The morning call., 1895-01-30
Many Suggestions Offered for
the Charter.
COMMUNICATIONS COMING IN.
Captain Lees Strikes a Blow at
Private Detectives.
CITY DETECTIVES TO De INSPECTORS.
Streets That Will Be Reserved as BOule.
VardS-COmmiSSiOnerS Salaries
to Be Fixed.

The deep interest taken by the people of
san FRANCISCO, and particularly those hold
ing office, in the deliberations of the Board
OF Freeholders is evinced by the number of
communications that have been received
relative to the various departments.
In some cases the suggestions offered
have been acted upon and in others the
opinions held by various members have
prevented any consideration of the subjects
presented. Among those who have adj
dressed the board by letter are the follow
ing: Letter-carriers, on the subject of free
rides on the various car lines; City and
County Attorney Harry T. Creswell, re-
gardlng the sections preventing people in
jured through defects in the streets from
suing the officials; from w. N. Torpy, in
respect to the creation of the office of City
Electrician; from A. d. d 'Ancona, suggest
ing larger number of voters that 200 to
each precinct; from John n. Koener, call
Ing attention to the necessity of brick
sewer from Seventeenth street to the bay;
from the Judges of the Superior Court,
asking that the Law Library be given a
liberal allowance; from T. A. Kirkpatrick,
on the subject of municipal reform; from
the Guild of Arts and Crafts, relating to
city architecture; from the Builders Ex-
change, IN relation to members of political
conventions accepting appointments; from
the schoolteachers, asking for changes in
the personnel of the Board of Education,
and from the residents of the Mission on
the subject OF reservation of streets.
Captain Lees appeared before the board
yesterday and asked that the charter desig-
nate the city detectives as inspectors, the
head Of the department to be chief in
spector, and that all so-called private de-
tectives be enioined from using the title.
The matter was referred to the committee
on public order and police.
a clause was inserted in the chapter on
public works giving the Mayor power to
remove the commissioners of the board at
any time.
Mr.. Scott made motion that all public
squares and plazas, with the exception of
Golden Gate, Buena Vista and Mountain
View parks, be placed under the super
vision of the Board of Public Works. This
was defeated, but will be called up again
for reconsideration.
A warm argument between DR.. Ander-
son and Mr.. O'Bren was had regarding
the representation to be had in the City
and County Hospital by the various medi-
cal institutions and fraternities, the latter
advocating equal riNhts to all, appoint
ments to be made by the Mayor, and the
former declaring that some of the so-called
physicians of the new schools could not,
after leaving out theory and practice, pass
the necessary examinations. A motion to
refer to the committee on health depart
ment settled the matter for the time be-
ing.
The question of Police and Fire Commits
sion salaries was laid over until all can be
decided at one time.
On motion of Mr.. Scott the section relat-
ing to boulevards was reconsidered and the
following regulations adopted
Certain streets shall be and hereby are desig-
mated as boulevards. No such street or boule-
yard shall ever have laid or constructed upon
1t any street railroad OF any manner or mode
by the use of any kind of motive power, and TO
franchise for the laying or building of any rail-
road on any such street shall ever be granted.
The following streets are hereby designated
as boulevards as above proposed, namely: Full
ton, Golden Gate, Bush, Chestnut, Twenty
fourth avenue, from the park to the Preside
reservation; Fourteenth avenue, from the park
to the Preside reservation; First avenue, from
the Presidio reservation to the park; Steiner
street and Van Ness avenue; Seventeenth
Steiner, Steiner to Waller, Waller to Scott,
Scott TO Fell; Seventeenth street to Terrace
Terrace to Eighteenth, Eighteenth to Clayton,
Clayton to Carl, Carl to Third avenue and
Third avenue to the park.
Mr.. Marye offered the following amend
ment to Mr.. SCOTS motion:
Heavy trucks or other vehicles of any kind
Tor the removal, carrying or hauling of heavy
materials shall not be allowed the use or con-
tinue their passage over or along any street
thus designated as boulevard for the distance
OF more than one square or block; that is to
say, for more than the distance of space be-
tween any two next adjacent streets crossing
anV such boulevard