Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-15
PUBLIC WORKS.
RecO IN men datiOns to be Acted
Upon T0.MOrrOW.


The Board of Public Works met
yesterday morning and made the fol-
lowing recommendations:
That the City Attorney be instruct
ed to draw resolutions OF contracts
with N. M. Wilson to grade Pine
street at $3.50, Montgomery street at
$2.79; E. G. Burlingame, Seventh
street from Main to San Pedro, 81 SO F;
Asa Adams, Eighth street from Union
avenue to Alvarado; E. q. Burlin-
game, Yarneil street, $500, Sunset
avenue from Ward to Ocean View,
50. so, Virginia avenue, $3.50; W. h.
Lewis. Elmira street, $3.50 per lineal
foot.
That VIM. Wright's communication
respecting the piping of the Arroyo de
los Reyes through Pacheco street be
filed.
That the City Attorney draft reso-
luton to grade Adams street, from
Main to Figueroa, in accordance with
the Vrooman act.
That the City Surveyor establish
the grade of Macy street from the cov-
cred bridge across the arroyo.
That the petition of G. N. Paige ct
al, asking for street railroad fran
chise for fifty years on Los Angeles,
Alameda and other streets, the mo-
tive power to be dummies, be denied,
the city having no right to grant such
franchise.
That the City Surveyor establish
the grade Of Booth street from Temple
to Diamond.
That the City Attorney draft reso-
luton, under the Vrooman act, to
grade Truman street from Downey
avenue north to city limits.
That Catherine Fitzgerald be grant
ed leave to grade Emmett avenue,
through her own property at her own
expense, under the supervision of the
City Surveyor.
That the City Surveyor define the
lines of Wabash avenue, from Soto
street 10 Mission road.
That the petition of E. III. Boyd and
Chas. A. Paige, asking the city to ap-
propriate 500 for the improvement of
Mission road, be referred to the Super
intendent of Streets.
That the protest against the present
grade of Diamond street at Union
avenue be referred to the City Sur
veyor.
That the City Surveyor establish
the grade of William street, from Tenn
pie to Diamond.
That the Superintendent of Streets
investigate the application for cul-
vert at Grand avenue and Jefferson
street.
That the petition for the lowering of
the grade of Yarnell street between
Court and Diamond street be denied.
That the petition Of M. d. Beall and
others asking that Contractor Done
gan be compelled to make Virgin
street passable be referred to the Su-
perintendent of Streets, with instruc-
tions to see to it that the contractor go
on with his work.
| That the city surveyor establish the
grade of Lakeshore avenue from Tenn
pie to Diamond.
That the protest of Chas. Schmidt
ct al. against the manner OF grading
Wall street, from Fifth to Seventh, be
referred to the city surveyor.
That N. w. Stowell's proposition
offering to exchange land needed for
the opening of streets through his own
property in East Los Angeles be re-
fused.
That the city surveyor establish the
grade of Bellevue avenue from Lugon-
ia avenue to the west city limits.
That the opinion of the City Attor-
ner in the matter of a railroad fran
chise to Waltman, Hynans e. Burke
be referred to the Superintendent Of
Streets, who is ordered to remove the
track.
That deed from Mills & Wicks to
property on Second, Third and Mateo
streets be referred to City Surveyor
for verification of description.
That petition of San Gabriel Valley
Rapid Transit Railway for franchise
for elevated road, from Los Angeles
street to city boundary, be granted,
provided there be no protes from
property-owners, and the company
give clearance of twenty-one feet in
crossing Alameda.