The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-18

recent for the papers At the time he alleged that
ne h,eo lhem IN The County Clerks Office lie
could not ana did not aGduce sufficient proof TO
warrant The committee in sustaining his asser.
ttons.
Your committee are therefore of the opinIon
mat john +. Mahouey. clerk of Police Judges
Court z, has b en- found negligent and derelict
III Inc performance OF his duties, and as a result
we iecoinmehd mat his place be declared vacant.
The report was adopted. and subse-
quently John T. Washington was appointed
TO hll the position of Clerk Of Police
Court =. made vacant by the dismissal of
Clerk Mahoney.
A petition was presented by Louis Sloss.
John ID. Spreckels. James B. Stetson, George
Z. Perkins, w. +. Whittier, a. L. Brooke
Ridley and G. w. Cross, asking that q so
year franchise be granted them ito con-
struct. operate and maintain within
the city and county OF San Francisco
telephone and telegraph wires, and other
necessary appliances for the purpose of
carrying on the business of transmitting
Intelligence within the limits of said city,
by means of telephone, telegraph and.teau-
tograph instruments and appliances, and
wires such as are customary or necessary
for said business"
The order provides that the city shall
have one continuous duet through the entire
length of each of the cOnduits laid for the
exclusive use of the fire alarm, fire patrol
aud police services. Also that work shall
be commenced within six months of the
passage, and that not less than $50, 600 shall
be expended within year.
The executive committee of the unem-
picyed workingmen of the city presented a
petition for relief. giving three plans by
which the city could help them. The part
OF their petition that mentions ways and
means OF relief is as follows:
Proposition brst-We are In possession of
authentic information that from 1000 to 2O0O
men can be advaniagsOusly employed In Golden
Gaze Park. We SubMit the advisability OF rails
| iHg 100000 for this purpose by public sub
Proposition second-The possibility of an IN
| vaslon OF Asiatie cholera is a threatening
| fact. Medical authorities have pronounced
| the condition OF The city 10 be bad aud
| dangerous. We submit the advisable
ny 81 06o raising by public II, saDseriptiGn
| in proper sanitary condition. TWO ends
| thus aItalned-safety for the City aud work
| for the Idle. To the uniformed this
may seem large sum, but when 1t is
| realized that It would not be sufficient to pay
Tor the collins Of Ihe victims II The plague de.
scended on Us In our present unprepared condl-
! tlon, IL viii not seem large.
Proposition ihird-The assessment for lbe I'M
prOyement OF the Panhandle extension of the
park amounts 10 Sl50,O0O. The portion
assessed against The property holders, namely,
S65'o49, IS . available for immediate
| In the present emergency, proceed 10 open
! the work Immediately, by days labor, under the
! direction u the Superintendent OF Streets.
| The petition further states that the COM
! mittee has received the assurance of the
/ prompt raising of funds required for the
! relief of the distress now prevalent, if they
! will make application to certain other
| localities, but that they do not wish TO do
! so. The petition took the usual course.
A resolution. introduced by Supervisor
| Kennedy, was read, calling on Charles
! Giidea, superintendent of the House of
! Correction. to turn over that Institution TO
! john MeDade, Sheriff of San Francisco,
oG April %, and that he ani his boudsmen
! be relieved Of all further responsibility.
| The resolution provided that after April
/ p the buildings be dedicated rs the County
! jail of the city and county Of san Fran
| cisco.
The resolution was adopted, Ryan, Dun
/ don and Hinton alone veting against it.
= communication was received from the
! Auditor submitting two demands in favor
! OF 7. McAVry, each for the sum of S35. for
! two months salary az eXtraman in the Fire
! Department, for acting as a subSti-
| tute for II. Cooper. who was at the
| same time an empl0ye in The United States
| Mint and incapacitated from duty by an
| injury received. Auditor Smiley last year
| refused to audit the demands upon the
! ground that McAvOy acted as a substitute
| for Cooper, who illegally held two salaried
| positions
! A resolution was passed to print provid.
| ingfOr the collection Of the sum of $40 S56
! in the tax levy of lS93-94, for the purpose
| of supplying the deficiency in tire fund Of
the commission for the opening of the
| streets through the Iaguna survey.
! y communication was received from the
! City and County Surveyor. stating that In
! CoTbett road and OF the streets
in that vicinity it would be neees-
! sary to make complete survey of
! all those portions Of Seward and Eagle
! streets, Caselli, Falcon and Lincoln avenues
and Corbett road lying northerly from
| Nineteenth street. the cost Of which would
not be less than $500 he recommended
! the survey OF tile whole tract at Il cost not
! exceeding $1,000.
Denis Kearney addressed a petition to the
! board calling attention to a breach of con-
! tract IN the matter Of the public printing,
! and asking that IL be remeded. He said
| that under the contract public printing OF
! every kind was to be done for the sum of Z
! cents per 1000 ems.
| He stated that he was cre1ihly Informed
| that the sum OF SO is being exacled from
! each applicant for what is called special
! privilege" for the purpose of advertising
| the same in the official organ. Mr.. Kearney
| asked that the board investigate the alleged
! abuse.
Joseph Sheerer, who recently purchased
| the dilapidated and ancient statue of Wash
| ingtOn, which stood for years bTacing the
| storm and wind in WOOdward's Gardens,
| endeayOTed to get rid Of it to the board for
| some public park. The petition took the
| course of all the others.
a petition of property owners to abolish
! the Hog ranch" so called a nuisance, in
| the vicinity of Creighton and Berkshire
| streets, was read.
A protest was received from Emily F. Pope
| and others against the petition of the Edison
| Light and Power Company for permission
| TO construct an aQueduct from its works on
| Townsend street beneath said street and
| Hammond place to China Basin for the Dur-
| pose OF leading salt water into its station.
| An order reducing the mInimum fine for
| carrying concealed deadly weapons from
| S2JO 10 500 was passed to print