The San Francisco call., 1910-09-24
o'connen, James E. Dillon and Michael

O'Connell, James E. Dillon and Michael
Casey.
Arrangements have been made for a
field day, an exhibition of the police
and fire departments, races dancing,
band concerts and a tug of war. Invi-
tations will be sent out to all the i'm
provement clubs to attend.
FILLMORE STREET ASSOCIATION
The Fillmore street improvement as
sociation took an active part in secur-
ing the Cough street franchise. The
proposed Cough street line is intended
to relieve the burden of traffic in Fill
more street and provide more rapid
transit through the western addition,
connecting north of Market street with
south of Market street.
This association has taken up the
matter of constructing the road A. j.
Pom, David Livingstone and Charles
Loesch, officers of the club, are the in
corporators of the Cough street railway
company, organized for the purpose of
constructing and operating the Cough
street carline.
HOLLY PARK IMPROVEMENT CLUB
At its last meeting the Holly Park
Improvement club completed arrange
ments for the picnic and reunion to be
held tomorrow afternoon at the Hell
vetia gardens. 1904 Mission street A
literary and musical program will be
presented. Games and races will be
held. The general committee in charge
consists of S. Christal, F. Carson, H.
Weirda, E. c. Erickson, j. Denahy, c.
Bryant and w. Gerran.
CIVIC LEAGUE
The Civic league of Improvement
clubs, at it's regular meeting in the
Merchants Exchange building, Thurs
day evening, had an extended discus
sion upon the report of the executive
committee recommending the indorse-
ment of the harbor bond act of $1,000
600 and the India basin act Of 81 700, 600.
The league indorSed both projects.
The street committee reported that
the board of public works had agreed
to inaugurate system of night street
sweeping to supplement the present
block system. The experiment will be
tried upon a few of the downtown
streets. This has been urged by the
league. Objection was made that the
streets are not swept from Saturday
noon until o'clock Monday morning
Efforts will be made to find a solution
for this condition.
The committee upon the Spring val
ley water plant reported that it had
interviewed members of the board Of
directors of the Spring Valley water
the Spring valley will offer its proper
ties to the city at reasonable price.
The police committee reported that
the police department had issued orders
to captains to abate the automobile
speed nuisance, also the matter of
dripping oil. Efforts will be made to
require that automobiles be provided
with horizontal exhausts instead of
vertical exhausts. The vertical ex-
hausts stir up clouds of dust
The secretary was instructed to write
to the proper authorities to see that
the ordinance respecting the mixing
of mortar on streets be properly en-
forced. The street committee was in
structed to notify the board of public
works of violations of this ordinance.
The committee on public utilities was
instructed to see that the ordinance
requiring wires to be put underground
be enforced. The fire committee re-
ported that 1t had been invited to be
the guest of Chief Murphy, Saturday
afternoon, to inspect the new fire boat
and gas engine at Harrison street
wharf.
The charter amendment committee
reported that the program for the con-
gress of improvement clubs would be
announced in few days.
The committee of inspection, work
ing with the bureau of inspection of
the Merchants association, reported
that contractors are complaining about
the rigid inspection because they did
not anticipate that they would be re-
quired to live up strictly to their speci-
fications. The inspection is in all cases
being upheld by the board of public
works.
The committee on public officials was
instructed to investigate the manner in
which certain justices of the peace
perform their duties.