The San Francisco call., 1906-11-06
UNITED RAILROADS
AGAIN FAVORED.
Supervisors Grant a Permit
for Line to Connect Kan
sas and Seventh Streets
NO PERCENTAGE PAID

The Board of Supervisors granted an
other favor to the United Railroads
yesterday by passing to print an ordi-
nance allowing the corporation tenn
porary permission to lay tracks on
Sixteenth street and run cars from its
intersection with Kansas street to the
southwesterly line of Seventh street
The purpose of the ordinance is to
provide service for the new wholesale
district between Sixth. Seventh. Irwin
and Yuma streets.
The permission is revocable at the
pleasure of the Board and was granted
on condition that the tracks be laid
level with the streets and operated so
that the use OF the thoroughfsres by
the public will not be interfered with.
No provision, however, has been made
for the payment to the city OF a per-
centage of the gross receipts, as the
charter requires.
The Board finally passed the ordi-
nance regulating the equipment and
operation of street cars with a view
to prevent their overcrowding. The
ordinance prohibits the riding of
passenger on the roof. fender, guard
rail or bumper of a car, but does not
prohibit riding on the steps
Petitions indorsing the proposal to
invite bids for a franchise for a cross
town line to connect Devisadero street
and the Mission district were filed by
the Mission Promotion Association,
Eureka Valley Improvement Associa-
ton. Carl NJ. Warner. pastor of Trim
ity NJ F. Church; P ]. Cummins. rec
tor of Mission Dolores Church; Ger
man General Benevolent Society and
others.
The Board passed an ordinance
granting TO the Parkside Realty Com
pany permission TO lay tracks and run
COZ nn NinafHenth Nd
w streets and Thirty third. Thirty
fifth and Forty sixth avenues and
other streets in the Parkside district
for the purpose of filing in and eNca-
waiting streets and adjoining lands and
for hauling lumber for building pur-
poses.
The Board appropriated $3.50 out of
the surplus fund to meet the increase
in the salaries of seven signal dis
patchers, one foreman of outside con-
struction, three assistant foremen. sew
enteen electrical workers, one inside
foreman. one assistant inside foreman
and eight inside wiremen, all employed
by the department of electricity. The
sum of $4,000 was set aside to pay the
salaries of two additional inside wire
men in the department. s1440 to meet
the increase of $50 monthly in the SAL
aries of nine stewards in the emer-
gency hospitals and $4,000 to increase
the wages of cooks and walters in the
health department to the figures fixed
by the union.
Ordinances We're passed accepting z
designated blocks on Diamond. Castro.
Jersey and Twenty-sixth streets; re-
ducing the width of sidewalks on Dia-
mond street TO fifteen feet and grant
/ ing extensions of time to contractors
for improving Pacific street from
Montgomery avenue to Stockton and
Larkin street from Hayes to McAllister.
The report of Marsden Manson on
the improvements not necessary TO eX-
ecute, including the building of fire
avenues, the lowering of Rincon Hill.
the establishment of an auxiliary fire
system and water front improvements
at an estimated cost of $6.321.5SO was
filed and referred to the joint finance
and utilities committee.