The San Francisco call., 1898-07-12
Clinton Introduces an Order to That Effect.
BERRY PLACE TO BE CLOSED
LACKMANN WANTS SLOT MA
 CHIMES TO BE LICENSED.
Joint Committee Recommends the Awarding of a Contract for Hay at Nineteen and
 Half Per Ton.

The session of the Board of Supervis- DTS yesterday afternoon was long drawn out, but comparatively uneventful. The fact that last Monday was a holiday laid over many resolutions passed to print at the preceding meeting, they not having been advertised sufficient number ss times to be taken up at yesterdays meet ing.
 Clinton introduced a resolution to reduce the rates or fare on the street railroads. and 1t reads as follows:
 Whereas In consideration of the many privi- leges granted to and enjoyed by them. and the use Of the public streets. the right and privi- lege ought to be granted in and on the street railroads, operated in whole in part in this clty and county, to certain officers and ployes of the city and county and to mall car riers in the employment of the United States as well as to mechanics and laborers during turning from their respective places of busi- ness; also to pupils of the public schools in going to and returning from their respective schools as herein provided; therefore, the peo- pie or the city and county of San Francisco do ordain follows:
 The order goes on to provide that be- tween the hours of and I a. m and and D: m: only 212 cents shall be charged for a single fare. At other hours the fare will remain at cents; Police officers, mem the Superintendent of Public Streets, members of the Health Department and @ nnall carriers shall at all times while en- gagged III the discharge of their respective duties be permitted to ride free of charge on all street railroads in this city.
 tuplis or the public schools going to or returning rom schools within one-half hour prior to the opening or subsequent to the closing of the respective schools snail be entitled to ride al the rate of 212 cents Tor single fare, provided that each pupil shall have card from the principal or the school certifying that the party Is a pupil Of said school and reciting the resi- fln or the school and the hours at which sald school Is opened and closed. Such cara With 2l2 cents will entitle the holder t9 a continuous ride from the residence or the pupil to the school or the connec- uons nearest the school. The cards are to De issued by the principal every three A violation of the order is made pun lsnaple @ e, py a line of $l0O or by imprison- both. The order. if adopted. is to go into effect on September l of this year
 The order was referred to the City and county Attorney without debate
 The order granting a franchise to the Southern Pacific Company to make con nections with existing lines was laid over for two weeks and rereferred.
 The clerk was ordered to advertise for proposals Tor lighting the streets in ac- cordance with the specifications of the committee, all proposals to be in by Au- gust l.
 A resolution was ordered passed to print adopung the recommendation of the su-
 
 telegraph system to lay the wires under ground in the business districts, and recommending an appropriation for three years.
 A recommendation was adopted calling for the use of salt water for sprinkling the streets and flushing the sewers
 The proposition to utilize part of La fayette square for site for the Lowell High School was rereferred to the Board of Education, with the request to con- suit the attorney of the board as to the legality of the proceeding.
 The resolution to grade and sewer the streets on Bernal Heights was laid over for one week, Smith protesting that the lots were but 25x70, assessed for only s90 each and owned by poor people who could not afford to pay S200 each to have the work done. It would amount to con- fiscation, he added.
 A motion was defeated to reconsider the vote at the former meeting whereby the DeVany slot-machine order failed of adoption. Clinton remarked that Devany was one of the first to vote against the poolroom order, and he was therefore in- consistent in the matter of gambling Devany replied by saying that the clos ing of the Ingleside track had not done any good for the cause of morality, be- cause people went over to the Oakland track and bought pools there.
 An ordinance by Sheehan was passed to print prohibiting the renting or use of any house on Berry place for immoral purposes. Sheehan said that he had not included in the ordinance Dupont street from Bush to California, or Bacon place, off Pine street. between Kearny and Du- pCnt, because he had been informed that the police had suppressed all disorderly houses on Dupont street and because Bacon place had been closed in by gates and was no longer an eyesore to passers by.
 The joint committee on Health and Po- lice, Hospital and Fire Department, re- ported that Scott & Wagner were the lowest bidders for supplying the public institutions with forage. consisting of hay, straw, middlfngs, ground barley and carrots: D. Keefe for white feed oats and Oata 1r ar hg a1f fo1 The contract price for hay was s19 50 per ton. Dodge recommended that the con recommendation of the joint committee. inii Sete The prices were reasonable, considering the fluctuations of the market He had been told by a contractor that he the lars on q contract because the price of articles which he had to furnish had gone up. Dodge added that he expected to see hay go up s1O or SIP a ton this year.
 Smith wanted the hay bought in the open market. He could buy all the hay he liked in the market at the present time
 The report was laid over for a week.
 Tn the matter of the resembling of the mits to certain athletic clubs to give non professional exhibitions of boxing, De- lany reserved his right to, move at the next meeting for a reconsideration:
 Lackmann introduced nickel-in-the- slot machine order, imposing license as fellows: Machines giving cigars, cigar ettes drinks or liquor, 8 per quarter for each machine; phonographc fortune telling punching, lifting. music and cleo tric slot machines, S2 per quarter candy, chocolate, postage stamps and other mer- chandise. g.
 On motion of Clinton representatives of banking and other corporations were in. Vted to appear before the Board of Equalization next Friday afternoon at ? o'clock for the purpose of being examined respecting the value of their property.
 The board adjourned until Friday. July 15, at D. m.
 STREET IMPROVEMENTS.