The San Francisco call., 1909-10-30
SEEK NEW SCHOOL
FOR BUFNA VISTA
Mission Promotion Association
Active in Advancing That
Sections Interest
BY F. ]. CHURCHILL,

T. Ill NS1111L,
Secretary Mission promotion asso-
citation.
The need of better educational facili-
ties in the Buena Vista section has
been called to the attention of the
board of education by the Mission
promotion association, which has ap-
pointed a committee comprising James
Rolph Jr., A. B. Mcguire, William
Broderick. Rev. d. o. Crowley, George
L. Center, Matt 1. Sullivan and Dr.
c. A. Clinton to urge that a school
building be located on the city's lot in
Vermont street between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth.
The thiclly populated hilly section
in the neighborhood is settled by fam
lilies whose children are at present at
tending school even at the Mission
grammar school at Mission and Six
teenth streets, and q petition has been
forwarded to the. board of education by
the parents asking that better facili-
ties be provided. If the funds are not
al the disposal of the department for
the erection of a new school the COM
mittee Will ask that the present Buena
Vista school, now located in Bryant
street between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth, be moved to the Vermont street
site. An effort will also be made by
the committee to have playground room
purchased adjacent to the Everett pri-
mary, James Lick grammar and the
Hawthorne primary schools.
The need of additional lights in Mis-
sion street between Twelfth and Twen-
ty-first and in Twenty-fourth street
between Church and Castro has been
brought to the attention Of the board
of supervisors by the association. The
United Railroads company is at present
erecting ornamental lamp posts in Va
lencia street between Market and
Twenty-eighth, in compliance with the
agreement made by the cornpany's Of
ficials to a committee from the asso-
citation consisting OF Eustace Cullinan.
James Rolph Jr., Rev. d. o. Crowley
and Matt /. Sullivan, who visited the
company May %. 1906. The city will
maintain these lamps at its own ex-
pense.
The condition of Potrero avenue be-
tween Seventeenth and Nineteenth
streets and Of Twenty-ninth street be-
tween Mission and Sanchez has been
called to the attention of the board of
works by p. Broderick, A. B. Mcguire,
Oscar Hooks and B. Burns, constitut-
ing the committee on streets and
sewers of the Mission association. The
United Railroads company is at pres
nt,repairing its right of way in Twen-
ty-ninth street at the associations re-
quest and the committee will ask that
the city repair the street simultane-
ously.
During the present week this COM
mittee has succeeded in having Twen-
ty-second street between Mission and
Guerrero; Sixteenth street between Va
1encia and Guerrero; Bartlett street
between Twenty-first and Twenty
third; Mission street from Silver to
Crescent avenue, and Seventeenth
street from Sanchez to Noe repaired
The association has succeeded in In
ducing the city engineers Office to
equip the newly constructed freboats
with chemical tanks which are Of espe-
cial use in fires caused by combustible
materials. 1t is making a special ef-
fort TO induce the fire department to
recommend the use of automobile fire
apparatus in the more level sections
of the city.
F. E. Edwards of the associations
committee on water supply for do
mestic use and fire purposes has re-
Gently returned from tour of Seattle,
Portland and Vancouver, where he
made extensive investigation of the
automobile apparatus used in those
cities, especially in Vancouver His
findings will be submitted to the fire
commissioners in a report which will
be submitted to the association at its
next meeting.
A special committee has been ap-
pointed by the association to urge upon
the board of public works the necessity
of completing at an early date the
plans and specifications of the Islais
creek sewer which will run from Mount
Vernon avenue to the junction of Sum
nydale avenue, and Mission street.