The San Francisco call., 1899-05-09
SUPERVISORS
FAIL TO FIX
GAS RATES
Old Bills Ordered
Passed to Print.
OBJECTIONS OF NO AVAIL
a NEW SCHEME TO EvADE THE
MAYORS VETO.
Spring Valley Company to Be Paid
For Water Tt Never Furnished
in Alta Plaza and Alamo
Square.
OBJECTIONS OF NO AVAIL
A NEW SCHEME TO EVADE THE
MAYORS VETO.


December, January, February and March
TO print
The matter Of fixing gas rates did not
come up in any form whatever.
The first furry over the gas PROPOSE
ton arose when the bills for lighting the
various fire engine houses We're presented
with the other minor bills for current
expenses. Perrault moved that all the
bills with the exception of the gas bills
be allowed. Phelps wanted to know why
they We're excluded.
Perrault and the Mayor thought an at
tempt was being made to evade the law
by presenting separate bills for each en-
gine house and they frankly stated their
opinions. Under the law bills for less
than 5000 are allowed by authorization
and do not so to the Mayor for his sig
nature, while bills for more than that
amount are liable to veto. The Mayor
held that the bills should be consolidated.
thus bringing the total amount up 10
several thousand dollars.
PeTTaultS motion finally prevailed.
Later in the session the bills for light
ing. streets and public buildings, both
with gas and electricity for the same
period came up, having been approved by
the majority of the Finance Committee.
The first bill, aggregating so 900, for light
ing streets with electricity, was read and
Lackmann moved that action be indefln
tteiy postponed. The motion was defeat
ed-Aigeltinger. Attridge, Black, Collins,
Holland. kalben and Phelps opposing It,
while Byington, DeaSy, Heyer. Iackmann
and Perrault supported it. Perrault then
moved TO postpone action until such time
as the gas company shall state what is
a 1alT and reasonable rate. This motion
was also lost by the same vote and then
Phelps moved that the bin be passed to
print The motion was carried by the
same vote. Perrault changed his vote
from no to aye IN order 10 make a motion
10 reconsider at the next meeting. The
same ACTION was taken with eighteen
more bills and the gas question was hung
up for another week
The board refused to accent the re,lIic-
ton of S6ll0 81 in the water bill for March
maue BY the Finance Committee and or
dered the total amount paid The bill
rendered was for $40 1856. but II was shown
that the company had been charging for
water In Alta plaza and Alamo square
for years, while those parks have not
Dgen u1Ger cultivation; Ihe water COM
pany, when II saw that its game had
been discovered voluntarily subtracted
from the March bin the amounts charged
for those squares but the committee
wanted to hold out ell the back charge
The same seven Supervisors would not
support the proposition because the gas
and water inspector, who has only been
IN ofHce three months, did not know of
his own knowledge that water had not
been furnished at those places during the
past four or i've years. His statement
indJ the parks were barren and showed
no indications Of having been under cult
Walton was hardly sufficient, but finally
the bill went over for a week
Lackmann introduced a resolution call
ing the attention of the Board of Health
70 me state quarantine service. supported
10y this city and county, which he deemed
unnecessaTy in view Of the Federal quar-
Shtlhe. lhe resolution provided for turn
ing the quarantine boat over to the har-
DOR police 1t was referred to the Health
and Police Committee
PeTrault resolution providing that no
supplies Tor the city of any description be
purchased unless by contract was lost
Ihe resolution permitting coursing
parks 20 sell pools was postponed for two
The Merchants Association having
been requested by Supervisor Perrault to
define It's position in regard to the grant
Ing OF a franchise for an electric road
between Sixth and SansOme streets and
Tenth and Montgomery streets sent in
a communication referring the board TO
Its communication Of March 10 last in
which the association objected TO the
granting of an electric franchise on
Geary street between Taylor street and
Grant avenue and recommending that the
route be along Post street instead. The
second communication states that nothing
has transpired since then to change the
position Of the association and again
recommends that the board grant permis-
sion Tor tho road to run along Post street
Garret McEnerney. representing the
owners Of the Columbian building ad-
laceut 10 the ruins Of the Baldwin Hotel,
urged the board TO refuse Baldwin per-
mission to longer maintain the adVertis-
ing fence surrounding the ruins He said
IL worked a great hardship upon his ell
ents as their tenants We're constantly
complaining Of the nuisance. Mr. McEn-
eruey was Informed that the resolution
recently passed ordering the fence set
back TO the building line was stiu in
force and the board could do nothing
further in the matter beyond having the
present order enforced.
Bids were opened for publishing the
delinquent tax list as follows: Journal
Of Commerce, cents for each name;
Report, l9 cents; Post, 16 cents; Bulletin,
2i12 cents; Star, 49-l00 cents. The con-
tract was awarded 10 the Star.
a boxing permit was granted the West
etn Athletic Club Tor May and the Ma
tioual Athletic Club was granted privilege
10 hold tournament covering four even
ings within sixty days.
The North Central Improvement Asso-
cations petition that $780, 900 be provided
IN the street fund for the repaving Of
streets IN the wholesale district was re-
ferred to the Finance Committee with in
structiOns to incorporate the amount in
tho next tax levy. Perrault gave notice
Of reconsideration at the next meeting
The City and County Attorney was
called upon for an opinion as 10 the
proper action 10 be taken upon the an
Ducation Of the Market street RAILWAY
Company for permission to use electricity
as 2 motive power. The attornev's at
tentiOn is particularly directed to the
statutes Of 1893 and 1897 which prescribe
that such privileges are In the nature Of
franchises
STREET WORK RECOMMENDED
The following recommendation Of the Suner-
intendent Of Streets for the performance of
street work were received and referred to the
Street Committee: Grading Of Bernal Park la
the official line and grade; laying a stone side
walk on the easterly side Of Scott street he
tween Fulton and Hayes: basalt block gutter
ways kearny street, between Clay and
washington, and paving the roadway with pi-
luminous rock = paving Washington street he
tween Kearny and Montgomery streets with
bftuminous rock: also Merchant street between
Kearny and Montgomery streets; laying side
walks on Fifteenth street. between Noe and Cas-
trO: also Noe. between Henry and Sixteenth.
also on Pine street. between Sanchez and Noe
also on CollingWood street, between Fiehten+h
and Nineteenth; also on Ashbury street he
tween Waller and Frederick also on Washing
Broadway between Fillmore and Steiner: also
on Collingwood street, between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth; also on Seventeenth street he
TWEEN Noe and Sanchez; paving crossing Of
Jackson and Lyon streets with bituminous
rock; laying granite curbs Sixteenth street
between Noe and Castro, and paving roadway
with basalt blocks: paving roadway OF Seven
teenth street between Douglass street and
Clara avenue. with basalt; grading the cross
ing Of Bennington and Newman streets and
sewering the same with ten-inch sewer: also
grading and sewering crossing Of Bennington
and Tllert streets; constructing Pinch sewer
in crossing Of Cortland avenue and Bennington
street: laying l8-inch sewer In Castro, between
Twenty-sixth and Army streets 10 connect
with the Twenty-sixth-s street sewer; laying 10
inch sewer In Grove street, between Scott and
DevisadeTO laying 14-inch sewer in Twenty
third street between Rhode Island and De