The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
FALSE PIERS
IN FOUNDATION
Directors Call Attention of
Supervisors to Dangerous
State of Agassiz School
PLANS ARE CRITICIZED
Property Owners Complain
of Manner in Which Do
lores Street Is to Be Parked

School Directors Boyle and Altman
appeared yesterday before the Finance
Committee of the Board of Supervi-
sors and called attention to the dan
gerous condition Of the foundation Of
the Agassiz School building. Boyle
urged the COMMITTEES to take imrne-
diate action.
I'VE discovered that fake piers had
been put in the foundation of the
building" said Boyle. The piers had
been sawed off and gave no support.
Soon as the discovery was made we
put our carpenters to work and they
labored all Saturday afternoon and on
Sunday to prop up the building"
Boyle and Altman pleaded with
the committee to set aside sufficient
money out of the urgent necessity
fund to construct q concrete founda-
ton under the building. The Finance
Committee agreed to visit the build
ing Immediately and expressed Its will
lingness to do all that is necessary to
make 1t safe.
A delegation of property owners on
Dolores street, headed by Rev. Father
Tobin, appeared before the committee
and complained of the plans for the
parking of Dolores street, between Fiji
teenth and Seventeenth. Father To-
bin explained that two parks had been
laid out near Fifteenth street, and two
near Seventeenth street. leaving a
large portion of Dolores street on
either side of Sixteenth bare. The
property owners criticized the plans,
and asked for an additional appropria-
ton of $500 to construct two more
parks on each side of Sixteenth street
to fill up the gap. The committee stat
ed that $4,000 had already been al
lowed in the last budget for the i'm
provement, which was thought to be
sufficient at the time. A. s. Pearley
also spoke of the defective plans, but
said City Engineer Woodward was not
to blame.
THE City Engineers office pre-
pared and is certainly to blame for the
imperfect plans" said D'Ancona, and
the responsibility must lie there.
The committee instructed the petit
toners to appear before the full board.
The board set Monday, May 15, at
8 p. m, as the time for the. hearing of
the appeal of f. NJ. Yorke & Co. from
the assessment for the building of a
sewer in Anderson street
The board granted permission to the
United States Government to erect a
military telegraph and telephone line
between Fort Miley and the sea across
the city cemetery.
The following ordinances were fin
ally passed:
Accepting Valencia street. between
Twenty-second and Twenty third and
Twenty-sixth and Army streets; Eliza
beth street, between Sanchez and
Vicksburg and Sixth avenue, between
Point Lobos and Clement street.
Fixing grades at points on Forty
sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-efghth and
Forty-ninth avenues, the Great High
way and L. M, n, o and P streets and
Maggie alley.
Fixing the width of sidewalks on
Shrader street, between Carl and Graf
tan, at twelve feet. and Hawthorne
street, between Folsom and Harrison,
at eight and a half feet.
Authorizing the payment of $780,
900 to the James Randall estate as the
purchase price Of a part of the new
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