d, x Pirrlisca’ aifiong « a eo "ot of- 
 boards and commissions. The 
 ge found in the rooms of the 
 , aa ee which he sucegered, little 
 
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 Por cate macnn: to deal with the 
 ' multitude of matters, including the pur- 
 chase of all city supplies, which, un- 
 der the present charter, pass under 
 _the manager’s view. This has been 
 / done. The manager’s office has been 
 
 ice - extended to include the room formerly 
 > occupied by the board of health, and 
 «an active and competent force is at 
 ' work. A great deal of the credit for 
 this and other achievements of the 
 administration is due to the able and 
 efficient secretary of the manager, Mr. 
 Paul EHliel. 
 
 The Manager and the Departments. 
 
 Of even more importance has been 
 the establishment of the relations of 
 the manager to the several departments 
 of the government. On the first of July 
 
 _ there were not only no forms for re- 
 _.. porting the transactions of the depart- 
 i | -ments to the head of the administra- 
 
 = tion, but no custom of so reporting. It 
 ~ has been necessary to build the position 
 | of manager into the whole scheme of 
 
 _ the previous government. A large part 
 
 _ of the manager’s time has had to be 
 
 _ spent in studying the conditions of the 
 
 \ departments and in establishing his re- 
 
 - lations to them. 
 
 _ To insure better acquaintance and a 
 ‘broader co-operative spirit among all 
 departments, weekly conferences of de- 
 “partment heads are held in the man- 
 
 ager’s office. These will be increased 
 in frequency as the work of reorgani- 
 Hetioe proceeds, 
 
 Complaint Department. 
 
 he j ‘one of the first acts of the city man- 
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 lation to tne VULsiue puis, 241e, EE wit hide 
 of handling these comp: . ints isireceiv 
 ing a good deal of attention ¢ 
 
 being progressively improved. a 
 The Purchase of Supplies. Le 
 
 “The charter provides that the. city 
 
 Manager shall act as purchasing agent 
 
 until the council provides otherwise by 
 
 ordinance. This-very considerable task 
 occupies a large part of the time ‘of 
 Mr. Elie] and a stenographer. We have 
 been obliged, of course, from the very 
 
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 “Bath Towels... 1$6.00 perdoz. [$2.33 per doz. 
 
 Bird-seed...... \150 lb. “ |946¢ 1b. 
 Carbon Paper. ./|$3.50 per box $1.66 per box 
 OUD S alii. 20¢c per box 546¢ per box 
 
 4c per lb. 
 
 5c per Ib. 
 [B00 per gal. 
 
 Cleas’g Powd.. 
 50c per pint 
 
 th eee ee ee eee 
 
 Lum ber— 
 
 Cross walk... .|$22.00 pér M.® |$17,75 per M. 
 Matches....... 5c per box 8e per box 
 PAST O...5 Bieta iN 90c¢ per pint 1. bo per gal. 
 Pencils) sess Av. 5%c each 0:031 each 
 
 5c per bar 3%c per bar 
 .|/$1.55 per gross 
 
 .|$7.50 per case 
 
 Soap—Ivory.... 
 Soap—Bath.. 
 Soap-—Toilet.. 
 Soda— 
 Bicarbonate..|344¢¢ to Bee. 
 
 3.50 per case 
 
 h %e per Ib, 
 
 Sponges....... $1.25 apiece 67%c apiece 
 Polishs ou .,|25e per can 250 per can 
 Typewriter : 
 Ribbon... $1.00 each 50¢ each 
 Muriatic Acid. .|5c per Ib. . {84¢eper lb. 
 Toilet Paper.. - $10.01 00 per case. ABS 00. pen case 
 
 former administrations, . 
 
 The. prices Aa 
 of like quality. — j ere. : 
 
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 haps. 
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 | Agt we 
 Aprange- 
 
 . Ament, by 
 jadvantage 
 gurchases. 
 school de 
 prices on 
 wan epartments 
 oly of ink 
 
 Sem of in- 
 , mom ser- 
 ke this was 
 fs PSs of hay 
 ryened about 
 
 io ahatio’ -filling 
 ill insure on the 
 Bees sno piece of 
 
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 ; * which will result 
 i te at a large annual ag- 
 fe is that of taking trade and 
 ~diseount | at every opportunity, 
 f city’s order forms all provide that 
 | 38 the’ vendor specifically makes 
 ; order for net cash, that it shall 
 | sabjleet to a two per cent discount. 
 
 The New Accounting System. 
 
 ee aia A single achievement of the first 
 
 five months of city manager govern- 
 ment, which will live indefinitely in 
 its good results, is the preparation of 
 the new accounting system. The coun- 
 
 ceil with great wisdom and foresight, 
 ee hte Fy fot cis, purpose and 
 
 @nsultation with the 
 
 f xf every importaae dirm 
 oing | miu wiApal accounting ‘on 
 
 coast, appointed Haskins & Sells, to 
 do the work. Under the direction of 
 
 Davis, a system has been devised w hi¢ht 
 not only. gives the auditor complé¢te 
 control of the financial transactions’ of 
 the city, but puts in the hands of the 
 manager a 1 the heads of the depart=- 
 ments the daita, necessary to determine 
 the efficiency of operation of each 
 branch of the city government. If the 
 new charter had accomplished nothing 
 ejse put the introduétion of modern 
 aécounting: tnethods it Would have been 
 worth all it, ‘cost. Hitherto, San Jose 
 as been em by rule-of-thumb 
 methods, adequate as fong as the city 
 was §s0 small that thoSe in authority 
 could have personal knowledge ofall 
 that went on im it. This is no longer 
 possible and a system of accounts and 
 of time and cost reports such ag. is 
 
 tions is now absolutely essential. 
 
 Saving $4500 a Year in the Treasurer’s 
 im Office. 
 
 The greatest. single saving accom- 
 ished by the present city government 
 s. been the designation by the First 
 iohal bank of Paul Furst, as city 
 wurér, without charge to the city, 
 e receipt by the same bank of 
 v's deposits at the rate of 2.52 
 t On average daily balances. 
 ing in salaries in the treas- 
 fcé Will amount to $1560 a 
 interest paid by the bank 
 
 in years to come, 
 
 > years was a very serious one. 
 
 needs. 
 ever, put into it will be fully repaid to 
 this 3 
 
 Mr, John F,/Forbes and Mr. Pearce CL 
 
 employed in the great private corpora-, 
 
 former 
 feause they have been free to say to 
 
 saving which will Bo. 
 year, - 
 
 on year ie 
 
 expénse of conducting the mayor’s of- 
 fice under the old system and the ex- 
 pense of the manager’s office under the 
 new system, 
 
 In. addition, the city secures the ad-. 
 
 vantage of the most skillful and careful 
 administration of the office of city 
 treasurer. If also is advantaged by a 
 Safe place of deposit for the city’s 
 
 money instead of the old ramshackle 
 
 vault in the city hall, which was a 
 constant suoree of danger. 
 
 The First Functionally Segregated 
 Budget. 
 
