The San Francisco call., 1910-05-14
mission WELFARE
KEPT in THE VAN
Fairgrounds, Car Lines and
Other Improvements Faith
cred by Association
By T. ]. CHURCHILL.

eecTetary Mission Promotion Association
The Mission promotion associations
committee on street railroads and rail-
way transportation is engaged in fur
thering the plan to construct a carline
over Flfteenth avenue. South, which
has been raised to grade and macad-
amized- The United Railroads con,nanv
has signified its intention of construct
ing the line as soon as the street was
raised from the marsh few feet east
OF San Bruno avenue Now that fhis
has been done the committee will 70
ne" Its request that the line be built
and also that the San Bruno avenue
tracks be extended from Dwight street
to connect with Railroad avenue IF
these improvements were made a cross
town line would be established be-
tween the Mission, Potrero. Bay View
and Bay Shore districts. The com
mittee is also engaged in ascertaining
the best route over which to construct
carllne to connect the Mission heights
and Liberty hill district with the Six-
teenth and Mission crosstown line and
will report Its findings to the associa-
After Investigating the need op :,
school in the district east OF potrero
avenue and south Of Eighteenth street
the associations committee on schools
and school buildings has suggested to
the board OF education that school
pul4olhg De erected on the school lot,
now vacant, in the east line Of Vermont
street between Eighteenth and Nine.
teentn. The only school facilities in
TINS district at present are those af
toroed by the old Buena Vista school.
which in addition to being very old
ana unsafe, is in the center of a mann
facturing and business district. The
committee has also recommended that
the Bernal school, in Courtland avenue
near Moultrie street, be provided with
additional playground facilities through
the purchase of small lot east of the
school and the removal OF some tenn
porary buildings on the school lot
proper. The committee has secured the
cooperation of the playground com
mission In improving the school yards
OF the Noe Valley and James Lick
schools for public use after school
hours
After an inspection of the needs of
the Mission and the Potrero the com
mittee on. parks and Fairgrounds has
recommended to the Mission promotion
association that Jackson square. Sew
proved for playground purposes that
retaining wall be built around Frank
lin square, bounded by Sixteenth. Sew
enteenth, Bryant and Hampshire
streets; that playground be acquired
adjacent to the Holly Park school and
that Buena Vista, Garfield, Bernal and
Balboa parks be improved with play
ground facilities. The committee has
given its approval to the plan of the
superintendent of schools to improve
all vacant school lands for use as pub
lie Fairgrounds, the improvements to
be made by the pupils of schools in the
vicinity, and agricultural course in
this way added to the public school
curriculum.
The association has been successful
In its first step in the campaign. to
make San Francisco the great manu-
featuring center of the Pacific coast
Henry w. Burmester, David Alberga
and Henry Martens, who comprise the
associations committee to encourage
the patronage of home industry and
the use of home industrial products
have been successful in an effort to
have only citizens employed in the per-
formance of public work. The board
of public works announces that at the
present time all the bond issue work
being done throughout the city with
the proceeds of the issue of 1908 is
pelnS pSIIoTHed py cltl2en labor and
that all contractors performing such
work will not be allowed to employ
alien labor. The committee made this
its first object, believing that If the
tax and bond money Of the municipal
ity is left with the citizens the citizens
will use home products and thus en-
courage the local manufacturer to re-
main in business and induce others to
establish their manufacturing plants
in this city.
The association will now go further
and enlist the cooperation of all civic
organizations in having a clause in
serted in all private contracts provid-
ing for the employment of only citizen
labor in this work also.