The San Francisco call., 1906-04-17
GETS CONTRACT 7
FOR C|TYS ROAD
@. E. Loss Company Receives
the Award to Reconstruct
the Geart Street System
FRANCHISE is GRANTED
Amended Ordinance Chang
ing Route of Ocean Shore
Branch Is Finally Passed

The Board Of Supervisors last night
awarded the contract for the recon
struction of the Geary street road as
an underground conduit electric sys-
TEN to be operated by the municipality
to the c. E. Loss Company, the lowest
bidder. for $S47.o0o.
The public utilities committee filed a
report recommending the award of
contract to the Loss Company. which
was adopted.
The board finally passed the amended
ordinance granting the Ocean Shore
Railway Company a franchise for a
term OF fifty years to operate an cleo
trio branch road connecting with It's
main line at Army and Vermont streets
and running along designated streets,
with a terminal at Market and Twelfth
streets.
The amendment as finally passed
changes the original route of the road
from York and Hampshire streets to
Potrero avenue between Twenty-fifth
and Mariposa streets. the two first
named streets being deemed too narrow
for a railroad.
The conditions upon which the fran
chise is granted are incorporated in the
ordinance and have been already pub
lished. The company has already filed
q waiver OF its right granted in the
original ordinance to use York and
Hampshire streets. McGushin was the
only Supervisor to vote against the or
diaance.
The following business was dis
patched
The board accepted a deed to land
donated to the city by the Sharon Es-
tate Company for the opening of Haw-
thorne and Annie streets.
The board ordered artificial stone
sidewalks built on Highland avenue be-
tween Mission street and Holly Park
avenue where not already laid.
Grades were ordered changed on Cal
ifornia street between Seventeenth and
Nineteenth avenues; Pennsylvania ave-
nue. between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets; Waller. Washington. Filbert.
Chestnut, Croke and Cherry streets and
Buena Vista avenue.
Street and sewer work was ordered
on Pacific avenue between Walnut and
Laurel. Third street between Berry and
Channel, Walnut street between CAL
ifornia and Sacramento. Greenwich
street between Larkin and Van Ness
avenue, Vermont street between Six
teenth and Seventeenth and Hayes
street between Ashbury and Clayton.
The ordinance licensing persons who
for hire guide or escort people about
the city was finally passed. Similar ac-
tion was taken on the bill authorizing
the building of a conduit system on
Mission street between Fifth and Sixth
The amended ordinance requiring all
interior work of Glass B buildings to
be metal lathed and plastered was
passed to print.
The sum Of $4,000 was ordered paid to
J. d. Whitney for a lot forming part
Of the Park and Preside extension
The petition of property owners that
a sewer be built in Serpentine Terrace
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets, which was indorsed by the
Health Board, was referred to the
street committee.
A. ]. Merle was granted a permit to
extend the spur track on North Point
street between Jones and Taylor
The petition for the appointment of
Alfred Y. Hall as Fish and Game War
den was referred TO the joint finance
and police committee.
The petitions of the ambulance driv-
ers and stewards of the emergency
hospitals for increases in salaries was
referred TO the finance committee
The Building Trades Council sub
mitted resolutions indorsing the pro-
posed acquisition of municipal water
supply.
A bid for the printing of the delin-
quent tax list was opened from the
Organized Labor Publishing Company
at AZ cents per assessment and re-
ferred TO the printing committee.