Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-24
THE PACKING HOUSE ORDINANCE
Passed Yesterday Afternoon by
the City Council.
Mr.. Nickell's Reconsideration Notice
was Peremptorily Choked Off.
Speeches of Mcssrs. Lowenthal and Denis
on the Proposition-Some Amend
ments that Were Never Yet
introduced by Members.


sion yesterday morning, with all mem
bers present. There was but one mes
sage from the mayor, vetoing the ordi-
nance by which Thirty-frst street was
ordered to be graded between Grand
avenue and Main street. The vote by
which it had passed was then recon-
sidered.
FROM THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
A message from the board OF health,
calling attention to a nuisance in cQp-
nection with the big $4,000 fill at First
and Rosemont avenue, was read. Sew
eral lots were to have been filed in, but
this has not been done yet, and the
consequence is the collection OF large
pond Of water, which is a great annoy
anCe and menace to health. There are
certain drainage pipes, but they never
were the proper thing, having been
choked up by settling of the made
ample drainage there at once.
Mr.. Rhodes said a box culvert had
been put in there by the city engineer
the engineers plans before the board OF
public works had seen it.. There should
have been the right kind of culvert
there in the first place. Council had no
part in the acceptance of the etreet.
Mr.. Rees moved to refer the matter
to the street superintendent and city
engineer.
Mr.. Innes said it was an important
matter and the people concerned had
right to prompt attention.
Contractor Donegan said the work had
been done accordings to specifications
and they did not call for brick culvert.
He had put in wooden culverts at the
suggestion of the street superintendent.
He said some OF the culverts were
choked, but were all right If about 500
worth OF filing is done, which will do
away with the pond of water.
The street superintendent said wood.
en- culverts had been used because the
pressure of 45 or50 feet of fill would de-
molish cement. No contract could be
made to drain every little gully on pri-
vate property, but the intention was to
drain the street.
Mr.. Innes said somebody was to
blame for the insufficient drainage, and
it was the same way with other fills on
the hills. He said payment OF the bonds
should be stopped.
Mr.. Rees and Mr.. McGarry said the
contractor had done twice as much in
the way of building culverts as the con-
tract called for. The street had been
accepted and payment of the bonds
should not be stopped.
On inquiry of the president the city
engineer explained how every contract
for fills provided for culverts.
The whole subject matter was finally
referred to the board of public works.
THE PACKING HOUSE MATTER.
The matter of locating the Cudahy
packing house came up. Mr.. Nickel
said that before granting the right to
the company to locate and use water
some guarantee or bond should be ex-
acted to secure what the company
pledges itself to do. 1t is very serious
thing to locate packing house right in
a residence part Of the city. 1t is far
worse than o smelter.
Mr.. Rees said the gentleman from
the First ward lived nearer the bone
works ard chemical works than the
packing house and he made no objection
to the glass factory.
The ordinance was read providing for
the district for slaughtering. 1t fxes
the limits sat the intersection Of the
north line of Macy street with the west
line of the Southern California Railroad
company's right of way; thence north
60p feet; thence west 600 feet; thence
sotth 600 feet to Macy street; thence
eat 800 feet to the point of beginning"
Mr.. Innes said he would not vote for
theordinance as it read, and would in
sist on a guarantee of just what the
company will do.
NJ. Brown defined the location of the
distict where Simon Maier asks that
slauihtering be allowed, and asked that
it beaded to the ordinance. He said
it wa proposed to dispose of the water
by connecting with an eight-inch sewer
at Min and Willhart streets.
Mr. Rees moved that the district de-
finedby Mr.. Brown be added to the Or
dinare. 1t is ''that portion of the
Willhrt tract bounded north by Maud
streeteast by Santa Fe railroad COM
pany'lright of way, south by Kuhrts
streetwest by Willhart street."
Mr.. Lowenthal, attorney for the Cud-
ahy cppany. said the company did not
ask fo1any monopoly of the slaughter
ing ditrict, but believed some district
shouldbe properly set forth for all who
desired the privilege of slaughtering.
As to the packing house being nuis-
ance, here is practically no damage
done bit, and even if there were thereis
recoura to law for any damage to prop
erty. lhe packing house of this late
day is ut simply slaughter pen, but
is condcted on the principle of not
wasting single hair. The systems Of
the coniany, which represent q capital
of $25 5,0A 900 in the country and 81 ,000,-
900 in Oaha alone, are such that there
is no bas for complaint of any of their
packing houses being nuisance. Mr..
Lowenth presented petitions signed by
four-fftHof the bankers and business
men of tb city in favor of the packing
house. etitions were also read to the
council sned by property owners in the
immedia| vicinity of the proposed
packing iuse. There are about 200 of
them. n. Lowenthal went on to show
what thendahy company had done for
Omaha, eploying az it does $500 men
all the ar round. Other packing
houses al located in Omaha, and no
complaint are made against them.
Kansas OF is mainly kept up by pack
ing housed and they are also located in
the heartof New York, Boston and
other cite
The conAny expects to carry on busi-
ness yealt loss, and cannot at first
guaranteed kill 30 hogs day, as they
Good Looks.
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