Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-16
THE COUNCIL.
The Paving of First Street
Considered.
AN EIGHTH STREET PROTEST.
The Feeding of Hogs Upon Dead
Horses Considered by the City
Legislators.

The City Council met yesterday morn
ing President Humphreys in the chair
and Messrs. Moriarty, Hanley, Teed,
Book, Cohn, Gibbs, Hitler, Mathews
and Chandler present.
Mr.. Moriarty moved that deed from
Mr.. Newmark be accepted for the land
which had been set off by Surveyor
Lambie for street purposes on sainse-
vain street. Laid over.
Mayor Workman sent in the following
message:
ter of paving First street between Fort and
Santa Fe Avenue, i'll favor of the property own
ers and as through the delays resulting from
of imp loving this thorough has been seri-
ously retarded would ask that before the con-
tract is signe ID it be amended as follows: First
That the work OF paving the street must be
completed within three months. Second. That
the street be paved its full width as defined by
ordinance No. 405, regardless of existing
property owners are in favor OF this method and
NO demonstration against the provisions of the
ordinance having been filed. ask your
attention in this II after as the winter rains will
soon be here and interfere seriously with the
traffic on this important street. l would fu;
ther suggest that the Cable Railroad Company
be notified to at once pave between their tracts
and two feet on each side thereof, in confor-
nifty with the provisions of their franchise, for
the length of the improvement on the street for
whi the contract is to be signed.
Referred to City Surveyor.
Mr.. Gibbs asked the Street Superin-
tendent if Aurora street could not be
opened so as to allow passage from
Downey avenue to Buena Vista street
during the building of the new bridge.
Mr.. Book asked for information as to
whether the railroad company were not
under agreement to build bridge over
their tracks at this place. He was in
formed that there had been an agreement
by the railroad company to build the
bridge in consideration that it could use
the street for switching purposes.
A motion to refer the matter to the
Street Superintendent was carried.
The Mayor rec mmended that the City Sur
veyor be instructed to confer with the property
owners on Alabama street between Lake Shore
avenue and State street, for the purpose of de-
termining upon grade on the street agreeable
to all parties interested Referred to the City
Surveyor.
He also returned without his approval the
resolution of intention to grade Booth street
between Temple and Diamond and Chestnut
from Holt to Ba1rsnca for the reason that in
cost of improvement been furnished him by
the City Surveyor. In the case of Chestnut
street. qnite large tract of city property fronts
on this street, entailing an expense on the city,
and further, the resolution was illegal, Chest
nut street not intersecting with Barranca street.
Referred to the Board of Public Works.
The Street Superintendent reported
that Mr.. Wicks was ready TO make a
deed to the city for a portion of Second
street, providing Mr.. Wineshank was re-
compensed, and he asked that the city
of Io, f>v
land. The question arose as to whether
the street was not now the pr ,perty of the
city, and the matter was referred to the
City Attorney.
Street Superintendent Baldwin sent in
the following communication:
GENTLEMEN-A writ of mandate out of the
Hon the Superior Court of the State OF Cali
fornia, in and for the county of Los Angeles.
q. X; s. O'Melveny, presiding Judge, was
served on me last week comm handing me to
draw a contract with A. NJ Austin for the paw.
ing Of First street. AS you represent the peo-
1t has become my duty to notify you of the
above, that you may instruct me as to the tax
ing of an appeal to the Supreme Court. de-
likely to arise in which the awardees of con
tracts will dispute the correctness of the decis-
ion of the Hon. Court in the present case, and
highes. authority to govern the Superintend-
ents of Streets of municipalities where the
owners OF majority OF the frontage of a street
to be improved assert their right to do the work
is very desirable l RESPECTFULLY refer you to
the City Attorney, who is familiar with the
case, for legal opinion thereon.
On motion of Mr.. Hitler, the matter
was referred to General Baldwin, to act
under the advice Of City Attorney DAILY.
The City Surveyor reported as follows
in regard to the opening of First street
from Fort to Grand avenue:
found between Fort street and the E. line Of
yards of embankment; between the E. line of
Hill street and the Z. line of Olive street A.
100 cubic Yards Of excavation; between the E
avenue 246 yards of excavation and 34,44O
yards of embankment. Estimating the cost of
moving this excavation at SO cents per cubic
yard the total cost will be $21 ,37O Referred
to the Board of Public Works.
The City Surveyor recommended that
several stone water drains be constructed
at once. Referred to the Board of Public
Works.
A request from the Police Commission
for an increase of police force was read
and filed.
Mr.. Chandler called attention to the
end of the street car line on First street
which was in dangerous condition.
Referred to the Street Superintendent.
The matter of the changing of names
of streets came up, and it was decided to
allow the matter to remain open for
about a month to give every one a
chance to send in their written sugges-
tions in the matter.
At this point recess was taken until
80 O'Clock.
Afternoon Session.
Messrs. Dobinson & Fairchild asked
that their bid for the paving of Second
street be returned to them, as the prop
erty was not assessable. Referred to the
City Attorney.
Mr.. Book asked that the Street Sur
intendent be instructed to notify the
street car company to pave between its