Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-27
THE PEOPLES VIEWS.
More Interviews on the ALI
Absorbing Question.
BOTH SIDES FAIRLY GIVEN.
The "Herald" Garbles Nothing, but
Gives What the People Say Pro
and Con the Sewers.

The HERALD's plan of presenting the
PEOPLES views on the all-important
question of the outfall sewer is popular
byond our expectations. Everywhere
the reporter goes he is greeted with the
congratulations of citizens vitality inter-
ested in the matter, and who want to
get at all the facts procurable without
bias or interest. They say that the
HERALD is bent on giving us the facts to
guide us, and 80 long as the people vote
intelligently your paper appears as if it
would be perfectly satisfied with that
verdict. Some of the other papers, they
say, seem to be working for an end OF
their own and do not care much about
the real interests of the people. You
seem to be giving fats and letting the
matter rest then on the judgemnt OF the
people.
H. JEvNE.
The reporter Yesterday was going up
Spring street and spied 81. Jevne, the
grocer in the store. He stepped in and
accosed this dispenser of delicacies and
staples and asked him to give him few
expressions of opinion on the great
question. Mr.. Jevne said he was not
much given to newspaper interviews, nor
did he desire to appear much before the
people in that way. He said, however,
that he was opposed to running the sewer
into the sea. 1t is too valuable for the
irrigation and fertilization of the land
below the city, "From my observations
among the people, judging from what
hear, the bonds will not carry. They
will be voted down"
E. E. Hall, the owner of Angeleflo
Heights, was found in his Office. He
was even more unwilling than MIR. Jevne
10 be interviewed; but by little persist
ance the reporter got some expression of
opinion out of him. When it did come
it was in quite positive form. Mr.. Hall
said as starter that the outfall sewer
would never reach the sea by way of Bal
Iona. When pressed for his reasons he
said he had three of them. First, the
city did not need at this time any outfall
sewer to the ocean, at a cost of ten miles
of construction, when all the sewage to
be had from the city can be we'll used in
the irrigation OF lands between the city
and the sea. It is too valuable for this
purpose, with thousands and tens of
thousands of acres of land crying for it.
In times of heavy rains the surplus can
be run into Gods own conduit, the river
bed. The Ballona plan is contrary to
common sense, and it is contrary to nat
ure, which has made an outfall for all
the storm water of the district by the
river channel. The surplus sewage can
be run the same way.
The second reason for opposing the
Ballona plan, as stated by Mr.. Hall, is
the enormous expense attached to the
times like these. And his third reason
is that the Ballona route is radically
wrong. 1t goes in the wrong direction,
right in the teeth of the prevailing winds,
which will blow all the stencil back into
the nostrils of the city.
In reference to Santa Monica and an
Injunction suit, Mr.. Hall said that COM
munity will certainly sue at once, Just as
soon as the bonds are voted for the pur-
pose outlined in the ordinance about to
be submitted to the people. Mr.. Hall
said he would put up all the money he
could spare to fight the sewer
going to Santa Monica for the
reasons indicated, although for each 10
cents of interest he has in Santa Monica
he has $40 worth in Los Angeles. If the
bonds are voted and placed, as proposed,
it will simply tie up the money for a
term of years. Then the city can vote
no more money for sewer purposes in
any other direction. But if Mr.. Hall be
prophet there is not any great danger
of this; for it is his opinion that the city
will vote the proposition down.
Ex.cHIEF BURNS.
Ex-Chief of Police J. F. Burns was
coming down Spring street as the re-
porter came out of Mr.. HALLS office, and
the reporter asked him if he agreed with
mitted to vote of the people according
to the proposed scheme would fail to
carry. He said that in his opinion they
would be voted down.
J. G. EsTUDILLo.
Entering the office of Gilbert & Estu-
dillo, the HERALD man first entered into
conversation with the latter gentleman,
the ex-Treasurer of the State of Califor-
mia. Mr.. Estudillo said that if the sew
age could be made to run up hill, he would
like to get a large volume of it on his
lands between this city and Pasadena, to
use it there for irrigation and fertilization.
He said he understood that it could be
deodorized and made perfectly safe by
modern systems. He thinks the bonds
will be very generally opposed by the
more responsible people of the city. If
for no other reason, he thinks the lack of
confidence felt in the Council as whole,
and in it's municipal policy, will
do great deal to defeat the
passage of the bonds. The reporter
referred to the fact that many of those
he met had this same feeling, but did
not care to publish the fact. Mr.. Es.
tudillo said that he was simply stating
now what he found among the people
generally. He was merely tating fact
that exists, and he was willing to have
this reported. One citizen said the
Councils plans reminded him of an
English company which bought mine
in Nevada, spent $50, 900 in the erection
and fitting of mill, then went to do.
velop their mine and discovered there
was no ore in it. The plans begin at
the wrong end.
W. W. GILBERT.
Mr.. Gilbert, the other member Of the
firm, said that he took grounds radically
opposite to those of his partner on this
matter. He thinks the bonds will carry.
He wants the sewer to the ocean and to
n-u III L. l.