The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-21
Two BIG SEWER DISTRICTS.
They Will Drain the Southwest
Section.
Twelve Miles of Sewer Pipe to Be
Laid.
A Work That VIII Cost $4,000 and
DO Great Deal of Good to
Rapidly Expanding Section
OF the City.


to che intended sewer system of the city
of Los Angeles has just been mapped
out by CITY Engineer Dock weller, and
will provide for the sewage of the
thickly settled portions of the -Four 1 h
and Fifth wards.
The two new districts are known as
western sewer districts No. 2 and and
cover the territory south of Washington
street in the Fifth ward and west OF
Pearl street in the Fourth ward. Alto.
gether about IL miles of sewer are to
be laid in these two districts, involving
an outlay of about $4,000 under the
Vrooman act. The largest district is
that laid out west OF Pearl street. and it
embraces lines of vitrified pipe of 10, IL
and inches, on the following thorough
fares: Washington street, Cherry
street, Eighteenth, Seventeenth, Six
teenth, Bond, Wright, De Long, Georgia
Bell. Fifteenth. Pico. Sentous, Girard,
Twelfth, Trenton, Eleventh, Overton,
Denver avenue. Blaine street, Tenth,
Sargent, Okey, Ninth, Moore, Ruby and
Eighth streets. The sewers to be laid
on the above thoroughfares cover "a, :
200 feet, and will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
What is know as the western sewer
district No. 2 is not as large as the first
described district, but it will drain a
very important portion of the city. 1t
provides for ~, 10 and s inch sewers on
the following streets: Key West street,
Twenty eighth, Portland, Severance,
Twenty-seventh, Adams, Thompson,
Scarf, Twenty-third, Norwood, Twenty
fret, Oak, Freeman, Bonsallo avenue,
Estrells avenue and Lovelace avenue.
This district will require 1870 feet OF
viJri6ed pipe and will cost something
like $4,000 under the Vrooman act
These two systems will connect with
the outiall sewer by means of the
western interce otter and give good drain
age to very large area of territory in
a portion of the city that is rapidly be-
ing built up.
According to the work already under
way and that has been provided for by
the petitions of property owners, City
Engineer Dockweiler says that 1894 will
be the greatest year in the history of the
city In the improving OF the streets and
the construction OF sewers. In view of
this fact the eouncilmen are anxious to
devise some means by which the prop
erty owners who pay for street i'm
provements can be assured that they are
getting full value for the money ex-
pended on these improvements. There
has been g good deal of criticism as to
the general class of men who are APP
pointed by the street superintendent as
inspectors on the work of improving the
streets and the construction OF sewers,
work that should be under the super
vision Of practical men, who are
thoroughly conversant with the details
of the work In hand. These inspectors
receive from So to 81 per day, and from
the kicks and criuicisms made on
numerous streets. it is evident that the
work OF inspection is in the hands of
men who are ignorant of the most
primary ideas as to how streets should
be graded, cement curbs laid or sewers
constructed. The city engineer has
been kept in hot water for long time
by the numerous complaints which have
come to him of gross negligence in the
construction of sewers in the Hill street
district, cases being reported where Az
inches of water were found in newly
constructed sewers, the same having
leaked in from the water turned into the
tISACHOs AOi buo puIpOso VI hotLlluS bu0
earth around the newly made sewers.
A number OF the councilmen feel
that the time has come to put stop to
the appointment of political bummers
on the inspection of street improve.
ments. who have 40 other qualification
to hold the job than political pull"
One of the plans proposed is to have a
board of examination, to consiet OF the
city engineer and two practical men ia
miliar with street work, whose duty it
ehall be to examine all inspectors as to
their knowledge of the work, and only
issue permits to such as pass first-clasa
examination. If a business man pro-
posed to make an extentive outlay of
money in the construction OF plant, he
certainly would not appoint someone
who knew nothing about the work to
superintend it, and the same rule should
hold good with regard to public work.
Bueking CHA ms Dye for the Whiskers does its
work thoroughly, cOloriDg u uniform brown
or black, which, when dry, will neither rub,
waEh off nor soil linen.