Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-05-21

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pointed by the Board Of Health.
Adopted. !,
The Board of Health recommended
that the petition of A. J. King ct al. to
be allowed to bury their families
| in the City Cemetery be granted:
Also recommended that the swill
ordinance be amended so as to
prohibit the carrying of swill through
the streets except between the hours
of 10 p. NJ. aud 6 A. NJ. Adopted,
and the ordinance read and adopted.
| The City Attorney presented ordi-
nances ordering Upper Main street sew
cred, Second street paved, and work
| done on several other streets, as hereto
| fore adopted in the ordinances of inten-
ton. Adopted.
The City Attorney presented an ordi.
nance providing for the excavation OF
streets under the supervision OF the Sup:
erintendent OF Streets. Read and
adopted.
The Board of Education presented an
ordinance declaring the necessity for &C.
curing sites and erecting school build.
ings, which will require the issuance OF
bonds. Mr.. Pomeroy appeared and
urged that the ordinance be passed at as
early a date as possible. Referred to
the Finance Committee and the City
Attorney.
The Police Commission recommended
that the petition of S. s. Watson to erect
block directories be granted. Adopted.
Mr.. Brown moved that the S. P. r. r..
Co. be requested to place a flag man at
tie crossing of Second street, on Alamo.
la. Carried.
A contract with L. Lyon & Son for
furnishing the carpets and linoleum for
the Library was read and approved.
A contract with Walton & Wachtel for
furnishing chairs, etc., for the Library,
was read and adopted; as also was a
contract with the Milwaukee Furniture
Company, for furnishing chairs, etc., for
the Library.
The matter CT the removal of the poles
of the electric road on Seventh street
was brought up, and Major Bonsall
moved that the vote by which the ordin-
snce ordering their removal was adopted
be reconsidered.
Mr.. Rowland introduced Mr.. Taylor
the representative of the Thompson
Houston Company, who said he wat
here to close the negotiations with Mr.
Rowland. If the Council would with.
draw its opposition, the Company would
60 ahead.
MIR. Mcdonald, property owner or
Seventh street, said he wanted Mr.. Tay.
lor to understand that the people would
not have poles on the street and would
fight the matter in the courts.
Mr.. F. Sabichi said that he repre-
sented the largest frontage on the street
and be was opposed to the poles.
Major Bonsall said that he understood
1, that the franchise never gave the Electric
Company the right to place the poles on
the street.
Mr.. Taylor said that all he asked was
weeks further time and if that was
granted he could tell whether he would
,, make the trade with Mr.. Rowland.
Mr.. Frankeufeld said that he had
been a member of the Council when the
J franchise was first granted and he had
been sorry that he had voted for it ever
since. The people did not want the
poles and would rather have the cars
drawn by blind mule than have the
poles.
The motion to reconsider was carried
by vote of 6 to 8, and on motion the
? matter was deferred one week.
Ordinances of intention to improve
portions Of Alvarado street, Park View
u avenue, Ward street and Seventh stree
were read and adopted.
Mr.. Wirsching called up the matter o.
f, street sprinkling and eaid that he under
= stood that it was required by the contrac,
that the carts should work ten hours a
+, day. He found that the carts were work.
, ing but about eight hours a day, and the
Finance Committee should take cogniz
ance of this fact.
The following resignation was read
To the Honorable Council of the City o.
Los Angeles:
cl GENTLEMEN-Pursuant to the terms o
. the Charter of the City of Los Angeles
your Honorable Body appointed Boarc
: of Police Commissioners to which was
: elected as one of its members. On March
4 90, 1889. the said Commission elected
Mr.. j. F. Burns as Chief of Police, who
: Immediately entered upon the discharge
: of his duties, and with the aid of ar
f efficient force selected by said Commits
sion, and under the direction of sale
0 Burns, all the evils heretofore complained
9 of have been gradually disappearing
0 and the confidence of the people, was
0 restored, by the earnest efforts Of the
Police Department to render life anc
property secure. Your honorable body
0 deemed it wise to remove from said Com
y mission Major w. G. Furrey, and in his
9 place was appointed by you one of ths
: present incumbents, D. Gilbert Dexter
n who met with his co-Commissioners fol
a the first time April II, 1889. On May
t 10, 1889, at the meeting of the sait
/, Police Commission, three of the Commits
t sioners, Lindley, Knox and Dexter. car
ried a motion through the Board by
e which the complexion of the police force
: was materially changed and Immediately
! removed without cause or reason
!, certain of the officers who ha(
been previously selected, and pu
0 in their place an equal numpe
of men, some of whom do not possess
tie legal qualifications required b,
the Charter for such officers, an(
? several who are not even residents
!. of the city. In making thes,
CHANGE, the three mem ers re
ferred to singled out specially as tn,
, persons to receive their condemnation
j all the Spauish-American officers VIII,
, had been previously selected from boil
0 political parties, and who had dis
9 charged their full duty to tn,
! city during their short term O
office, several OF whom had been trieC
and were most efficient officers. mum
!, Der of old soldiers were likewise decapi
tated without reason or excuse.
' When l accepted the position will
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