The morning call., 1890-04-15
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.
A Delegation of Retail Butchers
Disappointed.
Mayer Ponds Veto Of the Park Road Grade
Wilson's appointment Confirmed - Re-
ceiving Hospital Entrance.

The chamber Of the Supervisors was flied
last evening by very large delegation OF
retail butchers interested in the action OF
the board on the proposition to raise the
license of meat peddlers from $40 to S75
quarter
The measure was referred by the License
Committee, at its recent meeting, to the
City and County Attorney for his opinion
upon its constitutionality as a special Il
cense.
The butchers did not understand that
the committee will have 10 act upon the
opinion Of the City and County Attorney
when it is received, hence they presented
themselves in great numbers. and remained
patiently until the conclusion of the meet
lug, when the condition of affairs was ex-
planned to them.
A VETOED GRADE.
Mayor Ponds veto of Order No. 2201,
changing and establishing grades on Park
road at its intersection with Haight street,
was opened and read 70 the board.
He objected TO the new order on the
ground that the change would cost the city
for its portion of the work $1,000, and the
already steep grade would become sleeper,
rendering the street almost useless for the
purposes of highway.
erty-owners, who would be damaged and
put TO heavy expense on occount of the
work, would mulct the city for damages
The person most benefited is satisfied that
The work Is unnecessary and now only asks
a slight alteration at the sOutheaSterly cor
ner Of Haight street and Park road.
The Mayor recommended that the order
be referred back to the Street Committee
for further action, and that such change be
made.
The document was passed to print
RECEIVING HOSPITAL ENTRANCE.
petition was received from Louis
Schultz, requesting the board to change the
entrance TO the Receiving Hospital from
Washington street TO kearny. He Is erect
Ing hotel Oh Washington street, opposite
the hospital entrance, and states that 1t Will
injure the establishment TO have the guests
see patients taken into the place. Consid-
Grafton OF the matter was referred TO the
Committee on Health and Police and Build
ing, which will meet on Friday for action.
\ communication was received from the
Board Of Education notifying the super
visors that it had placed the twenty-five
gift fre-alarm boxes in the following-named
schools: COgsweu Mission High School,
Boys High School, Commercial School,
Hamilton, Valencia, -, Mission, Pacific
Heights, Denman, Clement, Lincoln.
Franklin and Broadway grammar schools,
ana Haight, Peabody. Whittier, Cleveland,
Moulder. Golden Gate, Emerson. jefferson,
Irving, South Cosmopolitan and Starr King
primaries.
Auditor Strother submitted q report for
the third quarter of the present fiscal year,
showing the allowance of demands upon
the General Fund aggregatlng 500, 46S II {;
School Fund, S164, 4l6 26; Special Fee Fund,
S4O,llS q; Street Department Fund, ST.
81 IS: Dlsinterment Fund, 5000; Duplicate
Tax Fund, sac II; Library Fund, $3.50 40;
Park Improvement Fund, $50, 754 %; Police
Contingent Fund, S179S so; Police Relief
,-fy- 4 - L
quest Fund, $3.50 So; Street Light Fund,
SU2594 or; New City Hail Fund, So, 1G7 80;
Interest account, SIS, 400; Sinking Fund,
S64 oi2 20; total demands audited, S1,04S,
al IS. The amount OF money IN the
Treasury on March 3I5t was s., 149, 133 81.
THE HOWARD EXTENSION.
The order opening and extending Toward
street from its present termination south
eriy to North avenue and appointing Fran
McCoppin, d. J. Toohy and J. Downey
Harvey Commissioners was finally passed
by the board.
The resolution directing the Street Com
mlttee and the Superintendent OF Streets to
remove and sell the iron fence surrounding
Portsmouth square and providing that the
proceeds shall be paid III the Street Fund
was finally passed
An order was finally passed closing so
much OF Epstein street as lies west of the
westerly line Of the land conveyed by W. A.
Fritz to the city and county for the extern
sion OF Masonic avenue southerly from
Frederick street.
The bonds Of D. c. Nealon, Lawrence
McMahon and a. J. Clunle, as Commission
er5 for the extension of Sixteenth street.
were finally approved by the board.
Orders were adopted expunging from the
official map Grisar place, between 0etavia
= and Laguna streets; Ash avenue, between
Buchanan and Webster streets, and Rose
avenue, between Laguna and Buchanan
streets, In conformity with the opinion Of
the City and County Attorney that they
had never been dedicated to public use.
Tie appointment by tie Justices Of the
Peace of Marion 4. Wilson as their clerk
for two years from the oath inst, was
unanimously confirmed.
The action of Chief Engineer Scannel in
causing the western wall Of Truck-house
No. l on O'Farrell street to be braced and
strengthened was approved, and the cost
ordered paid out Of the Urgent Necessity
Fund.