The record-union., 1898-11-29
LOAN FOR P STREET PLAZA.
TT WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL
JANUARY.
Cost Of Lighting City Departments
Found to be Less Than
Last Year.

The City Board of Trustees met in
weekly session last night, Trustees
mckay, Kent Brown, Bentley, De-
vine, Paine, Dolan and Tebbets being
present
A message was received from the
Mayor, appointing George Henry Kunz
special policeman for the cemetery,
vice self. time expired.
The City Auditor was instructed TO
transfer from the general fund $500
to the street fund, $175 to the sprink-
ling fund. and $500 to the sewer fund
The usual monthly bills were al
lowed.
A resolution empowering the Chief
Engineer of the fire department and
the Chairman of the Fire Committee
to purchase a team of horses for the
department at a cost not to exceed
$500 was adopted as an emergency,
owing to the death of one Of the horses
of the hook and ladder team
Trustee Devine called attention TO
the dangerous condition of the
Twelfth-street bridge.
Trustee Tebbets said that over no
bridge leading from Sacramento does so
much travel with heavy teams pass. A
damage suit for an accident there would
the bridge. If brick arch could be
built to allow the water to pass through
he would be glad.
Trustee Paine said Trustee Douglas
had inspected the bridge and pro-
nounced it safe for the present. The
Sixteenth street road will probably soon
be opened, and the bridge will not then
be needed.
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had told the board so many times that
the bridge was unsafe that he was
ashamed to speak of it again. If the
city wishes to pay a bill of damages,
he did not care, but he would say again
that the planking is worn out.
The matter was referred to- the Street
Committee, to have some planks put
down.
Trustee Paine said that the loam
from the Thirteenth-s street sewer could
be furnished for the plaza at Fifteenth
and streets for 40 cents yard, and
would be better than the sand from
the river
Trustee Devine thought it should be
procured more cheaply. He moved
that the Street Committee be author
ized to purchase the loam at a price
not to exceed 80 cents, and as much
lower as possible.
Trustee Brown thought care should
he exercised in selecting earth for fill
ing the plaza, and that the plaza should
be plowed before being filed in. He
wanted to see fine park there.
Trustee Paine said he would not have
brought the matter up a. this time
had he not seen a chance to secure
some extra fine earth, so considered by
al who have seen it. He did not want
to jew any man down, and thought
that the earth was worth 40 cents if
it was anything.
Trustee Devine thought if he could
get just as fine loan, hauled from
greater distance, for 50 cents the board
should do it.
Trustee Tebbets said there was no
money in the fund, and he did not pro-
pose to risk paying for the loan out of
his own pocket.
Trustee Devine withdrew his motion,
and the matter went over till January.
LICENSING RUNNERS.
The ordinance relating to runners for
restaurants. lodging houses, etc., and
the license to be imposed on them, was
read. 1t makes the license SO per
quarter.
Trustee Devine opposed the ordinance,
as it seemed to be aimed at poor peo-
pie who might be trying to make a liv-
ing by running a lodging-house.
Trustee Dolan thought there should
be no distinction between persons. Run
ners for hotels have now to pay SO
quarter.
Mayor Land was called on for his
opinion and said he thought the ordi-
nance just one. For years the hotels
of the city have been compelled to pay
a license, while proprietors of little
lodging-houses go to the depot and So
licit and pay no license. For his two
hotels he pays $45 a month water and
employs 125 men. These people with
q few rooms pay very little taxes The
hack drivers pay no license.
Trustee Paine did not think the ordi-
nance a fair one to the little fry.
Trustee Tebbets thought either all
shouldNpay licenses or that none should.
Trustee Kent explained that the pres
ent ordinance was passed because of
abuses by hack drivers. He thought
the ordinance good one.
Mayor Land said that unless some
thing were done, a lot of San Francis
places and take people coming on the
train no one knows where. All the ho-
tel men ask is protection and they think
they are entitled to it. Such an orli-
nance would keep away from the de-
pot a lot of Objectionable persons He
had no feeling against the lodging house
keepers who are here, and only wanted
to see Justice done.
Action on the ordinance was deferred
for one week.
The Mayor notified the board that he
had granted Bailiff Higgins ten days
leave of absence on account of his va
cation.
Frank Bergman was granted day
and night license for a saloon at T0S
street
VIOLATING THE ORDINANCE.
Trustee Bentley stated that he had
been informed that there was formerly
a grocery store at Fourth and Q streets
In which saloon was kept. The groc-
cry has been sold out and moved away
and he was told that other parties are
now running saloon there in viola