The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1900, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1900. 5 ¥ [=Ra RN TORMY SESSION HELD BY COUNTY COMMITTEE Republicans Astounded by Plan fo Qust Chairman Bouvier. Zenas U. Dodge Had a Candidate Slated for the Position, but the Dele- gates Refused to Aid Him. almost unanimously. In order to clinch the matter Mr. Ruef moved to reconsider the vote, and the reconsideration was lost. During the discussion Chairman Alfred Bouvier and Secretary James A. | Wilson tendered their resignations re- spectively, but the committee refused to t h.em The ing resolution rs of the 1 Department have ndered to the people of this city effi- t or adequate reason, their her entirely withheld or re is now due and there y the city their salaries for 4 prospective, d sala: Al ries {s scandalously unjust and ini- cond, that a committee of three be ¥ this body to wait upon the Board the Mayor, the Auditor and < and upon any othe s, and In the nam e ¥ to dema ers of tr btat all and any proceedings premises by sald committee | 1zed to be taken rnment the members meeting, laying particular upon the efforts of Mr. Frank to .an election of officers by secret dis- Adherents of Kelly and Crimmins Gather at Pythian Castle. 1 ly and Crimmins County last evening in Pythian d the following resolu- s | The n was not entertained by | Comm ruled it out of order, [ Castle and adopt dec a it .?) g. Nathan letter above committee | He . At this time the questione affecting of the national administration with o the ion of the islands in the | € KToup are now being freely discussed; In many parts of the to be a pronou: policy of when the p admini =pir stration; Whereas, The advantages accruing to our city o our State by reason of rercial possibilities ar COuRtes policy of the na- edein® e on oy a time when the nal integrity is s e g x, at stake bears a strong mark of disloyalty ot g oo Sl i | smounting almost to treason: and n of a chairman "hereas, It seems fitting that the Republic: sions made o | County Committes Should wive cxorenin bhoan 1ly inferred erred to_as ters of Mr. Frank's t we, the Republican County . r the city and county of San | . dorse heartily, fully and loyally | R e liam McKi of the pres. | - and we do condemn the op- | any citizens to that | le and unworthy of it further | t we pledge ourselves to exert forts tc tion for dele- ntion of such athy and ab was lost by a vot poved to proceed by s carried by D w »pted to make sent officers fled fon prev {th the prese t noble type of McKinley. APPLICANTS FOR THE OFFLCE (F CHIEF OF POLICE ,"Only Three Are in the | Field. nt a a Ameriean cltizenship, | ADVERTISEMENTS. STRIKE! Hundreds of fhousands Are Invo[ved. Trouble in an Important Part of the Or- ganization Aficcts All the Rest—A Per- fectly Harmonious System Essily Thrown Out of Gear. « reached such a ecting a particular ws rest into the | AND HOLBROOK -— accordance with the resolution »d by the new Board of Police Com- ners at its inaugural meeting last Monday all applications for the office of Chief of Police had to be sent in to the secretary of the board by noon yesterday. Three applications were recelved—one from Lieutenant Frederick L. Esola, one fro: Detective Robert Hogan and the third from Charles B. Holbrook, secre- tary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to, Animals. Esola apd Hogan had made no secret of intention to apply for the posi- tion, and Esola is conceded by the know- ones to be a cinch. Holbrook’'s ambi- | tion, however, In that direction was not ed and has caused genulne sur- was on the police force for some resigned about ten years ago to the position of secretary to the for the Prevention of Crueity to ESOLA, HOGAN | m Tis: H L the tablet before you buy, | bewaré of frauds, fmit and substitutes. tions | 2 His chances were generally 1‘(;.» ussed yesterday and they were not considered favorable, but it was thought be might have “something up his sleeve.” Detective lHogan considers his chances OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Price Lists Mailei on Application. bright. He is a man of more than or- dinary intelligence and shrewdness, and has proved that he is also possessed of an analytical mind that seldom errs. | ago. | honor and in