The San Francisco call., 1896-03-24
Supervisors Still Deadlocked Re.
garding the Municipal
Building.
SHEA & SHEA HAVE SIX VOTES.
Hog Ranches May Be Given Three
Months to Move TO Other
Localities.

Shea & Shea 6, Banks 5, Mooser & Mooser
l was the result announced by Clerk Rus
sell of the Board of Supervisors when q
vote was taken yesterday at the close OF
the meeting of the board to decide which
of the competing architects is to receive
the contract for supervising the erection
of the new municipal building.
The ballot showed that the feelings of
the members had not changed since the
last meeting, and another ballot was
called for. Again Shea & Shea were short
one vote to get the plan, and after motions
to postpone the matter for three and six
months had been lost, in the former in
stance by a narrow margin, the matter
went over until next Mondays meeting.
The Supervisors voted as follows:
For Shea & Shea King, Scully, Hirsch
Dimond, Taylor and Hobbs.
For Banks = Benjamin, Hughes, bunker,
Morgenstern and Spreckels.
For Mooser x MooSer-Wagner.
The matter of extending the hog-ranch
limits beyond the Excelsior and Bay View
homesteads was laid over for week by
the board after the mem bers had shown
an inclination to grant the request of the
Board of Health in the matter, and at the
same tive gave the hog-ranchers time to
remove their Objectionable animals to
other localities.
The report of the committee appointed
at the last meeting to investigate the mat
ter which recommended that action be de-
layed for six months was received, and
then a motion was made to extend the
limits, with proviso that the regulation
should not go into effect for ninety days.
Health Officer Lovelace and Dr. William
son of the Board of Health were present
and both declared the ranches in the
Bay View district to be nuisance and a
menace to the public health. The mem
Ders of the board who favor giving the
ranchers six months TO yacate their places
succeeded in having the matter deferred
for a week. 1t is probable that, unless
some action is taken by the board at its
next meeting, the health authorities will
declare the Bay View ranches nuisance
and condemn them.
A resolution requesting the California
Senators and representatives in Congress
to advocate the passage of q bill for the
recognition of the Mississippi and
International Congress TO be held in
Omaha, and for liberal appropriation for
a Government building and exhibit was
adopted.
The resolution was adopted, making it
necessary in future for all applicants for
free licenses to appear before the License
Committee and be examined as to their
financial condition and ability to pay for
license.
A resolution was passed calling the at
tention of the Superintendent of Streets TO
the provision OF the general orders pro-
bibiting distractions to streets, and re-
questing him to Immediately enforce it by
causing the removal from the streets and
sidewalks distractions of any description
unless the same is maintained by permis-
sion of the board.
The position of operator of the fire alarm
and police telegraph, held by F. E. Has
kell, was declared vacant, and Joseph Ii.
Biakely appointed to the place.
The order prohibiting open poker games
was referred back to the Judiciary Com
mittee to have it remodeled to conform
with the views of the District Attorney,
who recently rendered an opinion that the
measure as originally framed is unconsti-
tutional.
a resolution was passed indorsing the
memorials which have been presented to
Congress by the San Francisco committee
on commerce asking for an appropriation
for harbor improvements. The matter
desired are the removal of dangerous rocks
in the bay, a steam fog vessel for the en-
trance to the harbor, cable to the south
east Farallon island, house for the
telegraph operator at Point Reyes, ex-
haustive observations of the currents of
the bay, fog-signal station on the north
east Farallon island, fairway marks on
the south shore of the Golden Gate.