 Another great improvement in the 
 financial procedure of the city is to be 
 found in the functional segregated 
 budget prepared by the heads of de- 
 partments and the manager's office. 
 The preparation of this budget has 
 taken a great deal of time and labor, 
 far more indeed than will be necessary 
 The task of assem- 
 bling comparative data for previous 
 Further- 
 more, in many instances the manager’s 
 office was obliged to make up. the 
 estimates for the several departments, 
 because either of the absence of a de- 
 partment head or becatise the depart- 
 ment heads were not sufficiently well 
 wersed in financial matters to prepare 
 Staisfactory estimates of their future 
 All the timé and labor, how- 
 
 the city. 
 
 For the first timé in the history of 
 San Jose, the financial resources of the 
 city Have been methodically and scien- 
 tifiically proportioned to its various 
 needs. The preparation and adoption 
 of the budget represents the planning 
 of @ year’s work for the city govern- 
 ment. It is believed that this fore- 
 handed method of procedure will have 
 in San Jose the good effect it has had 
 
 in other communities. 
 
 The Non-Participation-in-Politics 
 Order. 
 
 A different class of achievement of 
 the new city government is represent- 
 ed by the non-participation-in-politics 
 order, issued from the city manager’s 
 office prior to the primary election of 
 
 this fall, which forbade all employees of 
 
 the city participating in the active con- 
 duct of political affairs, It also forbade 
 
 them to solicit funds for political pur- 
 
 poses, It had the effect of iimiting 
 their political activities to the private 
 expression of their opinions. This order 
 was sent to the head of each depart- 
 ment and was posted in a prominent 
 
 place where all men in the department 
 
 could see it. The best information 
 which we have been able to gather in- 
 
 dicates that this order has been geéner- 
 ally obeyed and that it has made for a 
 great improvement in the service of the 
 city. Men instead of being engaged in 
 the practice of politics, 
 enabled to devote their whole time and 
 
 have been 
 
 energy to the btisiness of the city. 
 Many employees of the city have also 
 been relieved of the embarrassment of 
 political entanglements, be- 
 
 This Ae og alone practically — Yn 
 makes up the difftrence between the 
 
 \ dismisg'1 from office. as 
 
 seffect . i the good governm 
 
 city is -ven more important. It’ iy 
 
 single ~oke removed the personnel of 
 
 ‘the ci\ » administration from the field’ — 
 of loci politics. If the new rule is ~ 
 ersist. \tly enforced, it will have the 
 
 ffect 0 largely removing the tempta- 
 
 . tion to get control of the ci govern- 
 
 ment for political ends. 
 
 Relations of the City With Public 
 Utilities. 
 
 It has been the good fortune of the oil 
 present administration to Sectire some 
 compliance by the street railway com- 
 pany wiff its paving obligations. Sev- 
 enteenth stréet has beén paved, Wil- 
 low and West San Carlos aré in pro- 
 cess of paving and will be ¢ompleted 
 in a few days. Hast San Carlos, Fif= 
 teenth and San Fernando Streets are 
 simply awaiting the solution of a dis- 
 pute as to the type of rail-which may 
 be used therein. The passage by the 
 council of an ordinanee establishing a 
 penalty of $50 per day for maintainging 
 an obstruction in the streets after no- 
 tice to remove the same, is éxpected 
 to bring thé company’s completion ‘of 
 its» work. Car service Hag : 
 stored on Julian street frt 
 teenth to Twenty-first streae and 
 
 og 
 
 to do away with the awful mud hole 
 at that point. 
 
 The Southern Pacific commparly has 
 temporarily paved the portion of 
 Fourth street adjoining thé normal — 
 school grounds. They have installed — 
 an automatic crossing signal at Fourth 
 and William streéts, a very dangerous 
 crossing previously unguarded, wei 
 
 The public utility situation will de- 
 mand a great deal of our attention in 
 the months to come. The settlement 
 of the Southern Pacific franéhise is 
 the most. important. We must also 
 constantly be in difficulty with & quasi- 
 bankrupt street railway company, The 
 Water company must be induced to put 
 in mains large efoligh to give the 
 city the protection in case of fire, 
 which it demands. 
 
 The Social Welfare Gommission. — 
 
 The ¢co-ofdination of the aétivities of 
 the numerous charitable enterprises of 
 the city, and especially somé éffetetive 
 check upon the solicitation of finds for 
 unworthy objects or for organizations 
 with wasteful methods, has been taken 
 ‘up by the committee ¢onsisting of 
 many prominent people of the city in- 
 terested in ¢harity work, which was 
 called together by the manager for the — 
 first time on Thursday, October 24. 
 This committee has evolved an ordi-— 
 nance which is presented to the council — 
 at the same time with this report. It 
 provides for a commission of seven 
 members appointed by the manager, : 
 It gives this commission power to su-— 
 pervise the administration of charities 
 to which the city of San Jose contrib- 
 utes and all other organizations which 
 voluntarily avail themselves of its su- 
 
 ¢ 
 
 oe 
 
~tivit, 
 
 tor jars wenartian ai their 
 Priae up The 64 1a tier At Palio! 
 Some such — asethis Mee 
 been greatly needed-in our’city and its 
 preparation in coneurrence with the 
 arious charitable organizations inter- 
 sted.is not the least of the achieve- 
 ts of the past five months, 
 
 The Codification of Ordinances. 
 The council has provided in the 
 
 “budget for the codification of the ordi- 
 'mances of the city appropriating the 
 
 sum of $750 therefor.” This money will 
 be expended under the direction of the 
 eity attorney for the purnose of secur- 
 ing classification, indexing and codifi- 
 eation of the ordinances so far as that 
 is possible within the limits of the ap- 
 propriation, Our ordinances at the 
 Present time are in a great state of 
 eonfusion. It is very difficult in many 
 instances to reconcile their conflicting 
 provisions. Many of the more impor- 
 tant ones are already obsolete. The 
 recognition of the need of the eodifica- 
 tion of our ordinances and the provi- 
 sion for it in the budget is very much 
 to the credit of the city council. 
 
 The Board of Education. 
 
 The manager on assuming office al- 
 most immediately filled the vacaney 
 then existing on the board of education 
 by the appointment of Mr. E. N. Rich- 
 mond. Mr, Richmond was at the first 
 meeting of the board after his appoint- 
 Ment, elected president of the hoard, 
 Under his very able leadership the 
 board of education has done effective 
 work in the expenditure of the proceeds 
 of the bond issue recently voted for the 
 new school buildings. The board has 
 applied itself with great wisdom and 
 publie spirit to the matter of securing 
 the greatest possible value for the 
 money expended. It has been able also 
 to relieve the superintendent of 
 schools of a good deal of the burden 
 of the business administration which 
 would, with the new school buildings, 
 have been almost overwhelming. The 
 superintendent has thus been able to 
 devote a much larger portion of his 
 time to educational leadership, and the 
 results are beginning to be apparent in 
 the work of the teachers. 
 
 The board also has succeeded in es- 
 tablishing a merit system of appoint- 
 ment in conformity with the provisions 
 of the charter, which msures the elim- 
 ination of polities from the appoint- 
 ment of teachers and at the same time 
 makes the superintendent responsible 
 fer the personnel of the school depart- 
 ment. 
 
