Saloons (to remove) — Iso Radmanovlc. 560 Third street, to
remove to 662 Commercial street; John J. Costello. 9 Howard
street, to remove to 234 East street.
Saloons (to purchase and remove) — L,otter & Borck, south-
west corner Twenty-ninth & Sanchez streets, to purchase of
Samuel Eldridge and remove to 124 Ellis street; ,Tohn B.
Rusconi, 1188 Market street, to purchase of James J. Casserly
and remove to 1168 Market street.
Detective .\gency (to open) — Royal R. Harrison, 214 Halght
street.
Detective Agencies (to remove) — Eben F. Armstrong, 1212A
Cole street, to remove to 220 Montgomery street, room 207;
Otto H. Heyneman. 760 Market street, to remove to southwest
corner Fourth and Market streets.
Pawnbroker (to open) — Albert C. Auger. 226 Market street.
Second-hand Dealers (to open) — Mrs. Mary K. Porter, 128
Third street; Henry W. Loveridge. 209 East street.
The Police Commissioners, at a meeting held on the 8th
inst., granted Sergeant Harry Hook an additional leave of
absence of fifteen days from September 1, without pay, and
Policeman William Barion ten days leave in addition to his
annual vacation, without pay.
Albert S. Harlow, Charles M. White, Michael .J. McDonald
and Don V. Darling were appointed regular policemen, sub-
ject to the probationary period of six months provided for in
the Charter.
The appointment of Frank C. Houghton as a regular police-
man at the York Theater, 2885 Twenty-fourth street, was re-
voked. George C. McCarthy was appointed assistant to pa-
trol special policeman Edward P. Barff.
The following action was taken upon petitions for permits:
Retail Liquor Dealers' Petitions Granted — James Gleeson,
to remove from northeast Market and Sanchez streets to north-
west corner of Fifteenth and Sanchez streets; Emanuel Camera,
to remove from 506 Broadway to 614 Pacific street; Martin
Stelling. to purchase of Garvey & Smith, 3310 Mission street,
and remove to southwest corner Larkin and Post streets.
Retail Liquor Dealers' Petitions Refused — Denis McMahon,
to remove from southwest corner Market and Fifth streets
to 1037 Market street; Berendes & Ahlgren, to remove from
188 to 138 East street.
Miscellaneous Permits Granted — B'orman & Knorre, kineto-
scope keepers, 487 Haight street; Andrew J. Kane, detective
agency, 1271 California street; Harry Linden, second-hand
dealer, 389 Fourth street; George Brandt, second-hand dealer,
to remove from 5 to 7 Commercial street; Solomon Schneider,
second-hand dealer. 3106 Grant avenue.
Permits Refused — Emil Cohn, auctioneer, to remove from
614 to 629 Mc.'^llister street; Walter Wright, intelligence offlcc
keeper, at 964 Market street.
CITY GIVES MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITIONS.
The little town of Haven, in Reno County, Kansas, was so
small that there were no moving picture shows and only oc-
casionally would one be given there by a traveling company.
Everyone in the town enjoyed the pictures. No one was willing
to risk his money in building a moving picture house, so all the
business men "chipped" in enough to buy a machine and a
show was started a month ago. It is a great success. The
Ijictures are shown in the town hall every night. An admis-
sion fee is charged to pay the operator and the license on the
films, which are changed twice a week. When the receipts are
larger than the expenses free shows are given until the fund
is exhausted or additional and special films are purchased and
the show is increased and kept going with more pictures until
the fund is used up.
MUNICIPAL CONTROL OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
Kansas City has a Board of Public Welfare, whose duty
is to systematize, classify and administer all the municipal
social service activities. The Board, in its first year of ex-
istence, spent $14.5,000. It administers a Research Bureau,
a Social Service Department, a Recreation Department, a De-
partment for the Homeless and Unemployed, a Municipal Rock
Quarry, a Municipal Farm and a Workhouse. It is making
a careful investigation of housing and working conditions,
based on the belief that justice rather than charity should be
its aim, that the burden of the poor should be borne by the
community as a whole rather than by charitable individuals,
and that all social relief should be scientifically administered.
