The San Francisco call., 1910-03-12
SECTION has ONLY
TO ASSIST NATURE
Great Area With Every Possible
Endowment Is Responding
With Rapid Development

How would you like it if you dwelt
in part OF san Francisco which faces
for its entire distance on the greatest
Of all Fairgrounds, if the city you lived
in should pay for keeping hundreds of
acres of lawns. ornamental trees, flower
beds. lakes and forest in prime condi-
ton so that you might have a front
door yard that was worthy of the
neighborhOOd?
Again how would you like it if the
land of your vicinity sloped gently up
ward over series of moderate grades,
all easily passable on foot and not at
all tiresome. until you reached what
might be called climax, as you stimuli
taneously took in a view Of the Fair
mont hotel. the Farallones. Mount Tam
alpais. the entrance to the Golden gate,
leagues and leagues Of blue and foam
fecked ocean and the entire Golden
cate park-all revealed TO you with the
cistinctness of a panorama?
once more. how would you like II II
there lowered back of you great for
est covering a series of hills, looming
nightly on the view and embracing
hundreds Of acres. every foot of which
is so high above the level Of the sur
rounding country that il would COM
mand the outlook in all directions as
TAR as human eye can reach and you
realized that here We're 10 mob hills for
bus. and as much elevated land as
there is in at least one OF the Twin
peaks. if not in both Of them, all OF
which has for its destiny to be either
cat Up into residential sites or to be
devoted 20 city park which would be
fully as magnificent as the sides OF
Mount Tamal pals across the bay.
on VERGE OF THE OCEAN
sun again suppose that the western
boundary of your neighborhood actu
ally margined the greatest of all
oceans. and that the people who dwell
there were lulled to sleep every night
by the sounds Of the waves singing to
the beach or cannOnading whenever
the wind blows in over a width of 6,O06
miles. and brings the purest of all
airs2
And possibly it might delight you to
know that right on the edge of your
neiEhborhood there were three splen-
did brick structures, the property of
the state of California. integral parts
OF the University of California, each
and all perpetually devoted to science,
70 wit: the Affiliated colleges; and that
Immediately below these structures was
the site for $1,000, 900 industrial
plant to be known as the San Fran
cisco polytechnic high school, and that
AT all of these institutions your boys
and girls might be instructed free?
In this same connection you might
observe with pleasure that the public
school system of San Francisco has
given YOU two large grammar schools
and other educational facilities; and it
would excite your risibilities, as wei as
suit your perception of the fitness of
things, if you should look down from
one OF score of hills and see red
checked boys and girls shimming about
ia straight lines or circles, with the
ease and facility of swallow skimming
over a lake, and should know that some
OF them We're your boys or your girls,
and that they were just out skating,
on roller skates. in the paved back
yard of the schoolhouse. which, with
its grounds, occupied an entire block.
ALL IN SUNSET DISTRICT
Now these several advantages and
these several picturesque conditions all
apply to and are an essential part of
the Sunset district of San Francisco.
which is as long as all of Golden Gate
park with the exception of the pan
handle, and has frontage enough on the
great highway, where Golden Gate park
adJoins the ocean, TO make up a very
large park measurement with a very
large percentage of area left over
above the amount necessary to give
good measure.
The Sunset district at its northern
boundary lies practically level with
the southern floor of the park Great
street works are under way all over the
district. II street which for some
years has been graded out to a place
where the avenues are reckoned in the
scores, has recently been graded the
entire distance to Forty-eighth avenue
The effect Of this has been magical
Where, ever since there was an old