The San Francisco call., 1909-10-30
BOULEVARD HELPS
|. RICHMOND DISTRICT
Work Resumed on Highway
From Fulton Street to Pre-
sidi0 Reservation

operations nave been resumed on
quite a large scale on the Richmond
boulevard, which will extend from Full
ton street to the Presidio reservation
making a connecting link between the
picturesque drives in those two large
ornamental grounds and supplying an
independent park system for Richmond
while giving to the city at large a
handsome sweep of landscape for easy
inspection. After work was suspended
on the boulevard some time ago in
terest was allowed to languish. The
interruption was due mainly to the
happenings of 1906 and to the subse-
quent demand for money for the re-
Mobilization of the street and sewer
systems of the city in the downtown
sections.
GAP CUT THROUGH RIDGE
Between Lake street and Point Lobos
avenue the beauty and use of the boule-
ward are obvious. In the center is a
large and wide space devoted to the
boulevard proper. On either side of
the driveway are stretches of green
turf in which have been set out lines
of shade trees and more or less orna-
mental shrubs
These rows of trees border the drive
and are also on the margin of the turf
at Thirteenth and Fourteenth avenue.
A broad green band runs through the
Richmond district for number of
of
the signs of recent operations are OBJ
servable. OFF to the south, before Full
ton street is reached, there is high
hill of sand which could be removed
easily and it is there that road gangs
are working daily. Through the sand
ridge gap has been cut. which, being
the entire width of the boulevard, COM
bfned with the width of Thirteenth and
Fourteenth avenues, looks quite for
midable.
WORK APPEARS EASY
The ease with which the material can
be moved the comparatively short dis
tance to be travelled by the street work
ers induces the supposition that the
entire length of the boulevard can be
opened and established on the official
grade by the first of the coming Janu-
ary. From the park into Fulton street
no time will be lost in connecting the
driveway. North of Lake street there
is some private property to be crossed
and some cutting VIII be necessary to
establish the grade into the Preside
drives; but the total distance involved
is quite short, and the work is trifiing
in comparison with that which has been
done.
None of the boulevard driveway has
been paved yet. The time to be con-
sumed in that work ought not to be
very long. The expense will be rea-
sonabie. All the horsemen, owners Of
automobiles and pedestrians who seek
new routes for pleasure will be pleased
to- know that real progress-is now rapid
and that a parked place that will re-
semble the panhandle north of Oak
future.
TREES GROW RAPIDLY
Already the trees that have been set
out have reached the height of from
10 to Is feet AS they are mainly of
the varieties of the eucalyptus they
are growing quite rapidly and will soon
form windbreak that will insure quiet
airs along the drive. At the same
time they will give a touch of agree
able color to the entire Richmond dis.
trict
The largest building that has been
constructed on the line of the boule-
ward is the Sutro grammor school, a
fine structure that stands nearly COM
pleted, just north of Clement street in
the east line of Thirteenth avenue. The
other buildings between Clement street
and Lake in the east line of the boule-.
ward are mainly residences and saloons.
ON WEST SIDE
On the west side of the boulevard
the district, up to date, is strictly
residential; but all improvements
along the boulevard route on it's
northern section practically end at
Point Lobos avenue. although there
is slight fringe of buildings extend
ing about half a block south of Point
Lobos avenue on the west side of
avenue.
Beyond Point Lobos avenue for a
distance of about a block, private per-
sons have fenced in large tract of
land, which is held for sale when
the improvements are completed. On
the heights, over toward Fulton
street, some dwellings have been con-
structed. At that point the boulevard
reaches its greatest elevation and
commands an unobstructed view of