The San Francisco call., 1905-06-13
PETITION
FOR FRANCHISE
Home Telephone Company
Asks Supervisors for Privi-
lege to Install New System
GETS HAULING CONTRACT
A. B. Clute Will Do Teaming
for City, but Must Pay His
Drivers the Union Wages

The Home Telephone Company, by
Mark L. Gerstle, president, filed petit
| ton with the Board of Supervisors yes
terday that it be granted a franchise
! to construct and operate a telephone
system in this city. Accompanying the
| petition is the draft of an ordinance
providing for the sale of the franchise,
which is to run for fifty years. The
| terms and conditions under which the
franchise is to be granted are as fol-
| lows:
| That the company shall within four months
| from the date of the grant commence in good
| faith the work of installing the system.
| That $1,000 600 shall be expended within
| twelve months, So. 600. 900 within twenty-four
months and 81 .o00, 900 within thirty-six months
after the commencement of the work, which Is
to be completed in three years or the franchise
shall be forfeited
That the grantee shall furnish free of charge
to the city 100 telephones; shall pay per
cent of its gross receipts to the city, provided
that no such percentage shall be paid for the
first five years; shall furnish a bond Of $3.50
600 for the Observance OK the conditions OF the
franchise.
That the grantee shall not without the con-
sent of the city sell transfer its property
to any other telephone corporation.
The ordinance provides for the re-
ceiving of sealed bids for the franchise
on a date to be fixed later.
The petition was read by title and
referred to the Public Utilities Commit
tee.
FOR ENGINEERING WORK.
The ordinance appropriating s13,5S7
to pay for the engineering work in
connection with improvements under
the bond issue was finally passed. The
improvements include sewer on Mis-
sion street, from Second to East. Sixth
street and tributaries, Fourth street,
from Howard to Channel, and north OF
park and east of the ocean: the wild
ening and repairing of Mission street,
and the paving of Valencia street, from
Eighteenth to Mission.
The following bills were passed to
print:
Expunging from the official map certain
land known Cienega or Seneca avenue west
erly from San Jose avenue to Tara street.
Changing grades at Dolores and Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth streets, King, Berry
and Second streets.
Ordering the Improvement of Holly Park
and Buena Vista avenue at a cost of $3.50 and
S340o, respectively.
Ordering the grading and macadamizing of
Fulton street from Twenty-ffth to Thirty
fifth avenues.
Ordering street. sidewalk and sewer work
on Holly Park avenue, Buena Vista avenue,
Dolores street between Fifteenth and Seven
teenth, Landers street between Fpuffeenth
and Fifteenth, Howard street between Sey-
enth and Eighth. Seventeenth street between
Sanchez and Noe
lands for the opening of Park Side avenue
from Fulton to McAllister streets.
The following ordinances were nnaiiy
Authorizing the Auditor to appoint a stenog-
rapher and bond clerk s1oo sna the dnfs TO
Accepting blocks Church. Twenty-hfth.
Lake and Scott streets.
Prohibiting riding or driving at rate or
sneed to exceed four miles per hour over the
bridge on Eighteenth street between Iowa and
Minnesota.
Changing the name OF MicHigah avenue "
Ordering street work on Noe street between
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth, Union street
between Buchanan and Webster, kearny
street between Vallejo and Broadway, Lotta
street between Parnassus and Woodward ave-
nues and Ellis street between Devisadero and
Rroderick Mission street southerly from Por-
ter avenue, to cost $4,000.
Granting the American Laundry Company
permit to maintain an engine ana poiier Oh
authorizing an expenditure of $1,000 in pay
ment to Mrs. Julie DINNER for lot aa1oining
the washington School of S273S 90, and
1924 As TO c. de Mamiel for lot adjoining
the Golden Gate School, and OF $l46,5oo to
Mrs Eleanor Martin for lot at the corner of
Hayes street and Van Ness avenue as part OF
the new public library site
AWARDS A CONTRACT.
The contract for the teaming in the
Street Department was awarded to A
r Clute at 81 6S per day for each dou-
ble team, wagon and driver and So 40
for each horse, cart and driver on con-
dition that the minimum union wage OF
50 30 for the driver of a double team
and So for the driver of single
team shall be paid: also that drivers
shall not be lodged in stable premises
and will receive extra pay for driving
on Sundays.
The sum of $3.50 was set aside for en-
gineering work for the sewer in Mis-
sion street, between Amazon street and
Onondaga avenue.
The San Francisco Driving Associa-
ton was granted permit by ordinance
to sell pools on trotting and pacing
races to be held in Ingleside Park on
July next.
The ordinances providing for the
nIacing of license tags or plates on We
hicles and boats and imposing license
on public passenger vehicles were
nassed to print Similar action was
taken on the ordinance imposing PEN
aItv of 25 cents for delinquency in the
payment Of license on trucks and
wagons.