The San Francisco call., 1904-10-04
RECEIVES FEW
BIDSFOR BONDS
Board Opens Proposals for
Small Portion of Entire
Issue for Improvements
AUTOMOBILE
RATES
Ordinance Fixing Charge at
So Per Hour Is Deferred
for Further Investigation

PC l. VI LAVuA 1C DC1Ol1OO
for Further Investigation
The Board of Supervisors yesterday
received only three bids for the pur-
chase of very small portion of the
bonds about to be issued for
public improvements. Only a portion
of the issue, $4,673, 900 was offered for
sale, the bids being as follows:
State Board Of Examiners bids par and ac-
crued interest on childrens playground bonds
Of $1,000 each
n. J. Platshek. ten school bonds at par of
5000 plus 5o-1O0 of l per cent; five library
bonds at $1,000 plus a premium of y OF 1
per cent; 10 library bonds at $500 plus a
premium Of 40 of 1 per cent
Mannheim -Dibbern Company, $12,010 for
children s. Fairgrounds.
Not one bid was filed for schools,
sewers and hospital, the most inn,
portant of the series. The members
OF the board were surprised at the
paucity Of the bids as but $277, ,010 was
offered out of the issue Of S4,673, 900.
Braunhart thought better prices should
have been offered and more bids pre-
sented. The bids were referred to the
joint committee on finance and util-
tiles which will meet Friday afternoon
to consider them.
From my personal observations"
said Supervisor Payot after the meet
ing, II am of the opinion that the rea-
son why practically no bids were re-
ceived is that financial leaders are
afraid of the money being handled by
the present Board of Works. 1t is to
my mind a rebuke to that body for its
past performances and the scandal
that has attached to some city Of
ficials.
STREET WORK ORDERED.
Bills were finally passed ordering
street work on De Haro, Waller, Hugo,
Jackson, Pacific avenue, Twelfth ave-
nue., Vallejo street, Eleventh avenue,
Duboce avenue, Central avenue, Park
Hill avenue, South Broderick and TIL
den streets; providing for the accept
ance of blocks on Hugo, Noe, Garden,
and Green streets and Duboce avenue,
granting permission to the Associated
Oil Company to lay pipe line from
Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania
street to Townsend street, between
Second and Third.
The ordinance fixing the rate to be
charged for hire of automobiles at 50
for the first hour and 81 for each sue
ceeding half hour was finally passed.
After action had been taken Supervisor
Hooks had the matter recommitted on
the ground that certain automobile
owners desired to be heard. NJ. RoSen-
field, a Stockdealer in an automobile
renting company, stated that the three
automobile companies in this city had
each lost $4,000 or more in the busl-
ness in one year. He said the chauf-
feur of an automobile was paid 81 so
per hour, the entire cost of operating
a machine being SO rs per hour. not
counting depreciation. He said the
rate charged in New York and Chicago
was $4 per quarter. Supervisor Rea
said the License Committee had done
all in it's power to secure information
on the subject, but about all that could
be obtained was that the automobile
companies were losing money. only one
company acknowledging that it had
made any profit. BrandenStein said
the SO rate was mere guess work and
the ordinance should be recommitted
to the Committee on Streets and Lii
cense for investigation as to the cap
ital invested in the business, the net
profit on each machine and other data.
It was so ordered.
Amateur boxing permits were
granted to the San Francisco Club for
October 81 and to the Hayes Valley
Club for October IL.
Grades were ordered changed on
Birch avenue, Stevenson street, near
Tenth.
The width of sidewalks on the north
side of Clay street, between Sansome
and Battery, was fixed at ten feet and
that on the south side at eight feet.
REPAIRS FOR ROOFS.
The proposed ordinance recon-
mended by the Fire Department and
insurance companies requiring roofs
that are damaged 40 per cent from
fire to be repaired with fireproof ma
terial only in a designated district was
re-referred to the Fire Committee to
enable protesting lumber dealers to
be heard in the matter.
The Finance Committee approved
the demands for furnishing forty gall
vanized iron beds to the Fire Depart
ment. The beds cost SO so each and
some question was raised as to the
price in view of the fact that beds
used by the emergency hospitals cost
but $4. 1t was proven that the higher
priced beds are superior to the others.
A resolution was adopted authoriz-
ing the Auditor and Treasurer to seq
regate the taxes for the bond issue
into two funds to be known as bond
redemption fund and bond interest
fund"
The demand of Adolph Rehfeld for
$55S for damages sustained through a
riot of soldiers at the Presidio was
approved. Congress has been memo
rialized to reimburse the city for any
judgments arising out of the riot, but
no action has as yet been taken.
Thomas Prices demand for expert
services in the Leon Soeder murder
case was cut from $50 to $50.
The committee postponed action on
the demands of the F. Nj. Yorke Conf
pany for repairing bitumen pavements
until this afternoon.
VALUE OF CITY PROPERTY.
A resolution was adopted showing
the financial condition of the city to
be as follows:
Value of property of all kinds own
ed by the city. $29.106,0OO State.
city and county moneys on hand in
the city treasury, $1,508,319 05; as
sessed valuation of property, $502.-
892,459; rate of taxation, $1.655; as
sessed value of Central Pacific Rail-
way apportioned to the city, $49,414;
Southern Pacific Company, $11O.40O:
Pullman Company, $1284.
The petition of the Excelsior Home
stead Association that sewer outlet
be built in the Academy tract was re-
ferred to the Street Committee.
The contract for printing from steel
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