The Arizona sentinel., 1876-01-08
THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES.

recent message 0f Mayor Beaudry, of Los Angeles, to the newly elected Common Council of that city. The Mayor is will known for his enterprise as private ci- tizen and this official document abounds in timely and sensible suggestions for the improvement of the city of wh ich he is now the chief magistrate.
 If the gentlemen of the Coun- cil are wise, they will lose no time in carrying out these sug- gestions, or so many of them as they have the power to deal with.
 The Mayors remarks upon the necessity of a thorough system of sewerage for the city, and those advising the better pavement and regulation of the streets, and for their lighting at night, must be considered by all familiar with the city, and interested in it's vel fare, as decidedly opportune.
 Only a few days since, we heard a gentleman remark that the streets of Los Angeles, were eith- CT all dust or all mud, according to the season, and to traverse them at night was to imperil life and limb. It is true that within a year or two past, considerable work has been done upon them, but there is much more demand ed, and that city, so we'll SUD- piled with gas, should suffer it's street lamps to stand unlighted, is the wonder of strangers, and, we doubt not, of residents.
 It has also gone abroad that for the want of sewerage, levers, es- pecially fatal to children, are ge- nerated in warm weather, and there are constant dangers to health, even in a climate world renowned for it's salubrity and much sought by invalids. The papers assert that, on account of a difference of opinion regarding the incumbent, the Health Office of the city was declared vacant, and the people left without any one clothed with authority to abate nuisances, some of which are described as of a very loath- some and disgusting nature. The Mayor says the inconvenient and disgraceful adobe huts which have hitherto done duty as pub. lie buildings, are a libel upon ci- vilization, and inferior to the pub lie buildings of any city in the State of the same size and wealth. AS an occasional visitor to Los Angeles, we have seen enough of these miserable structures to war rant us in prOnouncing the lan- guage of the Mayor not at all ex- travagant. The public buildings would, perhaps with one excep- tion, do no credit to an Arizona town, and are not to be compared with those of San Diego OF San Bernardino.
 In fact, in many particulars, the enterprise of the authorities of Los Angeles, (always excepting Mayor Beaudry,) has not kept pace with that of its citizens, and its press, and it is to be hoped that with the advent of 8 new Council, will come new order of things and city legislation equal to the necessities of @ large and progressive population.
 A city enjoying such healthy and assured growth as Los Ange- les, and destined, beyond all ques- tion, to such a brilliant future, can we'll sustain the taxation, whatever it may amount to, re- quired 50 provide it with good drainage, well paved and lighted thoroughfares, and public build ings slightly in appearance and in size and stability sufficient for the prompt and agreeable transaction of all municipal business, and the
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