The San Francisco call., 1904-04-21
HOLDS MEASURE
TO BE ILLEGAL
Board of Works Refuses to
Grant Permits to Sell
Flowers on the Sidewalks
WILL WIDEN ROADWAY
Improvement of Mission
Street Between Second and
Third Is Recommended

Mrs c. L. Smith, president of the
California Club. appeared before the
Board of Public Works yesterday and
urged that body to grant permits to
sell flowers on the sidewalks desig
mated by the recently enacted ordin
ance establishing free public flower
markets. The board held that the or
dinance is illegal and therefore permits
could not be granted under it, but def
mite action on the matter was post
poned.
The board recommended that Mission
street from Second TO Third, be re-
paired at a cost of s1l.9OO. The esti-
mate is made to include reconstruction
of curbs 10 the official sidewalk width
of fifteen feet, which will result in the
widening of the roadway eight feet.
The petition of employees at the street
sweeping bunkers for an increase of
wages to $50 per month was taken un-
der advisement
The petition of the Laborers' Protec-
tive Union that the city do its own
street sweeping and the sweepers be
paid 81 so per day was referred to the
engineering bureau.
The petition of property owners on
Richland avenue, South avenue and
East Park street that they be allowed
to have their side sewers put in under
contract was taken under advisement.
d. Cotter. a builder, stated that the
work could be done more cheaply in that
way than by the Board Of Works.
which denied the assertion. G. Round
eY intimated that charter amendment
would be submitted to the people to
take the work out of the hands of the
Board of Works.
The Bureau of Engineering complained
of damage being done to the pavement
on New Montgomery street by the
careless handling of oil in transferring
the same from the tank wagons to re-
ceiving tanks, and 1.-THE contractor fur
nishing the oil will be notified to use
care in the matter.
ELECTRIZING OF ROAD.
The Bureau of Engineering filed a re-
port relative to the petition Of the
United Railroads to reconstruct and
electrize its tracks on California street
from Preside avenue to Thirty-second
avenue, thence through private lands
TO the Cliff House.
The report says that the proposed
change is a desirable one and will per-
NIT Of much better service The three
franchises for the entire road. which
expire in 1911, 1929 and 1914 respective
ly. permit of the use of electricity ex-
cept on that portion between Parker
and First avenues and the corporation
expects to secure this right from the
Supervisors. The proposed poles are
wooden, but the Engineering Bureau
says that the poles on California street
from Preside to Parker SDavenues
should be Of iron and modern girder
rails should be used in the track con-
struetiOn. On the outer section, where
but few Improvements have been made,
and where the franchise has but seven
years to run, the wooden poles may
quite properly be used.
The s. Ducas Company donated
piece of land running off Folsom street.
near -Precita avenue, for the purpose of
a street, to be called Bessie avenue.
The City Attorney will be asked for
an opinion as to whether the street
can be dedicated as such.
CHIMNEY A NUISANCE.
The Bureau of Engineering reported
that the chimney of the Sanitary Re
duction Works is inadequate in itself
to carry off fumes and smoke. The
report continues:
$50 long as the garbage is as i'm
perfectly consumed as ii is at present
and no proper attempt is made to Sc
cure a complete combustion of the Of
fensive matter. so long will the Sani-
tary Reduction Works continue TO be
an inexcusabfe nuisance, not only to
neighboring property, but to property
a mile or two away. This state of af-
fairs existing in the center of our city
can and should be remedied"
The Bureau of Engineering recon-
mended that the Standard Oil Com
pany be granted a permit to lay a
six-ineh oil pipe line on Sixteenth
street. but action was postponed until
next Friday
The Bureau of Engineering reported
that the lighting of exit lamps i'm
theaters by Independent circuit of cleo
tricity is preferable to lighting by oil
and equally safe. provided proper safe
guards be employed Should it be de-
cided to use only oil lamps il is recon-
mended that an oil equally as safe as
mineral sperm oil be exacted.
The board recommended that the
width of sidewalks on Devisadero
street between Duboce avenue and
Fourteenth street be fixed at ten feet.
USUAL WEDNESDAY DRILL
BY CAVALRY ON GOLF LINKS