The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04


Wherefore your petitioner prays tbSt your
honorable board will grant il franchise 20
lay down, maintain and operate a, single or
double track railroad with all necessary
switches and turnouts across, along and upon
the tollowlng-named streets in the City and
county OF San Francisco, to wit:
FROM point on the main line of the South
ern Pacific Railroad at the intersection of York
and Division streets. thence along said Diyi-
sion street to Sixteenth, thence along Sixteenth
and along Harrison to an intersection with the
main line OF the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company at point between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets.
John Center, claiming to represent the
property owners interested, asked that the
petition be granted. The petition was
recommended to the board for action.
The street-sweeping contract caused
lively overhauling of facts and figures.
Superintendent of Streets Ashworth sub
mltted long communication signed by
}. f. Carpenter, clerk of the street-sweep-
ing department, the gist of which was
that the streets were being cleaned Just as
Wen under Ashworth as they were under
the Merchants Association. He said:
There is no disputing the fact that the low
est bid received under the last call of the
Board OF Supervisors will make the cost less to
the City, but 1t can only be accomplished by
even more machine work than now done by
you, or through very low rate of wages.
would take this occasion TO suggest-with-
out prejudice to labor, but rather with view
TO extend assistance 10 a greater mum ber-that
II a living compensation could be fixed (say 20
cents per hour as good results could be ac-
complished as contracting the work, and con-
slderlng the present condition of the labor
market l think no sensible laboring man
would object or seek to take advantage of any
technically of law to deprive others of the
advantage of employment enjoyed by himself
This change, together with the adyantag
that you have of cleaning only portion of a
street, as necessity requires, would, in nv
opinion, give results satisfactory to all. This
1.-THE entire surface of the roadway must be
cleaned"
superintendent Ashworth reported that
he had cleaned "a ga, 800 square yards of
streets from August 6 to September 80 at a
cost OF $16,955. The average cost per 1000
square yards was SO cents. At present
there are liz men employed in the depart
ment. Ninety-two carloads of sweepings
were sent to Golden Gate Park.
Reclaimed that the difference Der day
between the number of square yards
cleaned by the Merchants Association for
the first forty days of their contract when
full force was employed for twenty-four
hours and the first forty days under him
SELF with like conditions was about As 600
square yards in favor of the association.
Ashworth said he could clean the streets
Tor TO cents thousand square yards.
The City improvement Company offered
to do the same work for 1875 cents a
thousand square yards.
On motion of Supervisor Spreckels it was
recommended that the work be let to the
lowest bidder
The contract runs to June 81 next and is
Tor street-sweeping alone. The successful
bidder must give bonds for $3.50 The
work has to be done TO the satisfaction of
the Superintendent of Streets.
The street-sprinkling contract was re-
lected, and it was recommended that par
ties VINO wanted their streets sprinkled
must pay for work themselves.
Notice was given requesting the Market
street Railway Company to inform the
board OF what action the company pro-