The San Francisco call., 1898-12-28
CLINTON CALLS PHELAN EITHER
 KNAVE OR FOOL BosWorth Tunnel an
 s. P. Steal.
A REAL LIVELY SESSION
SUPERVISORS ALL LINED UP WITH THE EXECUTIVE.
The Cemeteries Will Not Be Closed. Bids Opened for the Seven teenth- Street Police
 Station.

Mayor Phelan must face alone the new Board of Supervisors and its unknown quantities. The process of subtraction that has been separating him from his adherents since Supervisor Dodge got oh the wrong side of an advertising fence, was completed yesterday afternoon when pr. Clinton, with much red-faced vehem- ence, cut loose the strings that have bound him to the executives bunch or favorites and declared his erstwhile friend and patron "either fool or knave," and, worst of all, a friend and a partial one to the Southern Pacific.
 The casus beli was the tunnel under the railroads embankment on Bosworth street, for the building of which the Supervisors set aside $24O0O when they made the recent apportionment of. the taxes The tunnel is to be constructed for no other apparent purpose than to pro- vide an exclusive right of way for the Market-street railway system to the en- trance to Zoo Park
 The resolution authorizing its construc- ton was passed at last weeks meeting, and was strongly objected to at that time by Supervisor Clinton, who was loud in his denunciation of the scheme to save the railway people an expense they should rightly stand. After an in effectual kick he contented himself by turning the matter over to the Mayor, confident that he would exercise his we'll known. vetoing power and kill the job a-bornin'.
 At yesterdays meeting MT. Phelan read his regular weekly veto message, and to the consternation of pr. Clinton the tun- nel bill was not among those he men tioned. In tear-stained English Clinton made loud protest, but finding it of no avail he took the other end of it and sub JeCted the executive to as scientific and effective a roasting as has ever tickled the phenomenal board.
 MT. Chairman, l am surprised, I am pained, said Mir. Clinton. ''I was in hopes that this time your vote would be heard against this latest steal this latest job that is being railroaded through this board for the benefit of the. Southern Pa cihc and the owners of the Mission Zoo. l am surprised, l am shocked, yourHonor, that for single time you should have re- cognized and become a. party to such a bare-faced steal as this Bosworth street tunnel. Possibly 1t is through bad tudg- ment alone that you have done this. I hope so. l had confidence in your Honor s honesty and integrity. You know as well as and if you will come out there with me tomorrow you will acknowledge It to me, that this tunnel is being built simply to save the zoo and railroad the SZ4,U0O 1t will cost.
 q understand that last week your Honor
 drove over the ground with one of the geptlemep who is largely interested Tn the Zoo Park. Now. l-do not mean to say that there is where your Honor got the views that you now hold of this matter but I do say that you were probably thereby influenced. say that this mat. ter is an out and out steal, and one or the rankest that this board has worked for the benefit of the railroad, yer IL IS fitting finale for the record TOT the last two years
 = Supervisor Clinton would have contin- ned along the same line: had not MT Dodge, with fickerlng memory or ,io. oi6a So time love feasts, moved that the Mayor pc given the privilege of the floor for the purpose of replying to the to say the least pointedly personal remarks or o9- cd the Mayor and he took advantage or It to deny that he was actuated by any oe- sire to further the interests Of the south ern Pacific. hut that on the contrary the residents of the BosWorth-Street district were unanimous n their petition to nave the tunnel built, and that after trip over the ground he could see no other way or getting at the Zoo Park:
 Supervisor Clinton said that he agreed wholly with the Mayor, but at the same time thought he knew nothing about It; The people of the district, he said, did not want the tunnel, that the railroad did and that if the Mayor had been over the ground he must have seen that there was another and better entrance into the park to be had by extending BosWorth street into Sunnyside avenue ana cross ing the railroad tracks apove the thiao and not see that there is another way into that park is either fool or a knaVe.
 T don't know that you repreSsent, the the views of the people in your section, re- torted Mayor Phelan. 'I didn't notice that they stood with you to any great eX- tent during the late election
 Supervisor Britt got up 10 say that ne was glad to see that for once MT. Phe- Ian had risen above petty spersonaI inter .ests and had done thing TOT me gen eral good. It was dehcate c9npllnltelhe tl,I and was smilingly appreciated by the Mayor Clinton arose for another round, and the Incident was closed by motion from Supervisor Sheehan 5naI tbe C1len Insp s fbef psssed the gold bhck. His motion found tp TSe omestion of paying off the overripe aoon5;n+s dnv of the late Grand. Jury out of Inc urgent necessity fund was again broughf up, and the bills of Experts Kil- natrick and Atherton were indefinitely pPTFfpongT Tbe Question of closing all cemeteries within the city limits came up for hnaI consideration, and resolution to close was lost by tie vote Gb yS license uDon fence advertising fakers and restricting the height of their unsightly fences 10 twelve feet was referred to the ncense committee and Will pc cohsiueFeu oh
 Two Lids for the erection of the police station on Seventeenth street and the po- lice patrol stables on Eighteenth street were opened and both found to be above the S50. .0O0 set aside for the purpose: Han nah Bros. bid S69,000 and J. H. Mckay asked Sbi,gbO. For the llltlIt6 ehS the C'itv Hall the Jewell Filter Company bid s6s9o and the New York i Filter n Com. .Io pany s67S0 The amount set aside by the board for the purpose was $5OVV. = The resolution granting to the police the right to use force in closing up the, high binder societies and so-called merchants clubs of Chinatown was passed by unanimous vote.
 The heavy expense this city is being put to in the trial of Mrs, Cordelia Bot kin was then taken cognizance of by the passage of a resolution calling the att tion of the incoming board to the matter and suggesting that the expense should be met by the State.
 Fire protection was guaranteed prop erty-owners in the vicinity of the Cliff House by a resolution requesting the Spring Valley Water Company to lay an s-inch main from Point Lobos avenue to the bottom of the cliff hill and past the big pavilion, and to erect fire plugs at different points along the line.
 The board adjourned to Saturday morn isg at.10 o'clock.