The San Francisco call., 1905-04-18
PROFFERS SALT
v ATER TO CITY
Company Makes an Offer to
Supervisors for Purpose
OF Sprinkling the Streets
ASKS FIRE PROTECTION
College District Improve
ment Club Wants En-
CINE on Ashbury Heights

| The Board of Supervisors Yesterday
received an offer from the Merchants
Ice and Cold Storage Company to fur
nish free of charge salt water for
sprinkling the streets. Supervisor Egg
gers presented the communication.
which was referred to the Street Com
mittee. The company states that it is
/ pumping 100000 gallons of salt wa
ter per day, which could be utilized
I Ior sprinkllng purposes and also for
! supplying the street flushing appara-
/ tus. The only expense to the city for
the water would be the nominal one
/ or making the necessary pipe connec-
lions from the plant to the water wag-
ons. The company says it makes the
offer to the city in the interest of
eieaner streets and in view of the fact
that many of them are not being
sprlnkled at the present time.
The claim of Patrick Creighton
for $25,135 for certain street work
done by him in 1868, 1859. 1870 and
1872 was rejected. The courts will
now be called on to decide the valid
| 1ty of the enabling act of the last
Legislature to permit of the collection
OF demands for street work for which
no compensation was received by the
contractors owing to errors and ir-
regularities of the city officials in pro-
ceedings concerning the work
The petition of the Mission Park
Association that Oakwood street be
extended through from Eighteenth to
Nineteenth was referred to the Bud
get Committee. George Walcom,
president of the association. said the
street was worse than any in China
town at present.
The Finance Committee notified the
Health Board that proceedings in the
matter of cleaning Chinatown will
cease from now on with the exception
that two men will be employed to kill
rats.
The Budget Committee will meet
Thursday afternoon to take up the es-
Inmates of the Civil Service, Electric
ity and Health Commissions and on
Friday afternoon to consider the bud
get of the Works and Park commits
siCns.
The petition of property owners
that sewer be constructed from
Burnside avenue, the entrance to
Glen Park, in the ditch that now runs
through the Gum ranch to the South
ern Pacific Railroad culvert, to take
the sewage from the Mission and
Thirtieth street extension, Sunnyside.
Castro-street Addition, Glen Park
terrace, Paramount and a new school
site was referred to the Street Com
mittee.
The petition of the College District
Improvement Association that a fire
engine house be established on Ash
bury Heights was referred to the Bud
get Committee. Reference is made to
the fact that on April 80, 1904, a dis
astrous fire took place on the heights
named, burning ten houses, at a loss
of $4,000, and that 1T takes the Fire
Department ten minutes to reach the
heights.
The City Attorney filed a statement
that he would require S22,100 for
salaries in his office during the next
fiscal year; $2500 for stationery; $15,-
600 for expenses in defense of the
Spring Valley Water Company's litiga-
ton, and $4,000 for miscellaneous ex-
penses.
The following ordinances were
passed:
Authorizing the payment of $500
to John Pforr for a block Of land on
Berkshire street as a site for a pro-
posed new school building.
Providing for the full acceptance
of Sanchez street between Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth; Polk street
between Filbert and Greenwich; Fifth
avenue between California and Glenn
and Page.
Authorizing the purchase and erec-
ton of street signs at cost of $1500.'
Amending the building ordinance
by requiring inclosure walls of class
A brick buildings to be thirteen
inches thick, and providing that fire
escapes and stand pipes shall be gal
vanized to prevent rusting.
Authorizing the payment of 5000 to
H. Duchow and $500 to w. F. Glas-
gov for lands forming part :. of the