The San Francisco call., 1909-03-02
VAULT HIRED FOR
CITY'S $7,OOO,O 1000
Treasurer Will Move, He Tells
Supervisors, and They
Give Money !.
Board IndOrses Senate Bill Ex-
tending Jurisdiction of
Civil Service

City Treasurer .AicDougald will move.
He said so himself yesterday. 1t came
out at yesterdays meeting of the board
Of supervisors when the resolution was
adopted appropriating $500 a month
more for a large vault IN the basement
OF the California safe deposit and trust
company's building. wherein to store
the s7.O0o0o0 of the city's Joint Gus
tody" fund that various members were
skeptical Of the treasurer's sticktoit-
iveness.
We can't credit his wild statements
said McLeran.
We'll, this is his latest statement.
given at II o'clock today" said the
chair. and authentic"
The auditor. as well as the treasurer.
has expressed his Willingness to ac-
cept Montgomery street quarters, and
both Offices viii be removed thither
about March i5. The original plan of
leaving most Of the city funds in the
city hail vaults under guard was not
satisfactory to either Official each be-
ing responsible for the Joint custody
money, but they assented yesterday TO
the revised arrangement.
AMENDMENT INDORSED
&c, which is designed to place the coun-
" Offices, sheriff, assessor, clerk, cor
oner. recorder and clerks of the JUS
tees courts under the civil service pro-
visions Of the charter, was indorsed
yesterday by the board in a resolution
introduced by Murdock- The amendment
introduced by Senator Lester G. Bur
nett, has already received the indorse-
ment of the civil service commission
and OF the civil service employees as
sOciation.
The authorization to grade and mac
adamize II street between Twentieth
and Forty-ffth avenues, a measure op-
posed by NJ II. de Young and some
other block owners along the 'front.'
age on account of the expense. but
demanded as a necessity by the 5000
householders Of Oceanside.- was passed
10 print. EX-SUpervisor Mccarthy ex-
planned 10 the board that II street
was the only available connection of
Oceanside with the rest of the city,
Ocean avenue having. been closed and
the roundabout route via the Cliff
House road and north of the park in
volving a 500 foot hill Upon this show
ing the plea of the absentee landlords
was disregarded, and the board acted
favorably upon the works boards rec
ommendation.
The petition Of the property owners
that Lake street westward from Eighth
avenue be opened up to Thirty third
avenue and dedicated as a boulevard
was referred 20 the streets committee.
The Crocker estate company. in a
bill passed to print was given the de-
sired 10 year permit TO connect its
proposed private street railway line IN
the Amazon tract with the United Rail-
roads system by Z foot spur in Mis-
sion street at Amazon, none of the
board members opposing the grant.
The sum of s350.000 was set aside
FOR the purchase Of the crematory-a
deferred payment OF $4,000 stil to
be appropriated-in bin passed to
print. the city securing all franchises
and other rights of the sanitary reduc-
ton works as well as its real proper
ties.
The long standing FIRE alarm box
controversy was brought in sight of
ending by the appropriation Of $4,000
TO complete the manufacture Of 50
municipal boxes and $500 for the pur-
chase Of so ''GamewelT' boxes.
TO ATTACK CITY OFFICIALS
A communication was read from the
labor council inviting the mayor, su-
pervisors and other city officials to at
tend a meeting TO be held Thursday
evening, if they desired TO answer
charges of general fncompetency made
by a local attorney. The mayor re-
prayer for an injunction to tie up
the salaries Of the officials in ques-
tion. had been thrown out Of court, and
nobody seemed to take the allegations
Of Daniel O'COnnell much to heart.
The San Mateo county assessors
plea that he couldn't give the city any
statement of the valuation of Spring
Valley properties in the county without
working one of his deputies two or
three days, brought out the state
snent that this official always begged
OF from giving any information about
Spring Valley.
The finance committee was asked to
look into the merits Of the Sunnyside
Improvement clubs request for a
$4,000 budget appropriation to build a
steel bridge over Jarnac street
Theoj judiciary committee was assigned
the petition Of the civic league and the
: West End betterment club. that all
municipal employees, including school
teachers and works board workers, be
required TO live in the county. The
Sutter Street Property Owners asso-
ciation's inquiry why the United Rail-
3 roads did not install the promised orna-
mental poles along that thoroughfare
went TO the streets committee.