The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1896. CHAIRMAN KING IS HARD TO FIND. Steward Robinson Vainly Sought Him at the City Hall AND THEN AT KIS HOTEL early Always Ran Across Him at the Bar of the New Western. COUNTY HOSPITAL SUPPLIES. Fish That Were Sometimes ' Past” and Meat That Came at Fancy Figures. The Board of Health continued its in- vest on of the County Hospital last evening at the office of Dr. Hart, 114 Pow- ell street. Two witnesses were examined— G Robinson, the steward, and his son, George F. Robinson, who was acting steward for two monthsduring his father’s son testified that his du- | general supervisiom of the department and of the buiid- Every week he makes & requisition of supplies needed for the ir ution and submits it to the Superintendent for ap: rov He then has to take the requisi- n to the Chairman of the Hospital Com- | mittee of the Board .of Supervisors, Joseph King. According to Roblnson he seeks | ng at the City Hall during his supposed ce ho but rarely finds him there. | Generally he has to hunt for King at the latter’s hotel, and more particularly in the | barroom of the hotel. On certain occasions when it was impos- ble to find the Supervisor of the First Ward even in the seclusion of his own bar- room t steward was compelled to ask ers to furnish supplies without a re- iov nd to get the requisition signed er on. Robinson, asa rule, goes with a req tion to thecha mittee a qu 1a visi- | man of the Hospital Com- | it four times a week, but often | e has to go several times a day 1o find ng. The steward admitted that he often lost a great deal of time chasing back and forth between the City Hall and King’s ho d he had very little trouble | bout the shortage in weight or measure of the supplies furnished the hospital. The trouble was with the quality. | The sh furnished the institution was | past.” He had | potatoes that were h occasions the goods nd the dealers s ) age of these sup: | »iies back and forth, of course, made an additivnal expense for the hospital. The quality of beef furnished to the | good, according to the | ct price, however, at which it ied to the hospital was much tbe regular market price. sure he could have bougt tv of meat which was be at 6)4 cents & pound for 4 1 He was positive he could have ed the City from $1500 to $2000 during > past f vear on meat alone, if he had had t ing of it. However, even | if he had wished to do so, he had not the er. 1 buying goods not contracted for he i to go to certain dealers recommended the Hospital Committee. If the Board Health should order him to go to an- other firm who would furnish goods cheaper he would probably be unable to get the goods, us the chairman of the hos- tal committee would refuse to sign the tion and the dealer would not get Then you mean to say,” asked Dr. | Hart, *‘that although an appointee of the | Board of Health you are under the power | of the committee of the Supervisors, and | that the Board of Health has nothing to | do with the matter?’ | +Jt seems to be that way,’’ answered | Robinson. | Young Robinson was asked the same questions as his father and corroborated | Lis statem He recounted a visit he nade to Chairman King with a requisi- | hen the Supervisor delighted the ns in his barroom by declaring he not allow certain supplies to the | Robinson denied that he had atted King on the back on this occasion ood boy, Joe.” conclusion of young Robinson’s the board adjourned to meet week, when more of the hos- 1 employes will be examined. INAIDOF THE CHARTER. Prominent Organizations Ad- dress the Election Com- mission. Resolution Passed Placing the Charter at the Head of the Electoral Ballot. The Merchants’ Association and other prominent organizations, represented by Joseph Britton, president of the Board of Fresholders; Captain William L. Merry, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; 1. J. Truman, president of the Civic Federa- tion; W. G. Doane, director of the Mer- chants’ sociation; F. W. Dohrmaun, prasident of the Merchants' Association, and Richard Freud, secretary of the Merchants’ Association, appeared beiore the Election Commissioners yesterday to urge that the proposed new charter be | given a prominent place on the electoral ballot at the next election. Joseph Britton opened the discussion by stating that at the invitation of the Board of Election Commissioners the committee was present to urge the placing of the in a favorable position upon the ticket. Dohrmann then addressed the ittee for the purpose of showing the sity of placing the words “for thg new charter” or “against the new charter” in such a position upon the ballot that it would not _be overlooked. He then asked the Commissioners whether there was any necessity for discussion of this subject. Commissioner Block offered a resolution | authorizing the Registiar to prepare the ballot o that the charter would appear at the head of the municipal ticket. This resolution gave rise to some discussion in which it became apparent that all me, members of the board were favorable to the resolution, but were not certain that the board had the legal authority to so arrange the ballot. Auditor Broderick stated that he was strongly in favor of haying the position of the charter at the head of the municipal | covered with | recently formed b: | graders to remove it will use the big steam { or 1900 cubic yards a day. | and ready for the builders. | complaining bitterly of the action of the | Gray Bros.’ blue rock. | which they need—we must use the hard | gravel in the streets. ticket, but that there was some question under what election laws the Commis- sioners