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of excellence. The amount allowed for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1913, is sufficient only to keep in good condition the 

 grounds and roadways. 



APPEAL TO SUPERVISORS 



Under date of May 20, 1912, the Superintendent presented 

 these facts to the Board of Supervisors: 



San Francisco, May 20th, 1912. 

 To the Honorable, 



The Board of Supervisors, 



City and County of San Francisco, California. 



Gentlemen : 



Relative to your request for information in detail regarding the 

 needs of the Park Commission for the fiscal year, 1912-13, I beg to 

 submit the following, viz : 



Additional sum of $60,000, asked for the construction of the break- 

 water at the Ocean Beach, is required for the purpose of continuing 

 the building of the concrete wall from the Beach Chalet to the foot of 

 the Cliff House hill. 



The $35,000, asked for the construction of a salt water bathing 

 pond, is required for the construction of a pond to be used by the 

 people who cannot afford to go to Santa Cruz and other bathing 

 beaches. It is intended to build the pond immediately inside of the 

 railroad track, at the westerly end of Golden Gate Park. 



The $25,000, asked for the improvement of grounds of H street, 

 west of Nineteenth avenue, is intended for the grading and planting 

 of all cuts made by contractors grading Lincoln Way, at these points. 



The $15,000, requested for the improvement of the slopes of Fulton 

 street, west of Thirty-sixth avenue is necessary to put in good con- 

 dition the slopes of Fulton street where cuts have been made by con- 

 tractors grading Fulton street. 



The $20,000, required for the re-building of the Sweeney Pano- 

 rama, is necessary, owing to its destruction by the earthquake of 1906. 



The $20,000, asked for the construction of an electric light plant, 

 is for the purpose of taking up the old underground electric wiring 

 installed in 1903 and which is entirely rotted. 



The extension of the driveway from the Great Highway to L 

 street south, for which $12,000 is requested, is necessary to protect 

 the land reclaimed from the Ocean by the Park Commission during 

 the last twelve years, and which is a strip from 300 to 400 feet wide by 

 two miles long and unless this work is carried out during the coming 



