Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . or, and he has ever been a strong andconsistent supporter of organization for the workers. A member ofthe local Molders Union since 1887, he is now, and for years pasthas been, the president of that body. He is also district organizerfor the American Federation of Labor. He first assumed public officein January, 1910, as a member of the Board of Supervisors. In No-vember 1913, he was re-elected for his present four-year term, thirdon the list of the successful candidates. lie is chairman of the PublicHealth Committee, and a luember also of the Publi


Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . or, and he has ever been a strong andconsistent supporter of organization for the workers. A member ofthe local Molders Union since 1887, he is now, and for years pasthas been, the president of that body. He is also district organizerfor the American Federation of Labor. He first assumed public officein January, 1910, as a member of the Board of Supervisors. In No-vember 1913, he was re-elected for his present four-year term, thirdon the list of the successful candidates. lie is chairman of the PublicHealth Committee, and a luember also of the Public Efficiency andCivil Service, and Publicity and Interurban Relations Committees,being an earnest w^orker in all. Supervisor AValsh has never married,but has all his life made the domestic cares of his relatives his own,loyally supporting his aged parents in their last years and aidingmaterially in tlie rearing and education of the cliildren of a widowedsister and also those of a cousin whose husband was killed in a Penn-sylvania coal In an average year in San Irancisco there are a]:)proximately 1311hours when the temperature is above ° C. (60° F.) ; 4111 hourswhen the temperature is above ° C. {SS° F.), and 7625 hours, orabout 87 per cent of the entire year, when the temperature exceeds 10°C. (50° F.). Differences between day and night temperatures are warmest hour, 2:00 p. m., has a mean temperature of ° C.(° F.). The coolest hour, 6:00 a. m., has a mean temperature ° C. (° F.). FINANCES OF SAN FRANCISCO Bv lOHX S. DUXXIGAX Up to 1906 the City of San Francisco held the unique position amongAmerican municipalities of being practically free of debt. As adirect result of the catastrophe of that year the city was compelledto issue bonds for rehabilitation. In 1914 the net bonded debt was $,700. This will increase as the construction of the Hetch Hetchywater system progresses, and should the city acquire the Spring \ alle


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