The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
ASHWORTH CUTS
OUT A MILLION,
Revised Estimates of the
Street Departments
Wants.
THE WORK DESIGNATED
No Margin for Contracts That
May Be Awarded by
Supervisors.
ORDER REGULATING DIVES.
Cadences of Music Should Cease at
the Midnight
Hour.

The revised statement OF Thomas r.
Ashworth, Superintendent OF Streets, was
received by the Grand Jury at the regular
session yesterday afternoon.
At the special session last Wednesday
evening, when Mr.. Ashworth conferred
with the jury to consider his estimate of
81. 500, 900 to maintain the department for
the next fiscal year, he explained that all
improvements deemed desirable were in
cluded in his estimate placed before the
Board of Supervisors. Moreover, he pre-
sented the fact that large percentage of
the sum of 1926, 600 allowed for the present
fiscal year had been expended under con-
tracts awarded directly by the Super
visors.
The Superintendent was therefSe asked
to submit a statement of the actual neces-
sites of his department for the year be-
ginning July l next-an estimate not to
include the cost of any contracts for work
that may be awarded by the Board of
Supervisors and payable out of the Street
Department fund. II accordance there
with the following was submitted:
For county roads, $4,000
Street sweeping. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Cleaning and repairing sewers and mate
Repaving and repairing accepted streets. 100000
Improvement in front of City property =. $4,000
Improvement and maintena ance OF public
improvement in front Of public parks.t.. 900
Total. s475 900
The foregoing represents & reduction of
more than a million dollars when COM
pared with the figures forwarded to the
Board of Supervisors.
Next week the Grand Jury will take up
the School Department figures. The Board
of Education asks for 81, 100000, indicating
that the sum of $4,000 is required for
new schoolhouses The purpose of the in
vestigation is to secure the cooperation OF
the School Directors in an effort to obtain
q reasonable tax levy.
A short time ago the Grand Jury COM
mittee on dives and social evils-a COM
mittee of which e. E. Cheever is chair
man and Jacob Martenstein and J. J.
O'FarreL are members-submitted re-
port in favor of closing the dives at mid
night. The District Attorney was asked
to draw an amendment to order No. 1887,
to the end that the recommendation Of the
committee may be carried out. Accord
ingly the following amendment was pre-
pared and transmitted TO the Board of
Supervisors, with the request that it be
adopted:
Sec 80. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son to keep open, ma aintain carry on or con-
duct any saloon, dancehouse, barroom or
drinking place where liquor is sold and music
furnished or played between the hours of IL
o. clock midnight and o'clock A. NJ.
1t shall be unlawful for any person to furnish
or play music in any saloon, dancehouse, par
room or drinking place between the hours of
II o'clock midnight and O'Clock A. NJ, pro-
vided, that the Mayor shall have authority to
issue permit for the giving of any entertain
ment, exhibition or ball by any dramatic or
literary association, society, club or beneficial
association, to which exhibition, entertain
ment or ball the provisions OF this section
shall not be applicable.
So many complaints have been made
regarding the inadequate facilities at the
City Hall for taking care OF insane persons
detained for examination, that the Grand