The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-04
How They Will Be Divided
This Year.
LARGE MUNICIPAL DEMANDS.
The Supervisors VIII Have to Do Con-
siderable Cutting to Keep Within
the Dollar Limit.

on next MODudJs Iue JUL 10 QuItt d
stupendous one, and there is con siderable
work ahead for the three members, James.
Denman and Kennedy.
All of the city departments have asked
for increased appropriations. and in some
cases the demands are exceedingly large.
A number of them approach the million
mark.
The Auditor has been furnished with a
statement from each municipal department
of the money required to run the espective
Offices, and will first look over the list.
compare the requirements with last years
allowances and then report to the Finan ce
Committee, who will put on its municipal
spectacles, and with knife in hand proceed
to prune and cut down to keep within the
pledge under which the members were
elected
II would be impossible to keep within
this limit if all the demands were acceded
to. Most of the increased demands are
for improvements and extra clerk help.
Very little modesty has been exhibited in
puttiDg down large figures for proposed
expenditures, but the departments will
have to take what the Supervisors will
give.
One of the most interesting communica-
tions to the Auditor and Finance Commit
tee is that of the Sewerage Commission,
and this communication will be given
more thought and study than any of the
Others
Messrs. Manson and Grunsky of the
commission ask that they be allowed
$1,000 for salaries for themselves and
$4,000 for salaries for field and Office as
sistants. They also request that 100000
be set apart in the Street Department fund
for work under the direction of the COM
mission.
They also ask that the grades of the city
be established on a general system based
on Typographical survey of tile city.
On this subject the communication says:
The making Of surveys and the perfection
Of prOfles, where the same have recently been
acquired, has fallen TO The City and County Sur
Veyor. He Is paid $500 a year i'll lieu of all
fees or other charges for official services, which
would otherwise be city and county charge,
but 1t is not construed that this compensation
includes surveys tor establishing grades, and
The work of this character ordered by The Board
of Supervisors since January l, 1893. has been
authorized at an average cost OF about $50 per
block, being about at the rate OF $500 a mile.
Including the streets OF South San Fran
cisco The aggregate length OF streets which re-
main 10 De surveyed (oased on a few blocks at
q time) will cost about $3.50 600. To have
these surveys made and report prepared
covering all recognized public streets should,
at the hands of a properly constructed ad-
vsory board. exclusive of CONDENSATION Of
members, cost the city about $4,000
The engineers ask that at least $4,000
be set aside for the prosecution of this
work, and some provision made TO connect
the sewerage commission in an advisory
capacity with the working out OF the rec
concentrations made.
The Board of Health wants for salaries
SOS, 200; Office expenses, S6700 The es-
timated receipts are $3.50.
The Board of Election Commissioners
want S25, coo for holding special election
for freshoders.
City Physician Brown asks for the
Twenty-sixth-street HOSPITAL S6327; City
Receiving Hospital. 5000; County Jails,
S2400
The clerk of the Justices Courtsl $4,000
of which SIT, 100 is allowed by law for SAL
aries of clerks.
Quarantine Officer Lawton believes he
will need S7120 to run his office.
Poundkeeper Fred A. Osborn would like
to have $3.50 to manage his Office during
the year.
John D. Siebe, the Assessor, only wants
S87. 1852; Assessors saary $4,000. deputies
S24, 800. extra deputies $4,000. rolls $500.
The License Collector asks for S27. $50,
Of which $4,000 goes for deputies. He
estimates that the income of the office will
he increased $4,000 if the Supreme Court
decides favolably on the Chinese opium
dealers case.
District Attorney Barnes asks for S21,-
$50; District Attorneys salary 5000. three
assistants at $4,000, chief clerk $1,000, two
assistant clerks $780,
hcfDIutI 0Iyuu says IL Will lcQuII0
$50. 290 to run his Office. He estimates the
income at $50. 600, which will leave bal
ance of 1910 for the city. The principal
item is $50. 600 for folio clerks
The Mayor thinks he can get along with
$500; Mayors salary $4,000, Mayors
clerk $1,000, contingent fund $500.
The City and County Attorney asks for
S21.210 for himself. four assistants, two
clerks, one messenger and onestypewrter,
books and stationery bringing the amount
requested to S2i 500.
City Hall Commissioners ask for the full
amount of 10 cents for each 500 allowed
by law, as all will be needed to meet pro-
posed expenditures.
The Park Commission say they will re-
quire S390.250.
The Law Library wants S450O
The Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph
officers say they Will require $50, 515 10 run
the department.
City and County Surveyor FitZhugh asks
that he be allowed: For salary, $500: sta
tionery, $500. He states that the work
ordered by the city for which demands are
drawn upon the street fund will aggregate
$4,000.
Chief of Police Crowley wants S843. S73
for his department. The principal items
are 1856 patrolmen. S472. 900; So sergeants,
$4,000; Il detectives. $4,000; II corporals,
S16.o4S; 10 drivers for patrol wagons
S10'80O; improvements to patrol service,
$3.50
The Fire Department approaches S.. 900. :
600 IN It's demands, the total being $3.50. 92O
of which S150,000 is for 1000 new hydrapts.
$4,000 for ten new engines. running ex-
penses $4,000, salaries S39S, 420, new hose
$4,000.
Coroner Hughes asks that he be allowed
Tor salaries 1880; extra salaries $500.
expenses $500; with ineidentals, the total
amount asked for is S1929
Superintendent Titus OF the CITY and
County Hospital says it will require $685.
975 to run the hospital during the wear.
For salaries 500. $50. additions $50, $50 /:
other expenses bring the amount up to
$685..
DIR. Somers of the Receiving Hospital
does not agree with City Physician Brown
as TO the amount required for his debart-
ment. He wants S12,3lO, of which good
portion is for new ambulance system.
The Board of Education, through Sec
rotary Beanston, asks for Sits, 1872. Sup
erinteGdent of Public Schools John SWEET
Endorses the application and gives his
vie , on the need of several new schools.
particularly at Ocean View, and in sec.
lions of the city where children have to
travel long distance to reach school, He
also asks that provision be made for the
establishment of cooking DEPARTMENTS in
the Broadway, Denman, Rincon and
Normal high schools.
Two Bold Thieves.
James Lundy and John Dougherty were
booked at the CITY Prison Yesterday for