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Show HILL IVIAY BECOME FAMED BEAUTY I SPOT i Details of Unique Project Announced; Citizens Back i Improvement Suggestion SAN KIlANCISl'O. Feb. 1 An auto-mobile auto-mobile boulevard to the top of Telegraph Tele-graph liil! .md the transformation of 1 lie present unimproved cit y property, conflating of nearly a block, on the summit int oan iplanad.-. with terrace, ter-race, i-oncreie balustrades, lawns, hedges and sheltered resting places for moinrixls and podt-slriariH, is being outlined by ,Ioin M:I-iren, superintendent superintend-ent of parks. Mcljflrcn hart had complete plans for the beaut if (cat inn of the famoua land-I land-I mark drawn, which project, if carried 'out, will cause it to vie with Twin Peaks and linens Y r-1"' f ! i (in runs! popular ipots in t he cit v with motorist touriats and sight-He sight-He rs. Although the present park appropriations appropri-ations are not sufficient to comt the cost of The ilmimsed development, resident resi-dent of the North Heach district have hopes t hat sufficient fund mav be fort hcoimng when the budget of t he fiscal year 1921-192; is made up during the coming wprin by tho board of supervisors. "The North Hearh section stands he-hind he-hind Superintendent McUron'n plan for the development of a park on Telegraph Tele-graph Hill." Hti Ir. Frank Fisher, sec-f sec-f rotary of the North f teach Improve i nient Association, yesterday. H : i it ;: plan; "We have been endeavoring for jrome time to have a lawn planted on the city property known as Pioneer park, at the top of the hill, but, owing to the lack of water pressure during the o;y, the park commissioners have been unable to carry out our request. y the Installation of a tank :t the nim-mit, nim-mit, however, sufficient water storage may be secured during the night, when the pressure, owing to the curtailed use of water throughout the city, is sufficient to raise a supply to the too of the hill. v "All that the city now has to mark the historic spot where vessels were sighted in the days of '49 and the news of shipping arrivals was carried by messenger to eaxerlv awaiting merchants mer-chants and citizen in the old business district, situated near the present customhouse. cus-tomhouse. Is a solitary flagpole. "The view of the Colden (late and the bay from the top of Telegraph hill is the best that nay he secured from any vantage point In the city. The summit i now inaccessible to motorists, and the steep climb and lack of seats at the top prevent pedestrians from going, there." i kxtkxhvi:. The plan outlined by Superintendent Mcl-nren includes a circular terraced drivewav, twenty feet wide, extending from (ireenwich and Kearny streets to the top of the bill. On the summit he proposes that the city construct a level esplanade, fifty by one hundred feet In area, surrounded by a circular concrete con-crete balustrated of an ornamental design. Mclnren irt?eS that the cltv plot, which Is bounded hv Kearnv, Filbert and Oreenwich streets and Montgomery a venue, he increased fv t he add It ion of the block on the north xidc of Greenwich Green-wich street, between Kearnv street and Montgomery avenue. In order that -the view on the north mav not be obscured by the erection of dwellings or commercial com-mercial structures. He states that the starred cliff on the east side of the hill, which was defaced by td as ting w hen a quarry was located there, may he covered by the planting of pine trees. |