The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
FIGHTING FOR
 IMPROVEMENTS
Graded Streets Demanded by Water Company Before
 Laying Their Mains.
Sunset District Improvement Club
 Report of the Executive Committee.

The following Is part or the report or the executive committee of. the Sunset District Improvement Club, which was presented to that body at their last meet ing, held in Park View Hall, corner of H street and Ninth avenue.
 A great portion of the remainder or the report is devoted to an arraignment of the representatives of the Sutro estate for their opposition to the public improve ments for which the club is so earnestly fighting.
 District Improvement Club-Mr. President: Your executive committee begs leave to report main intercepting sewer from Eighth to Tenth avenue on J street. and from J street to Fourteenth avenues on H street, were posted last Saturday for bids; and the Board Of Su- tion instructing the City Engineer to prepare plans and specifications for the completion of the sewer to Twenty-fourth avenue and I street to be paid for by an appropriation in the tax levy of the next fiscal year. Your committee would state that the thanks of the residents and property owners of Sunset Dis trict due to the Hon. Lawrence Devany the Street Committee. the Board of Supervisors and the prior board for granting relief from further destruction of their property through and ne the Amshouse sewage on Eighth avenae and street. Sunset District has been sadly menttoned and I we would nsrticuiarIv snas stase that the present Board of Supervisors and pecialy its Street Committee, have done every thing in their power to get an outlet for Sunset District and for the progress and advancement of the same; and we that while the become densely populated. unless the siIurian large property owners like sutro and others will stop its progress by protests
 According to instructions your committee and a number of the property owners of Sun set District attended the meeting of the Water ment of the resolution of the Board of Super visors requesting the Spring Valley Water Company to lay S-inch water mains on Ninth. Tenth and Eleventh avenues. from to M and K street from Eighth to Twelfth ave nue, and directing the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department to designate the places for the necessary hydrants to give the residents of the district fire protection.
 The committee of the whole of the Board of Supervisors. with Dr. Clinton in the chair, kindly acceded to the request to ask Chief En- gineer Schussler, when he was testifying be- ing the willingness and ability of the water company to furnish water to the Affiliated Col leges and to the thickly settled portion of Sun set District between Seventh and Twelfth ave nues and. H and NJ streets; but Dr. Dodge the Supervisor from the Fifth Ward raised the point of order that the meeting was held to fix water rates and not to provide water for the inhabitants of Sunset District and that we should petition the Board. which would no doubt grant relief in the matter Tn an- swer to the few questions asked Chief Engi- neer Schussler admitted that we ought to have water in the area mentioned: and that if we would nave Parnassus avenue from Willard to J streets and street from east line of Fifth avenue to east line of Seventh avenue graded the Spring Valley Water Company would Iay mains from Clarendon Heights reservoir along said lines and furnish water for the Affiliated Colleges and for Sunset District as far south as M street. He could not however. agree to do this, but would so advise the Directors of the water company.
 Tn accordance with this and on behalf of the Affiliated Colleges and the residents and prop- erty owners of Sunset District we petitioned the Board of Supervisors and appeared before last Thursday f'