were operating. It might be nossible that the power resided with the County Clerk. An amendment was offered by Com- missioner Creswell that the Board was favorable to the resolution as submitted by Commissioner Block, provided it had the power. In thisshape the resolution was unanimously adopted by the Com- missioners. | In order to bring the matter to a test as soon as possible, a resolution was offered by Commissioner Creswell that the Board authorize the Registrar to purchase a cer- tain amount of ballot paper from the Secretary of State and proceed to the | arrangement and printing of the ballot. This resolution was also unanimously | adopted by the Commissioners. The subject of appointing election officers for the ensuing election, on No- vember 3, was then discussed. Mr. Dohr- mann, on behalf of the Merchants’ Asso- ciation, presented to the Registrar for the use of the election board, a list of 2000 leading merecantiie houses of this City who employ clerical help. This list comprises the 523 members of of the Merchants’ Association and the leading commercial houses, and will be used by the Kegistrar in sending out a | special circular requesting merchants to | recommend their clerks for_election offi- | cers. Application blanks wiil be sent with each circular, to be properly filled out and returned to the Registrar's office. Mr. Dohrmann explained that the object of the Merchants’ Association was to co- operate harmoniously with the Election Commissioners in securing efficient ana reliable clerks of election. The Merchants’ Association will send a s{\ecinl request to each of these 2000 firms | that tbey comply with the wishes of the | Slection” Commissioners. Active efforts | will also be taken by the association to secure desirable clerks in every precinct of the City at the nextelection with a special view of securing a full and accurate count of the votes polled upon the new charter. A HUGE GRADING JOB. Warren and 0'Malley Have Al most Two Years” Work in Richmond. Residents of the District Have a Com- p'aint Against the Streel Department. For the next two years Richmond I trict will be the scene of extensive grading | operations, and millions of yards of sand will be handled. Besides the old Bay Di: trict racetrack work, Warren & O'Malley have a large tract between Eighth and | Fifteenth avenues and A and C streets. This is a job of about forty blocks and is sandhills, many of them thirty feet higher than the street. Much of it is dry sand, the banks having been y the wind, and the machines known as *‘sand-paddies. | A ‘“sand-paddy’ is not as diminutive or modest a piece of mechanism as one would fancy. On the contrary, it is a monster that eats into a sandhill at the rate of 1800 By a series of | scoops or buckets run by endless sprocket chains the soil is elevated into a hopper, | thence into railroad cars, which run on their tracks around the machine receiving | their load, which is emptied into the cut to be filled. The *‘paddy’’ itself stands on and after it has used up all the sand- | banks within reach it isrolled forward and the cartrack again arranged around it. The whole system is perfect in_the way of utility and practicability, and the work advances rapidly. Warren & O'M steamers at work, one at the sand-dune west of the Odd Feliows’ Cemetery on the | old racetrack and the other on the forty- block job, where it will dig steadily fora year and a half. When it has scooped up | its last bucket of sand a wide strip of high rolling land Iying along the north side of | Golden Gate Park will be leveled down The residents of Richmond District are Street Committee in foisting upon them Not only are the quarries far away, but the small property- owners of the locality at the present time |, find that additional expense & hardship. The people of the district hold that as so | much of that part of the City is ungraded and often streets are mere cuts through sandhills it is not practicable to begin a tem of costly paving. They wish to use | the red rock of which they bave an | unlimited supply at a quarry on Thirtieth avenue for temporary street work. Itis| their intention in the near future to bitu- minize every street in the district, when | | the blue rock will be used as a bed_for the | bitumen. As it is the red rock has a | natural cement which gums the whole | mess, and a thoroughfare paved with this | after being well rolled makes one of the | cheapest and best roadways known. | J. G. Conway, a grader residing in Rich- | mond District, stated yesterday that the people of his locality were going to make | the paving question a living issue thist summer. 2 vl “Many of our streets,’’ said he, ‘“‘are in | a deplorable condition at present, and | what will they be in the wet season? They | have been dug up for sewers, gas ana water mains until they are soft and need paving. But we can't afford to pay 7and | 8 cents a square foot for blue rock, for that is too costi We could have itdone in | our own red rock for 34 cents. Talk about an octopus—I tell you there is no | more unjust and crushing monopoly in | this City than the Gray Brothers and their | blue rock. We have a number of times sent committees to the board for redress and there they always found one of the| Grays ready to fight them. ““Here is another thing of the many evils that affict us. The other day the Btreet Department served notices ordering that the sidewalk along Sixth avenue should be bituminized. Part of the thorough- | fare between Point Lobos avenue and the park not only has no buildings on it, but is flanked by deep, ungraded lots; and, moreover, I bave been at work