 The resuits of these changes will not 
 be fully felt for some time to come. 
 The school department, however, has 
 been started upon the right line of de- 
 
 sigut OL That more important aspect of 
 public effiee, the. character of seryice 
 rendered to the eommunity, What in-* 
 dividual in the city has a right to de- 
 mand the favor of an office at the ex- 
 pense of inferior service to his fellows? 
 The people of San Jose collectively are 
 entitled to the best service in the same 
 sense as they are entitled to it in their 
 private business relations, This un- 
 doubtedly correct principle has long 
 been applied in the school department 
 and is now for the first time applied to 
 the general government of the city. 
 “1 this does not mean the whole- 
 sale importation of outsiders. 
 
 fied service, there are only two filled 
 by technical non-residents, Even these 
 are not genuine outsiders, for it is 
 hardly to be said that persons living 
 in the country tributary to San Jose 
 who have been persons educated in our 
 schools and employed by our citizens 
 are outsiders. 
 
 Out of seven heads of departments 
 selected by the manager, but ene is not 
 a San Jose man, The only other out- 
 sider is the manager’s personal assist- 
 ant, Under ordinary circumstances, all 
 minor-posgitions, and in my opinion, 
 labor on contracts for public’ work, 
 should unquestionably be filled by lo- 
 cal appointment. 
 
 It is my belief that with regard to 
 the more responsible positions, even 
 those involving’ technical qualifications, 
 that San Jose men should be given the 
 preference. It may well happen, how- 
 ever, without reflection on a city of 
 40,000 people, that there may be no 
 man available, i. e,, employable at the 
 salary the city can pay, who is quali- 
 fied for the task. .In such cases I be- 
 lieve that the interests of the city re- 
 quire us to find the best man available 
 regardless of residence. It is for this 
 reason that I am opposed to a residence 
 qualification for office holding. Jf be- 
 lieve that the record of the administra- 
 tion to date indicates.that it may 
 safely be entrusted with the power of 
 selecting its employees without such a 
 limitation. 
 
 Attention Attracted te San Jose. 
 
 The fact that San Jose has been 50 
 progressive as to throw off the incubus 
 of old-time political methods of city 
 government has attracted widespread 
 attention, The results already accom-= 
 plished, small by comparison with 
 
 what is in store for the future, have - 
 
 added greatly to the esteem in. which 
 this community is held throughout the 
 country. 
 by C, A. Clay, staff correspondent of 
 
 cially, as well &s pi 
 that we 100k abroad’ : 
 ment of a place ae 
 
 Out of 
 208 permanent positions in the classi- 
 
 One special article, written. 
 
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 in support our new “municipar 
 regime ome attacks of selfish- _ 
 saghess, narre on enere and provincial- 5 
 ism, The a ii f the city comms er- 
 
 ,ically, dep é 
 
 gressive cities of the 
 not sacrifice the fins na 
 are now winning to th 
 of the old office- holding. of 
 posing class. “Bo ny 
 Expert Technical Hele al 
 | to the Citip. 
 
 Acknowledgment shbaid at ¢ this 
 
 point be made to a. nu nber of ‘persons © 
 
 h intex 
 office sdi 
 
 “who have assisted the| city manager — 
 ‘and the heads of various departments — 
 
 with expert technical advice without 
 charge to the city. Doctors Geiger and = 
 Kelly of the state board of health> 
 spent several days jn’ ‘assisting | gn the 
 installation of the jhealth — laboratory, 
 and in helping to check a prospective 
 epidemic of diphtheria, 
 
 Professor C, D, Marx, head oe the 
 engineering department. of Stanford 
 university, has assisted in supplying» 
 material for the civil service exam- 
 inations, and with professional: advice 
 on yarious points. . 
 
 Professor L, M. er of the de- 
 partment of education “Stanford. 
 university has assisted i giving a 
 very original and effective cH Rar vege 
 examination. 
 
 Professor C. lL. Cory, dean of the — 
 college of mechanics at the University 
 of California, with Mr, Harshman, one 
 of his assistants, spent considerable 
 time upon the proposed improvements: 
 in the Alum Rock park bath- house and” 
 rendered a very valuable report in con-— 
 nection therewith. 
 
 Professor Charles Gilman Hyde of 
 the University of California and gani- 
 tary engineer of the state board of 
 health has also given very helpful ad- 
 vice in connection with our preblems. 
 Altogether technical assistance to the 
 amount of many hundreds of dollars 
 has been supplied largely because of 
 the interest taken HA our system of. 
 government. : 
 
 The Civil Service Cum ndisatats 
 
 The appointment of R. R. Syer, V. J. 
 LaMotte and H. B, Martin as. the 
 poard of civil service. commissioners 
 inaugurated a new regime of efficiency 
 of municipal employment in this elite: 
 The commission has’ made great prog-, 
 ress in the introductioa of the merit. 
 system of appointment. It has classi- 
 fied the positions in the city service 
 and has held. vine Ba aKa fora ares 
 number of them.. : 
 
 These examinations - 
 high grade and ha 
 
tions of candidates, L 
 -Frection perhaps the re 
 ) eiVil service examinat ae - er held in 
 “any city was held by * Men lacor Ter- 
 -* man of the department of ecucation at 
 Stanford university: ‘for the purpose of 
 establishing an eligible list for the po- 
 lice and fire departments, 
 In this é¢xamination the Binet and 
 other intelligence tests were applied to 
 discover the intelligence and capacity 
 
 a 3 iteresting 
 
 es of the candidates. The candidates 
 ee 4 were also subject toa v gid medi- 
 Cal and physical exa and: the, 
 
 — We believe 
 
 € appoi ee to tf ce > and fire 
 “@epartment \cumiply possess the 
 undamental quilines tions for “these 
 
 Bervices, oe af ay 
 ‘ \ Thes.civil. sérvice, Pe ramissign has 
 \ 6 yalso inaugur, ted a system of efficiency 
 \ Nagepord fr(m “all »members of the 
 * classified sevice. This ‘will help ma- 
  terially in phe efforts of the manager 
 “ang i Anesneeds | of. departments in 
 ‘inating drones and sluggards from 
 
 “the municipal payroll. 
 
 ; City Planning Commission. 
 
 The city planhing commission, which _ 
 
 consists of G. M. Fontaine, Miss Flor- 
 ence Clayton a a G. F. Wakefield; with 
 the city attorney and city engineer ex- 
 officio, has likewise been very active in 
 preparing the ground for its important 
 work. \ The icity epuncil has provided 
 in the “budget a $2000 appropriation 
 with which the coynmission will be en- 
 abled to’ enjploy /the services of ex- 
 perts in helping: to solve some of our 
 serious Dlanming problems, The most 
 obvious and) immediate of these are 
 those relative to the matter of the 
 
 within the “next year’ a 
 Jel bhermanent Jocation of the Southern 
 Pacific railroad in this ‘city will have 
 to be determined and the commission 
 has taken the necessary steps to as- 
 sist in that determination by colleect- 
 ing material and securing the ad- 
 vice of more competent government 
 than this, “The city planning commigs- 
 Sion is also engaged at the present 
 time in holding hearings with regard 
 to traffic ¢onditions 6n First street, 
 and in all probability will soon recom- 
 mend to the city council a measure 
 regulating the barking of automobiles 
 in the congested portion of that street. 
 The work of jrégulating the planting, 
 trimming and removal of trees along 
 the streets of the city, as formerly reg- 
 z ulated by the forestry board, has been 
 
 placed in the hands of the city plan- 
 
 ning commission. 
 
