The San Francisco call., 1905-02-19
OFFERS HINTS
TO THE BOARD
AdOrnment Association Is
in Favor of Permanent
improvements on Streets

communication has been adj
! dressed by the Association for the Inn
provement and .Adornment of San
Francisco to the Board of Supervisors
/ concerning the use of the proceeds
| from the sale of street Improvement
| bonds for permanent street work. The
communication is as follows:
In the matter of the issuance of
bonds for street Improvements, per-
nit the Adornment Association to call
your attention to the desirability of
using the proceeds of bonds for per-
manent street work, because repairs
! are properly chargeable to current
revenue.
There is. we respectfully submit,
great necessity for the improvement
of Market street from the ferry to
Second street. Lower Market street
and streets leading to it are below the
grade on account of gradual SUBJ
sidence (due to the fact that below
Battery street it is made land), which
the seawaH is expected to check. Mr..
Grunsky, in the report of the Board
of Public Works, 1901-03, page $50,
gives table showing such SubSidence.
The streets should now be filled up to
the grade, the fill resting on suitable
foundation, such as is used in the con-
Structon of buildings in that district.
Private owners have already built to
grade in many instances, thus making
the sidewalks irregular.
In the plans and estimates of the
City Engineer (page 7S of the pro-
ceedings of the Board of Supervisors
in the matter Of the issuance of bonds,
1903-OD, this provision is found:
| Where, as in the case Of the easterly
end of Market street and the streets
| terminating In this section of Market
street, there has been considerable
| sinking below official street grade, 1t
is proposed to raise the streets to their
proper position and to put all new
work at official grade.
"A committee of this association
| has waited on the Street Committee
Of the Board of Supervisors and on
the Board OF Public Works and, after
a careful study of traffic conditions,
has recommended a basalt block
pavement similar to that on Third
street, properly grouted with liquid
asphalt on a deep concrete founda-
ton as the most satisfactory pave
ment for the entire surface Of Mar
ket street from East to Valencia, It
was suggested that the blocks be laid
on oblique lines in order that We
hicles May meet less resistance. thus
saving the surface, making travel
more comfortable and causing less
noise.
The committee Of our association.
consisting of Herbert E. Law and
! Thomas Magee, has also laid before
your honorable body, with its tacir
approval, the desirability of sewering,
widening and paving Mission street,
which has the Endorsement of this as
sociation. I desire to say that the
committee has been instrumental in
inducing local financial institutions to
bid on the bonds offered by the city
February 20 next with these i'm
provements in view and report that
they have received assurances from
them in saying that the following
bonds offered for sale February 20
will be paid for as follows: For hos
pital, s250,000; for sewers, $2S1,200:
for streets, s243.000; for county Jail
addition to Hall of Justice, $27S, 400;
for school bonds, $685., 200, making a
total of $1,411, ,800.''