The Bureau of Municipal Research keeps on record, duly
classified, all the families in Kansas City that receive chari-
table aid of any kind. It also inspects all charity agencies,,
and indorses those which seem to it worthy.
The Bureau's Housing Survey has covered more than one
half of the city slums. Out of 4,933 houses examined,
were condemned as a result of the survey, and in 5 71 per
manent repairs have been ordered, — The Citizen's Bulletin.
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263
IU)ITIXK MATTKKS IlKPOUE PIBK COMMISSIOXEItS.
tliief Miii'iiliy Koi)oi-ts tlie UenssiKnnient and Ti-jiiisfcr of Sev-
eral Members of the Department.
The Fire Commissioners at their meeting last Friday
granted three weelis' leave of absence to Dr. Hugh Lagan, the
department physician and surgeon.
Frank Lottritz, a member of truck company 1, was de-
prived of ten days' pay for having failed to report for duty
on .July 16.
The application of John Fay, captain of engine company 2 2,
for sixty days' leave of absence with pay, owius to illness, was
denied. The department surgeon reported thai Fay is suffering
from chronic eye trouble, which will prevent him doing fire
duty. The matter will be called to the attention of the Pension
Fund Commission.
It was agreed to loan a relief engine to the city of Peta-
luma for a period of four or six weeks.
Report was made that C. .T. Lutz and Henry Donnadieu.
members of truck company 4, had engaged in a fist fi.ght. An
investigation showed that the fight was not sufficiently serious
to warrant the placing of charges against the men. Lutz, at
his own request, will be transferred to another company.
Chief Murphy reported the following transfers and reassign-
ments: W. P. Simmons, from operator battalion No. 4, to
hoseman engine company 29; George Trapp, from hoseman
engine company 29, to hoseman fireboat 2; G. A. O'Reilly, from
hoseman fireboat 2 to engine company 38; M. J. O'Connor,
from hoseman engine 22 to truckman truck 1; H. Wilson, from
truckman truck 1 to hoseman engine 2 2. He also reported the
assignment of Captain Edward Kehoe to engine 4 and Lieu-
tenant .Joseph Woods to chemical 5.
CIXCIXX.ATI TO H.AVE Rl'IKJET EXHIBIT.
Cincinnati is to have a municipal budget exhibit in October.
It is to be held under the direction of the Bureau of Municipal
Research and will be the first budget exhibit of any size out-
side of the City of New York. Several thousand dollurs have
been pledged towards the expense, and the largest available
floor space in the downtown business section has been secured
for exposition purposes. Dr. L. D. Upson of the New York
Hureau of Municipal Research, who has had wide experience
in the jjreparation and management of similar exhibits, has
been secured to work up the affair and direct it.
lUlESDEN ENCOURAGES PRIVATE GARDENS.
For a nominal sum, any citizen of Dresden, Germany, may
rent a i)lat of ground on the edge of town which may be used
to grow vegetables or may be fitted uji as a recreation spot
for his family. Prizes are offered for the best gardens, and
a committee is appointed which sees that general uniformity
of scheme prevails and that summer houses are painted an
acceptnble color.
SUGGESTS EliEVATED ROAD IN GOLDEN GATE f.ARK.
L. H. Hanson, of 11 67 Stanyan street, has petitioned the
Supervisors to provide for an elevated road across Golden
Gate Park, as a part of the Geary Street Railroad. He sug-
gests that the structure could be covered with climbing vines
and made quite ornamental.
CLEVEIi.\ND TO COXDICT MlNICll'.\li DANCES.
To fight the dance hall evil the city of Cleveland, Ohio, is
preparing to conduct municipal dances under the supervision
of city employes. Admission will be three cents. Dance floors
will be put in shelter houses at city parks. Park attaches will
have charge of the tickets and the city will have a floor man-
ager to regulate the dancing and the music.