good faith. | himself. COAL. COKE AND PIG TRON, J.C WILSON & 0., 22 Dectup Girect * Telephone Maln 1584 FRESH AND SALT MEATS. IAS. BOVES& 0., 8oy, Paizhem, FURS, 4 Kesrny o, v sty upstars. Lates* onest prices. emodeling. J. N LOFSTAD, IRIN FOUNDERS. WESTERN FOUNDRY, }orton & (Hedler, Props., 234 Fremont ! Ejry Description Made to ck PAPER DEALERS. WILLAMETTE ¥CL¥ 4XD PAPER cO., 722 Montgomery st. PRINTING. E.C BUGHES., m oSXRTER STATION AND PRINTER. Telegraptic 252" PARTRIDGE ™ Syeme ASH STEAN COAL, 353 DIAMOND COAL MINING CO., at its GREEN | tVER COLLIERIEE, js the Dest Coal in the Sugrket. Office and Yards—450 Main MINED BY | BLACK was expressed applicants. The Whelan had been and also two at least Stnce Commis- name freely of mentioned of the captains of police. sioner lugfy assumed the dutles of act- ex-Sheriff ing Chief In such a vigorous manner it has been freely remarked that he would be the next Chief, and the fact that he did not send {n an appiication led to many conjectures. The question was generally discussed around the hall as to whether the Com- miseioners are bound by their resolution, or can they ignore it and appoint a Chief outside of the three applicants. Better in- formed people took no stock in the dis- cussion. It i€ conceded that the Commis- sioners will keep their pledge to Mayor Phelan to appoint Esola, and that that is all there is to it. —_— Claims Against Widber Estate. City Attorney Lane yesterday made a report to the Judiclary Committee of the ard of Supervisors relative to the con- dition of the Widber estate. He stated that there was in Edgar Peixotto’s hands the sum of $147 7, to part of which the city has a claim, which can be compro- mised so that it may receive $9 53. He advises that the bills against the Widber MAXWELL ASKS THE COURT FOR REINSTATEMENT Prays That Gorman Be Unseated. PHELAN SHARPLY SR T ACCUSED OF IGNORING SPIRIT OF THE CHARTER. EHLL T The Mayor Responsible for the Com- missions and This Action Is Cal- culated to Force Him to Keep His Promise. e CRITICISED George Maxwell, by his attorney, Gar- ret McEnerney, began action yesterday ageinst the Fire Commissioners for rein- statement as secretary of the Fire De- partment. Mr. McEnerney appeared be- fore the Supreme Court in the afternoon and filed a petition for a writ of mandate, in which he set forth the provisions of the charter covering the matter, and the fur- ther fact that Maxwell had been connect- ed for a long time with the department | and that no charges or allegations to his discredit had ever been made against him. As was stated in The Call some dnys Mr. Maxwell's sult is directed as much against Mayor Phelan as against Commission.. His suit, In fact, more a matter of principle than ssion of a profitable and prem- position, and is intended not so uch to accomplish his own refnstatement | s to force Mayor Phelan to keep an ante- election promise, which he gave up It is well known that the different com- missions appointed have taken the dicta- | tion of the Mayor in the distribution of their patronage, and that they were ap- pointed after they had made express promise to that effect. To these promises the Mayor has held them rigidly, and i1n doing s0 has become responsible for their every act. The truth is, the Mayor, by a judiclous dlstribution of the favors with which the charter endows him, has be- come the whole thing, and an attack upon one of his commissions is an attack upon himself. Mr. Maxwell figured all this when he filed his petition. In it he sets forth that the charter provides that no member of the department may be removed except for incompetency or neglect of duty, and that neither charge has ever been brought against him. Of a consequence, Mr. Ms well, Mr. McEnerney and their friends think it remarkable, to say the least, that Mayor Phelan should be the first person to be brought to account for an infrac- tion of one of the important provisions incorporated in the city's new scheme of government. They express surprise that, in order to accomplish a petty plece of politics, Mr. Phelan should go so far as to be {n the van of the many who it is known will seek to break the charter in order to accomplish similar political tricks. Mr. Maxwell's petition prays for the unseating of Joseph C. Gorman, the