The San Francisco call., 1908-11-10
MISSION IN FAVOR
OF HfTCn HETCHY

Giannini came back hotly.
I challenge that man to prove that
he is as much interested in the city as
] am. If / were you" he said directly
to Dunn, Il would have presented my
project in a more manly way. 1t would
have been more manly had you ap-
peared before the board of supervisors
with your objections
Tonight the supervisors will present
the case of the city to the residents of
the Haight and Ashbury district at the
meeting of the Haight and Ashbury dis
trict improvement club at the hall in
Masonic avenue near Haight
GRUNSKY ANSWERED CRITICISMS
An adequate answer to the carping
criticism that the beauty of the Hetch
Hetchy valley would be destroyed by
the construction of the reservoir for
San Francisco's water supply was made
IL months ago by c. L. Grunsky. for
merly city engineer, in letter to James
A. Garfield, secretary of the interior.
Grunsky was city engineer when the
Hetch Hetchy proposition was first con-
sidered by the city. He was the first to
source of San Franeisco's water supply
and he has ever been an earnest cham
pion of the site.
His letter to. Secretary Garfield was
in answer to magazine articles on the
subject Of the conversion of the Hetch
Hetchy valley into reservoir.
The topography of the valley was
described in the letter. Grunsky stated
that ii has been called "A little Yosem-
ite." and told of the granite cliffs that
surround the valley to the height of
1900 and 1000 feet.
He Joined in the statement that the
valley is one of the most beautiful spots
in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Let us assume for a moment" says
the engineer. that instead of the beau
tiful emerald meadow of the Hetch
Hetchy there was lake in this valley,
1 a lake just such as San Francisco
wishes to create. Such a lake would be
unique in this country. Surrounded
by steep walls, towering at many places
almost vertically to heights of 1900 to
1000 feet, the lake of crystal clear
water would be most picturesque in its
setting Suppose now, that such a
lake being there some one would dis
cover that by draining it a beautiful
emerald meadow of some 5000 acres
would be uncovered. Let me ask
whether any demonstration, however
plausible. would lead any government
department having such matters in
charge into an assent to such a
scheme2"
GARFIELD WAR OVER
Grunsky continued in his letter TO
apply the same argument to Lake
Eleanor and concluded with the declar-
alton that San Francisco needed both
sites. Secretary Garfield. shortly after
receiving Grunsky's letter, allowed the
claims of San Francisco.
The good government league has
joined with other public spirited or
! ganizations in indorsing the Hetch
! Hetchy project and urging its members
to vote for the Affirmative on Thursday.
President F. W. Marvin issued the fol-
lowing communication yesterday to
members of the league:
THE good government league execu-
tive committee urges all its members
and citizens of San Francisco not to
neglect their duty at next Thursdays S
election, but to vote for the preliminary
steps toward acquiring an ample water
supply for the city, believing that this
is a matter Of vital Importance to the
future prosperity of this city and it's
people"
MAKES PECULIAR ATTACK
A disingenuous attack on the Hetch
Hetchy proposition is contained in a
pamphlet circulated over the signature
of T. L. Gift, one Of the depositors of
the suspended Market, street bank.
Gifts communication bears the caption,
Circular Letter to Market Street Bank
Depositors."
Gift urges his fellow depositors not
to vote for the Hetch Hetchy PROPOSE
ton on the ground that the receiver OF
the Market Street bank holds among
the assets of the defunct bank as col
lateral securities bonds and stock of
the Sierra Nevada water and power
company, a company with water rights
in the Mokelumne river water shed.
That concern has offered to the super
visors water supply which. 1t is
claimed, can be developed to 6o.o0o.oOo
gallons a day for s29,775,oo0.
Gift reasons that If the Hetch Hetchy
project is defeated there would be some
chance of the Mokelumne proposition
being adopted by the supervisors, and
in the event of that hypothetical con-
tingency the depositors of the Market
Street bank eventually would nave
s575.000 to their credit.
The Hetch Hetchy project received
the unanimous Endorsement of carpen-
ters' union. local 4s3, last night, when
the following resolution was passed:
whereas, a special election is to be
held on November IL to vote on the
question of acquiring municipal water
supply: therefore be it
Resolved, that local 4S3 declares
itself as heartily in favor of the Hetch
Hetchy or Lake Eleanor proposition and
requests all of its members not only to
work for the success of the project, but
TO be sure and vote at the election and
thereby assist in starting work on a
municipal water works"
The janitors' union at its meeting last
night by unanimous vote indorsed the
Hetch Hetchy proposition, and every
member announced that he would vote
in favor of the same next Thursday.
Lost a Sum of Money!