 Creased Rental From Concessions. 
 
 A large imcreaSe over any previous 
 year was made in the annual rental of 
 the concessions ‘at. Alum Rock park. 
 The increase amounted to about 40 per 
 cent and represented an’ addition of 
 about $400 in cash to the city’s annual 
 revenue, 
 
 Lighting Athi Rock Park. 
 The use of Alum. Rock park as a 
 where entertainments might be 
 
 mmer time has always 
 pered by the fact 
 
 that no means of lighting the improved _ 
 
 portion had ever been installed. In 
 order to increase the use of the park 
 
 ' for general purposes and to attract 
 
 more parties to the park it was decid- 
 ed to install 20 high powered elec- 
 
 - trie lights which would be so arranged 
 
 that the improved section of the park 
 would be lighted. Through the co- 
 operation of the Pacific Gas & Electric 
 company, these lights were installed 
 
 without cost to the city. .The trees in 
 
 the park were used as lighting stand- 
 ards and also were used to carry the 
 wires, thus avoiding the necessity of 
 
 ‘that fu- erecting poles or ether more sightly 
 
 supports, 
 Employment. of Guard at Alum Rock 
 ' Plunge. 
 
 fyhen the summer rush began at the 
 Alum Rock plunge it was soon realized 
 that considerable danger existed for 
 the bathers unless some means was 
 provided whereby they might be pro- 
 tected in Case of accident. With this 
 in min, a guard was appointed to 
 act during the summer months as 
 general assistant and as lifesaver in 
 case of need. On geveral occasions 
 the services of the guard proyed very 
 
 important in averting what might 
 otherwise have been serious. ac- 
 cidents. 
 
 ough inspection was made of the build- 
 ings at Alum Rock park. Many of 
 them were found to be dirty and in need 
 of paint. A thorough campaign of 
 cleaning the plunge and other build- 
 ings at the park was immediately in- 
 augurated and they were all gone over 
 minutely and wherever it Was neces- 
 sary were put in such shape that they 
 would be sanitary and attractive. 
 
 Remodeling at Alum Rock Heating 
 Plant. 
 
 Provision has been made in the bud- 
 get for remodeling and improving the 
 heating plant used in connection with 
 the Alum Rock plant plunge, The pres- 
 ent heating plant and ventilating sys- 
 tem is highly inefficient and consumes 
 a tremendous quantity of fue] which, 
 even though there was no increase in 
 erude oil would necessitate some radi- 
 cal action, Conferences have been had 
 with representatives of numerous en- 
 gineering houses with experts on nata- 
 torium heating and -with Professor 
 Corey of the department of mechanical 
 engineering in the University of Cali- 
 
 ‘fornia. 
 
 As a result tentative plans have been 
 drawn up which include the installing 
 of a ventilating system which will ren- 
 der the water absolutely safe and pure 
 at all times and which will also per- 
 mit of a material reduction in the fuel 
 bil. A new method of heating the 
 men’s tub quarters has also been work- 
 ed out and will propvably be installed 
 before next spring. Both of these im- 
 provements should result in a very ma- 
 terial saving in the cost of operation 
 
 - of the. plunge. 
 
 Reservation of Space in St. James Park. 
 
 Complaints were received from nu- 
 merous sources that St. James park 
 
 had become the stamping ground for 
 
 We 
 
 _ practically prohibitea’- 
 
 free an 
 
 sa hy and tramps ‘ana’ 
 be perk on this account 
 
 fo women ard — 
 children, . That park space ,Should be =” 
 
 \open to whoever may decide toes 
 
 : 
 
 to use it without restrictions and dis- 
 crimination is true, but that a certain 
 group im the city should be prevented 
 from using the park on account of the 
 presence of another group there was 
 not considered just. An order was  — 
 therefore made reserving certain por- 
 tions in the north and east end of the 
 park exclusively for women and chil- 
 dren and their escorts and the benches 
 were stencilled with” a ‘sign t * 1 
 effect. { a nt Bie 
 Department of Electric it a Separate Pi: 
 Department. a * 
 
 Under the old charter the MiccYlcc Ng re 
 of electricity was under the jurisdic- 
 tion of the police and fire commission 
 and performed three separate and dis- 
 tinct functions. On the one hand it was 
 in charge of the electrical system of the 
 fire department. Secondly it was in aay 
 charge of the electrical system of the 
 police department and finally it acted 
 as the electricity inspector for all out- 
 side installations of electrical wiring 
 and other electrical service. The en- 
 tire salary, however, of the electrical 
 inspector was charged to the fire de- 
 partment fund. This was obviously 
 unfair to the fire department as 2 
 considerable portion of the inspector’s 
 time was devoted to outside inspections 
 and some of it to work for the police 
 department. Nor was it considered ad- ~ 
 visable when the police and fire com- 
 mission went out of office with the go- 
 ing into effect of the new charter to 
 place an electrical inspector exclus- 
 ively under the jurisdiction of the 
 head of the fire department. The de-- 
 partment of electricity was, therefor, 
 created as a separate and distinct de- 
 partment with a separate budget and 
 the time of the electrical inspector 
 would be charged in future to the de- 
 partment to which he renders service. 
 
 Increased Salaries in the Library, 
 
 On account of the increased cost of 
 living and the fact that the salaries 
 in the library department Were ex- 
 tremely low and had not been raised for 
 a number of years, provision has been 
 made in this year’s budget for uni- 
 form increases in the salaries of em- 
 ployees of the library. These increases 
 include the librarian and practically 
 all of her assistants, 
 
 New Lighting System in Library. ‘a : 
 
 Several months ago the city manager 
 requested the electrician to make a — 
 study of the lighting system in the 
 library with a view to improving the 
 light and reducing the bills for elec- 
 trical current. Such a study was made ~ 
 and the _ electrician recommended a 
 system of semi-indirect lighting. Plans 
 and specifications were drawn up and — 
 
 a call for bids issued. The new equip- 
 ment was-installeq for a nominal sum, 
 
 the contractor being required to make 
 allowance for the old lights. The re- 
 duction in the bills for current will 9 
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 paratus was in such condition that a 
 repetition ef the event might occur at 
 any time. A rush order was, there- 
 for, sent out, for bids © ‘and the work 
 was let at. a very low figure, for tak- 
 ing out the ola motor and installing a 
 One in the shortest possible time. 
 work was accomplished within a 
 tter of three or four days after the 
 motor burned out. 3 
 
 Recovery of Library Books. 
 
 For years the library had been los- 
 ing almost as many books as it had 
 been buying and, although it was 
 known where some of these books were, 
 it had been very difficult to recover 
 many of them. The police department 
 was instructed to co-operate with the 
 library in the recovery of books and 
 to enforce the law against all per- 
 sons known to have library books who 
 did not offer to return them when re- 
 quested to do so. The results of tak- 
 ing this firm stand were quite phenom- 
 enal and a very large number of books 
 were returned either directly to the 
 library or to the police department 
 within a very short time. 
 
 Change in Form of Government With- 
 out Legal Difficulties. 
 