SlPERVISOltS ACT UPON VARIOUS PETITIONS.
Referred to Fire Committee.
Eiujiiii: (iH(l liuilcr — .1. I{. Ultchie, ut southwest corner Seventh
and Channel streets; San Mateo County Dairy, at 1816 Howard
street.
Boiler — C. C. Moore, for University of California Affiliated
Colleges.
Oii Storage Tank — J. R. Ritchie, at southwest corner of Sev-
enth and Channel streets; Ray Levin, east side of Franklin street,
187 feet west of Jones street.
Garage — Albert R. Rhine, on south side Geary street, 187 feet
west of .lones street; J. H. Cain, at southeast corner Geary street
and Ninth avenue; San Francisco Automobile Company, at 1485
Broadway; W. B. Hanley, at 1639 Oak street.
Refen-ed to Public Healtli C'onimittei'.
Stable — Salvation Army, on south side Clara street, 137 feet
east of Fifth street, for ten borses.
I'etitions Keconuiieuded — Pa.sseii to I'riut,
GarageH — G. E. Marshall, north line of Geary street, 68 feet
9 inches west of Taylor street; Dow & Green, west side of Taylor
street, 62 feet 6 inches north of O'Farrell street.
Oil Storage Tanks — San Mateo Dairy Company, 181G Howard
street, capacity 1500 gallons; Thomas F. Bannan, southeast cor-
ner of Polk and Turk streets, capacity 1500 gallons; J. Warren
Dutton, north side of California .street, 77 feet 6 inches east of
Hyde street, capacity 1500 gallons; Vienna Bakery, 878 Mc.Vllister
street, capacity 1500 gallons; Emma G. Butler, northwest corner
of Fillmore and Post streets, capacity 1500 gallons; E. A. Wasser-
man, east side of Ninth street, 75 feet north of Mission street,
capacity 1500 gallons.
Spur Track — -William L. Murphy, to construct, maintain and
operate a spur track from the tracks of the Western Pacific Com-
pany at Mariposa and Carolina streets, and into property in
Block No. 173, bounded by Mariposa, Seventeenth, De Haro and
Carolina streets; Nathan-Dohrmaun Company, to construct, main-
tain and operate a spur track from the existing spur track of the
Southern Pacific Company in Bluxome street; thence over and
across Bluxome street to the south side of Bluxome street, be-
tween Fifth and Sixth streets.
I'criiiits Grunted — Final I'as.saj^e.
Blasting — Foster-Vogt Company, while grading site for State
Armory building a: southwest corner of Fourteenth and Mission
streets; Dinioud Estate Company, while grading property in
Dimond tract in Visitacion Valley, near county line.
SACR.\MENTO TO KEEP STREETS OPEN TO TRAFFIC.
Ordinances that will place rigid restrictions about street
contractors who have in the past appropriated the use of streets
without regard to the rights of the public, are being prepared
by the City Attorney of Sacramento at the sug.i;estion of the
Commissioner of Streets. One of these ordinances will make
it unlawful for contractors to dump material on the streets
before forty-eight hours preceding the beginning of the work.
Heretofore contractors have piled the streets high with gravel
and rock many days before work was started, thus impeding
traffic. Another ordinance will require contractors who are
mixing cement, concrete or plaster to provide regular mixing
boxes for the purpose. This ordinance will make it unlawful
for contractors to mix the material on loose planks. This care-
less method has resulted in the lime often leaking through the
plank and damaging the asphalt streets.
COMPIi.\INT OF REDUCTION IN C.\R SERVICE.
Complaint has been made to the Supervisors that the
number of cars on the Ellis street and Ocean line has been
reduced and that appeals for relief to the United Railroads
have remained unheeded.
