The San Francisco call., 1905-03-18
PARK ESTIMATES
FOR NEXT YEAR
New Driveway on the Ocean
Beach Adjacent to the
Present Great Highway
PATH FOR PEDESTRIANS
Proposed Thoroughfare Will
Be Near the Shore and Ten
Feet Higher Than Old Road

! A meeting of the Board OF Park
Commissioners at the Palace Hotel
yesterday afternoon was attended oy
A. B. Spreckels, president; Reuben IL
| Lloyd, William j.. Dingee and Eari
Cummings. Initial steps were taken
| for the construction of carriage way
and pedestrian path for one mile along
the ocean beach, beginning near the
Greatl Highway and H street ana
| running southerly to n street The
| new roadway will be forty feet in
width and ten feet higher than the
| Great Highway and fifty feet nearer
| the ocean than is the latter thorough
! fare. 1t was announced that the new
road would be used exclusively for pc
! destrians and for vehicles drawn by
| horses. The use of automobiles will
be freely permitted on the Great High
way.
The Park Commissioners were re-
Gently notified that the Board of Pub
| lie Works, in widening the driveway
| from the beach to the Cliff House, pro-
posed to dump rock along the ocean
beach. 1t is the judgment of the Park
| Commissioners and Superintendent
| McLaren that the scattering OF rock
along the shore will destroy the beach.
| A. B. Spreckels was requested to con-
| fer with the Board of Public Works
with a view to obtaining the rock for
the new thoroughfare-
PARK ESTIMATES.
Superintendent McLaren presented
to the board an estimate of the
amounts of money required for the
next fiscal year, and the Supervisors
will be requested to make the allow
ance. The superintendent enumerates
the requirements as follows:
loan and fertilizers. $4,000; extension OF
water-pipe system and supply, Sl5, 900.
grounds and meadows. s2a, 900; widening drive
along Great Highway, $4,000: bride road 5000;
stone wall, First to Tenth avenues, 5000;
stone wall, Stanyan street, from Oak TO Fred
erlck, $1,000: salt water bathing pond, $50, 900;
Mission Park S25. 900: parkway. from Golden
Gate Park to Preside. $4,000; total. S2s3, 600
Maintenance walks and S9ads. s.
waterworks $4,000; museum. $1,000;
music. $4,000: electric light. $4,000; structures.
squares. S35, 900; water supply. city parks.
Sl4. .00o total. s20s 600.
Park es city P1ss ana aea PaT
$1,000; Lafayette Square. grading and
shaping. 5000: Franklin Square, stone wall.
$4,000; Lobos Square. loan, $4,000 Looos
Square water-pipe. $1,000: improving school
grounds $500: reconstructing Hamilton
Square, $4,000; total S3S. coo.
Total Of all-S539. 500.
The board was advised by a commune
cation that there would be a mass
| meeting at the Mission on March 29. at
D. M, in Turn Verein Hall to celebrate
| the acquisition of the Mission park.
| An Invitation was given for the Com
missioners to be present. A special re-
| quest is made that one of the members
| of the board shall address the meet
| ing The secretary was directed to
| notify Eustace CuIlinan that the board
| had requested the Supervisors to al
| low s25, 900 for the improvement OF Mis-
| sion Park Later on one of the Com
missioners will be detailed to address
| his fellow -citizens of the Mission dis
! trict.
AGAINST SCAVENGERS.
A communication from A. N. Drown.
protesting against the use of Alta Pa
| "a by scavengers for dumping ground
was considered. The Superintendent
| explained that the fertilizing material
was needed to improve the park.
| Commissioners Lloyd directed atten-
ton of the board to the necessity of an
ordinance prescribing costumes Tor
| bathers in the ocean. 1t was repre-
sented that many of the swimmers
were indecently attired and others had
be framed by Mr.. Lloyd and presented
| for adoption.
! On motion of Commissioner Lloyd the
Superintendent was directed TO grant
| to the botany class of the Girls High
| School opportunity to hear lectures on
botany at the park greenhouses The
pupils will have the advantage OF OBJ
| iect lessons while listening to the lee
| lures.
| II is reported that the she bear in
| Golden Gate Park understands the
| business of bringing up cubs The
| Youngsters are as large as a half
grown Newfoundland dog. A few days
ago they managed to get out of the
| cave but were promptly euffed back
to their quarters by the mother bear.