in sight of that street every day for three weeks, and | I have not seen over twenty people walk- ing by. What the department wants | those sidewalks paved now for is a ques- tion past finding out. | ow if we work out streets at all— blue rock, which is the poorest material that can be put down. It will not pack, and either grinds up into fine dust, to turn to mud in winter, or remains a hard We want the red rock put down now, and when we are able to do costly street work we will bitumin- | ize. The Street Department need not fear | that Richmond District will fail to im- | prove itself in the best manner possible. | We want a square deal, and we will con- tend for it, too.” ! ——————— An Old Case Decided. The United States Court of Appeals affirmed yesterday the decision of the District Court, in the case of The Humboldt Lumber Manu- | facturers’ Association agsinst Olivia Christo- pherson and others. The suit is one of nearly seven years’ standing, and was carried to the Court of Appeals on a mandate to secure a stay of proceedings. The case is now referred back to the District Court for executlon. In 1889 the tug Printer, owned by tie Humboldt company Was towing out 1o sea the schooner Fiaelity. In some way the latter ran foul of the rocks and several lives were lost. Suits were at once instituted against the lumber people by the families of the victims for $54,000 dam- ages. The District Court held that the owners of the tug were only responsible to the value of the vessel, which was appraised at $22,500. A judgment for that amount was accordingly rendered. The Humboldt compauy disclaimed any liability whatever, and asked for the stay of proceedings as already related. alley will soon have two | & : ¢ olonel Taylor also made the following | corner—w | roadway, $8; sidewaiks, $8! SHER & SHEA T0 BUILD THE HALL. The Contract for the New Municipal Building Awarded. END OF THE DEADLOCK. Supervisors Wagner and Benja- min Finally Changed Their Votes. WORK WILL SOON BE BEGUN. The Pesthouse Will Nit Be Located on the Almshouse Tract at Present. The Board of Supervisors settled the question as to who shall be the architect to construct the new municipal building yesterday by giving the plum to Shea & Shea. The board has been in a deadlock for several months past (in fact, ever since the numerous designs for the building were submitted), Shea & Shea beirg one vote short of enough to get the contract, while the nearest rival, W. O. Banks, lacked two votes. Yesterday when the balloting was taken up seven ballots were ast without any result being attained, but on the eighth the change came. It was first in evidence when Supervisor Ben- jamin, who has been an enthusiastic sup- porter of Banks from the first, raised his voice for Shea & Shea, and the choice was assured when Supervisor Wagner deserted Mooser & Mooser, for whom he has voted persistently, and also voted for Shea & | Shea. Later a resolution was adopted instruct- ing the architects to call atonce on the Municipal Buildings Committee of the board with a view to arranging for the im- mediate beginning of work on the structure. The report of A. F. Knorp to the finance committee of the County Hospital build- ings was submitted, showing the struc- tures to be in a generally good condition, but needing some improvements. Among these was a new one-story building for in- fectious diseases. The total estimated cost was $21,278, $14,778 to be for the new building. The report called ‘attention to the fact that since 1872 the total expendi- ture on the hospital buildings had been $175,465 84, Mayor Sutro occupied his chair for the first time since he was granted his vaca- tion two months ago, and was visibly pleased when the Pesthouse ghost that has been troubling bim so long was finally “laid.” When the resolution locating the hos- ital for contagious diseases on the Alms- ouse tract came up its passage was oved. Supervisor King wanted the mat- r laid over for a month, but this measure 1d not carry and the original motion was oSt by one vote. Acting Mayor Taylor's veto of the box- ordinance was read and sent to print. P h ecommendations regarding future box- ing entertainments: In conclusion, permit me to make the sng- gestion that if it isstill the determination of this honorable body to pass order No. 3000, then 1t should be amended in the three fol- lowing particulars: First—Aditer the application is presented to this body, and before action thereon is taken by the committee, the -Fplicstlun should Ve referred to the Chief of Police with direc- tions that he shall, with convenient dispatch, file with such committee his written opinion as to the granting or refusal of such applica- tion, giving his reasons therefor. Second—Each and every contest under such | permit should be limited o five (5, rounds, no round exceeding three (3) minutes in time. Third—Every permit issued b; shall be approved by the Mayor before tinally becomes valid. The matter will come up for a decision next Monday. The long delayed resolution in relation to the fees of the Sheriff's offlce that are not paid into the treasury was finally passed. e STREET !MPROVEMENTS. it Complete Summary of the Present Work on City Thorough- fares. Following 18 a detailed account of the street improvements considered yesterday by the Board of Supervisors: FULL ACCEPTANCES. Market, Sanchez to Noe—Bitumen. ket, Noe to Castro—Bitumen. enteenth, Castro to Diamond—Bitumen. Seventeenth, Diamond to Douglass—Bitumen. Seventeenth and Diamond crossing—RBitumen. Fillmore and Hermann crossing— Basait, Market and Sanclez crossing—Bitumen. SIDEWALKS REDUCTION. Dore, Harrison