Mayor's choice. and the reinstatement of The burden of the complaint is as follows: The petitioner 1s informed and believes, and therefore alleges, that it s claimed by the respondents that they are empowered under the charter to exalt hoiders of minor positions in tbe department, as it existed on January §, at noon, to higher pos tions in the new department; and also right to disrate those hol tions in the old , as pro- ter II of article is_the bounden e Commissioners to Al tment with the cccupying the same or similar places in the department existing at noon of January 8, 1900, under the provisions of March = 25, hereinabove mentioned Wherefore, plaintiff prays for the issuance of a writ of mandate directed to, and re- quiring the respondents, on the receipt thereof, forthwith to rescind thelr resolu- tion appointing Joseph C. Gorman the se retary of said Board of Fire Commissioners, and to adopt a resolution appointing the petitioner to eaid . and to direct the respondents to admit him to sald place and to vermit him to enter upon the duties thereof. The petition was handed to Chief Jus- tice Beatty, but he did not issue a writ last evening PHELAN MAY EXPLAIN. A Banquet at Which Many Mysteries May Be Dispelled. Saturday night Mayor Phelan will ban- quet the newly appointed Commissioners and the heads of all the municipal de- partments, and the affair is belng looked forward to with more than ordinary {n- terest by those who have been fortunate places in said de; enough to receive invitations. By the Mayor’'s intimates it has been quietly “handed out” that his Honor will un- bosom himself and explain many of the mysteries of the late campaign and its resultant fight for the spolls. It Is said that single-handed and alone he will tell just how the Fire Department deal was worked, how he secured the vot- ing strength of that organization and suc- ceeded In carrying it off without paying anything more for it than a bunch of badly broken promises. Also, according to best information, he will recite that athetic piece entitled “How Gavin Mc- Kb Become the Original Dead One; or, How I Got to Be the Whole Thing.™ The Mayor, it is sald, is also going to explain where the Commissioners are go- ing to get off in case he keeps his prom- ise to give each Assembly distriet four positions in the City Hall; and that he will also divulge where he proposes to find the seventy-two positions he has promised. Altogether, the coming banquet prom- ises to be most Interesting, and it wiil doubtless make clear many peculiar oc- currences which to-day are understood by no one save the Mavor himself. ————— TRANSFER OF CITY FUNDS. Auditor Says Charter Provision Will Not Cause a Deficit. Auditor Wells recefved yesterday an opinion from his attorney, General Dick- inson, regarding the section of the char- ter which provides for the transfer to the general fund under the charter of balances of certain funds remain- ing under the consolidation act. The Auditor was fearful for a time that such a course would create a deflcit in the city’s finances before May 1 next. His atlorney advises him that the lan- guage of the charter Is plain in presecrib- ing his duties with regard to transferrin, the balances of all funds except the schod] and three or four minor funds to the gen- eral fund. In order to carry out the letter of the charter the Auditor has placed a lacard in his outer office reading that no emands will be signed until after Janu- ary 18, so that the required transfer of the funds may be made on his books, The Auditor has chang(—d his mind re- garding the prospective deficit in the gen- eral fund which he anticipated from the provision of the charter referred to. Ha says now that the moneys for taxes have been coming in at such a rapld rate that there will be a sufficiency of coln to earry on all departments until the end of the present fiscal year. ———— Moves to Its New Quarters. The Civil Service Commission, which has been occupying temporary quarters in tne basement of - the City Hall, yesterday moved upstairs to the rooms formerly oc- cupled by the Superintendent of Streets’ bookkeeper. At the close of office hours les should be pald and some dis- | yesterday over 1600 applications for labor- posltion made of the Teal estate mow held | ars’ positions were tered, besides an under attachment in this city and Santa | eq number for positions in the classi- County. fled service. DARK LANTER ADOPTED BY THE MAYOR Public Barred of the Programmes Arrange Where Patronage Is Parceled Out to Please the “Pull.” HE affairs of San Francisco are be- ing conducted behind closed doors. Dark lantern sessions from which the public !s excluded and tn which the tax-payers are prohibited from participating are marking the course of the new administration. In its anxiety to let no bit of patronage escape and to deal out the loaves and fishes according to po- litical pull and not on the test of qualifica- tion or eligibility every act of the new government has been programmed at executive sessions where politicians alone have been allowed to make suggestions or offer advice. One of the most alluring ingredlents in the political molasses that Mayor Phelan | spread before the voters with the design of bullding big majorities at the last elec- tlon was the talk that every citizen of the | city would have a volce {n municipal af- | fairs when the new charter went into ef- fect and new San Francisco became a | reality. It is a fact that such is the spirit | of the charter. It is also a fact that the | Mayor and the various commissions ap- | pointed by him and under his control have | willfully violated the principle upon which | the new organic law of the city was con- | structed. . The open meetings of the commissions e el o R R R R R Ry R EeR Ry g--gg R Rt Rt -F 2R 0 -8 58 08 8 820 0 -0"0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 -2-3-F-F-2-F-3-8-3:-F-3-F-3-3-3-3-3-5-3-3-3-8-3 -] Lively Shake-ups in Qur City Government. s Gon c»'oooooomoannnnm}nunnm:nnnaaafim&m:fm:mcmnmufifiunfififlfifififififififlflfiflunanunnfiunfifinn.fiflflflflfifl N METHODS From Meetings Board. d in Secret Sessions, that is being followed by most of Mayor Phelan’s commissions. The possibility of | corruption was so apparent that sections | were inserted in the codes expressly stat- | lni that public bodies must not transact public business at secret sessions. In con- nection with some of the commissions that | have been meeting behind closed doors the | charter provides that their meetings must | be held in public. When the new government was being | organized the Supervisors, with Mayor | Phelan as their leauer, were the first to | adopt dark lantern tactics. A member of | that board is authority for the statement | that the Mayor called the members to- gether, presented his programme and bold- | ly asserted that it must be carried out. Fearing that, if his plans were made pub- lic, the programme might not go through, the edict was issued by mayor Phelan that the newspaper reporters, who were | kept on the outside of the meeting place should be given a version of the proceed- | ings entirely at varlance with what had | y occurred. If the purpose of that | E n was to benefit the city, it is rea- sonable to suppose that the promoters of | it would not have hesitated to take the | public into their confidence. If, on the| contrary, the motives were questionable, | the course that was adopted is easily ex- The Health Board. School Board, Board | of Public Works. Election Commission and Civil Service Commission have all fallen into the secret session habit. appointments have been decided upon and Thelr | have been nothing more than perfunctory | 1 | affairs to ratify the programme of the ex- | ings where politicians have been welcom- ecutive sessions. | ed and the public barred out. The Health The only deductions that can be drawn | Board held such a meeting last Tuesday. eir officlal dutles performed at meet- ] A~ - Vargas, Boys” e EMPORILM =" Famocus g # < Barytone, BV G racn Rute Bazaar Moo oo gquHElICA'S GRANDEST STORE. Mezzaning cert To-Morrow CALIFORNIA'S LARGH Night. Floor. JANUARY SALES Biggest of Ribbon Offerings—*‘Clean-Ups’’ of Dress Goods, Suits and Cloaks, Muslin Underwear, Blankets, Comforters, Sheets, Men’s Shirts, Um-~ brellas, Efe., Etc. The Ribhon Safe is an offering of 14,000 yards (note the quantity, 14,000 yards', of AU-Silk Moire Taffet The color line is complete—no stint of the pinks, creams, blues and blacks that everybody looks for first. The prices for Friday and Saturday only are: No. 5—1 inch wide. .4¢e yard\No. 30— 3% inches wide . No. 12--2 inches wide.. 8@ yard|No. 4)—34 inches wid No. 22— 2§ inches wide 11¢e yard bors. J3e yard 16¢ yard . 