The morning call., 1892-05-12

printing
make a better show than that Jim-crack
sheet printed down on Sansome street. I'll
take a strap to EN-"
One prOperty-owner wanted TO know now
much stock the Street Department owned
in the big Doodle printing syndicate.
Nobody could answer the question.
The following resolutions were then read
and adopted:
WHEREAS We have DO money 10 throw away,
therefore be It
ResoIUed. That we don't want TO get Tung into
anv "sOmelhiRE- for nOthing" game.
RESOLVED, That free printing is aWfully expen-
siye.
We will sell out and go East.
That is the experience Of only one neigh
borhood.
1t is the same thing all over town.
A lob Of remaeadamizing on Turk street
cost the property-owDers S122 Il To tell
in a sickly evening paper that the job was
going TO be done and who the successful bid
ders were cost $50 As The engineering cost
SIG. The total expenses Of printing and
engineering was $40 10
That was 50 per cent OF the whole cost Of
the work.
downright robbery" That Is what the
Turk-street people think 1t is.
To lay a pipe sewer in OetaVia street,
between Vallejo and Green, cost the prop
erty-oWneTs 1852 %. The printing cost
SIS 95, and nobody wanted it done anyway,
except the Report people and the rest OF the
printing ring. The engineering was S4S.
That made total Of SI36 90, or 70 per
cent.
"a swlndling game" is the way the 0c-
tavia-street people regard 1t.
1t cost only SlS7 y TO TemacadamiZe pOT-
ton Of Devsa1ero street
Sixty-One dollars and forty cents, or 81
per cent, is what the printing cost.
GENTEEL FOOTPADERY. THAT.
The PsRe-street people paid 1914 81 for
some matchmaking. The printing bill,
Included in that cost was $50 %. added to
which was 81 for engineering, or total of
Sl02 %.
Thirty-two per cent!
Simply outrageousl
1t cost $50 40 to tell the people about a
$500 job Of pipe-sewerlng he Lott street
That was not case where talk was cheap.
On Cherry street, where a little grading
was done. it cost almost as much to tell
about the job as it did for the jon itself.
The printing bill was $50 O.. The bill for
the grading was S74 60. The people out
that way are holding on to their lots with
an iron grip. They are afraid that while
the printing ring ls about its stealing II Will
walk of with them.
It cost s58 so for printing and engineer
Ing $3.50 job Of plank sideWalkiDg on CaDp
street That was over 20 per cent.
1t cost $50 20 for the printing and engi-
neering for S135 job of sidewalking on
ShotWell street. The total cost was S196,
and the proportion Of expense for the print
ing and engineering was 81 per cent
just plain steal.
A Job of grading on Lombard street cost
S54 81. The printing and engineering cost
S29 90. The total cost was S74 %.
Forty per cent Of it was for PRINTING
and engineering.
That was all-only 40 per cent.
While the ring was about it. why didn't 1t
make IL 90?
ling at Bartlett aud Twenty-sixth streets
cost the pToperty-owners S109 &C. The
printing cost $40
FOTty-hye per cent.
Who wouldn't do city printing free gratis
for nuthin'P'
A steal within a steal lies in the fact that
the composition on much Of this streetWork
advertising is almost clean pick up. The
specifications for each class Of work are
nearly the same in each case. All that has
20 be done to make them fit certain job Is
to change a few figures and words, aud
then they are all ready for publication.
1t doesn't cost the ring anything to speak
OF, but 1t costs the property-owners pretty
sum.
And the beauty Of 1t all is that 1t is a safe
steal.
City officials support it,
If they did not 1t could not last day.
PrOperty-owners often make complaint OF
high assessments. THE CALL has shown
them why the assessments are so high.
Let US of on this free printing arrange
ment" they say now, land we will pay the
rest Of the bill cheerfully."
They realize now they are being robbed.
Whatsteps are they going to take to curb
the power Of the boodlers?
why not protest against every bill for
advertising fer streetwork?
Ihey are all Illegal