 The change from the old to the new 
 charter ang from the mayor and coun- 
 cil to the manager type of govern- 
 ment was accomplished without the 
 encountering of a single legal obstacle. 
 The smoothnesS with which the change 
 Was made and the fact that none of 
 the proceedings or acts of the new 
 government have been called into ques- 
 tion by the courts is largely due to the 
 able, legal advice and-assistance of the 
 city attorney, Mr. Harl Lamb. 
 
 Department of Health. 
 
 _’ The health department has been in 
 the past one of the most neglected of 
 all our city functions. Much self- 
 sacrificing work hag been done by 
 boards of health and health officers, 
 but without adequate assistance or 
 equipment they have been able to ac- 
 complish all too little for the health 
 of the community, Instead of being 
 one of the healthiest cities in the 
 United States, as it should be, San Jose 
 has had a death rate as high as the 
 average for the whole registration area 
 of the United States, which includes 
 good and bad communities alike. 
 
 The manager determined at the out- 
 set of his administration that the most 
 determined effort must be made to put 
 the health department in first-rate or- 
 der. To this end he appointed Dr. D. 
 A. Beattie, one of the leading physi- 
 cians of the city, health officer. He 
 then requested the civil service com- 
 mission to give an open, competitive 
 
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 active charge of the department vith 
 an experienced local physician advis- 
 
 - ing and supervising his work, There 
 
 Was also added to the department a 
 laboratory assistant, Which position 
 Was filled as a result of the civil ser- 
 Vice examination by Miss Laura Wat- 
 
 kins, formerly the efficient head of the 
 ; Practitioners’ 
 
 laboratory. Several 
 hundred dollars were expended in fit- 
 ting up the new laboratory for all 
 
 * kinds of work eonnected with the pub- 
 lic health administration, and. the de- | 
 partment is now just getting into full’ 
 
 It could hardly be expected to _ 
 have yet made any appreciable effect 
 
 swing. 
 
 upon the tremendous problem before it, 
 but it already has several distinct ac- 
 complishments to its credit. 
 
 Among the most notable of these has 
 been the prevention of two threaten- 
 ing outbreaks of diphtheria, one at the 
 Grant school and one at the Lowell 
 school. In this connection it is the aim 
 of the health department to secure the 
 co-operation and assistance of the 
 physicians, schools and others, so as to 
 obtain the prompt and complete report 
 of all communicable diseases,* This is 
 a matter which has been necessarily 
 too much negiected in the past. The 
 department has also arranged to do, 
 through its laboratory, culture ‘work 
 in all suspected cases of contagious 
 diseases free of charge. In order to 
 accommodate the physicians the 
 health department has installed in the 
 police office an incubator into which 
 the cultures may be dropped at any 
 hour of the night, to be taken to the 
 laboratory in the morning. ‘The. en- 
 forcement of quarantine rules has 
 been strictly kept up, and already the 
 condition in regard to contagious dis- 
 eases: has been much improved. 
 
 Another phase of the activity of the 
 health department may be found in ‘its 
 increased success in securing abate- 
 ment of the nuisances discovered by 
 its inspectors. The number of abate- 
 ments secured is now between 90 and 
 100 per cent. To improve the milk 
 supply, which is, of course, one of the 
 most important sources of disease, 
 the department has instituted a sys- 
 tem of standard dairy score cards, so 
 as to give to the dairyman himself 
 information as to his own methods. 
 The dairy inspector is trying not only 
 to discover infractions of the law, but 
 to instruct the dairymen in the regsons 
 why the restrictions of the law are 
 reasonable, The improvement § has 
 been noticeable, and the number of 
 bacteria found in milk samples is con- 
 siderably decreased, 
 
 The health department has begun the 
 inspection of tenement and lodging 
 houses in accordance with the demands 
 
 of the state immigration and housing 
 
 commission. This cOmmission recent- 
 
 fees for this | 
 
 this country are rapidly 
 ‘was only a few years a ol that, third 
 
 petter nousing purraitions i our. ily. 
 
 » The council has adopted a revised 
 eee inspection ordinance in which the 
 rvice have been adjust- 
 
 ed in a satis Actory. ae to, the. 
 slaughter house men. work "ot 
 meat inspection has” “bee _ carried | 
 
 vigorously and a marked i rovem 
 
 has been brought. about Le the santa “iit, 
 
 conditions of the slaught 
 in the quality of meat fur 
 people. 
 
 “Mouse 
 
 Efficiency and tie Police De “of rtific te 
 
 Standards of police admip ~ ’ Yation - in 
 Ninging. It 
 degree methods, bulldozing of prisoners, 
 etc., were not only the only methods 
 used in police. departments, but gener- 
 ally they were the only methods known. 
 Bluff and brutality weré necessary in 
 order to obtain results, since scientific 
 methods of police repofting and identi- 
 fication were DIRGHY hy. a unkhewn 
 art: aaa eu 
 Now, however, in all mod pa @epart- 
 ments this situation no lons4+ prevails; 
 police identification has’ be ie reduced 
 to an exact science, Police reporting | 
 and record-keeping has been developed 
 to the point where it is rapidly’ ‘ap- 
 proaching standardization. Police ‘de- 
 partments, led by the example set in 
 
 New York and other progressive cities, 
 have become engines of sole construc- 
 
 tion instead of juggernauts of social — 
 destruction. The influence of alcohol, 
 drugs and feeble- mindedness on crim- 
 
 inal acts is Tapidiy being recognized 
 
 and these most important factors in the‘ 
 criminality of'a community are receiv- 
 ing proper attention and study at the 
 hands of police officers, Police schools 
 are being organized from one. end 
 of the country to the other, for it 
 is recognized by police authorities and 
 
 Sere 
 
 students of the problems of police ad- >: 
 
 ministration that the most ‘serious 
 check to ‘suecessful and ‘intelligent 
 police administrations is the lack of 
 intelligence on the part of the rank and 
 file of the department. , 
 
 It can thus be seen that police ef- 
 ficiency cannot be measured by any 
 
 negative standard such as discipline, ; 
 
 co-operation or courtesy, Those things 
 are expected of the police departments; 
 they should not be commended for pos- 
 sessing them any more than a person 
 should be praised for being clean, Nor 
 do a few important arrests indicate the 
 activity and aggressiveness of the force. 
 It has often been argued that the proper 
 measure of the efficiency of a police 
 department is the ratio of vc gene 
 made ‘to convictions secured. sihy 
 
 method of judging. polic 
 entirely erroneous sinc 
 
 { 
 
often a matter of - 
 
 agl 
 
 a we do not indicat 
 
 Resin 
 
 “assuming their, 
 
 condition of the av The only 
 basis of measuring ®lice efficiency is 
 _the ratio of arrests/o the crimes com- 
 “mitted. A moments thought will make 
 this obvious, 
 
