The San Francisco call., 1909-02-18
.OCEANSIDE WINS
OVER ABSENTE[S
Board of Works Favors Grad
ing and Macadamizing
of II Street
Land Owners Willing to Reap
the Unearned Increment Are
Not Represented

The 1000 residents of Oceanside won
signal victory yesterday over NJ H.
de Young. E. r. Lilienthal and the other
absentee landlords of the sand dunes
along H street when the board OF works
unanimously recommended to the su-
pervisors that this thoroughfare be-
tween Twentieth and Forty fifth ave-
nues be graded and macadamized. The
protest of De Young and the other
block owners was read in full. No one
appeared to defend their case. Later
in the day after the board had decided
against them De Young sent a repre-
sentative of his paper to look up what
ever legal flaws might have occurred
to date in the procedure, but obtained
little comfort in this direction.
You people must not relax your
efforts in obtaining an outlet for your
district" said President Day of the
commission to the throng of Oceanside
householders as they departed. The
matter now comes before the board of
supervisors for final action and you
must be prepared to meet your oppo-
nents there"
The people were a unit in declaring
their readiness to be on hand in the
final scrimmage, and there is little
doubt the supervisors will authorize the
Improvement The board has, in fact,
virtually passed on the matter, having
voted S2S,000 for the citys portion OF
the work, Golden Gate park facing H
street on the north for the entire 25
blocks.
These blocks are sand dunes; they
are entirely unimproved; and they are
likely to remain so for a long time to
come" ran the-protest of De Young
and his colleagues against paying out
money to improve the highway.
AWAIT UNEARNED INCREMENT
These rich landlords want to sit
there and have other people create
values for them" said w. n. Mccarthy
speaking for the home builders. They
say their properties are not to be i'm
proved for a long time to come. They
mean that they want everybody else to
go ahead and increase the value of
their holdings by building around them,
while they won't turn their hands
over"
c. F. Riffee, president of the Sunset
Improvement club, explained the isola-
tion of the Oceanside district. The
closing of Ocean avenue makes our
only way into the district the long way
round over the Cliff house hill. On the
east the section has built right up to
Twentieth avenue. One man is now
putting up score of houses near there
The people have built up the four
westernmost blocks solid in spite of
the fact that they can't get through
FL street with teams. 1t will add more
than $100 to the value of every lot out
there to have this street improved. and
lords who don't live there and who
have never done anything for the dis
trict stand in the way of its going
ahead"
NO PROTESTANTS APPEAR
Hugh Craig wanted to be sure that
frontage between Twentieth and Twen-
ty-frst avenues, already improved.
would not under the terms of the bill
be called upon'to help pay for grading
down De Young's sand dunes in blocks
to the west, but being assured that
each block would be called upon merely
to stand its own expense agreed to the
measure.
President Day asked again If any
one was present to speak further for
the protestants and getting no response
conferred moment with his colleagues
and announced the work would be rec
commended Without waiting to get
outside the crowd packing the boards
chambers freely expressed its an