The San Francisco call., 1909-06-12
BOULEVARD REPAIRS
PROGRESS SLOWLY
Automobiles at Present Can Not
Use Highways in San
Mateo County

Mafe0 County
At last they have begun to repair
the Schwerin boulevard. James Casey,
supervisor of section 1, San Mateo coun-
ty, has a dozen men with a scraper,
water wagon and a big steam roller
at work on the section that begins at
the county line. The work started last
Tuesday and it was found that the au-
tomobiles coming over the road after
it was rolled cut it up again, so that
Thursday afternoon it was closed again
and it is impossible, for the time be-
ing, TO get out of town by way of the
boulevard.
Casey says it Will take about 10 days
to finish the work on the piece that has
not been accepted by the San Mateo
county officials He will try oiling
the road. His plan is to set the rock
thoroughly with the steam roller, then
roll in the screenings, well worked in
with water. and finally top dress with
oil applied as hot as it can be put on
the road and press it in with hot
rollers.
COST COUNTY NOTHING
Casey viii continue the work on the
other section of the boulevard below
Colma as far as the subscription money
takes him. but he does not intimate
that he will use any of the money
which the county has appropriated this
month. TO help complete the work. The
boulevard, which was in the first place
given to the county free, and is now
being fixed up without cost to the
a. 4 2
go TO ruin, does not seem TO be appre-
ciated by the citizens of the county.
Now when it should be a matter of
honor to see that it is kept up, they
are letting outsiders pay for what
they themselves should do without
urging.
Casey is doing a little work down by
the cemeteries on the county road. but
it is not much when it is considered
what should be done to put this sec
tion OF the main highway in anything
like order.
COUNTY ROAD IN BAD SHAPE
Where his section begins at the Tan
foran track and then on to the. d. O.
Mills property the county road is in
fearful condition. lot of loose rock
in some of the holes would be an inn
provement At the Mills property the
I IOctu IL pGIltL- iOI AtilIS put some Sl.6UU
worth of rock on the road, and Casey
kindly worked it in. From this place
to Easton, section 1, the road is a
fright and disgrace. What is needed
at this time is to put on a big force
and get the work done quickly
IN SOUTH CITY
! The section of the boulevard that is
in South City is almost gone. This
1 with no stretch n
railroad track beside the gum trees out
/ to the county road and along the coun-
/ ty road to Tanforan, is even worse than
( that section under the charge of Casey
/ The trustees of South City have sent
/ word to the Automobile club of cali.
fornia that if it Will put the lower END
4 of the boulevard into condition they
/ viii thereafter keep it up. This seems
a strange proposition. inasmuch as the
/ lower end of the boulevard is one Of
! the roads accepted when South San
I Francisco was Incorporated. and the
/ town trustees are bound by law to
put it into condition and keep it so.
/ The scheme of the trustees is to use
] the tax money that was turned over
/ to them by San Mateo county for inn
4 proving the road from the end of the
! boulevard to the east to Grand ave
nue. and thence along Grand avenue tc
! the county road that leads to the main
county road at Uncle Toms cabin
/ Part of this road is in Jim Casey's sec
I ton. and they are trying to get him tc
help out In putting his part into con-
dition.
The scheme is twofold. First. it will
] give the people of South City a good
road into their own town, and sec
| ondIy, it will force the automobiIists tc
| go through the city, for no work is tc
be done at present ON the road thai
! connects the boulevard with the mair
/ county road or on the latter road pas
Tanforan. The trustees have an eye
to business, hguring that the automo.
bilists are sure TO leave money in the
town as they pass through. They are
likely to be disappointed in this, fol
/ If they do not put the boulevard into
] up this side of the bay altogether anc
go to San Jose by way of Oakland, a.
they have already begun to do.
The only trade South City can expec
to get with the boulevard in its pres
ent condition is from the night so,
| riders" if that be desirable, and it will
not be long before the rent driver.
will cut out this trip on account of tn.
damage tires and automobiles suffer
| from the bad roads.
The South, City officials have received
lately some $4,000 from the county fol
road work.
casey says that he has offered t.
lend them his steam roller and scrape-
/ when he is through so that they car
continue the work on the boulevard.
Below Burlingame and through Sar
Mateo the roads are in fine condition
San Mateo having lately put in a splen.
did section of the county road.
India's cotton crop this season is /.
pef. cent greater than that of last YEAR