 Nor are perunal seal Yong hours of 
 work, extreme interest and activity of 
 themselves. to be commended by police 
 officers oecipying a superior position, 
 They, also are to be taken for granted 
 and any officer not pgpseseing these 
 
 stain ane does _ to 
 
 which Ye 4 ee W. ee Baw in 
 
 the 
 
 pores 
 offiGe's anjd men have to ‘Spend more 
 fe thinking about how they are g0- 
 ing to Keep heir jobs than about the 
 jobs themselves, corruption and -inef- 
 ficiency are almost sure to follow. 
 Thoughtful | police officials in other 
 Cities have jong considered the San 
 Jose department to be extremely inef- 
 ficient. This\opinion arises from the 
 fact that the San, Jose department has 
 had to or alm@st exclusively on the 
 identifieation bureaus of othér depart- 
 ments for the identification of men ar- 
 rested here, 
 ‘The present administration found on 
 duties that the method 
 of keeping’ records in the*police de- 
 
 partment Was practically useless. The 
 identification ‘bureau was a farce, as 
 the present acting chief will testify, At 
 
 least 50007 Bertillon record cards, of as 
 many notorious criminals, were not filed 
 owing to lack of space in the original 
 cabinet, but were loosely tied in bundles 
 and stored away. A former administra- 
 
 im tion had Ordered a file built by a car- 
 
 penter, but because of lack of knowledge 
 ‘or general inefficiency this file had 
 never been used for anything but a 
 storage case. Here the 5000 cards were 
 kept and their value for identification 
 purposes Was as a result absolutely nil, 
 Mr. Eliel, on account of his knowledge 
 of. police work, at once outlined a 
 method of filing the ecards in both the 
 eriginal cabinet and the other file, 
 About half of the 5000 cards have now 
 been indexed, classified and filed. When 
 the entire 5000 cards have been similar- 
 ly handled the efficiency of identifica- 
 tion work will be increased at least 100 
 ‘per cent. 
 
 The Bertillon system, however, is be- 
 QE rapidly supplanted in all modern 
 police departments by the more accur- 
 ate and. scienti fio. finger print system, 
 Were it not for; the fact that the San 
 Jose department. possesses no finger 
 print file it would be possible to prac- 
 tically abandon the Bertillon: system. 
 Without the finger print file no identi- 
 fication bureau ¢} n consider its records 
 to be complete./ Provision has been 
 de in the budget for the purchase 
 illon jeduipment, also for a 
 ind other equipment, 
 
 -actual crime. 
 
 the local 
 
 hand f whatever faction might be — 
 is really responsible. When — 
 
 The finggr print: radohda will Re Tee bers o 
 
 built up as rapidly as possible, 
 Another important phase of modern 
 police work is the scientific recording 
 of information leading to the recovery 
 of lost and stolen property. ‘This is 
 accomplished by means of the so- 
 called Boston property file, found in 
 all modern police departments. 
 Through this system it is possible to 
 check up and keep track of all lost 
 and stolen property and in addition to 
 keep track of articles pledged in pawn 
 mers in Relation wto articles reported 
 lost or stolen. No such file exists 
 in the San Jose depar tment at the pres- 
 mt time, Recovery of lost and stolen 
 Sa therefore a matter of 
 chance only 
 pawn 
 
 . Not even the reports of 
 ‘classification, whereas the 
 
 shops receive proper 
 reports of 
 
 -articles lost or stelen in other eities 
 
 are merely kept in a general file with- 
 out being, classified, This renders them 
 practically worse than useless. Pro- 
 vision has been made in the new filing 
 cabinets soon to be delivered for a 
 Boston file, 
 
 From the standpoint of proper police 
 practice every affair, no matter how 
 trivial it may appear to be, should 
 eventually find its way into the general 
 files of the department, It is im- 
 possible to determine at the time of the 
 oceurrence of anything which comes 
 to the attention of the police depart- 
 ment what its eventual importance may 
 be. Such information should be prop- 
 erly classified and analyzed as it oc- 
 curs so that it may be referred to at 
 any time. A file for this purpose will 
 be started at ence. 
 
 Under the present method important 
 records are scratched on any sort-of 
 paper in an indiscriminate way. Some 
 of these eventually become matters of 
 permanent record, but they are filed in 
 such a way that they are absolutely 
 useless, unless the memory of the en- 
 tire department is infallible. For ex- 
 ample, John Jones reports to the de- 
 partment the loss of 50 feet of blach 
 garden hose, a rather trivial matter 
 of itself, This is filed under Jones. 
 If 50 feet of black garden hose is 
 recovered in two or three months, it 
 is necessary for some one in the 
 department to remember that Jones 
 lost hose, The value of the file is nil. 
 It does not remember for the depart- 
 ment. The point of real importance 
 is that hose was lost and not that 
 Jones lost it. The record should show 
 that ‘Jones lost the hose but it should 
 be filled primarily under hose or some 
 general classifieation of property of a 
 similar kind, 
 
 There are numerous other records 
 all leading to increased departmental 
 efficiency as the record of individual 
 officers; efficiency reports; proper 
 elassifieation of correspondence, ete., 
 all of which are unknown to the San 
 Jose department. 
 
 It is not to be assumed ¢ahat in or- 
 der to maintain these reeords. it 
 would be necessary to increase the 
 elerical force to the detriment of the 
 patrel service, At present, hundreds 
 of hours per year are wasted by mem- 
 
 “progressive police departments — 
 
 ») esprit du corps, 
 
 jured, 
 
 “lice department, 
 
 1 foree cate in the s 
 because they donot Rare dau 
 ‘ed to them. - 
 _ Finally, it is being tocdeniaed 
 
 school of instruction for all of i 
 men of the department is indespensible — 
 to scientific police work and a proper 
 Training in the penal 
 codes, city ordinances, military drill, 
 revolver practice, first aid to the in- 
 criminal identification, traffic 
 detail, identification of automobiles, 
 methods of criminals, presentation of 
 cases in court, humane handling of 
 prisoners, the proper Methods 
 complaints, co-operation bet 
 and other city departments, et 
 taken up by attorneys, docto: 
 cialists in other lines and of 
 the department. Such a school 
 started in San .Jose within a 
 weeks. It may be mentioned in, 
 ing that the budget makes provision 
 for the first time in the history of the 
 city for adequate revolver practice by 
 supplying ammunition to the men, 
 
 The methods outlined above are what 
 make for real police efficiency rath- 
 er than the personal zeal of a chief 
 
 i, 
 
 of police or his relation with his men, ~ 
 
 “More than zeal ang hard work: are nece 
 
 éssary in the head of the modern po- 
 He must be a pro- 
 found student of police problems in all 
 
 their ramifications and a man of broad ~ 
 
 and general sympathy and understand- 
 
 ing, Without these things no depart- 
 
 ment can be efficient. ‘With them the 
 
 smallest department becomes a tower. 
 
 of strength for the protection of the. 
 lives and property of the citizens it 
 serves. \ 
 
 Law Enforcement. 
 
 It was also found by the manager 
 that the police department was inef- 
 ficient in securing: the enforcement of 
 those laws and ordinances whieh most 
 nearly effect public morality. About 
 six weeks after he took office, gambling 
 and other evils, which hea ween tem- 
 porarily in hiding, again eame to the 
 surface. In spite of zvviterated state- 
 ments of his desire for a clean town 
 the department took no effective steps 
 towards this end, The manager’s of- 
 fice secured conclusive information 
 concerning gambling, prostitution and 
 illegal practices on the part of saloon- 
 keepers, 
 
 the laws for the protection of public 
 morality. 
 that its head should place the whole 
 
 strength of the department loyally be- 
 in his every en- 
 
 hind the 
 deavor. 
 The above statements with ramen ta 
 the efficiency of the department and 
 its attitude towa.s publie 
 
 manager 
 
 in the position of chief of police, — 
 Equipping Patrolmen With Fords, 
 At the present time, and under all 
 
 previous administrations the down. 
 
 town or congested yalue district has — 
 been the only one which received any 
 
 It also goes without saying 
 
 It goes without saying that — 
 the police department should enforces 
 
 , a a ae 
 
 morals - 
 sufficiently explain the recent change 
 
 bCibed 
 
 direct police, protection. That the dis- i . 
 
 trict 
 
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 Provision for inne Flashlights. 
 
