Evening star., 1932-06-19
PUBLIC ECONOMY
SWEEPS CALIFORNIA
Gold Leaf Ruled Out in Re-
pairing San Francisco's
City Hall Dome.
ypecial DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18.-Public
luxurieS, which were accepted as nor
NAL if not with pride in more happy
times, are coming in for criticism now
by the public, which seemingly doesn't
like to see evidences of official con-
SpicuouS consumption.
San Francisco's City Hall dome,
which James Rolph, jr, as marathon
mayor of the city never failed an op-
portunity to point to with pride as
being higher than the one of the Capt.
tol at Washington, has begun to leak
since Sunny Jim was advanced to the
governorship Of the State. But will the
city replate the famous dome with gold
leaf? The answer is it will not.
Chief Administrative Officer A. c.
Cleary, who occupies a new post almost
equivalent to city business manager,
has directed business judgment at the
problem, and in accordance with the
o. KID an expenditure of just $3.50 to
repair the leaks. New gold leaf would
cost $4,000, which won't be spent at
this time.
Bath Tub Provokes Humor.
A new bath tub in the gubernatorial
suite at Los Angeles has brought out
pOllltOu III lllG DuUuC
prints at the expense of Gov Rolph
Described as an ultra elegant gem of
pure marble, outShining anything in
the city, it is receiving the finishing
touches OF master craftsmen. Though
Its cost is estimated to be in the tens
OF thousands of dollars, bringing the
total cost OF putting in shape the Gov
ernor's official Ciiice and bathing equip
ment at Sacramento, San Francisco
To
ful Governor is quoted as complaining
that the new bath is bit too small and
not nearly as nice as the one he had in
connection with his mayoral suite in
the San Francisco City Hall.
Inc Governor, now ell route home
from the Republican National Conven-
ton by air, is the flyingest Governor
this State, or probably any other COM
monWealth, has ever had. The Legis-
lature a year and a half ago denied
him an official airplane, but that has
not kept him from being in the air
much of the time, flying from Office to
Office and festival to festival Ques-
tionings are coming from a public with
q f1attened purse as to the cost to the
people of all this air travel
Expensive Auto Protested.
San Francisco, under its new charter,
mas new Pubic Utilities Commission,
and the commission has a new auto
MOBILE of expensive make and luxurious
design. A protest against this expense
has come from Adolph Uhl, defeated
candidate for mayor and unofficial
watchdog of the city treasury. Uhl
checks up to see if city officials are at
work on time. protests failure to reduce
taxes and criticiZes with zeal and pub
1icity any large or small extravagances
he can detect in the citys adminstra-
ton. In telegram from his Office to
the city hall Uhl charges extravaganza
and the expenditure of money not on
hand in the purchase OF an expensive
car for infrequent official use.
The public seemingly wants govern
mental departments and officials to get
down to economical expenditure stand
ards And government Offices would be
the opposite of eXtravagant if they got
down to standards reflected by San
Francisco personal property assessment
rolls According to comment at the
county assessors Office, there is hardly
an electric refrigerator or a radio set
Of over one tube in the city, if one can
believe sworn statements to the as
sessor-but the catch there Is that you
can't, 1t is further stated.
Copyright. 1922