Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-30
THE WEST END.
Meeting OF the Property Owners
Improvement Club.


Improvement Club.
The West End Property Owners
Uuion held another harmonious anc
interesting meeting IN Wednesday
evening.
Unlike similar organizationsin in othel
sections OF the city, no fault was
found with the city or other corpora
tions for lack Of needed improvements
but it was determined to depend en-
tirely upon their own exertions. With
two cable roads this part of the town
has the best communication with the
business center OF the city and the
water system and supply-obtained
from three sources-is equal to any in
the city. Of course there are some
Improvements and repairs the city
might make, for instance Beaudry
avenue-a graded Streets SO full OF
mounds and ravines that it would
worry an able-bodied man to wheel
an empty wheelbarrow from Temple
street to Bellevue avenue, yet with a
view to the healthfulness and con-
venience of the public the city with
great persistency succeeds In havlng
its sprinklers every day, rain orshine,
to the great delight and satisfaction
OF the people Of that locality.
Then as to light. there is one cleo
trio light mast to every five or SIX
miles of territory.
The committees appointed at the
last meeting reported as follows: The
Committee on Sewers first reported
that it had investigated and learned
that sewer system had been begun
or projected to begin, at Negro
Slough, eighteen miles south Of this
city, and in the direction in which
the city is growing, and that at some
future period between now and the
year A. d. 1900, a branch Of thaS sys-
tem would penetrate the hills, but the
committee further reported that
nature had furnished a natural system
of drainage which would carry Oft the
garbage and sewerage at least once a
year, in "the direction in which the
city is growing" On motion the re-
port was received and two younger
men were added to the committee,
hoping that they might live to see the
work completed. Committee con-
tinued.
The Committee on Gas was next
called. They came up smiling, one
at a time, and reported that there
were between two and three hundred
first-class dwellings in the district
west of Pearl street and north OF
Fourth many OF which were provided
with gas pipe connections, but that
there were no gas mains further west
than Bunker Hill avenue; that the
old gas company had intended to ex-
tend their pipes to the hills, but on
account of the burning OF one building
on the hills they had determined not
to do so until after Mr.. Cleveland
was inaugurated for a second term.
Another member of the committee
had seen the Water Gas Company
which expected to lay forty miles OF
gas mains this year, and reported that
after they had supplied that part OF
the city in "the direction in which the
city is growing, "they would investigate
this section. This committee was also
continued. Last, but not least, the
committee on street improvements re-
ported that there were more streets
being graded and improved at the
present time between Pearl street and
Alvarado street, and Angelef1o Heights
and Fourth street, than in any district
of the same size in the city. They
recommend the widening Of Temple
street to eighty feet from Pearl street
to Union avenue, the grading Of Lake
Shore avenue from Temple street, the
grading of Bellevue avenue to city
limits, and the grading of all the
the streets between Cincinnati and
Pearl from Bellevue avenue to Second
street, and the opening Of Cincinnati
street to State street, and that petit
tions be Immediately prepared and
signed to present to the Council. Re-
port adopted. Several new mem bers
joined the Union. Adjourned.