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It publlshtd every Thursday by the Board of Supervliors of the City
and County of San Francisco at City Hall. 12J1 Market street, for the
purpose 9f furnishing information concerning public municipal Im-
preTements and the work of the several municlp&l departments.
Copies can be obtained at the various department headquarters, or
a copy will be milled to any person who will furnish his address te
J. 8. Dunniean, Clerk of the Board »f Supervisors. City Hall. 1231
llarket street. San Francisco, Cal.
All matter Intended for publication should be received not later
than Tuesday noon.
The Recorder Press
Information relating to arrest*, accidents, lost children,
etc., can be obtained by telephoning to Police Headquarters,
Douglas 20
CONCERT XEXT SUNDAY IX BAIiBOA PARK.
Saa Francisco's municipal band will give its fifth concert
next Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. in Balboa Park, at Ocean
and San Jose avenues, opposite the House of Correction. The
improvement clubs in the southern end of the city are taking
an active interest in the affair and it is expected that there
will be a very large attendance. The programme follows:
PROGRAai.
Remarks Supenisor Ralph McLeran
■■The Star-Spangled Banner" Municipal Band
Remarks Supervisor Edward L,. Nolan
Concert.
San Francisco Municipal Band, John A. Keogh, Director.
1. processional March from •■the Queen of Sheba" Gounod
:;. Overture, "Poet and Peasant" Suppe
3. Selection, "The Serenade'^ Herbert
4. Uesciiptive, "'A Hunt in the Black Forest" Voelker
0. Fantasia, "Dream Pictures^ Lumbye
6. Waltz. ■JEstudiantina" Waldteufel
7. Airs Irom "Martha" Flotow
5. Gavotte, ■'Softly, Unawares" Lincke
y. (a) Song, "In Old Madrid" : Trutere
(b> Two-step, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" Ayer
10. March, "Gilmore's Triumphal" Brooks
"America."
The sixth concert will be given on Sunday, August 25, at
2 p. m. in Washington Square, Union and Stockton streets.
28 Mongtemery St.
An alarm of fire can be transmitted by telephone by call-
ing Park 43«1
REGISTRAR PREPARES REVISED STATEMENT.
A revised statement prepared by Registrar Zemansky shows
that 119,927 voters have registered for the primary on Sep-
temper 3, of which number 41,027 are women. The follow-
ing table shows the registration by parties in the various dis-
tricts, together with the number of women voters registered
from each:
Fe- Prog. De- Union
District. males. Rep. Rep. Prog. Dem. Soc. clined. Lab. Prob. Total
21 1.300 4,942 2 3 1,969 559 271 25 12 7.783
22 1,283 2,967 3 1 1,127 356 155 19 5 4,633
23 2 007 4.278 1 1 1,676 662 200 27 6 6,850
24' .. " 2,714 5,356 .. .. 2,018 609 252 24 14 8,273
25 .. 3,316 6,895 4 2 2,282 468 271 26 17 9,965
96 . 5,291 9,715 8 .. 3.004 695 349 21 53 13.845
o^ 4 023 7,200 31 4 2,218 329 221 9 8 10,020
28 3,830 7.161 12 4 1,803 389 244 7 4 9,624
29 ■ ■ ■ 3 295 6.756 2 3 2.495 732 295 22 13 10,318
10 3 394 7.873 6 2 2.619 595 308 21 15 11.439
oi 4 606 8,318 6 8 1,813 229 207 4 12 10,597
S; 4 347 7 920 5 7 2,214 311 222 7 11 10,697
33;:!:;;'.'.'.! 1,081 4.438 4 1 1,127 164 142 6 1 5,883
Totals... 41,027 83,819 84 36 26,365 6,098 3.137 218 170 119,927
DIGEST OF OPINIONS BY CITY' ATTORNEY.
Following is a digest of opinions recently rendered by City
Attorney Long:
To Board of Election Commissioners —
Advising more definitely as to the intent and meaning of
the opinion of the City Attorney of July 26, 1912, relating to
compensation of employees of said Board.
