The San Francisco call., 1910-01-08
LOCATION LENDS
CHARM TO SPOT
Proximity to Park and Ocean
and Many Improvements
Features of Sunset
By ]. M. GREGORY

The Sunset district is as large as the
Western addition. 1t extends along III
street to the ocean. 1t has a frontage
on the ocean of practically two miles
and 1t contains forest-the Sutro for
est-which is practically two miles
long. The lands gradually slope up
ward and the terraces that are occa-
stoned by the cutting through of streets
make each block a little higher than
the one to the north of it; and so every
block has a view either of Golden
Gate park, of the ocean, or of the Sutro
wods. Some of the streets have the
combination of all three views. Sun
set is healthful district because of
| the slopes, which give an ideal con-
ditfon for sewers; and also because it is
all sand and the land is dry within a
very short time after the heaviest
rain.
1t is now and always will be a sec
tion of homes, with sufficient business
streets to provide for the wants of the
residents. There is a great awaken
ing in Sunset. More street improve
ment work has been performed during
the last year than in all the preceding
years since the district began to be
settled Sunset began to be known
about the time of the midwinter faid,
and then few houses We're built here
and there. The last five years par
ticularly have brought. Sunset to it's
present condition. 1t now has four
business streets, namely II street.
Ninth avenue, l street and Twentieth
avenue. | am using the old names of
the. streets and avenues because
they are, more familiar as yet than
are the new ones. Our streets are wide,
which is a favorable condition. The
lettered streets are so feet wide and
the avenues are 20 feet wide. What
has been accomplished in this district
is very little beside that which will
be accomplished. This will always be-
as it is now, distinctly section for
homes, as certainly so as the greater
part of the Western addition.
FAVORED IN MANY WAYS
We are favored in many things. One
is that we have no hospitals or ceme-
teries. Another is that we have no
places where the grades can interfere
with the establishment of a perfect
sewer system. The crest of the Sutro
forest reaches a height nearly equal to
that of the SUBMITS of the Twin Peaks.
At Eleventh avenue and l street the
street has an elevation of 600 feet,
which is much higher than Mob hill.
Above that the slopes of the Sutro
forest tower NIGHTLY.
The present condition of the streets
can be easily summarized. The popu-
lation of Sunset prefers permanent to
temporary streets. For that reason a
great amount of bituminized pavements
has been laid. The bitumnized area
extends out Twentieth avenue. Beyond
that there will undoubtedly be many
more bituminized avenues and streets
in the course of a few years.
What we want Immediately is a
street railway to reach the center OF
the greatest present population of Sun
set, which is east of Twentieth avenue.
We do not care how we get that road
or by whom it is built. This line should
come as far as o or p streets and
along Ninth avenue. There is no ques-
ton that it should run in Ninth ave-
nue.. The present populate of Sunset
is about 5000. This includes the dwell
ers in the region bounded by First ave-
nue. and the great highway at the
ocean and from Golden Gate park over
to Ingleside. Sunset is we'll provided
with schools and churches for the pres
ent. The Laguna Honda school in Sew
enth avenue, between / and streets.
cost $4,000. 1t is two stories high and
of brick construction. The Sunset
primary school is on Twelfth avenue,
between K and L streets. There is a
fine school building in the Oceanside
district.
MANY CHURCHES IN DISTRICT