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March



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Through the efforts of The Mu-
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ACTING under a Charter amend-
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Rolph has named the new City
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CO^a•RIBUTING EDITORS



Assessor's Office Louise M. O'Hara

Auditor's Office J. Everett Sharp

Board of Education „

„ D. P. Hardy and Mrs. Harriet Leaman

Board of Health Edward M. Coffey

Board of Public Works Sid Hester

Bureau of Engineering N. A. Eckart

Bureau of Supplies Ivy Perkins Cerkel

City Attorney's Office Edmond P. Bergerot

Civil Service Commission James J. Maher

Civil Service Association Edward M. Coffey

Coroner's Office Jane Walsh

County Clerk ..Howard Gudelj

Dept. of Electricity Joseph P. Murphy

District Attorney Henry Goldman

Engineers' Union J. L. Slater, Jr.

Exposition Auditorium James L. Foley

Fire Department Lieut. Fred Jones

Justice Courts Robert W. Dennis



Maj'or's Office Edward Rainey

Municipal Railway Eugene W. Clisbee

Municipal Carmen's Union Edward D. Vandeleur

Office Employees' Assn William T. Bonsor

Parks and Museums W. M. Strother

Per Diem Men's Assn F. J. Ferguson

Playground Commission Veda B. Young

Principals' Association Susie A. Ward

Public Library Anne M. Farrell

Public Administrator Henry Boyen

Recorder's Office Daniel McGloin

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Retirement Board John W. Rogers

San Francisco Hospital Mrs. Mae H. Noonan

Sealer of Weights and Measures Mrs. M. Dolan

Sheriff's Office W. J. Martenson

Superior Courts Henry J. McGrath

Tax Collector's Office Homer Warren

Treasurer's Office I. A. Richardson



In This Issue



P.AGE

Editorial 5

E. Jack Spaulding 7

Mills Field — Air Transport Terminal 8

By Chas. T. M. Echols
Sculpture Exhibition Opens April 27 10

By W. M. Strother
When Playgrounds Were Sand Dunes 12

By Knave, in Oakland Tribune
A Duel in the Dark 13

By Jack Laulor
Golden Gate Park 14

By jr. M. Strother
Creative Work Among Children 15

By Veda Beresford Young
Noted Engineer Named Bridge Manager 16



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Department of Electricity 16

By Joseph Murphy

Junipero Serra, a Picturesque Drive 17

Flyers Seek Stephens' Promotion 18

Fore! And Game Was On 19

By Harry J. Borba
The Great Street Car Tragedy, or Ray Taylor

Settles a Claim 20

By Ashley Turner
Some New Novels 21

By Anne M. Farrell

San Francisco School Department 22

Board of Health 24

City Service Employees 28

By IVilliam T. Bonsor



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Why Jump on Mills Field?

EVERY big American city is afflicted with an
anvil chorus that has nothing to offer but
complaints at every opportunity to decry the
efforts of constructive groups that seek honestly
to effect, in harmony and concord, improve-
ment in public service and healthy growth in
public enterprises.

San Francisco's municipal airport at Mills
Field is a case in point. Intermittently a cry
goes up that there is "something wrong" at Mills
Field; that the airport is stagnant or slipping
backwards; that the service and equipment there
is lax; that the management of the flying field
is woefully ineflicient.

Of course there is room for expansion at Mills
Field — just as there is at any municipally con-
trolled air field in the United States. Let us be
fair, however, about the basic underlying cause —
a lack of sufficient funds to finance proportionate
expansion of the acreage and equipment. While
other cities have spent a great deal more money
on their airports than San Francisco, thereby
being able to offer greater inducements to the
aircraft industry, the progress made by Mills
Field under the circumstances is phenomenal.

THE city's airport committee, composed of
Supervisors Milo F. Kent, Andrew J. Gal-
lagher and Frank J. McGovern, consistently has
endeavored to get more money for expansion
through a larger budget allowance, and failing
in this, the committee sponsored an amendment
on the November 7, last, ballot providing for a
$1,700,000 bond issue to finance developments
laid out by the City Engineer's office. The
amendment failed to receive the necessary two-
thirds vote, getting 75,993 "yes" votes, with 59,-
354 "no" votes. A great majority of the voters
registered their confidence in Mills Field and its
future, but, largely because of the fact that there
were more than sixty measures to be voted on,
the amendment went down to defeat with many
other bond issues.

It seems to us that it is unfair to compare Mills
Field with the Oakland airport. The City of
Oakland has spent more than $1,500,000 on its
airport to date, starting in June, 1927, while San
Francisco, which opened Mills Field in May,
1927, has spent only $287,326.75 to date on its
airport equipment.



FURTHER to relieve the situation at Mills Field
and as Supervisor Kent so aptly remarked,
"to relieve people's minds in regard to the air-
port," Mayor Rolph and the Board of Super-
visors have indorsed a plan for appointment of
an advisory committee to aid the Airport Com-
mittee, and to make a study and report with
recommendations upon the needs of the airport.
For the step, which means that San Francisco is
to become preeminent in the field of commercial
aviation, with an airport equalled nowhere in
the United States, The Municipal Employee
congratulates Mayor Rolph and the Board.