to Bryant—Establishing at ten feet. Referred back to Street Committee. AWARD OF STREET WORK. Noe and Fifteenth crossing— Bitumen, 1714 cents; City Street Improvement Company. Point Lobos apd Seventh avenues, northeast corner—Water inlet, $68: John Dolan. Point Lobos and Eleventh avenues, northeast er inlet, $62 50; John Dolan. Point Lobos and Twelfth avenues, northeast corner—Water inlet, $85; John Dolan. Ninth avenue, Clement to Point_Lobos—Sewer, 59 cents; manhole, $30; Oity Street Improve- ment Compan: Point Lobos and Ninth avenue, northeast corner ter inlet, $59 90; John Dolan. Union and Steiner, northwest, northeast and southwest corners—Sidewalks, $30; Union Paving and Contracting Company. Union and Plerce, southeast corner—Sidewalks, $30: Union Paving and Contracting Company. Utah and Seventeenth—Sewer, 90 cents; corner, each, $30; manhole, each, $30: 5. L. Lent. Utab, Seventeenth (0 Marij 0sa-—Sewer, 59 cents: manhole, each. $30. City Street Improvement Company - Broderick, Jefferson to Tonquin—Grading, $40; curb, $15; Warren & Malley. Fell. Scott to_Devisadero—Sidewalks, 14 cents; Charles A, Carrilon. Filimore and Fel!, crossing—Bitumen, 18 cents; City Street Improvment Company. i Thirteenth, H 10 I—Grading, 9 cents: George Spencer. NOTICE OF STREET WORK. Haight and Cole—Stone sidewalks, cesspools, ete. Cortiand, Mission to Andover—Plank sidewalks, Church, Market to Fifteenth—Plank sidewalks, Devisadero, Waller to Thirteenth—Stone side- walks. Fell, Buchanan to Webster—RBitumen. Army, Church to Sanchez—Plank sidewalks. Geury, Polk to Van Ness—Stone sidewalks. Julian avenue, Fifteenth to Sixteeuth—Twelve- Inch sewer. s‘.}‘ncnen Twenty-ninth to Army—Plank side- walks. Douglass, Twenty-third to Twenty-fonrth—Plank sidewniks. Twenty-third, Castro to Douglass—Plank side- walks. :lizabeth, Castro to Douglass—Plank sidewalks. Hawthorne, Howard to Folsom—Stone side- walks. Pine, Dupont to Stockton—Stone sidewalks. Jessfe, Third to Fourth—Stone sidewaiks. Minna, First to Second—Stone sidewalks. Howard, Second to Third—stone sidewalks. First, Mission to Howard—Stone sidewalks, Bernice and Thirteenth—Stone sidewalks, Haigbt, Clayton to Cole—Kight-inch sewer. Haizht, Asibury to Masonic—Ten-inch sewer. RESOLUTIONS ORDERING STREET WORK. Pacific and Hyde, northwest corner—Stone side- walk. Sneridan and Nintb, northwest corner—Stone sidewalk. Webster, Golden Gate to McAllister—Stone side- walks. Golden Gate, Fillmore to Steiner—Stone side- walks. Golden Gate, Webster to Fillmore—Stone side- | walks. | Clayton, Waller to Frederick—Nine feet stone | sldewalks. Romaine, Corbett to Douglass—Graaing, etc. Cole, Waller to Frederick—Nine feet sione side- walk Buker, Tonquin to Lewis—Plank sidewalks. Lyon, Jackson to Pacific avenue—Stone side- waiks. Guerrero. Army to Twenty-seventh— Plank side- walks. Polk, Cedar to Geary—Stone sidewalks. Hermann and Laguna—Ten-inch sewer, 14-inch sewer, etc, Cole, Frederick to Carl—Nine feet stone side- walks. WORK. Capitol, Sagamore to Sadowa—Grading, etc. Capitol and Sadowa crossing—Grading, ete. Capitol, Sadowa (0 Broad—Grading. etc. Sadowa, Capitol to Plymouth—G rading, etc. Sagamore, Plymouth 10 Capitol—Grading, etc. Sagamore and Capitol crossing—Grading, etc. Prospect and Esmeralda crossing—rading, 12, 10 and 8 1nch sewer, etc. Prospect, Virginia to Esmeralda—Grading, eic.; 12-inch pipe sewer. Prospect. Virginia to Heyman—Grading, etc., 10-inch sewer. Prospect and Heyman, crossing—Grading, 14, 12 and 10 inch sewers, etc. Prospect, Eugenia to Heyman—Grading, etc., 12-inch sewer, etc. Fugenia and Prospect avenues—Grading, etc.: 12 and 10 inch sewers, etc., granite curbs. Prospect, Eugenia {0 Lizzie—Grading, etc., 8- inch sewer. Prospect and Lizzie avenues, crossing—Grading, etc., S-inch sewer. Prospect. Lizzie to Cortland—Grading, etc., 8- inch sewer, etc. Waller, Mas nic to De Long—10-inch sewer. e to Castro, south side—Stone side- Elizabeth, Noe to <anchez—Stone sidewalks. Twenty-first, Dolores to Church—Stone side- walks, Twenty-second, Church to Chattanooga—Plank sidewalks, Chureb, sidewnlks. wenty-first to Twenty-second—Plank CHANGES OF GRADE. First avenue, south line of Clay—Raised 478 feet. First avenue, feet First avenue. south line of Washington—Raised feet. north line of Clay—Ralsed 7.78 16.32 feet. Kirst avenue, south line of Jackson—Lowered 3.14 feet. First avenue, north line of Jackson—Lowe red 14 feet. First avenue, south line Presidio Reservation— feet. District to be assessed for changes, bounded by the reservation. First avenue, Cheny, Sacramento and Fulton. PETITION REFEREED TO COUNTY ATTORNEY. Ash avenue, Webster to Fillmore—For advice if 1t has been been closed by the court. Fifteenth avenue. M to L streets—To inform board on necessary astion. STREETS DECLARED VOID. Between Harrison and Erysut, in block 328— Survevor not 10 put in on the map. Wheeler Silver avenue tracts— were ever projected through and must not be put on the map. ASSESSMENT CONFIRMED, Eighteenth, Ashbury to easterly termination— FOr Cost of sewer. ASSESSMENT SET ASIDE. Montezuma and Suotwell—Cost of sewer; Super- intendent of Streets directed to make new assess- ment. Serpentine, Lower terrace to Serpentine road— Grading, sewering, etc. Superintendent of Streets 0 make new ussessment; ot 28 exempt from cost of sewer. APPEAL FROM ASSESSME: Sanchez, Seventeenth to Eighteenth— Bitumen; to be heard June 29, at 3 . ¥. OBIECTIONS TO STREET WORK. Octavia, Jackson to Broadway protest to'be hewrd June 29, at 3 . M. BIDS REJECTED. Haight, Strader to Stanyan—Sewer, etc. Ree terred to Street Committee BIDS TO BE READVERTIS California, Walnut to Central