The San Francisco call., 1910-10-25
CITY HALL TO BE
BUILT in MARKET
Supervisors Accept Whitc0mb
Estate Offer of Site Near
Eighth Street
Bid of Sl,ISS,l50 for S1,l44,-
600 Worth of Bonds Is
Accepted

The city hall will rise in the south
side of Market street between Eighth
and Ninth. The board of supervisors
accepted yesterday the offer of the
whitcomb estate to erect fireproof
reinforced concrete building for the
temporary hall on its 200 foot lot in
this block, and to lease 1t to the city
for three years or more for $3.50 a
month
Eleven SUPERVISORS voted for the To-
cation and five in opposition. OF the
latter Bancroft said he stood for per-
manent city hall at this time lin line
with Supervisor Deasy's position" and
the latter contented himself with stat
ing he was against any temporary
dicker" until the permanent structure
had something done for it.
Supervisors Cutten, Murdoch and
Pugh also voted no." supporting the
offer of the Sharon estate to build in
New Montgomery street south of the
Palace hotel. Attorney Savage of Dorm,
Dorm & Savage made a stout fight for
the Sharon offer, which originally had
been favored by many members. He
argued that the narrowness of the lot.
6S feet, was an advantage as it would
and air and said the location was the
best one.
NHITCOMB OFFER ACCEPTED
Mayor Mccarthy showed his prefer
ence by pointing out that the Whit
comb location would be convenient to
the hall of records, the treasury and
other municipal Offices now opening in
McAllister street.
Chairman Nelson of the building
committee defended the Market street
site. He pointed out that the large lot,
200 by 275 feet, gave ample space for
a ground floor central emergency hos
pital in the rear, a fact which offset
largely the excess of $500 per month
rental as compared with the Sharon
offer
Mclaughlin emphasized the same
thing Hayden eloquently portrayed
the condition of the city about to find
a home at last for it's own offices. A
letter from Harris-now i'll and in a
hospital-was read advocating the
downtown site, and Cutten spoke at
length admitting the reliability of the
Whitcomb proposal, but urging the
prior offer.
The mayor finally got the meeting TO
a vote and the Whitcomb proposition
was adopted by vote of IL to 5.
Attorney, j. F. Williams presented a
third offer of the building on the for
mer site of the Grand opera house in
Mission street near Third at a monthly
rental of SIS 200, but the board stood by
one or the other of the two offers al
ready under consideration.
BID FOR BONDS ACCEPTED
The bid of $1,1ss.15o by n. W. Harris
& Co.. Continental and Commercial
trust and savings bank of Chicago, and
James H Adams & Co. for $1,000,000
worth of the citys per cent school.
hospital and hall of Justice bonds and
$4,000 worth of the 4 " per cent poly
technic high school bonds was unant-
mously accepted by the board. and the
checks of other bidders ordered re-
turned to them.
O'Dowd's ordinance imposing a 500
per day license on circuses was finally
passed. The ordinances concerning the
registration of births, the maintenance
of warehouses, stables, etc, were re-
pealed to make way for revised bills
to be introduced by the board of health.
Supervisor Walsh undertook to sweep
E. Walter away with the statement
that the sample of "battleship lino
leum" presented by him was SO far in
ferior to that upon which the commit
tee had recommended a higher bid that
"a blind man could see the difference.
Walter came back with the state
federal government test, had been ac-
cepted by it and was in use by the city
itself in the Libraries Upon this show
ing the board referred all bids back to
the hospital committee for new consid-
Grafton.
FRESH WATER FOR PRISON
Walsh secured the passage Of a reso-
luton setting aside $4,000 to put fresh
running water into each cell at county
jail No. 2. so that the prisoners might
at all times have good water to drink.
In an hours talk Walsh rode fiercely
at any possible opponents of his hu
name proposal. but the rollcall devel-
oped no opponents to the measure.
Superint endent Dorr of the county
hospital informed the hospital COM
mittee yesterday that if It wanted him
to 'anionize' the institution by en-
ploying dish washers, cooks and bakers
of the trades instead of largely using
inmate help it would have to find the
difference between $500 month and
$40 a month to fill out the payments
to eight able bodied tradesmen instead
of II helpers now doing the work.
The committee made no reply to this
showing. but will probably Insist on
the change, relying on the resource
fulness Of the boards finance commit
tee to bridge things over