The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
THE TRANSFER
QUESTION SETTLED.
Obnoxious Check Agents
Will Be Dispensed With
Hereafter.
THE PEOPLES VICTORY.
Passage to Print by the Super
v1sorS of the Dimond
Ordinance.
THE PEOPLES VICTORY
OTHER MATTERS ACTED ON.
No Choice Yet. Made of an Architect
for the New Municipal
Building.

The people of the City and County of
San Francisco do ordain as follows:
1. Every person, firm and corporation
operating streetcars within the City and
County of San Francisco that issue
transfers to passengers to enable them
to transfer to other cars operated by
the same or different owner shall issue
and oliver said transfers upon or within
the from which the passenger is
transferred, and not elsewhere.
2. No person except a duly au-
thOriZed conductor agent of a
person, firm or corporation operating a
line of street railroad within the City
and County of San Francisco shall
within said City and County issue, de-
liver, give or sell to any other person
whatever any transfer, transfer check
ticket issued purporting to be is
sued by such person, firm or corpora
ton operating such line of street
railroad for passage on any street rail-
road, car or line.
3. Every person, firm corporation
operating street railroad within said
City and County. and every conductor,
agent or other employe of such person,
firm or corporation violating the pro-
visions of this order shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon con-
victiOn thereof shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding $500 or by impris-
onment in the County Jail not exceed
ing six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
The Dimond ordinance, for the passage
of which more than 1900 people petit
toned, was passed to print yesterday by
the Board of Supervisors, after being
amended.
The passag of the ordinance gives gen.
eral satisfaction to the public and will end
the agitation which has been going on re-
garding the vexed question of the issuance
OF streetcar transfers. The ordinance in
tro6uced by Supervisor Dimond as printed
above was amended by Supervisor
The ordinance must receive the Mayors
signature before it becomes a law, or must
be passed over his veto by q two-thirds
vote in case he should veto it.
When Mr.. Dimond rose to move for a
reconsideration of the action Of the board
at its last meeting in refusing 10 pass his
measure his desk was almost hidden from
sight by the sheets of a huge petition.
which he said contained the names of
II, 10Y residents of San Francisco who use
the cars of the Market-street system almost
daily.
ish the transfer-check system and force
the company to return to the old method
of issuing transfers.
Mr.. Dimond moved the adoption of his
order, which was in the form of a resolu-
ton, and Mr.. Spreckels offered the follow
ing amendment, that was at once accented
by Mr.. Dimond:
lied conductor or agent of a person, firm or
corporation operating line of street railroad
within the City and County OF San Francisco
shall, within said city and county, issue de-
liver, give or sell to any other person whatever
any transfer, check or ticket issued or pur-
porting 10 be issued by such person, firm or
corporation so operating such line of street
railroad for passage on any street railroad, car
or line
In this form the order passed without
a dissenting voice.
The ordinance ordering the clerk to ad-
Vertlse Tor bids FOR telephone and tele-
graph franchise came up Tor hnal passage,
but was put over for a week.
Sheriff Whelan sent in protest against
the awarding of the contemplated con-
tract for furnishing supplies for the iails
under his charge on the ground that many
necessary articles had been left out of the
in the open market and at great loss.
The matter was referred back to the
joint Finance and Health and Police Com
mittee.
Two fruitless ballots on the plans for the
projected municipal building were taken.
Shea d Shea received s votes, Banks 4,
Mooser & Mooser 1 and Smith e. Free
man l.
Mr.. Benjamin also offered resolution
that was carried deprivIng the Mayor of
the power of giving permission or free
licenses for boxing exhibitions and re-
voking all of the permits now out. The
resolution places the power in the hands
of the board.
A resolution was introduced and carried
making Branch Jail instead of the City
Receiving Hospital the place of incarcera-
ton of insane persons while awaiting ex-
| animation, and instructing Sheriff Whe-
Ian to expend $500 IN fitting up the neces-