The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
SOCIETY LOSES
SAILORS HOME
Supervisors Grant Lease
to New Management for
a Term of Five Years
POLES MAY COME DOWN
Ashbury Heights Club Sub
mits Ordinance to Place
All Wires Underground

The Board of Supervisors yesterday
adopted the majority recommendation
of the Police Committee that a five
year lease of the Sailors Home be
granted to the Sailors Protective So
ciety The Ladies' Seamen's Friend
Society, which now conducts the insti-
tuition, had also petitioned for re-
hewal of the lease.
Attorney w. H Brown pleaded for a
renewal of the lease to the Ladies
Seamens Friend Society," which, he
said, had conducted the home for twen-
ty-flye years successfully and had in
vested $4,000 il. improving it. Brown
said the society is nom sectarian and
every denomination is represented on
the board of management with the pos
sible exception of the Catholics
George Connolly, attorney for the
Sailors Protective Society, stated that
the society had been organized for the
purpose of applying for a lease of the
home only after the Seamen's Friend
Society had refused to give representa-
tion on its board of trustees to four
members Of the Catholic denomination.
He said that after the organization was
effected an offer was made to give
1dlHOllCS REPRESENTATION On the DOdru,
but the new society decided to press
its application for the lease. 1t was pro-
posed to give representation to six out
side denominations. the Collector of
the Port and the Mayor of San Fran
cisco on the board of trustees, which,
Connolly assured the Supervisors,
would be non-sectarian.
WANTS LEASE RENEWED.
Supervisor Boxton. chairman of the
Police Committee, urged that the lease
/ be again given 20 the society now hold
ing it, because its management had
been of the best and it had offered rep
resentation to the opposing society on
it's board.
Supervisor Gallagher's motion that
condition be imposed that the man
agement be non sectarian prevailed. as
did also D'Anconas motion that the
board of trustees shall be so constitut-
ed that no single religious denonina-
ton shall be in the majority.
! Brandenstein opposed the resolution
on the ground that it would be an in
justice TO deprive the society now con-.
! Quoting the home of the management
thereof.
The vote on the ordinance granting
the lease to the Sailors Protective So
ciety was:
Ayes-Rraunhart, Comte, DAncona,
/ EiSSerS, GalldSnSr, HOOKS, MCCIelldn-
Payot, Rea, Rock-10.
Noes-Alpers. Bent, Booth. Boxton,
Brandenstein, Lunstedt, Sanderson-7.
Absent-Connor-1.
The officers of the Sailors Protec-
tive Society are: Mrs. Margaret Deane,
president; Mrs. l.. j. White, secre-
tary \ Mrs. A H. Loughborough, treas
Mary NJ. Melliss, Miss Mary Carr,
Miss Mary L. Garety, Mrs. Frank j.
Sullivan. Mrs. Gertrude Marceau, Mrs.
Bertha L. Welch and Mrs. Walter L.
Dean, directors.
The petition of the Hackmen's
Union and the Brotherhood of Team
sters that ordinance No. 1869 be re-
pealed was referred to the Street
Committee.
William Justice, chairman of the
San Diego Board of Supervisors, noti-
fed the board that the annual State
convention of Supervisors will be held
in San Diego on May 8, 1905.
The ordinance awarding the contract
for doing official advertising to the
Post was finally passed.
ASK FOR NEW PARK.
The petition of the Fairmount Dis
trict property owners that the area
bounded by Twenty ninth, Thirtieth,
Noe and Diamond streets be ac-
QulTeQ Dy TIE CITY Iol park PURPOSES
was referred to the Finance Commit
tee
A proposed ordinance regulating re-
inforced concrete construction in
buildings was referred to the Fire
Committee.
The Santa Fe Company was directed
to complete the Nineteenth-street
bridge on its right of way within six
months. Property owners and resi-
dents in the vicinity complained of the
Engineer Nicholson of the company has
pletion.
Special demands for the payment of
the purchase price of lands for the
Golden Gate Park and Preside Ex-
tension were finally passed.
Property owners petitioned that the
appropriation of $4,000 to pave Minna
street from Third to Fourth be ultil-
lied at once.
proposed ordnance submitted by
the Ashbury Heights Improvement
Club restricting and regulating the
erection upon the streets and side
walks of poles carrying wires for
electric current was referred to the
Street Committee. The ordinance pro-
hibits the maintenance of such poles
other than those used for street car
propulsion within thirty-five feet of
any church, dwelling or store The
ordinance is to be in force on July 1,
1907.
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