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Show EXTRAVAGANCE IN SAN FRANCISCO H I San Francisco. Jan. ?.0 Wasleful- H V ncss, incompetence extravagance and H fl Av padding of payrolls are charged to H various departments of the municipal 1 government of San Francisco in a ro- port presented to tho board of supcr- visors by the finance committee and H 1 ma do public todaj. B) The boards of public works, health 1 ! and education, tho fire commission H 1 and tho bureau cf olcctrlc'ity figured B in Uie charges, which brought forth H . an hour's heated debato among the Hj 4 , supervisors without action. The prln- clpal offenso charged was that of B' ' maintaining cxccssivoly largo payrolls. BI Of the Geary street municipal rall- B J way, now under construction, the ro- BBMBH 0 "Such portions as aro now under !-j. -way have boon constructed at onor-, onor-, mous cost, accounted for to some ex-I ex-I tent by tho fact that this work was I takon out of the city engineer's de- partment. In direct violation of the BL charter, and a separate department B'i H(t Mayor Rolph announced that ho B would' Insist on a thorough Invcsttgn- fl lion of tho charges. |