50 —4% inches wide........... ;8@ yard The Dress Goods “‘Clean-Up’’ for this week includes hundreds of pieces of this season’s prettiest colored Dress Fabrics—Ilengths from 13 to 6 yards each—regular prices from T5c to 33 per yard—at QM@= third otf regular prices. California Blankets, $4.98 Extra quality, weighing 6} Ibs—a large size 78 inches wide)-—they have been slightly soiled in store dis- play, hence the exceedingly low price for this week. Full Size Sheets, 38c—=1x90 inches—made from an even round-thread unbleached cotton---the mill cost of the material alone is now 45¢ —to-day and Saturday, if quantity lasts, each... 38¢c Leominster $1 Shirts for 55¢—Best $1 White Laundered Shirts made—sizes 14, 143, 163, 17, 174 and 18 only—for dalance of week each Umbrellas, 1-4 Off —Regular prices $1 to $7 each—slightly soiled in various store displays—reduced to clean up this weck. Muslin Wear “‘Clean-Up’”—The semi-annual Muslin Un- derwear and Corset Sales now in progress—goods of superior excellence deeply price-cut to clean up. Here are some hints: Muslin Gowns, hemstitched | Tennis Flannel Gowns.48e | yokes ... 48c | $6.95 White Skirts...$4.26 $L7 Gowns . $1.25 | 5 Corsets for........85¢ Wool Wristlets for. 10e One-Quarter Off Men’s $20 Over- coafts. On Friday and Saturday January ““Clean-Up”’ of Ladies’ Shoes. We place on Sale Frid and Saturday only 171 | The members try to wiggle out of the | from the methods adopted are that the | iniquity of the procedure by asserting that | the dark lantern affair was only a caucus and that the public had no right to be there. Yet it was public business that the board transacted, and if the members fully appreciate that they are only the servants of the people and not the ““whole thing,”” they might be able to see the falsity_of thefr position. The Board of Works is forfeiting public confidence by following the same tactics, | when the charter emphatically declares that all of its meetings must be held in the open. The Election Commission and Civil Service Commission are keeping the people in ignorance of thelr proceedings. | A warm and interesting discussion has been going on in the School Board over the appointment of deputies and the fix- ing of salarfes, but the public has not | been allowed a volce in the squabble, and at the meetings where the programmes have been ratified the subject that savors | of patronage and *“pull” has not been ! mentioned. | Such methods are destroying confidence | and leava the sincerity of the Mayor and | his men open to serious question. officials participating in the star cham. | ber proceedings are doing that of which they are not proud or that they have been forced by the power behind the throne to submit to a programme In violation of | the spirit of the charter and contrary to | public polcy. | Pre-election promises bristled with as- | sertions that politics and “pull” would | perish with the new order of things. The | people had endured both until patience | had ceased to be a virtue and, in the hope that they would have a voice In the man- agement of the city's affairs, they placed the men In control who had spread the most molasses before the ballots were cast. Now the citizens find that they have | jumped from the “pull” frying pan into & redhot political fire. | Some people are unkind enough to say | that San Francisco {s the next thing to a monarchy and that Mr. Phelan is king. | Star chamber meetings, dark lantern ses- slons and_ programme work have added | force to the assertion | A long time ago there were State laws | enacted very wisely prohibiting the course | MORE APPOINTMENTS BY NEW BOARD OF HEALTH POSITION OF CHIEF EMERGENCY SURGEON CREATED. Food Inspection Bureau Re-estab- lished With Five Inspectors—No Conclusion Arrived at Re- garding Quarantine. The work of creating positions and ap- pointing officials to fill them went merrily on last night at a meeting of the Board of Health called especlally for that purpose. All the members of the board were pres- ent with the exception of Dr. McCarthy, and were provided with a typewritten list of those slated for appointment, so that