Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-26
Afternoon Session.

The matter OF the protest against the opening
Of Sixth street came up. The City Attorney
reported that the legal points presented by the
attorneys were not well taken. Mr.. Batcheler,
attorney for one of the protestants, said that
his client would not accept the warrant for her
award. The commission proposed to take her
property and only allow her 800, which was
TeA iust
Major Bonsall said that the street was needed,
and he was anxious that the matter should pe
settled without getting it tied up IN court.
The representative of Mrs. Wilson thougnt
that. In justice to her, the award for The house
Captain Barrett said that the commission had
been very careful In making its awards, and
.-sG taken good deal of evidence in the mat
ter. After considerable discussion, Mr Shater
moved that the protest of Mr.. Kerckhof be de-
MED. Carried.
The protests of Mrs. Ward aud Mrs. Wilson
were also denied, and the report OF the COM
mission was adopted and confirmed.
Major Bonsall moved that the vote whereby
the contract for grading Belmont avenue in
tersection was let to the Union Construction
Company be reconsidered. Carried.
Msjor Bonsall moved that the contractor be
required to construct the eurbs.
The contractor stated that he had not bid to
construct the curbs. After some discussion the
contractor said he would stand one half the
expense of putting in the curbs, and on motion
OF Major Bonsall the contract was awarded to
him.
The Superintendent of Buildings presented
an anne ndmeDt to the ordinance regulating the
erection of buildings. The amendme
changed the sizes of the scantlipg in buildings
Of one, two, three or four stories. The ordi
nance was adopted.
Proposals for moving the Pine street school
were received. They were $3.50, $1,000, and
M. Hamilton moved that the bids be rejectedt
Mr.. Frankenfeld moved to amend to refer tn
matter to the Building Committee, with powel
to act in moving the building to another par o.
the lot providing the cost was not more thar
$500 Mr.. Hamilton's motion and the amend
ment were carried separately.
City Attorney McFarland called attention to
section of the charter providing that contracts
to expend money over the sum of $500 mus
be suthorized by ordinance; He was instructed
The report of the Finance Committee was read
and adopted.
printing was as follows: "In the matter of bids
to do the city printing, your committee reports
that the bids are very nearly alike, and recon-
mends that the bid of the Express be accepted
and the City Attorney be instructed to draft 9
contract in accordance with the proposal"
Colonel Ayers was given permission to SPEAK
in relation to the matter and said that nc
desired merely to state that ii the Finance Com
mittee intended to report in favor OF the Lowest
bidder it had made a mistake In figuring he
had found that the bid of the HERALD was 20
per cent. lower than that of the Express On
the first insertion the bid OF the Express at liz
cents would be lower than that of the HERALD
which was 20 cents, but on all subsequent In
sertions there would be difference Of cents
per inch each insertion in favor of the HERALD
Colonel Ayers then presented figures for five
months last passed taken from the City Audi
tors accounts. These showed that the amounts
under the bids for one-time advertisements
favor the Express by 43.33, while the
amount under the bids for advertisements run
ming more than one time would be in favor Of
the ., HERALD by $365 81. Deductine
press, leaves $325.16, by which amoun
the bid of the HERALD was better than that o.
the Express. Admitting that the printing ths
next year would be similar to that of this veal
the HERALD bid was the best by twenty pei
Mr. H. Q. Osborne said he was not prepared
to dis pute the figures presented, but he desired
TO cali attention to the figures resulting from
an examination of the books when the Expres
in the last six months OF that year the total ons
time insertions was 3, ,557 inches and the tota
for more than one time was 736 inches, which
under the bid would cost more in the HERALI
than in the EIpress.
Colonel Ayers called attention to the figure
for the past FIVE months, which showed so
inches Of one time advertisements against So
inches OF advertisements of more than on.
time. This showed that there were more ad
YertisemeDts to be inserted more than on
time than there were one time advertisements
sented by both gentlemen were correct but tina
each had taken those most favorable to thei
Street superintendent Morford said that th
advertisements from his once averaged fou
insertions each.
The recommendation of the committee wa
than adopted by unanimous vote.
The special committee appointed to dtvid.
the city into sprinkling districts reported and