 Money Aas also been appropriated 
 in ‘the police budget for the installa- 
 tion of six new flashlights to be put 
 tp in/the residence districts in strate- 
 i osition. The flashlights system 
 
 Ne of the «most important physi- 
 ‘adjuncts to the éfficieney of patrol 
 oat as it permits the calling of any 
 
 Ntticer by headquarters almost instant- 
 
 ly. It is planned to use these new 
 flashlights in connection with the men 
 using Fords so that they may be call- 
 ed by héadquarters and their superior 
 mobility made use of. 
 
 Use of Telephones Instead of 
 Boxes. 
 
 Request was made by the department 
 for the purchase of six new call boxes, 
 thése boxes inStalled cost about $125 
 apiece, or a total cost of $750, if the 
 requested itéms in the budget had been 
 allowed. Instead of this rather large 
 Outlay it is planned to install a small 
 number of telephones in secure lovk- 
 ed boxes similar to those employed 
 by the stréet railway company, This, 
 of Course, will effect a very material 
 Saving and will fullfill practically the 
 Same purposes as the call boxes. The 
 men using the Fords will be required 
 to call headquarters over one of these 
 boxes every half hour. 
 
 Traffic Officer at Thirteenth and San- 
 ta Clara. 
 
 On account of the tremendous vol- 
 ume of traffic coming into and go- 
 ing out of San JoSe over Thirteenth 
 
 s and Santa Clara streets, numerous ac- 
 cidents were found to be taking place 
 at this congested corner on Sundays. 
 A traffic officer has been stationed 
 here during the busier parts of the 
 day with almost entire elimination of 
 accidents. 
 Material Reduction in Fire Loss. 
 
 There has been a very material re- 
 duction of the fire loss since the de- 
 partment has been taken out of politics 
 and the chief has been put in supreme 
 command of the department at all 
 times. No more convincing demonstra- 
 tion of the value of the new system of 
 government can be had than the in- 
 creased efficiency of the fire depart- 
 ment. Here again men -had thought 
 more about holding their jobs than 
 about the jobs themselves. Fires oc- 
 4 curred whére.everyone took a hand in 
 . directing the work of fire-fighting with 
 
 Call 
 
 bei reo LASS sis 63 
 
 Ly L5— 
 Uninsured loss wees» $16,273 00 
 Insured loss | AS Re as 
 ees >: a 
 Total loss -saums. .$53;898 9% 
 1916— (November estimated): 
 Uninsured 1088 ..-..: .$14,500 00 A 
 Insured loss ™....-. bueas's 23,200 00mm 
 Total logge. :. . cue +. .$37,700 00 
 
 - The average monthly loss for the 
 first five months of 1913, 1914 and 1915 
 was $18,538.08 as compared with 
 $7,540 for 1916. This is a decrease in 
 average loss of approximately $11,000 
 per month, which is equivalent to a 
 decrease of 59.38 per cent. - 
 
 Conference With Representatives of 
 
 Board of Fire Underwriters. 
 
 Barly in the work of the present ad- 
 ministration it was felt that no more 
 valuable service could be rendered to 
 the city as a whole than a reduction in 
 the base or “key” rate for fire insur- 
 ance. With this object in mind a con- 
 ference was secured with engineers rep- 
 resenting the Board of Fire Under- 
 writers of the Pacific. The needs of 
 the department were thoroughly gone 
 over and as a result it was found that 
 the department needed only a slight 
 increase in equipment with a consid- 
 erable in¢rease in personnel in order to 
 become a “standard” department ac- 
 cording to the board’s regulations. 
 These Additions would permit the 
 granting of the lowest “key” rate, The 
 first step in this program has beéx 
 taken in the increase in personnel as 
 outlined immediately below. 
 
 Adding of Ten Permanent Men to Fire 
 Department. 
 
 Provision was made in the budget for 
 the fiscal yéar 1916-17 for the addition 
 of ten full time men to the personnei 
 of the fire department. This is with- 
 out doubt the most important step 
 which has been taken in the fire de- 
 partment since its complete motoriza- 
 tion. 
 
 These mén Will supplant 14 “call 
 men” or “extra men” to Whom the 
 city has been paying $20 each per 
 month to respond to fires from wher- 
 ever they might be working. The in- 
 Greased efficiency which will result is 
 obvidus, But few more meén are need- 
 ed to bring the department up. to 
 standard requirements. This, with the 
 placing in active service of the two 
 reserve engines now iying idle will 
 
 Or r suapenMegGs in. the past 
 “than in any similar perio 
 
 .ards required of the men. 
 
 pio cist. ib tire, Giserplinée Of the d 
 Pi tment and in the interest shown § 
 the men in gh There has bé 
 mani steduin Suways Bd ist} 
 tified to by Ch ‘ey, th 
 
 in command of: 
 
 tory of the department. ‘¥ 
 feel that they are on a 
 One another and that they 
 to @ friendly commissione} 
 euséd for some violation 
 of the department, They 
 ble only to the Ghief who 
 ports directly to the cityur¢ 
 ficieney and loyalty are the} 
 
 gd be ex- 
 the rules 
 B responsi- 
 turn re- 
 ager, Wf- 
 nly stand- 
 
 Placing New Engines in Tihactors ‘of | 
 Engines No. 1 and Na. 2. | 
 Since thé motorization of the départ- | 
 
 ment the two Knox-Marteq tractors © 
 have caused continual: troubfe, Three 
 times the Grankshafts havd broken, 
 
 each time néeessitating taking an im- 
 portant piece of apparatus out of com- 
 mission for two jweeks or more while 
 new parts come from the east. Fin- 
 ally the situazion became unbearable 
 and the city manager informed the W. 
 J. Benson company, from whom the 
 traetors Were purchased, that someting 
 would have to be done at once to 
 overcome this’ most serious situation, 
 Mr. Benson immediately took up the 
 matter with the factory and as a re- 
 sult the Knox Motor associates finet- 
 ly agreed to install new engines in the 
 tractors if the city would pay the ex- 
 préssage on the new parts. The new 
 parts were forwarded and installed 
 with the result that the city is now 
 in possession of two first-class high 
 power tractors, in place of two unre- 
 liable, second-class low power vehicles, 
 Had the city purchased the! new en- 
 ‘gines outright it would have cost u 
 $1118.11. The express bill paid by 
 was $133, showing a net saving of 
 most $1000 in addition to the trem 
 ous improvement in the apparat 
 companied by a large increase 
 partmental efficiency. 
 
