The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1912-01-11
CITY HALL ON
FORMER SITE
IS NOW LIKELY
Supervisors Committee Decides
to Make Final Report
Next Monday
Enthusiastic Meeting Of OFF,
ciaIs and Citizens Results
in Definite Action

San Franciscos new city hall forming
center scheme. will be built on the old
city hall site and Will be complete and
ready for occupancy when the gates Of
the exposition are thrown open II the
tenor of last nights meeting of the
public buildings committee of the new
board of supervisors may be taken as
an indication of what is to come.
While two schemes OF civic center
location were given almost equal con-
sideration last night. the weight of
opinion voiced at the conference over
Iwhelmingly favored the plan which con-
templates the use of the old city hall
site as a basis.
OF equal If not greater Importance
than the indication given last night as
to what the ultimate choice of site will
be was the definite determination an
nounced that not minute is to be lost
In getting down TO actual work.
Report Promised Monday,
| The public buildings committee de-
clared its intention to report Monday
| to the board of supervisors its recon-
mendation as to which site shall be
chosen. and everything points to the
calling of special bond election for
March %. the earliest possible date, to
provide the financial means for carry
Ing out the project decided upon.
In all the years that city hall and
civic center propositions have been un-
der consideration in San Francisco
there was never a more representative
gathering than that which assembled
last night in the supervisors chambers
to consider what has been branded as
one of the foremost policies of the new
Rolph administration.
There were present al the meeting
the present mayor and two former may
ors of San Francisco. r. members OF
| the new board OF supervisors. the city
engineer, the city architect. the city
attorney. all three members of the
board of public works. five members OF
the exposition's architectural commits
sion. the director of works of the expo
sition. a score of the foremost archi-
tects of the city and large representa-
tion of the general public.
Plans Shown on Walls
| The meeting of the committee was a
| business session from start to finish.
The walls of the supervisors chamber
| were plastered with ground plans
showing definite methods of civic CEN
ter expansion with rough estimates Of
the cost of acquiring new land. and the
men asked to speak on the subject were
experts who have spent months. and In
some cases years, in studying the prob
lem presented.
Supervisor Bancroft presided over
the meeting, while Mayor Rolph and
former Mayors Taylor and Phelan oc-
cupied seats with the members of the
public buildings committee at the front
of the room.
In calling the meeting to order Ban
croft asked for the reading of both the
majority and minority reports present
ed to the board of supervisors last
Monday by the special commission of
architects chosen by the public build
ings committee to recommend q city
hall and civic center plan.
Two Reports Presented
The majority report, signed by John
Galen Howard. Clarence r. Ward and
w. B. Faville of the architectural COM
mission OF the exposition and by Har-
ris D. H. Connick, director OF works OF
the exposition. recommended plan us
Ing the old city hall site as basis
The minority report, signed by Pres
ident Willis Polk and Edward H Ben
nett of the exposition's architectural
board, recommended the grouping OF
sivic center buildings at the juncture
of Market street and Van Ness ave.
nue..