San Francisco water . - know them all, nomatter whether broad thoroughfare, narrowalley, or cul-de-sac. And they all know the underground ge-ography of the city. What is under the streetsis no mystery to them. They visualize sharplythe mysteries that the rest of us only glimpseonce in a while when we stop to peer intoan excavation. If they know one thing alittle better than all the rest, it is the loca-tion of all the gates. The gates, of course,are all plotted in Spring Valley records, butno more accuratelv than thev are fixed in the SAN FRANCISCO WATER April, 1925. The fire-fighting progress
San Francisco water . - know them all, nomatter whether broad thoroughfare, narrowalley, or cul-de-sac. And they all know the underground ge-ography of the city. What is under the streetsis no mystery to them. They visualize sharplythe mysteries that the rest of us only glimpseonce in a while when we stop to peer intoan excavation. If they know one thing alittle better than all the rest, it is the loca-tion of all the gates. The gates, of course,are all plotted in Spring Valley records, butno more accuratelv than thev are fixed in the SAN FRANCISCO WATER April, 1925. The fire-fighting progress of seventy-fdeath it took his name. The enginecompanies, fourteen truck compani 5. David C. Brcderick led Emplsed on Sacramento Street. Todthirteen chemicals. This is Engir ompany. and atter mshas forty-eight engine: 115 Drumm Street April, 1925 SAN FRANCISCO WATER minds of the gatemen. Sometimes, in resur-facing a street, the contractor will run hisbitumen over a gate-cover, hiding it fromview. Is that any obstacle in the work of thegateman ? We know where to look, says MikeGriffin. Looking back over thirty-two years ofkeeping the gates, Mike Griffin sees vividlyhis first big fire. It burned everything thatstood between Fourth and Fifth, Bryant andBrannan streets, principally lumber yards,small homes, and tenement houses. After that bad fire, says Mike Griffin,we reinforced the old system with a twelve-inch main down Fourth Street from Marketto Berry, a sixteen-inch main on Brannanfrom Third to Ninth, and a twelve-inchmain on Bryant from Fourth to
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