avenue—Twelve- 1nch sewer. SPECIAL PERMISSIONS TO PROPERTY-OWNEBS Sacramento, Walnut to Laurel—Bitumen. Pine, Broderick to Baker—Bitumen. Coliingwood, Seventeenth to Elghteenth— Bitumen. Collingwood, Eighteenth to Nineteenth— men. Bitu freenth 1o Sixteenth—Ritumen. Sanchez—Bitumen. Bitumen. , Fifteenth to Sixteenth—Bitumen. Sixteenth to Seventeenth—Bitumen, er to Lyon— Bitumen. Fulton, Bourbou piace. Eddy to £1lis—To retain granite curbs. ONTRACTS REPEALED. Market and Sixteenth—Daniel Kelleher, to con- struct sewer. Church, Eighteenth to Nineteenth—Union Pay- ing and Contracting Company : basalt. Fuiton, Baker Lo Lyon—Jeiferson bitumen PRIVATE CONTRACT. Tvy avenue and Octavia — Superintendent of Strects empowered to contract with Flinn & Treacy to construcs 12-inch sewer, EXTENSIONS GRANTED. o ek, Lombard to Chestnut—Grading, 90 ays. Broderick and Chestnut crossing — Macadam, etc., 60 days. d\\'ebswr, Francisco to Bay—Macadam, etc., 60 a. da TIiroderick, Post to Geary—Paving, etc., 60 days. Dore, Harrison to Bryant—Paving, etc., 60 days. P south, Fourteenth to Fifteenth avenue—Grad: ing, ete., 30 davs. P south and Fourteenth avenue south—Grading. ete., 30 days. ebster and Bay crossing—Macadam, etc., 60 ACCEPTANCES. Grove, Fillmore to Steiner—Basalt. Jones, Green to Unioa—Cobble: Sixteenth, Church to Sanchez—Bitumen. Van Ness avenue, Green to Union—Bitumen, CITY ENGINEER'S “DESCRIPTION" APPROVED. Showing lines and widths. ASSESSMENTS. Walting the Mayor's signature: ‘Wood, Point Lobos to St. Rose’s—! Green and Gough, southwest corner—Sidewal Pacific avenue and Walnut, crossing—Macadami, Maripose, Pennsylvania (o Mississippl—Grading. M street south and Fiiteenth avenue south— Sewer. Signed by the Mayo: Fiteenth avenue, M 1o Raiiroad avenue—Sewer. Laurel, California to Sacramento—Bitumen. Jeing made out: Eighteenth and Conuecticut, corners—Macad- am, elc. Green and Laguna, northeast and northwest cor- ners—Sidewalks. Fifth avenue and Clement, southeast corner— Cesspool, etc. BIDS TO BE OPENED NEXT MONDAY. Central avenue, Haieht to Waller—Sew Pierce, Eliis to O'Farrell, west side—Sidewalgs. Pierce, Golden Gate avenue to Turk, west side— Sidewalk Pierce, Eddy to Ellis, west side—Sidewslks. Toward. Seventeenth to Eighteenth—Sidewalks. Haves, Steiner to Pierce, south side—Sidewalks, Fifih, north from Shipley, southwest side—Side- walks, Freelon, Fourth to Fifth—Bitumen sidewalks. Fillmore, Broadway 0 Valiejo—Sidewalks, ba- salt gutterways, cobbles. M street South, Ninth to Tenth avenues South— Grade, macadam, etc. Brannan, Fourth to Fifth—Bitumen sidewalks. LOWEST BIDS, Thirtcenth avenue South, L to M street South— Grading 27 cents. roadw: plank sidewalks 65 cents, mucadam 3 cents, wer 90 cents, curb 1 0 cents, John Kelsey. % Nessavenue to Franklin—Bitumen, cents, corner Eddy, Van bide rejected. Edidy, Devisadero to Broderick—Basalt 1614 cents, curb 60 cents, City Street Improvement Company. Fifteenth, Guerrero to Dolores—Bltumen 1714 cents, curb 70 cents, Pacific Paving Company. Market, Church to Sanchez—Bitumen = 1734 cents, curb 76 cents, Pacific Paving Company. Market, Valencla' to Church—Bitumen, 1984 cents, curb 75 cents, San Francisco Paving Com- any. P arket and Church, crossing—Bitumen 19 cents, Flinn & Treacy. Prescott, southerly from Vallejo—Sewer, etc., connection $67, manhole $33, . O'Connor. B street, Sixth to Seventh avenue—Grading, 7 910 cents, E. F. Dennison. 15% cents, Berry, Sixth (0 ¢ John it. Morton. Gough, Filbert to Greenwich—Bitumen 1714 cents, curb 78 cents, Pacific Paving Compa ny. Flith and Harrison, south corner—sidewalk $49, Flinn & Treacy PROTESTS OVERRULRD. Clayton, Haight to Waller, Cole, Haight to Waller—Stone sidewalks; pro- test from Baird estate on appeal from property- owners. PROTESTS REFERRED TO STREET COMMITTEE. Lombard, Van Ness (0 Plerce—Property-owners against paving, ete. Twenty-fifth, Guerrero to Church—Property- owners against plank sidewalk. Cortland avenuc, Mission to Andover avenue— Property-owners, plank sidewalks. Twenty-third, Castro to Diamond—Property- owners against plank sidewalks. Do ores, Twenty-fourth L0 Army—Property-own- ers against plank sidewalks. rsey, Dolores to Church—Property-owners against plank sidewalks. Dolores, 1'wenty-fourth to Twenty-fifth—Prop- erty-ownérs against plank sidewalks, Gough, Flibert to Greenwich—Property-owners against paving, ete. 1, Twelith o Thirteenth avenues—Property- owhers against grading. Fell, Buchanan to Webster—Property-owners against paving. Eighteenth, Dolores to Church—Property-owners against bizumen. Church, Eighteenth to Nineteenth—Property- owners against curbing. Van Ness, Green 10 Union—George W. Haight against stone sidewalks. PETITIONS REFERRED TO STREET COMMITTEE. Julian avenue, Fifteenth to Six:eenth—Property- owners Lo retain ar ificinl-stone curbs, A, Elghth to Ninth avenues—J. G. Conroy to arade In frontof lois, Seventeenth, east of Eurel Mrs. Marden to lay stone sidewalk. AT Market, opposite the Kmporium—Wiiliams As- venth—Basalt oL seliana LOANS on watches, jewelry, silve——are, at Uncle Harrly, 15 Grant avenue. