Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-05
THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS.

A Little Girl Severely Burned in
East Los Angeles-She Played
With Matches.
The West End Board Of Trade trans
acted considerable important business
last night. S. 1. Haas and F. P. Cook
were elected members, and Mr.. Cook
was afterwards chosen Secretary, in
place OF Chas. Luckenbach, whose resig-
nation was accepted. Mr.. Swain, repre-
senting the Lowe Gas and Electric Com
pany, said they had sixty signatures Of
those who would take gas from his COM
pany, providing it laid main on Temple
street to Union. The company had only
canvassed between Temple and Second
streets. They would probably run a line
| to Ellis College, but not south of Second
street. Ground would probably be
broken for the main extension as soon as
the President Of the company returned,
in few days.
many south of Second street who would
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to see them. A suggestion by President
Register that the citizens south of Sec
ond street and the representative Of the
Gas Company be invited to meet with
the Board of Trade at the meeting next
week was adopted.
The Committee on Water and Fire re-
ported that it had no report. 1t was still
awaiting the arrival of the pump at the
Citizens Water Works.
Colonel @. E. Daley called attention
10 the resolution adopted by the board
some time ago to the effect than the city
should take stsps to put in public
water works. He thought the board
ought, by petition or otherwise, to move
on the City Council in the matter. The
city should take possession before the pri-
vate franchises became too valuable.
He moved that the Committee on Water
and Fire formulate q report of views on
the subject Of city water works and pre-
sent it at the next meeting, and the mo-
ton was carried.
Regarding streets, President Register
said he bad two estimates from con-
tractors on the Temple.street re-grade
work, and neither one exceeded $35, 600.
He estimated that there was a little over
$1,000 feet frontage on Temple street which
would have to bear half the cost, which
would make it little over fifty cents to
the front foot, while on the remaining
218, 900 frontage on other streets the cost
would be but trif1e over seven cents per
foot. He said some of the property rep
resented by signature on the protests
was out of the district Affected.
Col. Daley said that agents engaged In
working up protests against the regrad-
ing had misrepresented the cost Of it,
putting it at two to three dollars per foot.
On motion OF j. Mills Davies, the epV-
matter and the regular Committee on
were instructed to be present at the meet
Friday, this week.
Col. Daley spoke strongly against
anything but traffic grade on
End. He also said he had re-
viewed the ordinance by which it was
proposed to grant to the Second-street
Gable Road Company the right to ex-
tend it's track. He thought there was
Superintendent Swaine, of the Gable
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last meeting of the Council, and that the
feeling of the Council was to grant the
franchise if the dummy would be
stopped upon the immediate building
and completion of the extension, which
would be a condition in the contract.
The matter was now in committee, to
come up in Council next Monday.
@. H. Wedgewood said he would give
II. L kol~
sold for junk. Instead of granting them
more franchise, he thought the city
should take away what they had, because
the road was so poorly run, and he
instanced stoppage on the day OF the
rain, lately.
Col. Daley wasn't down on it 30 bad,
and Mr.. Hutchinson, who is an en-
ployee, defended it warmly. He said
the rain had stopped it but twelve min
utes, while it had stopped the Los Ange-
les cable road an hour and forty minutes,
and compelled the calling out of the Fire
Department.
A resident on Figueroa street said the
people over his way would be all up in
arms if there should be any seri US prop
osition to disturb the road.
Mr.. Hutchinson said there was to be q
meeting of the directors of the Second
street road on October 10th, when the
matter of double-tracking the road and
increasing the power. facilities would be
considered. Anyway, he said, the Sec
ond. street road ran faster than that on
Temple street.
President Register called Col. Daley
to the chair and said that the people
should be patient with the Second street
road. 1t was the pioneer. and had re-
ceived less attention and protection from
the city than any other corporation. The
difficulty it had always had to contend
with was the lack of drainage on Second
street, to correct which the people had
repeatedly petitioned in vain.
The following resolution by Colonel
Daley was accepted:
Resolved, That 1t is the sense of the
West End Board of Trade that no fran
chise ought to be granted by the city OF
Los Angeles to any company or corpora
ton for the extension of or building OF
new street-car railways that shall not
provide for the transfer of passengers to
connecting or intsrsecting roads without
additional fare.
A motion of Colonel Daley for the ap.
pointment of q committee of three to
vieit the three roads to see about arrang'
ing general system Of Car transfers, was
adopted.
Mr.. Innes thought he detected a dispo'
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