To Auditor —
Advising the validity of the claims of John Galen Howard,
who. though not a resident of the city, was employed as con-
sulting architect of the city and rendered services as such. The
city has the power to engage experts and such experts do not
come within the residence provisions of the Charter.
M'EEItLY REPORT OF BVIIiDING INSPECTION BVREAU.
The Building Inspection Bureau issued 140 permits during
the week ended August 9, as follows: 1 Class "B" building,
6 Class "C" buildings, 51 frame buildings and 82 for altera-
tions to standing structures. The estimated cost of the im-
provements is $543,792.00.
MAKE OFFER FOR SPRING VAI.1.EY PliANX.
On Monday last. Mayor Rolph and the advisory water com-
mittee transmitted an informal offer to the Spring Valley
Water Company to purchase its entire plant for $38,500,000,
with the understanding that the pending litigation between
the city and the corporation be dismissed. The Mayor and
advisory committee, after months of investigation and study,
believe that the offer made is fair and equitable both to the
city and the company.
Should the Spring Valley Water Company act favorably
upon the offer, the matter of purchasing the plant at the
figure named will be submitted to the people for their ap-
proval.
BO.IRD OF PlTJIilC WORKS ACCEPTS STREET WORK.
The following street work has been satisfactorily completed
and accepted by the Board of Public Works:
Curbing and paving westerly half of Treat avenue, between
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets; sewering, curbing and
paving Hancock street, between Sanchez and Noe streets;
sewering Anza street, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth
avenues; sewering Balboa street, between Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth avenues; sewering Cabrillo street, between Thirty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth avenues.
JIAYOR ROIiPH VISITS HETCH HETCHY REGION.
Mayor Rolph, accompanied by City Attorney Long, Con-
sulting Engineer John R. Freeman and several Supervisors,
left for Hatch Hetchy on Monday night to make an inspection
of the city's holdings in the Sierras, with the Army Engi-
neers detailed by Secretary of the Interior Fisher to report
on San Francisco's claims to the mountain water supply.
The party will return on or before Saturday.
FOIRTH OF JULY COJDIITTEE MAKES REPORT.
The Fourth of July Committee, appointed by Mayor Rolph,
after paying all bills incurred, returned to the treasury a
balance of $112.07 remaining out of the appropriation of
$2500 made by the Supervisors for the celebration.
PLACE SMALL VALUE ON LUES OF I'EOPLE.
An attempt at Erie, Penn., to enforce the state law, re-
quiring the placing of fire escapes on large buildings, has de-
veloped an exti-aordinary condition of affairs. The owners of
the buildings object to providing the necessary fire escapes,
not on the ground of cost thereof, but because they say these
means for affording protection to human lives in the event of
fire will mar the beauty of their buildings.
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FIKEMKX WANT DOLBLB PliATOON SYSTEM.
Will Conduct Campaign to Secure Aniendnionts to Charter
Tliat Will Permit of tlie Desired Change Heing Made.
The Fire Commissioners have granted permission to the
members of the Kire Department to conduct a campaign for the
introduction of the double platoon system, with the direct
understanding that the work must be carried out on their own
time. A petition will be circulated to have the following
amendments to the charter placed on the ballots for the No-
V. luber election:
Section 1. Amend Section 10 of Chapter I of Ailicle IX
to read as follows:
Sec. 10. Kach period of twenty-four hours shall be divided
into two watches, as follows: A day watch from 8 o'clock
a. m. lo C i)"cloi-k p. m., and a nlsht watch from 6 o'clock
p. ni. to 8 o'clock a. m. Officers and members shall change
watch at intervals of one week. No officer or member of the
Fire Department shall be required to remain on duty for two
watches consecutively, provided that, should a tire occur or
be in progress at the time of changing watch, both watches
shall remain on duty while their company is in service at
such fire. Between the hours of 8 o'clock p. m. and 6 o'clock
a. m. not more than two members at one time shall be re-
quired to keep house watch on the apparatus floor of each
tire house, and otiier members on duty shall be allowed to
retire in the dormitory.
