The San Francisco call., 1907-02-10
PUTTING STREETS
Of THE CITY IN
CONDITION
Good Work Being Done by
Citizens Association in
the Public Thoroughfares
TO DEVOTE DAY TO
GENERAL CLEANING

Public Works ts giving us gratifying
assistance, and we expect to accomplish
much yvfthsn the next two OF three
months. II has been demonstrated that
repaired Highways are necessary TO the
commerce of this port and every effort
fs now being bent among business men
toward preParation for the Immense
traffic that is about 10 become general
throughout the city"
Chairman A. W. Scott Of the Citizens
Street Repair Association had this to
say yesterday afternoon after going
over the work of 200 men and many
teams that were cleaning and repairing
Fifth street. He added, too. that there
WAS A movement on foot to set aside
q day on which every available team OF
horses every willing hand and every
Wagon that would be donated to assist
in the work would be the collective
means Of making San Francisco
r'spotless town" so far as conditions
that are extremely profigate of spots
could make il.
A general cleaning up OF the surplus
dust and mud that has accumulated
because of the tremendous traffic en-
gendered by the arrival OF millions
upon millions of dollars of building
material is one Of the most important
problems that the city government and
the repair association is facing. With
the consent of the unions, which never
fail 10 act wisely when the good of the
city is at stake. a Sunday may be set
aside for the general, voluntary clean
ang OF the city Of the muck that has
accumulated throughout the winter. 1t
IS understood that nearly every team
ing firm in the city is willing to assist
IN the movement and the merchants,
wholesale and retail, favor the removal
Of every obstacle TO the great recon
struction movement, that is forging
ahead with astonishing impetus.
SUBSCRIPTIONS POURING IN
The merchants in the business dis
trict are heartily in accord with our
plans OF rehabilitation Of the streets
said Scott Subscriptions have been
pouring in and, strange TO say, some Of
the largest Of these are from firms that
90 practically nothing in the line of
teaming.
The 'house-cleaning day is merely
preliminary suggestion, but IT is backed
by some Of the best people in San
FranciscO-men who are willing to
take shovel in their hands themselves
and give days labor to the good of
the cause
Fifth street was under the broom,
the pick and the shovel yesterday. The
street railroad company. gas and wa
tion. as per promise hurried the work
in the street that they had planned
and the Street Repair Association put
on seventv-five men who worked in
dustriously to patch the breaks in the
thoroughfare and make it passable for
teams. On Monday work Will begin in
the district between California and
Union streets. One general highway
the least damaged viii be selected for
repair The object viii be to fix up a
street where the greatest good will re-
suit to the greatest number Of persons
interested. The repair association will
operate absolutely without favor and
entirely in the interest of the city.
Merchants along Jackson. Washing
ton and other streets of that section
started q movement yesterday after
noon that viii assure private funds for
putting that district in temporary re-
pair The Board of Public Works
through its energetic chairman, George
Dufey, placed toll boxes, hauled ma
terial and put men TO work pumping
out the trenches of the half-f1nished
sanitary sewer in lower Market street
preparatory TO beginning work Mon
day on the big 5000. 600 resewering and
repaving work in that thoroughfare.
TO IMPROVE KEARNY STREET
An organization for the Improvement
Of Kearny street was perfected in the
afternoon. The meeting was held at
3iS Kearny street, and Frank Maskey
was elected chairman and w. F. Per
kings secretary. A committee, con-
sisting OF ". 5. Wood, H. o. Trow-
bridge and y. c. Babin, was appointed
and agreed TO meet tomorrow after
noon at the Office Of W. S. Wood for the
purpose of creating plans for the i'm
provement OF the street. Those who
attended the meeting We're in favor Of
widening the street by narrowing the
sidewalks 10 fifteen feet from eighteen
feet The Board Of Supervisors viii be
asked TO pass an ordinance to permit
this work The meeting also favored
the restoration OF the Hall of Justice
and made preliminary arrangements
for the placing Of ornamental electric
light poles from Montgomery avenue
20 Market street. The place at which
the meeting was held was in the new
bfices OF Baldwin & Howell.
The Street Repair Association pre-
pared q list Of streets that the city
Intends TO improve and also a list of
those that the association either has
under actual repair or under contem-
plated improvement. These streets are:
Streets to be repaired by city-Aission. East
70 Second; water front route, from depot Third
and Townsend to ferry: kearny and Mont
Fomerr Market 10 jackson: California Market
20 Montgomery; Golden Gate avenue. Market to
Fillmore: Howard, East 70 Sixth; Eighth, Mar
ket to Townsend; Fremont. Folsom to Market
jackson. East Montgomery; Mission district
general repairs; Davis Market TO East; Drumm
Market 70 Sacramento.
Streets 10 be repaired by Street Repair Asso-
efati0n-Fifth. Townsend TO Market: Berry
fhird 10 Seventh: Third. Berry TO Townsend
Fourth. Berry Channel; Front Market to
filbert: Clay. East 10 Market; Besle. Market TO
Poison; Washington. Market TO Montgomery.
RUSH WORK IN MARKET STREET
The Board Of Works will put large
force Of men at work tomorrow TO
build the big sewer in Market street.
from East TO Second, and il is ex-
Dected that in one month the roadway
will be ready for repaving. the con-
tract for which is held by the City
gtreet Improvement Company The en-
Are Improvement. it is thought, will
be completed by April Is next.
Commissioners Eagan and Aigel-
Gnger called the attention of the Board
81 Works TO the fact that the mer-
khants' street repair committee, which
Is repairing Fifth street, had failed to
have curbing or gutterways built in
Ihe block between Harrison and Bryant
nreets The pavement was laid flush
bTfth the sidewalks and will result in
Ft,a collection of water thereon in win