Supervisor Kent, in speaking for the Airport
Committee, and explaining the committee's re-
quest for appointment of an advisory committee,
said that if the advisory committee, which un-
doubtedly will include Army aircraft officials,
recommends a new form of management and
different authority at Mills Field, it w^ill be
up to the Board of Supervisors to authorize
the change,

SUPERVISOR Gallagher, in speaking of the
advisory committee, declared that the pur-
pose is to get expert advice and have a thorough
study made of the problem. He declared that
if the advisory committee finally advises that
authority over the airport be transferred to some
other body, then it also will advise the Airport
Committee how to achieve that result.

In voicing his company's satisfaction with
conditions at Mills Field, Charles T. M. Echols
of the West Coast Air Transport Company, in
an article in this number of The MUNICIPAL
Employee, states:

"A year of regular use of this airport has
proven the reasoning in our selection of Mills
Field, Our tri-motored planes have never at any
time had trouble in landing or taking off at this
field under any weather conditions. The airport
equipment has been thoroughly adequate. The
airport management has been courteous and
helpful. And true, to expectations, 85 per cent
of our passenger business has originated in Saoi
Francisco. Less than five per cent of our pjts-
sengers have requested to be picked up or set
down at other Bay region airports. Our selec-
tion has been justified, Mills Field is an Air
Transport Terminal."



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Mills Field — ^ir Transport Terminal

By Chas. T. M. Echols

Assistant Traffic Manager, M^est Coast Air Transport Company



THE progress of the West Coast
Air Transport Company in the
operation of its coastwise passenger
air line is very closely allied with the
development of Mills Field, San
Francisco municipal airport. In
1927, when the organizers of the
West Coast Air Transport Company
began to lay plans, survey routes,
and obtain flying equipment, the
question of adequate landing facili-
ties along the contemplated route
was of major importance.



This company was the first pas-
senger air line to operate regular
scheduled service on the Pacific
Coast. The San Francisco-Portland-
Seattle route was selected, because
it ofifered the greatest distances be-
tween centers of population, making
air transportation an asset to these
communities. The next demand was
for suitable airports, including a
terminal in the San Francisco bay
area.

It is interesting to note that at




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U'esl Coast .lir Transport plane leaving Mills Field for Los Angeles



that particular time the best landing
field on this entire route was located
at Corning, California, where air-
minded private interests had pro-
vided a field suitable for large
planes. Seattle and Portland, like
San Francisco, had not completed
the first construction work on their
new municipal airports.

Airport Considerations

In the selection of an airport for
terminal use several items must be
considered, not only as to present,
but also future conditions. These
items are size, equipment and acces-
sibility.

In the bay region, both Oak-
land and San Francisco had airport
projects under way, and Alameda
expected to have something to offer
in the then near future. This con-
dition offered new problems to our
company. This new problem was
that of selecting the airport which
would be nearest the majority of the
passengers who would patronize the
service.

The bay region airports were
practically the same as to size and
runways, and as to area available
for future expansion and enlarge-
ment. Their hangars and general
equipment were about equal and all
had satisfactory plans for more and
better equipment to be installed, as
funds for the purpose became avail-



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IVest Coast plane coming to a landing at Mills Field



able. The managements apparently
would render equal service to the
users of their fields.

The Deciding Factor

To our company this made the
deciding factor in the selection of a
bay region terminal, that of acces-
sibility to our passengers. The
years of transportation experience of
our management made this means
of selection a comparatively simple
matter. The city of San Francisco
having a large transient population,
in addition to being the business
center of the Pacific Coast, offers the
best market for the sale of transpor-
tation. To certain groups of busi-
ness men time is an all important
element, and air transportation, be-
cause of its speed, makes a real sav-
ing in this tangible asset of time.

These facts pointed to the selec-
tion of the airport that would be
most accessible, under all condi-
tions, from the business district of



San Francisco. To reach the air-
ports at Oakland and Alameda
would always require the crossing of
the bay, usually during the busiest
transbay traffic, with the added
chance of delay at inopportune time
due to fog or the wait for ferries due
to traffic conditions.

Mills Field, fifteen miles south on
the peninsula, with road conditions,
as they were at that time, meant a
forty-five-minute drive, but money
had been appropriated and construc-
tion started on an arterial highway
leading directly past the airport.
Already the driving time from down-
town to Mills Field has been short-
ened to thirty-five minutes, and by
late summer the trip will easily be
made in twenty minutes.

No Trouble in Landing

A year of regular use of this air-
port has proved the reasoning in
our selection of Mills Field. Our
tri-motored planes have never at any




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Loading West Coast plane at Mills Field <u:ill: air cxprrss for Los .L nyrtes



Pilot Johnny Gugliemetti and Hov;ard

Bentley, SYz years old. Little Hoviard,

unaccompanied, recently flev: from Mills

Field to Los Angeles

time had trouble in landing or tak-
ing off at this field under any
weather conditions. The airport
equipment has been thoroughly ade-
quate. The airport management has
been courteous and helpful. And
true to expectations, 85 per cent of
our passenger business has origi-
nated in San Francisco. Less than
5 per cent of our passengers have
requested to be picked up or set
down at other bay region airports.

The schedules over this 715-air-
mile route have been increased from
tri-weekly to daily (except Sunday).
Hundreds of regular trips to and
from Mills Field have been made
carrying several thousand passen-
gers. Our selection has been justi-
fied — Mills Field is an air transport