The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-25
CONPET |T|ON IN LIGHTING
Al LAST MADE POSSIBLE

as proposed and damages from the sui
ter-street Railway Company; also the said
CITY and County Attorney is hereby direct
ed to bring such suits against said rail
way company, at the time and in the man
ner in his judgment may be proper.
The following resolution regarding the
opening of REIMBURSEMENT street
through the property of st. Lukes Hos
pital Association was adopted:
Whereas, petition, Of fl property owners eT
ing of Twenty-seventh street, from San
Jose avenue to Valencia street, and where
streets that should be extended to Valen-
cha street, and that there can be no doubt
the board of directors of St. Lukes Hos
as to the value Of the property necessary
for said extension, therefore
Resolved, That further consideration
of this matter will be had by this board
until the property owners and parties IN
terested in the extension of said street
meet, confer and decide to the value
of the property to be acquired for said eX-
tension. and the district to be assessed
therefor and file a report thereon Win
the board.
In order that the number of citizens to
assume charge of the Fourth of July cele-
oration be equally divided and all sections
OF the city represented each member OF
the board was requested to select ana
submit the names of eight citizens from
his ward to the Committee on Finance
and Auditing on or before Tuesday, May
2, 1899. so that the call for meeting may
be made in sufficient time TO allow suit
able preparations for the saIu celebra-
ton.
The subject matter of communication
filed by Fred A. Elliott was referred to
special committee consisting of super
ViSorS Deasy, ByingtOn and Lackmann.
1t submits general outline of the pur-
poses and duties to be SubSerVed and per-
formed in the service Of suitable per
son to be continuously employed as an
examiner and expert of the records and
accounts of the municipal institutions and
departments, and of such officials who
collect fees that are required to be paid
into the city and county treasury or for
which the city and county is accountable.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows
was granted permission to extend ban
ner across Market street at Seventh.
The following order granting the Mar
ket-Street Railway Company permission
to operate street cars over certain streets
by means of electricity was again referred
to the Street Committee. Efforts have
been made to keep the company off Geary
street as far as an electric road is con-
cerned The company declines to build
unless allowed to traverse Geary street.
The resolution reads:
The people OF the city and county of San
Francisco do ordaln as follows: Section l.
Permission is hereby granted to the Mar
ket-street Railway Company to operate by
of electricity, with modern improve
ments and appliances. by such other
means as may be sanctioned by law, all
those certain street railroads within the
city and county of San Francisco for which
said company is now the holder, by as
signment from or successor to the grantees
therein named, of franchises heretofore
granted by the Board of Supervisors of
said city and county upon the following
named streets: Sixth street, from Brannan
to Market, thence across Market street to
Taylor; thence along Taylor street to
Geary.
Geary street, from Taylor street to Grant
avenue.
Montgomery street, from Market to Jack
son; Sansome street, from jackson to Mar
ket; Jackson street, from Montgomery to
Sansome Post street, from Montgomery to
Sansome; Post street, from Market TO
Leavenworth, Leavenworth from Post
across McAllister to City Hall avenue.
City Hall avenue to Grove, Grove to POLK,
Polk to Market, to Tenth, to Bryant.
Proposals were advertised for a fran
chise for an electric line commencing at
Geary street and Grant avenue and con
Meeting with the tracks of the Market
Street Railway Company on Geary street,
and thence along Grant avenue to Bush
street and on Bush street to SansQme
at that point. 1t was referred to the
Street Committee
against the action of the Finance Com
mittee in reducing its bill for March. The
bill called for the sum of $20,996 So, but
$6110 81 was taken therefrom.
PETITIONS REFERRED.
The following petitions were received and
referred to the proper committees: Farson,
Leach & Co. of Chicago requesting to be ad
vised Of the result OF the special election on
the question of the issuance of bonds for the
extension of the park panhandle. in order that
the firm may submit proposition for the pur
chase Of said securities; property-owners, for
the improvement OF that portion Of Alta Plaza
fronting on Steiner street; North Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, requesting information of
the rules and regulations for the opening and
closing of the Fourth street drawbrdge, and
stating that a steamer of that company was
recently detained fourteen hours at that draw;
Commercial Electric COMPANY for permission
to attach a sign to the front of building at IS
Sixth street; Precita Valley Improvement Club,
for an electric light at the corner Of Harrison
and Ripley streets; Stauffer Chemical Com
pany for permission to lay a spur track
North Point street from the Belt road to the
corner of North Point and Dupont streets;
Healy, Tibbitts & Co., calling attention to the
unsafe condition Of the boiler of the engine
that operates. the Fourth-street drawbridge;
Mrs: D. - Shattuck, Tor PERMISSION TO use
portion of Miles place. off California street, be-
tween Stockton and Powell entrance to
her property; Franklin j. Hunt, Tor permission
TO erect three-story dwelling at the corner
of Octavia street and Pacific avenue; John
Greeley, for d license to solicit signatures of
property owners to private contracts for street
work; Hannah Liebes that owners OF the prop
erty on the north line Of Broadway, west Of
Fillmore street, be required to lay a concrete
sidewalk there; Baldwin d Howell, for the
grading and matchmaking Of Stanford Heights
avenue between Corbett avenue and Twenty
seventh street Twenty-seventh street, between
stanford Heights and Stanyan avenues Stan
yam avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Dun
can streets and between Duncan and Twenty
eighth streets Twenty-eighth street, between
avenue between Twenty-eghth and Valley
streets, and the crossings of said streets; Max
frame building on the east side of Larkin
street between Geary and Post; Andrew
Burke.
of the width of the sidewalk by entrance
10 premises at 527 Haight street; G. r. Thomp-
son for permission, on behalf of property-own-
tween Miguel and Natick, by private contract
Peter NJ Hugh. requesting that the Supertn-
tendent of Streets be authorized to sign
private contract with him to remacadanize
twelfth avenue between Clement and Cali
fornia streets in front of a school lot AT tha
rate of so cents per front foot; Carl G. Larsen
for permission TO lay a line of water pine from,
block S46 fronting on Nineteenth avenue along
M street Fifteenth and Sixteenth avenues ana
p street to block SIC and other neiehbo1,ing
blocks jefferson Martenet, requesting the nav
rnent to him of $500 for his services as commits
sioner for the extension of Post street. nron-
erty owners, for the grading, macadamlzfng
and sewering of Crescent avenue between And.
over and san Bruno avenues, and protesting
against the connection of the Holly-street sewer
with the sewer in Crescent avenue: Federation
of Mission Improvement Clubs, requesting that
the Mutual Electric Light Company as we'll
as other companies be granted the privilege
to erect poles outside the fire limits: ] {,
Harvey. for license to solicit street work
Congregation Emanuel, for the paving with
bituminous rock of Eighteenth street between
Dolores and Church streets: Theresa Kurl-
baum, for the construction of a public sewer in
Stevenson street between Ninth and Tenth.
City Street Improvement Company for per
mission on behalf of property owners to pave
with bttumen rock the crossing of Sixteenth and
Church streets; Union Paving and Contracting
Company, for release from contracts to pave
Sixth street between Channel and Hooper and
between Hooper and Irwin streets and cross
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