The herald., 1894-11-20

tnhl oil ana refuse from the Second
street oil district 10 being partially dis
posed OF through the Flower-street
storm drain.
CITY ESGINEER's REPORT
Upon tho report OF the city engineer
final ordinances were passed as follows:
To establish the grade OF Carr street
from Main street 10 Hill street; to es-
/ tablish grade OF FL Dorado street, Was /.
ingtop street to it's southern terminus;
to establish the grade OF Towne avenue,
between Sixth and Seventh streets; to
establish the grade of Beaudry avenue
around tho east eide of the Sisters
hospital, from Beaudry avenue ON the
south to Beaudry avenue on the north.
Ordinances of intention were adopted
as follows:
To grade, gravel, gutter and construct
cement curb and sidewalk four feet
wide on Kensington road from Douglass
atreet to Bellevue avenue. To grade,
gravel, gutter and redwood curD on
Douglass street from Kensington road
to Edgeware road. To lay cement
walk on north side OF Seventh street,
between Main and Wall streets. To
pave and gutter Clay street with btu
minous rock surface with concrete baee,
and three and one.half foot gutter
extending $40 feet south. and six foot
gutter from point 800 feet south of
| Thirty y-sscond street to Fourth street
with granite curb in the intersection
OF Third and Fourth streets. To essab-
lish grade OF Bonnie B.se street from
Orange to Sixth streets.
THOSE SPANISH RECORDS.
The finance committee made the fol-
lowing report:
''In the matter OF the translation OF
/ the Spanish records into the English
language, which matter was referred to
committee at the session OF November
18th, we recommend tina. the city attor-
ney be Instructed to prepare and pre-
sent contract with Stephen G. Foster
| to translate said records at q cost not TO
exceed $500, as per written agreement
I heretofore submitted by said Foster"
On motion the matter was referred
back to the finance c0mmitte.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The board Of public works reported IS
follows:
Recommended that the petition of 8.
G. Habbell to grade the south half OF
Sixth street, between Bonnie Brae and
Alvarado streets, by private contract, be
| referred to the attorney for ordinance.
Other recommendations were granted
by the council as follows:
Recommended that the grade OF Gill
day street be established from Macy
| street north to the termination.
Recommended that the petition OF the
trustees of the Christian church, to lay
six-foot cement eidewalk on tbs north
aide OF Eleventh, between Hope and
Pearl, be granted.
| Recommended that the petition of
| G. w. Peachy for cement sidewalk elk
fee. wide on tbs west side OF Pasadena
avenue, between Welle and Hamilton
streets, bo granted.
Recommended that the grade of
French avenue be established.
! Recommended that the city engineer
be directed to devise ways and means
for diverting the storm water from Fig
ueroa street ard the southwest portion
of the city.
| Recommend that petition No. 903
from G. q. Rutherford ct al, asking
| that Whittier street from the north line
CT Ninth street 60 the south line OF
Eighth street be graded, graveled and
! curbed with cement, under the bond
! provisions OF the Vrooman act, be re-
| ferred to the city engineer to make the
necessary estimate OF cost, and If the
/ came exceeds the sum OF 81 per front
foot, then to present the necessary ordi.
nance of intention therefor.
THE FIGUERoA STREET EATER.
A long protest was received from prop.
erty owners on Figueroa street against
the abandonm ment Of the same between
Sixth and Seventh. The petition said !:
1--WE appeal to the mayor and the city
council not to confScats our property !;
not to abandon the city property not to
injure public interests and not to do q
| thing that is wrong in morals and wrong
in law, by the abandonment OF one Of
the oldest and best public streets in the
/ entire city"
1t further called attention of the
council to the fact that Figueroa is the
longest one of the residence streets in
the city and ite abandonment without
compensation to the property owners
would be great injustice; that what
ever may be the public necessity OF
maintaining Figueroa street south of
Seventh, there certainly can be no doub
as to the public necessity of m lain ntaining
| that street from Seventh to Sixth; that
Seventh street, with its double track OF
street car line is one OF the most import.
ant thoroughfares across the city. The
matter will come up again.
NEW ENGINE HOUSE.
A motion to have the superintendent
OF buildings ordered to prepare epecifi-
cations for new chemical engine house,
to be constructed BY the city or built by
| other parties and rented to the city,
was referred to the building COM
mittee.
THAT OIL DRAINAGE.
The city attorney was instructed to
present an ordinance making it q mis-
demsanor to drain any lake or standing
water foul with oil or the refuse of oil
wells with any zanja or storm water
drain.
NEW POLICE STATION.
On motion of Mr.. Rhodes bids were
ordered accepted for the sale OF the
property where the police station is Sit
usted on Second street.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
The grade was ordered established on
State street, between Brooklyn avenue
and Fourth street.
A motion to have the superintendent
of street sprinkling sprinkle Twentieth
street east Of Maple avenue for one block
WAS referred to the board of public
works.
The street superintendent was directed
to grant 20 days extension of time to the
oontractOr fov thu oradiu0 of pr .l;.~ 49,.