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ORDER STREET | First avenue, north line of Washington—Raisea | Properiy-owners’ | Martenet; | San Jose avenne, Ocean View (o Sunnyside— | phaltum Block Paving Company for permission to pave. Jackson, SE, Front—Mrs. F. Verliger, plank sidewalks. Mission, block 48, Fifteenth to Sixteenth—Me- chanics’ Institute to declare there is street. Greenwich, 828—Plank sidewalk. Guerrero, "Thirteenth to Fourteenth—H. G. Vaughan, bitumen by private contract. serry, Sixth to Seventh—Alva B. Clute, basalt by private contract. Bay View Tract—Bay View Land Company, to eliminate from map certain streets. Prospect, C0so to Emeralda—B. Dobson, for sixty days’ extension on grading. Golden Gate avenue, Van Ness avenue—Mer- | chants’ Association for rehearing of order declar- ing boulevards. Serpentine and Serpentine place — Property- owners for regrading. sewering, ete. Twenty-second. Fair Osks to Dolores—J. M. Shotwell, to lay nine feet stone sidewalks. Clipper, Diamond to Douglass—Property-own- ers for examination of work done. Page, Broderick to Baker—John Sroufe, to re- tain plank sidewalks. Union, Frankiin to Gongh—Alva B. Clute, thas Superintendent of Streets make contract with him for paving. Seventeenth, (astro to Donglass—Pro perty- rs, stone sidewalks. Eighteenth. Dolores to Sanchez—A. B. Spreckels, extension In paving. First ayenue and Clement—Williams, Belser & Co., for release from contract on sewer. Scott, Fell (0 Oak—s. J. Allen, for fifteen days' time 10 lay sidewaik. Hickory, Laguna to Buchanan—Charles Calla- han, paving. Wetmore, Clay to Washington—Hiram B. Crock, to plank roadway. Golden Gate avenue—Dairymen’s Union, that orler declaring boulevard be reconsidered. Stanyan, Hayes to Fell—Property-owners for sewer. Stanyan, Haight to Fell—Sewer. Kssex place, off Essex street—Property-owners, to omit from map. Geary street, 1609—S'dewalk. | Jackson and Lagunu—Bertha and M. H. Hecht, t0 lay stone sidewalk, Church, Seventeenth to Eighteenth—Williams, Belser & Co., 10 construct sewer. Golden Gate avenue—Property-owners, asking that order declaring it a houlevard be repealed. | PETITIONS REFERRED TO THE JUDICIARY COM- MITTEE. Sunny Dale Tract—10 omit from the map, ex- cept Sunny Dale avenue. Locust avenue—Through W. A. block 152, from John H. McGinney, to omit from map. | SYREET WORK ~RECOMMENDED BY SURERIN TENDENT OF STREETS. Collingwood, Eighteenth to Nineteenth—Granite curbs, itumen. Collingwood, Nineteenth to Twentieth—Bitumen. Cbattancoga and Twenty-second crossing— Bitumen. Church, Twenty-second to Twenty-third—Plank sidewalks. Filbert, Hyde to Leavenworth—Basalt blocks, etc. Filbert, east of Hyde 20614 feet—Bitumen. Fllbert, from Leavenworth 1o 2064 feet of Hyde—Cobbles. eenwich, 1 Thirteenth, & sourh side. Van Ness, G o avenworth to Hyde—Graded. nchez to Noe—Stone sidewalks on een td Union—Stone sidewalks. York, Twenty-first to Twenty-second—Bitumen. Sacramen:o, Stockion to Powell—Stone side- walks on south side. Green, Poik to Van Ness—Basalt. Halght and Clayton, northerly crossing—12-inch sewer, 10-iuch er, 14-inch sewer, manhole, stone sidewalks, corners, ete. Haight, Clayton to Ashbury—10-inch sewer, | manholes, etc i | Ashbury, Waller to Frederlck—Stone sidewalks. CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE RECOMMENDED BY SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. Market and Noe crossing—Bitumen. FULL ACCEPTANCES KECOMMENDED BY SUPER- INTEN Fell, Clayton to Cole—Bitumen. Fel “ole 1o Shrader—Bitumen, Fell, Shrader to Stanyan—Bitumen. Laurel, Sac ramento to California—Bitumen. Webster, Uak to Page—Bitumen. Fell and Cole intersection—Bitumen. Fell and Shrad er intersection—Bitumen. | PROPOSAL RECOMMENDED TO BE READVERTISED. | jyMlontgomery avenne, Bay to North Point—Grad- | ng, etc EXTENSIONS RECOMMENDED RY TENDENT OF STREETS. | Twenty-second, Mississinpl 1o Pennsylvania— Grading, 120 days. | Twen:y-second, Pennsylvania to Indiana—Grad- | ing, 120 days. Maciposa, Pennsylvania to Indiana—Grading, 120 day Baker, Beach to Tonquin—Grading, 90 days. | Tonauin—Broderick to Bakor—Grading, eic., 80 | days. | “hirteenth and Clement—Sewer, etc., 60 days. | | SUPERIN- | Hayes and Scott crossing—Paving, etc., 60 days. N South, iftecenth to Nineteenth South-—-Grading. eto., 90 day Across Presidio Reservati Scott, Fulton to Grove Scott, Hayes (o Grove. Scott and Grove intersection—Paving, etc. avenues Sewer, 90 days. Street Commiitee Report. Webster, Sutter to Post—In favor of stone side- ks if completed in thirty days. | Union, Scott to Devisadero—Stone sidewalks, In | favor of postponing for six months. Fifth avenue, Point Lobos o A—In favor of | (opping further work. Twenty-first, Hampshire to Potrero avenue—In | tavor of granting permission for 8inch sewer : whole length of block. PETITIONS REPORTED FAVORABLY. | Street contractors (filed May 25) for reconsidera | tion of action prohibiting granting of permits t | property-owners to luy basalt or bitamen, etc | P\Ventiech, Howard to Shotwell—Properiy-ow | ers requesting construction of sewer be deferred. 'wenty-fourth |~ Chattanooga, idewalks. Fiith avenue, Point Lobos to Fulton—Property- owners for cancellation of paving. Mission, Pope to Ottawa—Property-owners for sewer, referred to Superintendent of Streets. | "X, Twelfth to Thirteenth—In favor of grading and referring to Superintendent of Streets. Twenty-second and ChattAn00ZA Crossing—Prop erty owners for bitumen, stone sidewalks, etc. In favor of directing Superiniendent of Streéts to | art paving way. | “Elghteenth and Church crossing — Grade be | raised. 