The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-01-26
HUTCHINSON TO Be SUED,
The City Attorney Gets His
Additional Instructions.
A withdrawing Report on the Extra
Timber Transaction.
The Proceedings Mt the Adjourned Sos
sion of the City Council-Labor
Demands to tho Amount of
5000 Are Approved.

The city council met in adjourned
session yesterday morning with Presi-
dent iced and Councimen Campbell.
Innes, Muneon. Nickel, Pessell and
Rhodes present.
The demands for the men employed
by the labor commission were read and
referred to the finance committee, which
soon reported them back and they were
allowed and ordered paid. The de-
mands aggregate 1903.
Mr.. Innes moved that the city attor-
ney prepare an ordinance changing the
names of the following streets from their
present names to Echo Park road:
Loomis street, Laguna avenue from
Bellevue avenue to the intersection with
Montana avenue; Montana avenue from
lis intersection with Laguna avenue to
Reservoir street; Utah street from Res
ervoir street to Wyoming avenue, and
Morton street from Wyoming avenue to
Edie street. Adopted
Mr.. Innes moved that the city en-
tablished on Lsguna avenue, between
Bellevue avenue and Montreal avenue,
and on Montana avenue between La
guna and Park avenues, and on Park
avenue between Montana avenue and
Pasadena boulevard. Adopted.
Mr.. Campbell moved the city engineer
present an ordinance to improve john
son street, according to specification
No &c. l. a. -. &c 49,
to the north side of Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Adopted.
Mr.. Pessell moved the street gu perrin
tendent be directed to repair New Main
street and Old Main street, between
Jefferson street and the city limits,
using soil. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Munson the sum of
$4,000 was transferred from the cash to
the employment fund.
Mr.. Teed moved that the city engineer
be instructed to prepare an ordinance to
sewer the district bounded north by
Washington and east by Figueroa street.
Adopted.
THAT EXTRA TIMBER TRANSACTION.
The sewer committee reported as fol-
lows:
First-In the matter of the resolution
of Mr.. iced, adopted by your honorable
body on the 18th of the present month,
asking that the sewer committee make
an investigation, and report the facts to
your honorable body in reference to an
editorial which appeared in the Los An
geles Daily HERALD of the same date
alleging that the council had allowed
the contractors on the outfall sewer the
sum OF $4,000 for extra timbers, we
would report that we find that on July
/ 10, 1898, the city council entered into q
contract with Messrs. Mackay q Young,
contractors on the outfall sewer, to leave
remaining in section ga of the outfall
sewer, 1865 lineal feet OF timber at rs
cents per lIneal foot; was approved by
his honor, the mayor, on August s, 1898.
The total bill OF extras under this
contract amounts to 1924 50; this is
the only contract entered into for ex-
tras on the entire line of the sewer.
The extra timberng referred to was
| placed in the tunnel on section ga OF the
outfsll sewer for the following reasons
| First, on the recommendation of Mr.. IL.
P. Vincent, civil engineer and superin
tendent OF construction, who recon-
mended to this committee that the
tim bering that the contractors had
placed in the tunnel during construction
should be left in, for the reason that the
earth in which the tunnels were made
was of very treacherous and slippery
nature, and was liable. should the tim
bers be drawn while the brick arches
were green, which would have been the
case should they have been drawn at all,
as the brick arch was built on forms of
lengths of seven feet, and we are of the
| hoA no = hot h hao Il
at that time, that much of the brick
arch would have been crushed, as they
had to withstand the pressure of many
tons OF earth, and the contractors, under
| their contract, where the brick work
had been built according to plans and
specifications, did not guarantee that
the arch would not crush under such
conditions, and under his contract he
had right to withdraw all timbers, and
he notified this committee that unless
he was paid for leaving the same in, he
would draw them and use them in other
places and this ia in brief the facts in
the case as near as we can ascertain
them. Adopted.
TO SUE MR.. HUTCHINSON.
The following report was received and
read:
Your special committee to investigate
and report on the condition of the
street superintendent's Office, to whom
was referred the report OF the city at
torney in reference to the alleged
shortage in said office during the incum
bency of f. h. Hutchinson. beg leave to
state that they some time ago reported
that there was an apparent shortage in
the Office during the incumbency of said
Hutchinson of about $1,000, and recon-
mended that the city attorney be in
structed to commence the necessary
legal proceedings for the collection OF
the same.
Thereafter the city attorney reported
to the council that he had been shown a
receipt by Mr.. Hutchinson signed by
the present street superintendent for
1878.
This committee has no means OF find
ing out whether or not Mr.. Hutchinson
ever turned this money over to Mr..
Watson, and we therefore recommend
that the city attorney be instructed to
at once institute the necessary legal
proceedings against Mr.. Hutchineon
and his bondsmen for the collection OF
the amount which appears from the ex
animation of his books to be due to the
city.
On motion Of Mr.. Innes the report
was adopted.
The city engineer reported an ordi-
nance OF intention to construct a sewer