The San Francisco call., 1910-09-18
1908 BONDS TO
BE PLACED ON
MARKET MONDAY
Supervisors VIII Invite Bids
Upon 81, 100000 Worth of
Municipal Issue
DepositOrs Holding City Funds
Notified TO Return Is Per
Cent September 80

A call for bids on 100000 worth
- the municipal bond issue of 1908
will be made by the board of super
visors tomorrow. The finance commit
tee will ask for proposals to be sub
. mitted october II for 100000 of the
school bonds, 100000 of the hall of
justice. and 100000 of the hospital
securities
The architects and engineers Offices
Of the department Of works have the
plans and specifications ready for the
above amounts of work and the COM
mission awaits entering into contracts
upon bids until the money is in the
treasury.
City Treasurer McDougald notified
. the 103 depositors holding city funds
10 return 25 per cent of the amounts
loaned upon September so as the mu-
nicipality's trea sure chest is running
low and the new tax money viii not
come in in considerable quantities un-
Ill toward the end of next month. The
amount to be called in exceeds $780,
600 and may be replaced with the
banks on the per cent interest charge
if desired after tax money accumulates.
GEARY ROUTE CONFLICTS
The probable route Of the Geary
street railway in the western section
of Richmond is likely TO interfere with
the extension Of the Ocean Shore rail-
roads privilege TO build along "a
blocks Of c street, according TO Super
visor Loughery, and on account OF the
threatened conflict the supervisor said
he would oppose the granting OF the
petition of President J. Downey Harvey
for I'VE years more time in which to
build
c street is now proposed as the main
avenue for the western end of the city's
line, but the projectors of the road will
in all probability use a long portion
OF il, and in any case they want to
have free hand 10 do so If desirable.
CHARTER AMENDMENTS FAULTY
In the mass of proposed charter
amendments submitted for the peoples
approval or disapproval on November
IS, closer investigation almost daily
unearths provisions or clauses which
viii or may work badly. While many
OF the flaws discovered may not amount
10 much, one In the new plan for mu-
nicipal election has raised discussion
. This is the provision that the voter
may stamp or write the cross oppo-
site the name Of the candidate. II is
pointed out that the liberty TO write"
opens the QoOE LOT. MARKING Dd1OIS,
q corrupted elector being enabled to
use a pencil Of particular color, which
viii reveal the character Of his vote in
the count
The time has passed when changes
may be made in the amendments sub
mitted.
MAIL CARRIERS CAN RIDE
Mail carriers in the discharge of their
duty are entitled to ride free on any
street railway car, and the city has no
power 10 grant a franchise exempting
the company from such condition. This
was the gist of an opinion given the
board OF supervisors yesterday by City
Attorney Long. In the absence of any
mention in the charter, Long said the
state law OF February 27, 1898, was
mandatory upon city and company.
Long advised the police commission
that woman, who, as a sole trader
had obtained liquor license while her
husband, a citizen, was in an insane
asylum. did not forfeit such privilege
by subsequently marrying a noncitizen
resident in this country.
The case in point was that of Mrs
/. Laes. formerly Mrs. Ramon de
Garcia
Expert W. B. Birdsall Of the super
visors' finance committee filed his re-
port as TO the money due the city from
the receipts Of the United Railroads for
1908 yesterday. On the total of $685.
2SS.79 received in fares on the roads
paying percentage. Birdsau reported
that the company owed the city $37,-
0E241.