10 Jersey—Stone PROTEST FAVORED. | Bay, Van Ness to Franklin—Property-owners, | paving. PROTESTS REPORTED ADVERSELY. | Tenth avenue. H to I—Grading. | Thir eenth avenue, H to I—Grading. | H. Tenth to Eleventh avenu; | Twenty-second, Dolores to | sidewalks. | | Fell to Fillmore crossing—Paving, etc. | Lombird and Scott crossing—Paving street. | | Formation of district to be assessed for grading | | | Polk, Greenwich to Lombard. Lombard and Devisadero crossing—Paving, PLACED ON FIL Randall, Chenery to Misston—Communication | from Board of Health recommending sewer. Callfornia and Walnut—sewer outiet complaint. Van Ness Lombard to Bay—Grades; recomme | dation from Colonel Kimball, United States army. | | ¥olsom, Thirteenth (o Fourteuth—That grade be allowed to remaio. | | Van Ness, Lombard to Bav—Petition from prop- | erty-owners for opening and gradine Petition of Willlams Asphaltum Company for new section to ocder prescribing rules for paving | | maerial, ec. | Cherry, Washington to Clay—Sewer protest. | Scott, Thirteenth to Waller—Paving protest. Haight, Stanyan to Shrader—Protest of Market- street_ Railway Compuny., Ali persons must be | | given permission free to connect with sewer. BARRED FOR SIX MONTHS, Lombard, Scott to Devisadero—Puving. Lombard, Devisadero to Broderick—Paving. BAZAAR AND TEA To Be Given by Orinda Parlor, Native Daughters. Orinda Parlor No. 56, N. D. G. W., will, next Friday afternoon and evening, give a bazaar and tea at the residence of Mrs. Lena Mills, 1706 Broadway, the proceeds of which will go to what they term the flag fund. Itisthe intention of this par- lor at some future date to purchase an ele- gant silk flag, and by giving the bazaar they expect to_realize a large amount jor | the purpose. In conjunction with it the | Native Daughters haye arranged a mu- seum as a side show with some interesting living pictures, etc., admission to be gained for a small amount. A select programme | will also be rendered during the evening. e SR LR i Mary Lawton’s Property. | C.D. Cushing has applied for letters of ad- | ministration on_the estate of Mary E. Lawton, | who was burned to death on Saturday last. The property is worth about $5000. NEW TO-DAY. 1 Yale Locks 17 AND 19 BEALE STREET. COMPOSITION AND s GRAVEL RODFING. Parafline Paint Co., 118 Battery Street. PHILIP S. FAY, Artificial Stonework, Bituminous Paving Sidewalks, Driveways, Cellars, Etc. . 124 SANSOME STREET, ROOM 2. Yard—S, W, Corner Harrison and Eighth Sireets. NEW TO-DAY. TELEPHONE 1752, CHARLES M. DEPEW PLANING MILL COMPANY. GENERAL MILL WORK, SHIP AND STEAM- BOAT WORK, Planing, Sizing and Resawing. OFFICE AND FACTORY, 229-233 Berrv St, Bet. 4°h and 5th. Box 19, Builders’ Exchange, S. F. JOHN E. MILLAR. THOS. B. SIMPSON. Searchers SIMPSON & MILIAR, Se2E32253 Branch Office, NW. cor. McAllisterand Larkin. 535 CALIFORNIA STREET. Telephone 19 San Francisco crTYy Street Improvement Co. Rooms 11 & 45, Fifth Floor, Hills Building. Telephone dain 5. SACRAMENTO OFFICE: 411 J STREET. ISON, Sec. J. H. MENDELL. U.S.A. COL. Corps of Engineers, (Retired), CONSULTING ENGINEER. PROPRIETORS CONTRACTORS Santa Cruz, Cal., All Kinds of Street and Work, Bridges and King City, Monterey Co., BITUNEN HINES. | REAL ESTATE INVESTORS SHOULD HAVE THEIR TITLES INSURED Before purchasing. Property which does not have a perfect title isa bad investment. A policy of insurance in the CALIFORNIA TITLE INSURANCE AND TRENT COMPANY-- GUARANTEES A PERFECT TITLE, And secures the purchaser against all loss and damages incident to record defects. The Company Lias A paid up cash capital of $250,000 and a cash reserve fund of $25.000. Abstracts Made for the Use of Attorneys. MONEY LOANED ou real esiate at cur Tent rates. This Company has the best abstract plam west of the Rocky Mountatns. OFFICE—MILLS BUILDING- Railway Constraction. Wharyes, Jetties and Sea Walls. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: Timothy Hopkins, g Severance, . Smith. _President “President _Secretary PACIFIC PAVING COMPANY (Incorporated 1887), GENERAL STREET CONTRACTORS. Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo Bitu- minous Rock For Sale in Any Quantity. OFFICE-Rooms 106 _and 108 Phelan Building. Telephone-Main 656. GRAY BROS. Conerete and Art Stone Work. CRUSHED TRAP ROCK ——FOR—— Macadamizing and Concrete. OFFICE--316 MONTGOMERY ST. Telephone Main 5111. A.E. BUCKMAN, 302 Montgomery Street, Room 4, GRADING, SEWERING, MACADAMIZING, BASALT 2nd BITUMINOUS PAVING. TUNNEL, RAILROAD and CONCRETE WORE. OFFICE TELEPHONE ain 991, STABLE, STEINER AND WALLER STS,, Telephone West 14. WARREN & MALLEY, (ONTRACTORS. 232 Montgomery St. Telephone, Main 1202, 212 Ninth Street. “Telephone, South 161 Bay and Laguna Sts. Telephone, Wes: 789. San Bruno Quarry. Telephone, Mission 200, 4 bells. ALIFORNIA ONCRETE OMPANY. Artificial Stone Pavements, Foundations, Celtar Floors, Steps, Garden Walks and Orna= mental Work. 14 POST ST. Telephone Main 110. CUSHING-WETMORE COMPANY. CONCRETE AND ARTIFICIAL STONE. FIRST QUALITY ONLY. | 508 CALIFORNIA ST., ROOM o. JOHN TUTTLE, CONTRACTOR, ENSIGN & McGUFFICK, LUBRICATING OILS, arnishes, Nevada Compound,ete Telephone 5320, P. & B, Barex: - SOLD BY ALL DEALERS. Paints, FIRE PROCFING c:222 G Maaiy &5 ROMAN BRICK S582205 WRRar A ADDING. McBEAN & FKET, C. R. BAGER, President. California Construction E. P. GRAY Secretary. Company CONTRACTORS FOR Street Work, Railroads, Teaming, Macadam and Concrete Rock. Granite Curbing, Cement, Gravel, Etc. Office—404 Seventeenth Street. Barns—533 and 535 Seventeenth Street. Lelephone Mission 188. President and Secretary's Office—659 Market Street, Room 12. Telephone Main 5780. PACIFIC REFINING ARD ROOFING CO. 153 CROCKER BUILDING. Coal Tar, Asphalt, Roofing and Paving Pitch, Roof Paints, Roofing Felt. Felt, Pitch and Gravel Roofs as pnt on by us are the standard roofs for business buildings in the most progressive cities of the lastern States. The quality of our work is unexcelled anywhere. FLINN & TREACY. ART -- STONE -- SIDEWALKS -- AND STREET PAVEMENTS. S01 MONTGOMERY ST. NEW TO-DAY. