The San Francisco call., 1910-02-19
FIRE SYSTEM IS
FAR ADVANCED
Rate Discussion Centers Public
Attention on City's Exten-
Sive Protection Plans

centered on the steps that the city and
county is taking to protect property
against FIRE. The discussion of fire
insurance rates has, naturally enough,
brought the fire protection system un-
der the limelight.
A brief review of some of the prin-
ctpal facts is made here to show the
extent TO which the precautionary ry
measures have advanced.
The greatest work in this line is the
construction Of the reservoirs on Twin
peaks The plans have been prepared
for that task and also for the con-
nections to be made TO bring the great
amount OF water to be impounded there
within reach Of a vast municipal area.
The cost OF the Twin peaks reser-
voirs is estimated at s195,0 600. A con-
tract has been awarded TO the Healy-
Tibbitts construction company for
sl5S.1s3.
Contracts have been awarded for the
construction of d pumping station at
second and Townsend streets; for fur
nishing and delivering nultistage tur-
bine pumps. for delivering cast iron
water pipe. for which the contract
price Is 1920. 0.9sS; for furnishing and
delivering 1.20e fire hydrants at S119.74
Per hydrant; for furnishing and deliv
erinE ISIS tons OF cast steel specials;
for furnishing, testing and delivering
valves at contract prices aggregating
S3l6.2Ss; FOR the construction of
great number of fire cisterns in all
parts of the city
RESERVOIR CONTRACT AWARDED
The contract for the construction of
tire Twin peaks reservoirs was award
Cd in December. 1909. The contract
for the turbine pumps was awarded
ia 1908. A large part Of the work on
the pumps has been completed. The
contract for the pumping station at
second and Townsend streets was
awarded December Is, 1903. The con-
tracts for furnishing, testing and de-
Iivering valves are well along toward
completion. Gate valves Will be de-
livered by the Pittsburg valve foundry
and construction company, the Pelton
water wheel company and the Union
machine company The areboats for
use along the water front have been
completed.
Contracts are in preparation for the
construction Of the Ashbury street dis
iributing reservoir, the Jones and Clay
streets distri buting reservoir, the Van
Ness avenue pumping station. the fresh
water pumping stations. the fnal plans
for the telephone system, the auxiliary
FIRE alarm and police system. the haul
ing and laying Of pipe and specials
and the setting OF hydrants in the
auxiliary system
CISTERN CONTRACTS COMPLETED
Contracts have been completed for
the construction Of reinforced concrete
fire cfsterns al Mission and West Mis-
sion. al Battery and Bush, in Market
street opposite Van Ness avenue, at
Twentieth and Connecticut, at Town
send and Eighth, at Fifteenth and Kan
sss at Precita avenue and Alabama, at
Webster and Vallejo. at Laguna and
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Greenwich and Webster, at Scott and
Broadway. at Mariposa and Missouri,
at wenty-second and York, at Twenty
third and Kansas, at Twenty-fifth and
san Bruno avenue. at Twenty-sixth and
Bryant and 81 Army street and Penn
sylvania avenue
Contracts have also been completed
for the construction of fireboat sta
tion at the easterly end Of Harrison
street pier. A contract has been pre-
pared for the construction Of pump
ing station No. ! at Second and Town
send streets at a cost Of 100000 as
estimated.
In addition to the contracts for fire
cisterns that have been completed the
following have been awarded:
Al Plymouth avenue and Ssdowa streets. at
Forty seventh avenue and street. at Berk-
street. Fifth avenue and / street, Ninth avenue
snd J street Lsguna and Fulton. Suffer and Oc-
favia. Van Ness avenue and Washington street.
Van Ness and Golden Gate avenues, Twenty third
and Church streets. Hill and Noe, Twenty fourth
and Noe. Twenty-ninth and Noe, Twenty first
and Eureka. Pacific avenue and Baker street.
CommonvesIth avenue and California street.
Clay and Laurel. First avenue and Clement. Fifth
and Point Lobos avenues. Webster and Waller,
Buens Vista and South Broderick streets,
Rroderick and Post. Diamond and Nineteenth.
won street and Golden Gate avenue Beale and
Howard First and Howard. Fourth and Har-
rison Fifth and Harrison Fifth and Bryant.
Fifth and BluNome. Fifth and Folsom: Sixth and
IL LIor- and
sion. Sixth and Folsom. Seventh and Howard.
Eighth and Brannan. DubOce aveBue and San
chez, Masonic avenue ana freoeflck' S Snrade5
snd Frederick. Belmont avenue ana willard
street. Elizabeth and Douglass streets. at -Four
teenth and Castro, Thirteenth and Folsom. Fif-
trcnfh and Capp, Eighteenth and Capp. Eight
eenth and Harrison. Nineteenth and York. Twen-
riptb and Kansas, Baker and Greenwich. brod-
erIck and Green Steiner and Union. Devisadero
snd Washington. Baker and Sacramento. Lyon
and Bush. Devisadero and EDDY. Broderick ana
Fulton. Devisadero and Fell, Parker avenue and
sBd Page Cole street and Alma avenue. Dis-
mOnd and Twenty eighth. Surrey street and Glen
avenue and Vienna street and Persia avenue
REQUEST WATER HYDRANTS
The fire commissioners have asked
the Spring Valley water company to
set hydrants al the following places:
Cough street and Ivy avenue, Green
and Cough streets, Union and Cough
streets, Pacific street and Wayne place,
Green and Polk streets, Arguello boule-
ward ana EoNdio SttSot ~ 3 upito anu
Euclid avenues. Arguello avenue north
Of Geary street. Clement street and
Second avenue: Clement street and
Third. Fourth, Fifth. Sixth and Seventh
avenues: sixth avenue and California
street Seventh avenue and California
street. Lake street and Third avenue,
Lake street and Fourth avenue, Lake
street and Eighteenth avenue, north
SIDE of Presidio terrace, Eighteenth
md Church streets, Twenty ninth
Greet west of Church. Twenty ninth
street west Of Sanchez, and at Alabama
and Army streets.