Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . and a boy. The Stadium of Golden Gate Park is oval m shape and in areathirty acres. It is encircled by a trotting track, sixty feet wide. Slop-ing towards the center of the field is a grassy terrace ten feet thirty feet wide. At the base of the terrace slope is a footpath,twelve feet wide. Inside of the footpath is a bicycle track twentv-five feet wide. Near the easterly end and inside the bicvcle track isa quarter of a mile cinder track. Paralleling the straight-away ofthe bicvcle path is a 220-yard straight-away cinder track. Insideof the
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . and a boy. The Stadium of Golden Gate Park is oval m shape and in areathirty acres. It is encircled by a trotting track, sixty feet wide. Slop-ing towards the center of the field is a grassy terrace ten feet thirty feet wide. At the base of the terrace slope is a footpath,twelve feet wide. Inside of the footpath is a bicycle track twentv-five feet wide. Near the easterly end and inside the bicvcle track isa quarter of a mile cinder track. Paralleling the straight-away ofthe bicvcle path is a 220-yard straight-away cinder track. Insideof the oval formed by the quarter of a mile cinder track there arespaces for hammer throwing, vaulting poles, jumping, etc. Spaceis also given for one basket-ball court, and six football fields. Forexample. Berkeley, Stanford. Yale. Harvard. Princeton and Pennsyl-vania could contend simultaneously for football supremacy, each witha rival college team. The grassy terrace affords space for 220 MrxiciPAL Blue Book of San Francisco. H HENRY U. BRANDENSTEINFormer Supervisor and Fire Com-missioner KXRY U. BRANDENSTEIN,l3orn in San Francisco Decem-ber 7, 1868. the son of the late JosephBrandenstein, tobacco merchant and])ioneer of 1850, can point to an al-most unbroken record of piil:)Hc ser-vice extending from 1899 to his re-signation as Fire Commissioner Au-gust 7. 1914. Prefaced by good edu-cational advantages, he lacked noth-ing in the way of experience andpreparation calculated to fit him forsuccessful work in behalf of tlie mu-nicipality. In his boyhood he at-tended the public schools of the city,and prepared for and entered Har-vard University, graduating there-froni in 1890, afterward entering theHarvard Law School and graduat-ing from that institution in 1893. One year later he obtained hisdiploma as graduate of the law school of the University of 1898, already well established in the legal profession in SanFrancisco, Mr. Brandenstein was chosen a me
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