the task of filling the positions was per- formed with such exceeding rapldity that Dr. Willlamson, who presided, declarea one man appointed before the position was created. The little slip caused a sup- pressed tittering among the spectators, and Dr. Willlamson goodnaturedly joined in the laugh after the error had been cor- rected. As was Intimated last Wednesday, the abolishment of the food inspection bureau was only temporary, and five food in- spectors were appointed at a salary of $75 a month each. The position of chief food Inspector was left to be filled at a future meeting. A new position, to be known as chief emergency surgeon, was created to take the place of what was formerl known as police surgeon. He was al- lowed twelve assistants. Following Is a list of the appointments in_the order in which they were made: Teamster, _Almshouse, salary 340 a month, W. Ryan. Commissary at City and County Hospital, salary $125 a month, J. W. Maguire, Assistant plumbin spector, salary $100 a month, W. H. Tobin. Hiret asstatant plumbing inspector, salary $100 a month, James H. Kelly. Second as- sistant plumbing inspector, salary $100 a month, P. Mulligan. Sewer inspector, sal- ary §75 a month, J. Connolly. Chlef emergency surgeon. salary $150 a month, Dr. Edwfn Bunnell. Twelve positions of assistant emergency surgeons at a salary of $100 a_month each. as follows: Dr. Wal- ter M. Thorne, Dr. H. E. Morrison, Dr. L. D. Baclgalup!, Dr. Charles D. McGettigan, Dr. Cecll M. Olmstead, Dr. Harold O. von der Leith, Dr. G. Howard Thompson, Dr. F. R. Dray, Dr. W. R. Dorr, Dr. Frederfck R. Starr, Dr, Victor C. Putnam, Dr. Frank Robinson. Two disinfectors at a salary of §5 a month each, I. L. David and W. H. Duren. Two stewards at the Harbor Hospital, ‘salary $0 a mcnth each, Bert Davis and C. B. Ledbetter. Five food in- | spectors, salary $75 each a month—J. T. | Silvara, 'Captain W. R. Robertson, U. S V.; Edward M. Coffey, Edward Murphy, Joseph Laheny. | Resolutions were introduced by Dr. Hop- | kins providing that owing to the necessity for rigid economy-in the Health Depart- ment the chief emergency surgeon be au- | thorized to place his twelve assistants on | alternate monthly service, so that six only will be employed each month. The resolu- tlons were adopted. After the meeting Dr. Willlamson stated that he had had a consultation with Gov- ernor Gage vesterday morning regarding the discontinuance of the quarantine ser- vice. The Governor stated that he was not conversant with the questions at issue | and requested Dr. Willlamson to confer | with George A. Knight, the attorney of | the dispossessed board serve, at one-quar- ter off.. . $'5 Brown seys—many of them silklined nas and Thi- bets. On Friday and Saturday omly your choice of our entire stock of Boys’ $6 Two- piece Suits for ages 8 to 16 “ 50 years, at one-quarter off. Double-breasted Coat and Knee Pants—Blue Serges. Cheviots, Cassi- meres and Fancy Mixtures, absolutely all wool. One-Quarter Off All Men’s $1.85 Hats. Friday and Saturday only ‘» choice of our \—ls entire line of $1.85 Derby =) and Fedora Hats in black $2.50 for, at one-quarter off our regular| price—for the two days 1. only your choice of the|pairs Ladi big store’s entire line of Kid Lace Shoes, cloth and §20 Overcoats, without re- kid tops, new opera toes |and kid tip: |soles, all sizes, Black, Blue or regularly $2 Ker-|pair, “clean-up price Friday and — Saturday at. throughout Coverts, Whip Cords, _ Vieu-i Groceries-Liguors. CGoffee—The 3ic grade of Emporium Rice—Fancy Japan, 12 Ibs for....500 CGorn Meal- Best Fastern, white or your Port Wine—T years old, regularly Fine Sherry—7 years old, regularly and colors, the grade that you used to pay Wihfskey—Wilson Pure Rye, 8 years s’ Black Viei sewed flexible 5 D 107 pairs Ladies’ Red Felt Romeos, black fur trimmed, wool lined, turned sewed soles, broken sizes /6 to 8 only), regularly $1.45 pair, to close them out Friday and Saturday, ‘clean-up” price. 1.0 N Specials for 2 Days. Mocha and Java, per Ib. ..30¢ yellow, 10-Ib sacks for. 7ec $1.50 gallon, for two days $1.50 gallon, for Friday and Saturday... old, regularly $1.25 gallon, for two days .