The San Francisco call., 1910-04-16
PROMOTION WORK
BENEFITS mission
Association Secures Appropria-
tiOns for Fairgrounds and
Plans for New School
By F. ]. CHURCHILL,
Secretary Mission Promotion Association


The Fairgrounds Of FIVE schools in
the most populous portions of the Mis-
sion viii be enlarged as the result of
the efforts Of the committee on schools
and school buildings Of the Mission
promotion association.
After having obtained additional Land
for the Everett school in Sanchez street
near Sixteenth the committee peti
toned for the purchase of land adjoin
ing the Douglass school at Nineteenth
and COllingwood streets; the James
Lick school, Twenty-fifth and Noe
streets; the Hawthorne school, Shotwen
- street near Twenty-third; the Edison
school, Twenty second and Church
g. streets.
As a result of the petition the neces-
Sary ground is now being purchased by
the city as means of affording suffi-
. ctent recreation space for the pupils in
"a section without public Fairgrounds.
" PURCHASES FOR FAIRGROUNDS
frontage of 20 feet in Nineteenth
: street viii be purchased as an addition
. 10 the Douglass primary school, which
: has heretofore been almost without any
. yard space whatever. although il is
credited with the largest number of
pupils of any school in the Horner's
addition.
lot with a frontage of so feet in
Twenty fifth street will be added to
the grounds around the James Lick
school, which has 500 pupils. Up to
The present many Of these children have
been obliged 10 spend their recess time
on the walks in front of the school on
account of cramped quarters.
BY purchasing the % feet of land on
the east side of Shotwell street, be-
tween Twenty-seeond and Twenty
third. adjoining the Hawthorne primary
school. necessary playground space will
he secured and nuisance to the imme-
diste neighborhood will be removed.
The lot adjacent TO the Edison pri-
mary school has a frontage of so feet
in Twenty second street and when the
purchase is completed will sufficiently
enlarge for the present the playground
Of the Edison school, which is attended
by 500 pupils.
SCHOOL BUILDING CAMPAIGN
Having been successful in effectinE
= these essential Improvements after Is
months of persistent endeavor the as
sOciatiOn viii devote its efforts to Sc
cure school building for that portion
of the Mission lying between Arkansas
sixteenth, Twentieth and Connecticut
streets, as the children of this section
are assigned TO schools as far distant
from their neighborhood as the Mission
grammar school at sixteenth and Mis-
sion streets because there is no gram
mar school in their vicinity
petition asking for ample accom-
modations for these children has been
forwarded 10 the board of education
and the association will be represented
by its schools committee, comprising
William Broderick, H. Burmester,
George W Lunt, DR.. c. A Clinton and
' Brown.
The committee will also ask that the
Ia
Mission high school, on which IL is in
tended TO construct an addition to the
present building TO be used as a poly
uechHic school, be improved for tenn
porary playground purposes until such
time as the city is ready to build the
- polytechnic addition
FIRE PROTECTION PROJECT
! In order TO afford adequate fire pro-
lection to the section west Of Mission
b.. street south of Silver avenue the as
sOciation's committee on streets has
- held several meetings with the owners
of the Bernal tract in an effort to OBJ
tain a right of way through this tract
for the continuation of Tingley street.
The Demartini estate has needed
. portion Of its land to the city, so that
p. .Tingley street may be continued to
= san Jose avenue, and all that is needed
IS the right Of way through the Bernal
r. estate. With the continuation Of Ting
@Iey street it will be possible to cross
directly from Mission street to San
!: Jose avenue instead of travelling the
;~,circuitous route by way of Onondaga
q. avenue.
A strip Of land 20 feet wide has been
donated by the Demartini estate also
for the purpose Of widening San Jose
avenue on the east, thus removing the
danger that now exists on account of
the narrowness of the road at that
point.
The fire engines stationed at the
:. junction of San Jose and Ocean avenues
and IN the Excelsior homestead tract
would be equal TO any emergency IL
Tingley street were continued, as they