Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . ceCommission by Mayor Phelan. In 1907 he was elected a memberof the Board of Supervisors under Mayor Taylor and has ever sinceremained a member of that body, being re-elected three times, hispresent term expiring in 1^16. He is chairman of the Committee onEfificiency and Civil Service and a member of the Committees onHospitals and Health and on Supplies, and is active, not only in theaffairs of these committees, but also in all matters which come beforethe Board. It was on his initiative that the charter amendment providinga four-year term for Super
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . ceCommission by Mayor Phelan. In 1907 he was elected a memberof the Board of Supervisors under Mayor Taylor and has ever sinceremained a member of that body, being re-elected three times, hispresent term expiring in 1^16. He is chairman of the Committee onEfificiency and Civil Service and a member of the Committees onHospitals and Health and on Supplies, and is active, not only in theaffairs of these committees, but also in all matters which come beforethe Board. It was on his initiative that the charter amendment providinga four-year term for Supervisors and the election of half the Boardevery two years was submitted to the people. Two great universities and a womens college of the Pacific Coastare situated in the suburbs of San Francisco. The public schoolsystem of the city is extensive and efficient. It includes seven highschools, ninety-six grammar and primary schools, and three inter-mediate schools, with a teaching force of 1436 teachers. 3,2 MrxiciPAL Blue Book of San Francisco. c CHARLES A. NELSONSupervisor HARLES AUGUST serving liis second termas a member of the Board of Super-visors, was born in St. Mis-souri, on the 24th of March, 1875. In 1884 he moved with his par-ents to San Francisco, where hegrew to manhood, receiving his edu-cation in tlie public schools ofthe city. Adopting the carpenterstrade, he became an expert in thisand other branches of the buildingindustry, also taking much interestin labor organization and was elected district president ofthe Amalgamated Society of Carpen-ters for San Francisco, and was ap-pointed business agent by the Build-ing Trades Council. His entry intopolitical life dates from the fall of 1908, when he was elected a member of the State Assembly fromthe Thirty-second District. In the Legislature he was notably activein the support of measures tending to benefit the working man andin opposition to legislation of a contrary tendency. In November
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