$1.00 AR AR AR AR AR AR AR AR AR TR AR AR AR AT AR AR AR AR AR R AR AR AR AR AR AR AR AN AR LA AR AL A AR A AR AR R A AR LA AL AR AR AAAAR AR A AR A AR AR AR AR AR A AR AR AR AR AR AR AR AR AR Aad AR aanaa —_——— Police Pension Fund Swelled. One of the Ttalian socleties of this city has the honor of paving Into the police pension fund the first two dollars and a half for special police protection at a ball which they intend to hold Saturday night at Garibaldl Hall. Section 12, chapter 10 of the charter specifies that where a soclety or organization requests a special detall of policemen to attend a icnle, masquerade ball or other social unction it shall deposit with the property | clerk the sum of $2 50 for each policeman detalled. Acting Chief Biggy states that hereafter this provision of the charter will be strictly adhered to. e e AT Save money by buying your blank books, rinting and all office supplies from San- orn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. ¢ —_— e fofoBeRoReR-R:F-R:F-F-F-3-3-3. 5. 5.1 g Lost for thirty-six years > and found three thousand = 2 miles away! Such a queer fod g story! In next Sunday’s Call. g f=R=RcReFeFoRoFoR R -RoF-RuRoF-F ] QUITS JOURNALISM TO SERVE THE CITY aminer of the Civil Service Com- mission has given general satis- faction, and it is the opinion of those THE appointment of Edward F. Moran to the office of chief ex- SEGREGATING PUBLIC WORK. The New Board Will Establish Three Bureaus. | The Board of Public Works was kept busy all day yesterday perfecting plans for the establishment of the three depart- ments under its jurisdiction. These com- prise the bureaus of surveys, construc- tion and public utilities. It was decided to operate the bureau of surveys as has | been the custom in the City Surveyor's | office. The employes in the latter office | will be retained temporarily and the fees will be substantially the same as hereto- Lo petition_from property owners in the | vicinity of San Bruno and Silver avenues | asking for the establishment of grades was considered at length, but action was postponed. X The Civil Service Commission was as- | signed to the quarters formerly occupied by the bookkeeper of the Superintendent of Streets. 3 The board will take Immediate steps to have the walls in the City Hall white- washed and tinted and placed In first class condition. The City Attorney will be asked for his opinion regarding the powers of the hoard l in the purchase of office furniture. There is some doubt as to whether the authority still remains with the Supervisors, as heretofore. Chief Engineer Grunsky visited the Hall of Justice yesterday and states that the work on the bullding as far as it has pro- gressed has been properly done. He thinks that it should be ready for occupancy by February 15 if the work is diligently pros ecuted. —_———— CHARTER BILL UNPAID. Supervisors Requested to Provide Funds With Which to Pay Printers. At the meeting of the Supervisors Print- ing Committee yesterday the contraet for printing 5000 coples of the new charter recently awarded to the Star Press was considered. L. C. Lovey, manager of the Star, stated that the Auditor had no funds with which to pay for printing the charter and requested that some action be taken in the matter. The committes decided to confer with the Mayor on the subject. The clerk was directed to notify all heads of departments to file requisitions for stationery and supplies needed in their offices and to receive bids therefor under ). Consideration of a communication from the Allled Printing Trades Council re- questing that all city printing be awarded to unfon offices privileged to use the | Trades Councll label was postponed until next Tuesday morning. [ == ORORCRTWOR TROWORORARO LOROND NORONON VNN DON'T YOU SLEEP WELL? There is absolutely no reason directly and indirectly interested that no more popular or competent man could bave been selected to fill the place. Mr. Moran, who is a native son of this city, has occupied a prominent position In local journalism since 1883, and by his pronounced abilities and rever falling fairness has won to him- self a host of friends, both in his pre- fession and out. His tastes have led him for the most part along political llnes, and in every movement for bet- ter government and the cleansing of the body politic he has played a con- spicuous part. 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