The San Francisco call., 1905-04-14
WORKS BOARD
ADOPTS BUDGET
Asks Supervisors to Allow
1t $2,172,835 Including
$801, ,408 for Improvements
MANY SALARIES RAISED
Will Increase Wages of JAN
it0rs and Create Several
New Places in Department

The Board Of Public Works yester-
day adopted it's budget estimate for
the next fiscal year. in which the
propriate the sum of s2,172,Ss5 80 for all
purposes. Last year the sum asked was
81, $40, SAL so.
For permanent improvements the
board wants sS01, ,40S so subdivided as
follows:
Sewers-Sixth street, Tehama to Brannan.
$57.UJo: Third street. Market to Mission. 5000.
Work in front Of city property-Paving II
street with asphalt from First 10 Seventh
avenues, lS.50J; macadamizing II street from
Twentieth avenue to Great Highway $4,000;
illuminating Fulton street, First TO Twelfth
avenues. Szl 600: macadamlzing Fulton street.
Twenty-6ith avenue to Great Highway. ST.
500: improving other city property. s5S,545.
Repaving-Commercial street. from Mont
gomery to Kearny; Trinity street. Sutter TO
Bush; Lartsin street. Grove to Fulton; Market
street. Brady to Valencia; Spear street. How
ard to Folsom; Main street, Market to Mis-
sion. Main street, Howard to Folsom; Minna
street. First to Fourth; Tehama street. Fourth
to Fifth. Mission street, Crescent TO silver
avenues; Mission street. Onondaga avenue to
County line, all at an estimated cost of $685.
555.
Public convenience station. Fifth street.
near Market. $40, 600.
Rights OF way for drainage and street pur-
poses-Lake street. Sixteenth avenue to Twen-
| ty-fourth ayenue Lundys lane. from EsIne-
ralda to California avenue; Islais Creek from
Fulton avenue to Southern Pacific Company
right of way; through Rock Ranch. Solomon
Tract and Spring Valley Homestead Chapui-
main sewer. extending from San Jose avenue
| $50, ,00o.
TO BUILD NEW BRIDGE
Paving roadway-Third street. Berry to
Channel tno estimate); completing bridge at
| San Jose and Mount Vernon avenues, Slo'OOO'
widening Seventh street. Townsend 10 FIJI
tseatn S2sgoo rssi Wlasnpg HrSy Sssn $1,000; id
ening Cliff avenue and completing parape1
$1,000; bituminizing Point Loeos avenue De
2so: paving Of Geary street II railroad bed is
to be maintained by city $i4z.s44 sewer IN
Kentucky street. from seventeenth 10 Fouf'h'
SIS. 100
Other estimates are as follows:
Lighting streets and public buildings. $34s.-
157; maintenance and repair OF public build
ings. Including fire and police departments. par
srSIS sonstruction. si4o25: cleaning sewers slOe-
800 repairs to stone Placements. 81, sssgG ,s1v;
for miscellaneous emergencies. $4,000; main
tenance OF drawbridges $4,000; corporation
/ la 600. repairs to bituminous and asphalt
pavenients $50 $40: repairs to streets on water
front s55OC cleaning % I and sR5insnsa ia sorses
3 street-sweeping machines. S2 self-dumping
wagons. Gushing carts; cleaning streets
maps. $1,000: repairs to fire department build
ings. s14. T05; for mechanics permanently en-
police stations. ss95s; repairs to City Hos
pital $50 coo; repairs 10 Almshouse. S1S,5S0
TO RAISE SALARIES.
The estimate contains a large num-
Der of increases in salaries for vari-
Gus officials. The largest increase is
! that of City Architect Shea from $4,000
! to $4,000 per year. Other increases are:
Chief Deputy Donovan. s24oo 70 $1,000: Cash
Messenger Tvrrei. s1oso to 1920: steno-
ssoo to sa q street.
sweeping cowden, s2loo to $500: superintend-
sIstant Bookkeeper John Hannah. $500 to
$500; III 2. si, Gsses, sSrvsror m charge OF
surveyor In charge Of lot surveys. 1890 to
$2100; George Grinnel record clerk. 1920 to
s15oo; A. W. Meyer. clerk. $1,000 to $500
The pay of thirty-four janitors Is to
be raised from a per diem of So so to
$50 per month and that OF field as
sistants in the Engineers office from
$50 to 800.
New positions desired to be created
by the board are Chief Building In
spector, s2400: Superintendent OF Pub
lie Buildings, S2400. The latter posi-
ton was abolished two years ago.
Requests are also made for an extra
clerk in the Engineers office at $500;
two surveyors at $500: one field as
sistant at $1,000: one assistant engineer
at $500; five draughtsmen at $500
each; four additional inspectors at
$500 each.
For maintenance and salaries in the
City Engineers office the sum of
sS7,520 is asked. which amount, how
ever. does not include any provision for
work on public utilities or under the
bond issue. The receipts from fees in
gate $4,000 and those of the Engineers
office, s27, ,500