The San Francisco call., 1898-01-11
The Supervisors Decide to Let the Illumlnant
 Alone,
Acrimonious Debate Over the Lease of the Sailors
 Home.
The Mission Park and the Geological Garden Gets a Severe Set
 back.

The Board of Supervisors decided yesterday to refuse to interfere with the quality of the Illuminating gas that is furnished to the ratepayers of San Francisco.
 Supervisor Lackmanns order limiting the quantity of carbonic monOXide was reported upon by a special committee composed of Supervisors Rivers, Shee- han and Delany, that had been ap- pointed to investigate the matter. The following report offered by the com- mittee was unanimously adopted: To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Fran Gentlemen-Your Committee on Street Lights, to which was referred a resolu- tOn relative to the manufacture and linn lIlng the amount of carbon mOnOXide in gas used for Illuminating purposes, would Respectfully report that your committee held an investigation which demonstrated that all gas, II inhaled, is poisonous, whether manufactured and known as coal gas or as water gas.
 That water gas, so called, is supplanting what is known coal gas principally because of its reduced cost and greater Illuminating power.
 The question of care is essential in the use of gas, and il is certainly not the function of this Board to stand in the way Of attempts to regulate the manufac- ture of gas. when it iS not disputed that all large cities are engaged in its manu- fracture and when it is shown that water gas plants are rapidly being introduced to supplant the works by which coal gas Is manufactured, so that a higher illumin- ant can be produced.
 Your committee. therefore, recommend the indefinite pOStponement of the reso- luton as being at variance with business enterprise which is recognized as progress sive in other cities as in no respects will that gas. when used. have disastrous re- suits if ordinary prudence is exercised in its use. T. w. RIVERS,
 J. H. STEPHAN,
 r. NJ DELANY.
 There was a long and acrimonious debate over the lease of the Sailors Home, which the WOmen's Seamens $ Benevolent and Protective Society de sires to lease from the city. The at torneys for the society, Messrs. Humphrey x Barrett, claimed that the home is al present conducted on a sec tarian basis, and that seamen of cer- tain sects are unable to obtain the spiritual teaching that they desire. The resolution granting the lease to the society for two years at $1 per an- mum was finally laid over for a week to give the members a chance to in Nestigate. \ meeting will be held ~ Monday morning next at 10 o'clock to decide the matter.
 = The proposition to establish a Mis- sion Park and Geological Garden re- ceiYed an unexpected setback at the
 
 13odge. The latter wanted the matter put over for a week, while the former asked that if be indefinitely postponed. He stated that the price asked for the land was about three times it's value, and that there must be some job in the scheme to sell il to the city.
 Supervisor Smith objected to any such statements, and the matter finally went over for Q week.
 The new plumbing order proposed by the Health Department and recOm- mended by the Health and Police Com mfttee was passed to print.
 Supervisor ROttanzi presented an or der prohibiting the sale of liquors to minors, and offering half the fines col lected from violation to the informers. The measure went to the Judiciary Committee.
 Supervisor Rivers poolroom ordi- nance was referred to the City and County Attorney for his opinion as to Its legality, and will be taken up again by the Health and Police Committee on Friday next.
 An ordinance framed to obtain li- censes from those whose privileges en- crOach on city property or property un- der the control of the city was referred to the joint License and Order Com Tnittee and special committee
 Supervisor Britt presented resolu- tiOn. that was adopted, asking the City and County Attorneys opinion as to whether contracts completed by labor CTS working in violation of the eight hour law were legal.