The San Francisco call., 1910-08-20

north of Seventeenth street and be-
tween Douglas and Ashbury well
adapted to homesites. which the asso-
citation is endeavoring to induce the
owner to place upon the market for
sale. This will serve to hn out the
district
WORK ON SIDEWALKS
During the last year the sidewalk
committee has made systematic can
vass of the district. The property
owners as a rule have cheerfuIly com
Piled with the suggestion OF the COM
mittee that concrete sidewalks be laid.
Where the property owner has been
obstinate the committee has appealed
to the board of public works. and con-
sequently there are now new concrete
walks throughout the district.
The association petitioned for and
secured the widening of Eighteenth
street from Noe to Castro and induced
the property owners in Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets between Eureka and
Douglas to sign for the street work
upon those blocks.
committee of the association ap-
peared before the fire underwriters and
secured a reduction of the fire insur-
ance rate in the district. Many new
fire boxes have been installed through
the efforts of the association. A new
frehouse is to be built at Twentieth
street and Hoffman avenue. The asso-
citation succeeded in interesting the
engineer of the fire department. in this
matter.
SCHOOL FACILITIES
A committee from the association
succeeded in inducing the supervisors
to buy additional grounds for the
Douglas school at Nineteenth and Hol-
lingwood streets to enlarge the school
building. This was badly needed, as
classes are now held in the basement
and in a neighbOring store.
The Everett grammar school In
Sanchez street has also been enlarged
to accommodate four more classes.
The new Mckinley school. fine Is
room concrete structure at Castro and
Fourteenth streets, is rapidly nearing
completion. The association viii con-
duct the dedicatOry exercises.
TWIN PEAKS TUNNEL
The most noted project that the as
ISOLATION has been identified with is
the construction of the Twin peaks
tunnel Living at the base of the
eastern slope Of the Twin peaks. the
people of this district are anxious to
greet the people on the other side Of
the divide by extending Market street
luc LWAl PCdho anu Oh " NAC
ocean. For this purpose the associa-
tion called a mass meeting Of clubs Of
the vicinity and then 1t was decided
to call a convention of all the i'm
provement clubs of San Francisco The
president and secretary of the Eureka
Valley Improvement association were
elected temporary president and sec
retary respectively of the twin peaks
tunnel convention.
This convention has developed into
the largest and most powerful aggre-
cation of Improvement clubs ever COM
bined in San Francisco. 1t bids fair
to be successful in bringing about the
construction of the twin peaks tunnel
DR. Hartland Law of the Merchants
association is president OF the con-
vention and the secretary is a member
of the Eureka Valley improvement as
ISOLATION.
HOME INDUSTRY
The association has supported the
home industry movement. 1t has dis
tributed home industry membership
cards to all of it's members who are IN
business 1t held what II believes TO
be the largest home industry meeting.
not even excepting that OF the Mission
promotion association
The association unan1uousy m
dorsed the proposed amendment or tne
Merchants association permitting the
issuance of 10 year assessment bonds
in payment for street work
CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENT
The association intends to secure
electric lights In Market street from
Valencia to Castro and in Castro street
from Seventeenth to Nineteenth. 1t
also intends TO secure the removal OF
the hump in Market street between
Valencia and Church. This is an ob-
stacle to traffic and the progress CT
the district. 1t has been found that
the cost of this work is too great TO
be borne at this time, but as soon as
the charter is amended so as to permit
the work to be done under the 10 year
assessment plan the association will
initiate the necessary proceedings