Section 2. Amend Section 1 of Chapter IV of Article IX
to read as follows:
Sec. 1. Each steam fire engine company shall be composed
of one captain, two lieutenants, two engineers, two drivers
and seven hosemen.
Each truck company shall be composed of one captain, two
lieutenants, two drivers and eleven truckmen.
Each combination chemical company shall be composed of
one captain, two lieutenants, two drivers and five hosemen.
Each chemical company shall be composed of one captain,
one lieutenant, two drivers and two hosemen.
Each water tower company shall be composed of one
captain, one lieutenant, two drivers and two hosemen.
Each fire boat company shall be composed of one captain,
two lieutenants, two pilots, four engineers, four firemen and
thliteen hosemen.
Each monitor battery shall have two drivers.
Section 3. Amend Chapter IV of Article IX by adding
thereto a new section to be known as section two thereof
and to read as follows:
Sec. 2. In addition to the companies provided for in section
one of this chapter, the Board of Fire Commissioners shall
establisn an luiassigned list to which shall be appointed from
the eligible list of firemen as many members as in the judg-
ment of the Commissioners may be advisable, not exceed one
for every seven regular officers and members. Members on
the unassigned list shall be detailed by the chief engineer to
such companies as may for any reason be short of the required
quota of men. and such members shall be assigned to regular
positions In companies as vacancies occur, in the order of
their seniority.
Section 4. The foregoing proposed charter amendment shall
take effect and be in force from and after the first day of
July, 1913.
GEAKY STREET COXTIIACTOKS TELL OF DELAYS.
Mahoney Bros., contractors for the construction of the
Geary road, appeared before the Board of Works on Monday
and a.'!ked that time allowance be made on their contract, due
to delays occasioned by the negligence of public service corpo-
rations. The failure of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company,
the Olympic Club and the City Electric Company to remove
'mains and conduits which stood in the way of road construc-
tion when notified to do so by the City Engineer, were cited
by the contractors as reasons why they should be given time
allowances. Time was also asked for labor troubles which
the contractors said w-as through no fault of theirs. Repre-
sentatives of the companies complained of have been cited to
appear and state why they occasioned the delays.
MANSON TO RETIRE AT E\D OP MONTH.
The Board of Public Works has accepted the resignation of
t'ity Engineer Marsden Manson, to take effect on September
1. M. M. O'Shaughnessy, an engineer of national reputation,
has been mentioned as his successor. Should the Charter
provision requiring city employes to live here operate against
the employment of O'Shaughnessy as City Engineer, he may
be retained in an advisory capacity until the Charter can be
amended. O'Shaughnessy at present is a resident of Mill
Valley.
PANAALl-PACU-'IC INTERNATIONAL EXI-OSITION NOTES.
The proclamation of the President of the United States, in-
viting all liutiuiis til participate in the Pauauia-l'acitlc Interna-
tional E.Nposiiion, has been officially accepted by Japan, France,
Canada, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Hoaduras, Panama, Salvador,
Haiti, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic.
Commissions to select sites for State buildings have been ap-
pointed by the Governors of Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mas-
sachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklohoma,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, the Philippines, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Te.xas, Utah and Washington. Of these, Hawaii, Idaho,
Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, the Philippines, South Dakota, Utah and
Washington have selected iheir sites. Other States are preparing
to make their site selections before the first of the year. In all
legislatures which will meet in January bills will be introduced
calling for appropriations lor Slate participation.
In the meantime, the counties of California are planing for a
display of their products that will never be forgotten by the par-
ticipating States and nations, nor by the millions who will attend
the Exposition. Advices received from all parts of the State are
to the effect that the cotinties are preparing to take full advantage
of the unprecedented oi)purtunity to advertise their resources that
the Exposition will offer them, and that they <}o not Intend that
California's hospitality nor exhibits shall be surpassed by any