The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-03
FORECAST FOR THE COUNCIL
Matters Which Will Come Up
at Mondays Meeting.
Recommendations From the Board
of Public Works.
The Ninth Ward Wants Branch Police
Station Some Petitions
and ProtGBts.

the committees OF the city COUNCIL nao
not completed their reports last night,
and they will probably not be COM
pletely prepared until the council me cts
on Monday at 9 O'Clock.
The board of public works took long
drive on Thursday. visiting several parts
OF the city and taking notes on various
things under its department..
On Friday morning the board met
and prepared the following report:
In the matter OF the petition from II.
Knsuff ct al, asking permission to i'm :
prove Jefferson street between Wesley
avenue and the city limits by grading
with the natural m atsrial on the street,
curbing with cement and sidswalking,
we recommend that the same be granted
and the city attorney instructed to pre-
pare and present the necessary ordinance
granting such permission.
Recommend that the specifications
presented by the city engineer for cross
walks with cement concrete and broken
stone concrete base and asphalt surface
snd with asphalt and broken stone con-
crete base and asphalt surface, together
with the plans for said crosswalks be
adopted and placed on f lie in the Office OF
the city clerk.
In the matter OF petition from A.
Bricker ct al. asking that bridge be
constructed on Seventh street, leading
from the river brink into the river 80
that persons desiring to take sand and
gravel may have access to the same, we
recommend that the petitioners be al.
lowed to put in such a bridge as will
answer the purpose, at their own ex-
| pense and under the supervision of the
street superintendent.
Recommend, in the matter Of petition
from f. hutchinson ct al. that the city
engineer be instructed to give grade
stakes on Seventh and Lemon streete,
and the street superintendent be in-
structed to clean out the cutters on both
sides in such manner as to drain the
stagnsnt water from the street, and that
he also be instructed to put 2-foot
culvert across Seventh street on the
west side OF Lemon street in such
manner as to take the stagnsnt water
from the north side of Seventh street.
Recommend that the petition from
Mrs. A. F. Coronel ct al. be filed, as
action has already been taken in the
matter.
Recommend that the petition from P.
DAWN ct al, asking permission to i'm
prove DAWN and Second streets by pri.
vate contract be referred to the CITY
attorney to draft an ordinance of per.
mission in accordance Herewith.
Recommend that the petition from R.
s. Walton ct al. asking to have the
pepper trees trimmed at the southeast
corner OF Rose and Second streets, be
granted, and the street superintendent.
instructed to have said work done.
In the matter Of the petition from the
| Southwest Los Angeles improvement
association, we recommend that the
same be referred to the city engineer to
make necessary survey of the land to be
taken for the opening of said street, and
| the city attorney instructed to draft
necessary ordinance of intention; the
district OF assessment to be furnished by
this board.
| Recommend that Wolfskill avenue,
| between Fifth and Fourth streets on the
| east side OF the street, be repaired by
the street superintendent.
Recommend that the street superin-
| tendent be instructed to place CROSS
walk at the intersection of Union ave.
nue. and Court street, in accordance with
the petition from j. A.. Mcmillan ct AL
In the matter of stagnant water at the
northeast corner of Tenth and Pearl
street. recommend that the street super
intendent be directed to repair the gut
ters as proposed by the city engineer,
and the engineer be DIRECTED to give him
the grade stakes.
Recommend that the Consolidated
Electric Railroad company be instructed
| to place a pipe running from the south
west corner Of Bellevue avenue and New
High street. across Bellevue avenue,
under the car tracks, to the northeast
corner of Bellevue avenue and New High
street, to connect with the sink basin,
| for the purpose OF carrying off the water
that forms lake on the south side of
| Bellevue avenue.
| Recommend that the trees on the
south side OF Boyd street, between Wall
street and the electric light, be
| trimmed.
Recommend that the following cross.
walks be placed:
Across Twenty. eighth street, east side
of Main street; across Pico street. east
side OF Santee street; across Main street,
east eide OF Hancock street; across Pearl
street, south side of Seventh street;
across Bishop street, at inters ection OF
| Buena Vista street.
Recommend that the following cross.
walks be repaired:
Intersection OF fourteenth and Hill
streets, Eighteenth and Grand avenue,
Eighth and Olive, Ninth and Pearl,
south corner Also and Alameda, Com
mercial and Vignes, College and Casta-
lar, Temple and Beaudry avenue. Pasa-
dena avenue. west side DAILY; Pasadena
| avenue. south side OF Sigler; Truman,
north side of Downey avenue; Twelfth,
west side of Main; Main, south sido OF
Twelfth; Loa Angeles, south eide OF
Fourth.
PETITIONS AND PROTESTS.
Sylvester Grant petitions the coun Gil
to have one OF the new frs.alarm box es
placed at the junction of Boyle avenue
and Seventh street, or in that vicinity,
on Boyle heights.
| OTHER CITY BUSINESS.
Dodd & O'Gara, the contractors, de-
sire to sell the sprinkling hydranta
erected by them at the corner OF Grit
fifth avenue and Twenty-eighth streets.
Twenty.sevsnth street and Central
avenue and East Washington and
Central avenue. The hydrsnts were
put in by the firm when they were
grading Order & Dow's Adams street
tract and they now offer them to the
city for 500 each
Tuo protaata hava haap filad in the