Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-05
COUNCILMAN KUHRTs.
His Clearly Defined Views
on Municipal Matters.
STREETS AND wATERwoRKs.
A Man Experienced In these I'm
portant Matters-Seryed
Five Terms.

Mr.. Kuhrts, the Democratic nominee
for the Council from the Second Ward,
was interviewed yesterday on municipal
matters. The streets, owing to their
recent horrid condition after the rain,
very naturally came up.
Mr.. Kuhrts said of course the streets
need immediate attention. And the
city is now 70 large and SO certain to
grow to still greater dimensions in the
future. that what is done should be of
lasting character. Now, they talk of
macadamizing the streets. 1t will not
do. The streets are constantly torn up
to lay water pipe, street car rails and
sewers. II is ali very well to macadam-
ize street ii the material is to lie as
first placed. But every time it is torn |
up it goes in as may happen. Then
Your street is spoiled. About the new
wood patent for streets, do not know
Of my own knowledge. l only know |
that in all big cities all sorts of schemes
are tried, but they all come back to |
pavements. Get good rock and cut the
books square. They will last forever,
and when torn up, the square blocks |
must be put on, top and put in properly. Ii |
ism very noisy--not like cobble stones. |
Pat in such streets and then do as San
Francisco has. Let the city take care |
Of such streets forever. Then the prop |
erty holders are relieved from all fur |
ther outlay.
THE CITY BUILDINGS
Should be erected with all possible dis
patch We owe it to ourselves as a |
matter of pride and patriotism to put up |
municipal buildings that people from |
outside will be forced to admire. The |
bonds are ample to give us handsome,
substantial and commodious buildings |
and leave enough to iako care OF the irri- |
CATION question. There must be ample |
room for all the city offices. The rents |
are very high, and the city is paying |
much more than the interest on the |
bonds will come to. But these works |
must be done by men OF experience, who |
know how things should be done aud |
what they should cost. Councilman
needs TO be good business man. II he |
is successful in managing his own pri- |
vate affairs it shows at leagt that he has |
capacity for such duties as the office i'm
poses. The contrary is as true. man
who has accomplished little or nothing
for himself is not likely to do much for
the city.
THE WATER SYSTEM
Should be greatly improved. There is
a growing demand for water for all sorts
of uses. There Is plenty OF it coming
down the river. Ii needs to be taken
care of. For the main channels sub
stantial aqheducts should be constructed
so us to stop evaporation, seepage, and
the waste incident to overfiowing and
broken bitches. This will save not only
the water but the streets as well. 1t
will save money, too, for there will be no
bitches to clean all the time. Then
there will be plenty OF water Tor all parts
OF the city and for five or six miles all
around outside, where water is now
often hard to get
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
There are other things to be done. All
these plans for opening Los Angeles,
Bath and Chavez streets were got well
under way years ago when | was IN the
Council. | worked hard to get these
things done. The fault ABOUT these mat.
tiers was not with us. We did all we
could and kept mp our efforts. But
these changes in streets caunot be made
if the property holders resist. think
now these great and necessary improve
ments can all be successfully accom-
plished. The property holders can
probably be brought to agree.
THE CHINESE,
That is no new matter to me. tried
every way to suppress the nuisance IN
Chinatown. The fault was never laid
ut my doors. was instrumental in
passing the cubic air law. They should
be made live as other nationalities are
made to live. They threaten the health
Of the city, and by herding together like
swine in pen they save rent and ar,
able to cut under the whites in all sorts
of labor. They should not be tolerated
in such habits, and laws should be en-.
forced to make them live and keep
that part of the city cleanly.
SALOONS HAVE RIGHTS
Just as any business has. Keep them
In their rights and then treat them fairly
like any other business. High license
will not do it,. The dives which they
say are to be put down by the high |
license are better able to pay than an
honest dealer Is. The dives not only |
sell liquor, but some of them rob man. |
They can well afford to pay $50. But |
because one man keeps disorderly |
house aud rObs his customers is no rea- |
son to make war on all in the same busi- |
ness. Keep them orderly, and ii man |
keeps q disorderly house or robs his |
customers, suppress him. Punish him, |
not a whole class OF men, scores OF |
whom are rs honest, rs honorable, as
peaceable, and as good citizens in every |
way as any of us. That is what |
| think, and | do not like to |
see class persecuted because |
some men in that line of business do not |
carry it on properly. If the saloons are |
wrong in themselves, and the liquor |
traffic is so nefarious, and injurious to |
the public ms to make it necessary that |
it should be suppressed, let them come |
out and say so plainly. The Prohibit |
tionists at least are consistent. Selling |
liq1or is right or wrong. Ii it is wrong |
they should not sell license to commit |
the wrong ut any price. If it is not |
wrong, they should not impose burden
some, excessive and unfair tax on il any |
more than on any other line of business.
IN THE COUNCIL FIVE TIMES.
MIR. Kuhrts has been here twenty-six |
years. lie was one OF the charter MEM
bers of 3S's Fire Company. His family |
have grown up here, and are here now.
All he has accumulated is in property |
in this city His interests are all here, |
and he has interests at stake in this |
city. He has served the city in various
capacities and he has sat five times |
in the Council The reoords show |
for themselves. His name will be
found years ago where he did valiant
yeoman's service for white labor in
passing the law forbidding the employ
ment of Chinese in municipal work.
One OF the boys.
EDITOR OF THE HERALD see by |
your issue OF Friday that S, NJ. Perry's
friend has been giving him kericter-
from his last place.
This reminds me of a remark he made |
when being overbauled and turned out
of the Workingmen's Central Club, for
violating his pledge in such way as to |
ruin his party, by throwing himself into