The San Francisco call., 1908-11-17
BOARD RECEIVES
ALARM BOX VETO
Mayor Points Out Legal Rea-
sons Which May Effectually
Block Supervisors

Mayor Taylor's veto of the super
Visors ordinance appropriating $500
for the manufacture Of fire alarm boxes
was read to the board at yesterdays s
session and will be acted upon by the
board next week. Over the mayors
verbal protest two weeks ago 16 mem
bers of the board made the appropria-
ton, and Chairman McLeran of the
electricity committee to which the veto
message in due course was referred.
intrnated that its report would be a
recommendatio tion that the board stand
by its guns. Fourteen members can
override the veto, but the mayor in
stanced legal reasons yesterday which,
If confirmed by court, would effect
ually block the boards action.
He held that the charter gave the
electricity board specific power to de-
eide the question ruled upon by the
supervisors and that their action
trenched upon the function of the joint
police and fire commissioners.
The question of local manufacture
and home industry, he said, was not
before the supervisors, the proper body
having decided the service needed the
''Gamewelr' box. On the side of policy
however. he added that the "Gamewel'
was the up TO date box as recognized
by nearly all eastern cities and Euro
pean capitals and that San Francisco
could not afford to cling to a good box
in preference to a perfected one.
The board finally passed the plumbing
ordinance which requires separate con-
nections with the storm and sewage
sewers in downtown buildings; appro-
priated $4,000, over the protests of
Broderick Center and Hooks of the
Mission, to continue evolving a first
class contagion hospital from the
shacks formerly known as the pest
house; set aside $3.50 in payment to
Dillon e. Hubbard, the firm which ex-
ported the bond issue and deferred
action on the various liquor license
bills before it.
Murdock introduced an amendment
which with the general bill, went to
the license committee for report next
Monday. If adopted by the board it
would increase the saloon license next
January to 5000 per annum, on January
/, 1910, to $500 and the following year
to $1,000. The restaurant license is
untouched
Final action appropriating 81 900 to
continue the Hetch Hetchy engineering
surveys and initial action was taken
to set aside $1,000 to enable Engineer
A. NJ. Hunt to ascertain the state of
the underground conduit system of the
electricity department..
The judiciary committees resolution
asking the city attorney to make an
other try al securing a modification of
the gas and water restraining orders,
to prevent the drastic action of shut
ting off supplies where the formally
fixed rate is rendered was adopted.
Attorney Luther Ellxins for Stuart
Middlemas sought to delay the boards
action upon the bill appropriating
$500 to buy property wanted for the
extension of the new hospital site at
Potrero avenue and William Mooser
Joined him in protesting against estab-
fishing a $45 per front foot valuation
for the blocks concerned. Tie board
made the appropriation, however, mem
bers stating other properties would be
considered when their time came.
McLeran introduced an ordinance
regulating the use of street car tenders
and it was referred to the public
utilities committees