The San Francisco call., 1905-01-24
WANTS
LEGAL ADVICE
Would Know if 1t Has Power
to Cancel Yorke Contract
for the Repair of Streets
BONDS ARE NUMBERED
Ordinance Passed Providing
for the Validating of Sc
curities for Improvements

The Board Of Supervisors desires le-
gal advice before taking steps to can
eel the contract Of the T. M. Yorke
Company for repairing bituminous
streets on the ground that the company
refuses to go on with the work. notice
to this effect having been filed by the
Board Of Public Works. The Super
visors yesterday adopted a report from
the Finance Committee in which the
City Attorney Is requested to file an
opinion in answer to these two ques.
tions:
l. Has the Board OF WORKS without specific
authorization OF the Board Of Supervisors. the
power to enter into contract for the general
repair Of streets?
4 Has the Board of Public Works the right
to rescni a contract, providing they had the
power to make a contract for the repair OF
streets upon the failure of the contractor TO
comply with the requirements Of the contraot5
Works Commissioner Aigeltinger sug-
gested that bids be invited and the con-
tract be awarded to some responsible
bidder at a lump sum monthly. The
committee did not regard this plan
with favor and thought that the work
should be paid for according to the
square foot after a new contract had
been awarded, If the plan. is legal.
The board passed to print an ordi-
nance providing for the numbering or
the municipal bonds and validating all
proceedings in connection with the Is
suance thereof The bonds for the sew
eral improvements are numbered from
"one' upwards for each denomination,
there being 28,400 in all.
Mayor Schmitz filed a recommends
ton that the City Attorney be author
lied to appoint fifth assistant City
Attorney at salary of $3.50 per month.
the work of the office having greatly
increased owing to proceedings in the
issuance of bonds. An ordinance ito
that effect was passed to print.
The Board of Works sent a communi-
cation explaining the demands Of the
Union Machine Company for repairs on
the Fourth and Sixth street bridges.
The letter says that in no in
stance has any of these pieces of work
amounted to over $500 and under the
charter no contract for the work was
necessary.
The petition of the Sunset Improve
ment Club that provision be made for
the paving with bitumen or asphalt of
the northerly half of H street, from
First to Seventh avenue and from
, Twentieth avenue TO the Ocean Boule-
ward at cost of $4,000 was referred to
the Finance Committee.
H. H. Taylor filed a statement of
the operations of the Mills building
electric plant, showing the revenue
during 1904 to have been 1897 and the
expenditures $1094 72. The original cost
! of the plant was $4,000 and it's present
value is estimated at $500.
/ The petition of J. B. Seeley that the
distractions on St. Joseph avenue, be-
tween Geary and O'Farrell streets, be
removed as being a nuisance was re-
ferred to the Street Committee.
The Board of Works withdrew it's
recommendation for the construction of
an asphalt pavement on the northerly
portion Of H street, from Seventh to
Twentieth avenue, recommending that
the street be bitpminized at a cost Of
$4,000.
The following ordinances were finally
passed:
Ordering street work on Duboce avenue be-
tween Market and Church streets; Eighth ave-
nue., between / and streets; Fifteenth street.
opposite Sharon; Lily avenue, between Laguna
and Buchanan; Lake street. between Twenty
sixth and Twentyseventh avenues; Wildey
avenue, between Webster and Fillmore; Ash
bury street, opposite Frederick, and on Fair
Oaks street. between Twenty fifth and Twenty
sixth
Expunging from the official map that por-
tion of Shipley street between Elizabeth place
and Rtch street.
Fixing the width of sidewalks on Elm ave-