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE AMERICAN T Tnsurance Company F PHILADELPHIA, IN THE STATE OF Pennsvlvania, on the 31st day of December, A. D. 1895, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sec- tions 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condens:d as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stock, paid up in Cash. $500,000 ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company 55,014 81 Loans on Bond and Mortgage 1,101,254 18 Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company....... 789,916 65 Amount of Loans secured by pledg of Bonds. Stocks, and other mar- ketable securities as collateral 65,200 00 Cash in Company’s Office 11,552 84 Cash in Banks....... 75,383 75 Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans. 524 90 Tnterest due and accrued on Bonds and Mortgages it ia s v 90U N Premiums in due Course of Colie tion. g 91,616 51 Rents d cci 1,105 65 Ground Kents well secu 6,520 00 Total assets. ..$2,409,584 53 LIABILITIES. Adjnsted and unpaid.......... $19,556 07 s in process of Adjustment or in Suspense. - ceeee Losses resisted, including expense: Gross premiums on Fire Risks, run- ning one year or less, $857,- 219 08, reinsurance 50 per cent. Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning more than one year, $890,- 217 11, reinsurance pro rata... Amount reclaimable by the insured oun Perpetual Fire Insurance Commissions wnd Brokerage due and to become aue. 478,609 374,248 41 563,632 13,742 ....$1,600,466 64 17 41 Total labilities. .. INCOME. Net Cash actually recelved for Fire Premiums. ....$1,184,164 07 Received for interest on Bonds and Mortgages ..... e 59,485 06 Received tor Interest an. ends on Bonds, Stocks, and from all other sources. . 41,077 66 Received for net Perpetual Pre- miums... 5192 92 Received from all other sour 8,921 05 Total income. EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Fire Losses (including $206,392 31 losses ot previous years). 8826,672 70 Dividends to Stockholders. 27,500 00 Paid or allowed for Commission oz Brokerage. ... et 213,185 64 Paid for Salaries, fees and other charges for oflicers, clerks, etc... 103,750 00 Paid for State, National and local taxes RS R 32,003 97 All other Payments and Kxpendi- tures... 100,993 06 Total expenditures. ............. $1,304,105 37 Fire Losses incurred during the year.... 790,514 50 RISKS AND PRE- | - MIUMS. | Fire Risks. Net amount of| | Risks written dur-| ing the year...... | $114,709,046 $1,460,028 76 Net amount of Risks expired dur-| ing the year.......| 126,392,100 1,637,228 87 Net amount in| | force December | 31, 1895. ..| 146,568,897 1,847,436 19 OMERY, President. Premiums. THOMAS H. MONT! RICHARD MARIS, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d day of Jatuary, 189 H. F. REARDEN, Notary Public. EDWARD BROWN & SONS, GENERAL AGENTS, 407-9 MONTGOMERY STREET, SAN FRADX STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE SV EA Fire and Life Insurance Company F GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, ON THE 31ST day of December, A. D. 1895, and for the year ending on that duy, as made to the Insurance Com- missioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Po- Iitital Code, condensed &s per blank furnished by the Commissioner. i CAPITAL. Amonnt of Capital Stock, pald up incash... ASSETS. Real estate owned by company...... $742,583 33 Loans on bond and mortgage. . 1,999,944 77 Cash market value of all stocks and ponds owned by compan: ..... 1,607,348 35 Amount of loans secured by pledge of bonds, stocks and other markei- able securities as collateral. 752,553 46 Cash in company’s office. 3,682 32 Cash in banks. 230,666 67 Interest due and acerued on il stocks and loans ... 09,466 78 Premiums in due course of collec- tion ... ... 39,204 62 Bills receivable, not matured, taken for fire and marine risks Due from other companies. 148,692 £3 218,363 73 $5,802,456 88 Total assets.. LIABILITIES, Losses in process of adjustment or | ,in suspense...... . . $93,333 38 Gross premiums on fire risks run-\ ning one vear or less, reinsur- | ance 50 per cent 421,400 58 Gross premiums ol ning more than one year, rein: Surance pro r Liability under life 3 8,818,829 04 Cash dividends remaining unpald. 6,652 80 All other demands against the co pany . ' 228,285 41 Total labilities., INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire premiums.. ...%1,169,325 19 Received for Inter ds on bonds, stocks, loans and from $4,568,451 18 all other ‘sources. . 414,389 85 Received for life miums. 559,947 39 Total income. . -$2,143,662 23 EXPENDITURES, Net amount paid for fire losses. $583,502 59 Dividends to stockholders., 32,000 00 Paid_or allowed for commission or brokerage. ... 315,049 84 Paid for sulaties, fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc. .. All other payments .and expendi- tures... wrea . 157,556 59 1,035,982 67 ,124,001 49 Total expenditures.. . Preminms. RISKS & PREMIUMS.| Fire Risks. Net amount of risks| | written during the| | year ... $363,521,590 81,650,334 51 Net amount of risks| expired during the | | vear.. _.| 171,674,582 X Net amount_in #iroe| 4 potser December 31,1895.| 161.354,996| 421,400 58 T. ED LEVISSON, Vice-President. subscrtbed L QUBERS. Secretary. ubscribed and swora to before me, this 8t of April, 1896. Sheod GUDM. AKERMARK, Notary Public, 'EDWARD BROWN & SONS, GENERAL AGENTS, 407—400 MONTGOMERY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO COSMOPOILITAN, Opposite U. S. Mint, 100 and 102 Fifta st, saa Z¥rancisco, Cal.—The most seleci family hotel ia the city. Board and room, #1, $1 25 and $1 50 pac | @ay, according 10 room. Meals 26c. Rcoms, oJa and ‘l(':r-‘::'. Kree coach &m mnmm DoGal, Look concly besrin; name of the og WOPOLILAL Kool mf FAHKX, Proprieion