are opposed TO the
| zoo swindle and have never asked for any
thing OF the kind. Th re are many things
that We do want and ought to have. We
want q sanitary sewer system; we want
good payements and street Hghts; we
! want the City to nav its honest debts, for
supplies furnished We want an appropria-
ton for a charter election, to get rid of the
/ thieying bosses who are robblng the City;
but we don't want the Supervisors to steal
| $400 900 out of the City treasury and divide
among themselves and their pals under
the p-etext of buying land to breed kan
! garoos."
HI. e. FlageOIet, proprietor
Bon Ton Market, 9OA and 9O6
Valencia street: 81 know ali about
| the tract OF land which the real estate
dealers ring is trying to sell to the City
| for a zoo. 1t is the raggedest. rockiest,
coolest and foggiest place on this penin.
| Nnh Nd u-Jth in of
sense would attempt 10 make park on
] the perpendicular sides OF a canyon. where
! the rain in the winter would wash the soil
| and plants down the hillsides faster than
| fifty men could plant. There is a big
'divvy' in this job for somebody, sure.
! We tried to get electric lights on Valencia
street, but wers told that the City could
not afford il. Now they are going to
| squander nearly half million dollars on
q wildcat gulch. A Supervisor who votes
! for that ought to be fret OUT
! =. A. Byrne. president of the
Precifa Valley Improvement
/ Club: Il indorss the stand taken by
/ the San Francisco CALL against the zoo
! proposition until such times as the City
| improves the parks 1t already owns" If
we have any surplus of money it is better
to give it TO the Board OF Education 20
/ build schoolhouses In districts where there
are none and in overcrnwded districts" 2"
Dennis Il. Sullivan, Chief of
the San Francisco Fire De.
parfment: "Iu view of the fact that
there are so many other more important
improveme absolutely necessary for
the benefit of the people than that of a
park and geological garden at this time.
| must coin eide in the stand taken by
THE CALL. To my mind the Golden GATE
! Park is sufficiently commodious for
the necessities OF the people OF this
City for numb of years to come. At
the same time. if it should be deemed
wise to keep adding to the present animal
collection already tners, why, we'll and
good, keep adding until there should be
collection of such animals as would make
the place still more attractive. This
would save the additional expense of
having more men to take care of them,
| and at the same time have zoo if you
wish and park combined.
The greatest advocates of the pro-
| no.ad now mark will ad m il tn At our streafs