The San Francisco call., 1896-01-24
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
The Special Committee Reported
in Favor of a Public
Market.
Opposed to the City Making a Fifty.
Year Contract on Gar bage
Crematory.

The board of directors of the Merchants
Association held a meeting last evening
and decided to submit to the Board of
Supervisors at its next meeting the plan
of the City Hall directory. 1t will cost
only $125. This will include sixteen hall
directories, lettering the doors, naming
the several foors etc.
The Supervisors will be petitioned for
the repaving of several of the downtown
streets, principally Geary Post and Mont
gomery, the latter as soon as the railroad
company decides upon what kind of car
service it will give the public.
The matter of lighting the downtown
portions of the City was postponed until
after the Supervisors let the street-lighting
contract on July 1.
The widening of Lombard avenue to the
Preside was discussed.
The association voted $25 toward defray-
ing the expenses of the committee that is
going to Washington in the interests of
improving the rivers and harbors of this
coast.
The matter of free market was intro
duced by the special committees report.
After stating W hat was said and done at
the two recent committee meetings, the
report said:
Your committee respectfully submits the fol-
lowing conclusions as the present result of its
deliberations: First, the free public market
system Is successful and beneficial in other
cities of the United States and Europe: Sec
ond, there appears TO be a general demand
among the smaller producers and consumers
Tor free pu market in the City of San
tranclsco third, q free public market in this
Glty rs is not only necessary, but would prove of
decided advantage to the City; fourth, the
offer from the State Board of Harbor Commits
sioners OF location at the water front should
be accepted as a beginning of the project and
step III the right direction; fifth, there
should be established at least two more free
public markets in the neighborhood where
they would prove most useful to consumers
and most convenient to producers.
Edward F. Adams of the California
Fruit Exchange presented a long commu-
nlcatlon upon the same subject.
Letters upon the subject of selecting a
site in San Francisco for the Wilmerding
School were read.
Secretary J. R. Freud reported that he
has nearly finished compiling the synop-
SIS OF the proposed new charter, which
will be ready for publication within a few
days. The principal points in the charter
will be summarized in ten pages. The
Merchants Association has declared in
favor OF the proposed charter and will in
stltute vigorous campaign to secure its
adoption.
1, HS 1,JeO' u 1ie neaiS VI us posing OF
the City's garbage was discussed, and it
was decided that petition be sent to the
Board OF Supervisors asking it not to take
any action in regard to the awarding of
the contract for building a crematory for
garbage until report by the engineer OF
the association can be submitted 1t is
believed that the engineers report will
show that it would be woll for the City to
own its own plant, and that it would not
be wise to let contract under any condi-
tion for so long period as fifty years.
The following new members were
elected: Anglo American Crockery and
Glassware Company; Blake, Moffitt &
Towne; Langley & Michaels; Sherwood g.
Sherwood; Levi Strauss & Co.