 Machine Shop for City 
 
 The motor apparatus in 
 partment is now approac 
 whete considerable m 
 expended.itt upkeep ar, 
 Haley in outlining his, 
 this to be $2500 for 
 
4 in. pa co 
 
 © tion, - 
 
 — made. for. materials, etc. © a8 
 
 _doubtedly give. Fise th larg eco 
 ost 
 
 and the total eallin 
 
 one-half “Of, the $2500. estimated as ate 
 
 “departmental requirements ‘for this: 
 «year. Sh on ae 
 
 property. 
 Employme 
 
 Azed) by the- ‘common pradiite of per- 
 mitting the men, to indiscriminately 
 employ pubstitutes, Novwmatter” how 
 trivial the cause, if a man wanted to 
 get off he, could secure a substitute— 
 usually an inexperienced man-—to take 
 "his place, He would pay this. ‘substi- 
 «tute for sthe time he was absent from 
 
 “his. company.’ 
 
 . ‘and find the raajority. ‘of men Manning 
 
 8 particular piece of apparatus not reg- 
 ular firemen, but Substitutes. “The sit- 
 nation was a seridus one. from the 
 standpoint of depattmental efficiency 
 and a critical one. from the standpoint 
 of discipline, The police and fire com- 
 mission had attempted to cope with the’ 
 vroblen 
 The isue had to be faced, however, and 
 after some careful) ‘consideration it was 
 decided to require: any fireman hiring a 
 substitute to lay oft for: at least six 
 hours—that meant @ quareriof a day’s 
 pay. The result has been remarkable. 
 Substituting is now limited’ sto cases 
 where it: should properly occur Sub- 
 stitutes. must be drawn from a gist of 
 qualified persons. 
 
 Department of ‘Public. La. 
 
 From the “point > of view of money ex- 
 pended and men employed, this is the 
 largest. and mosh” important depart- 
 ment in the city government, It is the 
 
 ated. It embraces the office of the’ 
 engineer, the former ‘street de- 
 ment, the operation of the inciner- 
 the caré .of all public buildings, 
 e carrying out of all repairs and 
 ustriction on, public property. 
 ndition of the several offices 
 o the’ department, the record 
 ra 1er lack of. system, in 
 yale and discipline 
 the operative 
 
 é question of sew- 
 eames for. the. dei’ 
 
 A» libéral. allowance bows also. 
 
 ¥ sisting on the records with regeid in 
 
 An alarm might come | 
 
 , but had met with no success. ° 
 
 lepartment also in. which the great-) 
 Bt opportunities for economy are pre- 
 
 “with leader 
 office at t eHes the. charter Went in’ 
 roving himseél i 
 Jsituation, an 
 ‘been secured!’ 
 ‘month, and provision ism 
 assistants. At the same’ timer 
 fully estimating the “expenses of ‘the 
 “department, 
 for a-total saving of $10,000 in the total 
 ~amount allotted to it this year) as com- 
 pared with last‘year's allotment. 
 . While’ the: plans above outlined have 
 been tae 3 : several 
 
 ents secur within» 
 
 pin Wie s ae night 
 
 of ets in e business, sec- 
 Mlementen bye (daytime hand 
 fas materially improved «the 
 ion of these streets. An interest- 
 
 experiment in 
 eled streets.” 
 tion’ with » 
 
 night watering of 
 Vas tried in mn, Nae 
 00d results)” jn- 
 
 loads: of water put upon the streets 
 beige turned in to the manager’s of- 
 fie, We increased the number of loads 
 put on s¢during the last wholly dry 
 month of this year by 640, almost the 
 equivalent of another wagon, The op- 
 eration of, the dmcinerator hag’ been 
 
 taken over by the city at an approxi- 
 re-9 
 
 mate saving, including estimated 
 pairs, of at least $30 per month. About 
 three: hundred letters have been sent 
 out demanding the installation of ¢urbs 
 and sutters where they had previously 
 béen. ordered in. Many -persons have 
 “complied with the request and the 
 
 “data is now at hand for bringing this 
 
 campaign to a conclusion.. The mane- 
 
 er has insisted in. the graveling of 
 Julian and Keyes streéts that the ma- 
 ‘terials Seraped: from the gutters. be 
 
 ‘removed from the street and that the 
 
 crown be so arranged that water will 
 flow: off the top of the street, The 
 esphalt block gutters have been re- 
 moved from First street between Santa 
 
 » Clara, and San Fernando streets and 
 
 the street resurfaced, 
 
 A great increase in the efficiency of 
 the engineering force has been added 
 by purchasing a Ford automobile for 
 the use of the surveying party in place 
 of a decrepit- wagon and hired horse 
 which formerly carried them from and 
 to their’ work. By this means it is 
 possible to secure much more valuable 
 service from the engineer in charge of 
 that work, who can now be utilized for 
 
 office work and other. duties. 
 
 No Increase in Average Cost of 
 Operating City. 
 In spite of the great increase in the 
 activity of the city; in spite of the 
 many new tnings undertaken and act=- 
 
 ually accomplished, there: has been no 
 increase in the expenditures of the 
 present administration as compared 
 with those of previous years. “As a 
 matter of cold fact, there has been an 
 actual decrease when the average ex- 
 penditures of the présent administra- 
 tion are compared with the average of 
 those’ preceding it. This fact is at- 
 tested to by Haskins and Sells in con- 
 nection with the annual audit of the 
 
 ‘city’s books, which they have just com- 
 
 pleted. In compiling these figures cash 
 disbursements of each fiscal period 
 only have been taken into considera- 
 tion. In order to determine the dis- 
 bursements for current operation, how. 
 ever, all disbursements from bond 
 funds, all money paid on account of 
 bond interest and redemption, and all 
 sehool and high school payments made 
 
 . by the city have been subtracted, and 
 the net disbursements for city pur- 
 
 poses only are shown. 
 The total net cash disbursements for 
 
 “current operation for the 31 months — 
 
 we Have*been able’ to plan. 
 
 ‘month as compared to! 
 
 sment—a decreas 
 
 LS at and politics must be ‘over>.)7- 
 
 16. Taveras 
 was spent’ by the’ i he in 
 tion during the 12 months i medi te 
 preceding... tal : 
 bursements in this 
 134.40, (on an averag 
 
 Tess per mont 
 
 five months of sab 
 
 form of $1,481.98. 
 age ee 
 
 city ra naeelice ve tiiagat. ; 
 
 When the above figures ar 
 ered in connection with the tre 
 increases in commodity _ prices) 
 kinds, which have struck the” 
 administration particularly har 
 results are all the more notewo 
 
 ; Con clusion. 
 
 lata | on the achievements of this a 
 ministration. It is not our faven tole 
 exaggerate them or ; T: 
 difficulties to come. Creditable as w 
 consider our work so far, it is obvious- 
 ly but @ beginning of a very serious 
 task. We stand today in a spirit of 
 deep humility before the solemn re- 
 sponsibllities of the future. The force 
 of traditional habits .of thought on ~ 
 
 ean dicura before success c3 rue 
 There is no more necessary, no mor 
 noble piece of work. for real men left 
 in our country. Other cities are hope- 
 fully watching our efforts, If ge ‘fail, 
 we set back not only San. ‘but 
 every other city struggling 
 
 light. mn 
 
 ager and people, moving. “toegth 
 harmony and confidence, ~ 
 
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