The San Francisco call., 1905-08-20

For all that lower section of the city
between the water front and Fourth
street and south of Market, with its great
business interests, there is now no con-
venient highway. What it needs is
boulevard offering an outlet into San
Bruno and San Mateo County, where the
city promises to extend in its prosperous
future. Such a boulevard is already
mapped out along natural lines.
Fourth street. already being widened,
will be its beginning, and it will run
along Fourth street, then along Ken
lucky street, then along Railroad ave
nue., all adequately widened, right out to
the shell road in San Bruno.
This boulevard will afford splendid
outlet and will at the same time make
our big shipbuilding interests and dry
docks and iron works convenient to tour
lists, most of whom are interested in see
ing them when they visit San Francisco.
This is an improvement that will supply
a present need as well as meet a future
requirement, and the requirement or a
not very distant future.
I'm considering improvements in this
section it would be well to have Channel
street dredged and banked with re-
tanning wall, after the fashion Of Euro
pean cities.
"A little farther up town the conges-
tion can again be relieved by the wild
ening of Tenth street to Potrero ave-
nue., which is in itself a fine wide thor
oughfare.
mission street offers another con-
venient outlet into San Mateo County,
and it has already been widened from
College Hill to the county line into
fine driveway of eighty feet in width.
Nineteenth avenue also is to be ex-
tended, the Supervisors having appro-
priated the money for that purpose. 1t
is to be extended to connect with the
Colma road. and as it runs directly
into Ocean avenue 1t offers a way into
and out of San Mateo County that is
free from heavy grades and is conse-
quently especially valuable to automo-
bilists.
"Boulevards and extensions such as
these are needed now in the present de-
velopment of the city and as a prepara-
ton for its future would be real
economy, as we'll as an impetus to de-
velopment.
Every great city needs pleasure
grounds, of course, and one of its first
duties to its population is to give easy
access to such pleasure grounds, to
bring them near the people.
For the future San Francisco our
ocean beach offers an unparalleled play
ground and before it is too late the
highways leading TO 1t must be made
as easy and attractive as possible.
"One of the first things to do Is to
make a boulevard to the ocean. con-
Meeting Corbett road with Ocean ave-
nue. aud widening and identifying
both This will make one of the most
beautiful OF city drives. Ocean avenue
should be made 120 feet wide and Cor
bett road increased to eighty feet. This
boulevard should be macadamized like
the park roads. and oiled. and should
have sidewalks. with trees and benches.
1t can be accomplished at an outlay of
about $4,000. at an outside estimate,
and will be highway of priceless ben
eft to this city in the future.
There should, of course, be a boule-
ward to the ocean on each side of Gold
en- Gate Park. and already the making
of these is under way. H street. for
the convenience of residents on the
south side of the park and Fulton street
for those on the north side. These are
to be macadamized and to be bordered
with trees il the property owners will
combine to plant them. These streets
are each four and half miles long and
thus would add nine miles to the city's
beautiful driveways, at an outlay OF
not more than $4,000
Commissioner Aigeltinger. the while
he is talking facts and figures in his
matter r-of- fact business way. Is run
ming an index finger over a map of San