The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-10
THE SESSION FINALLY ENDED
Adjournment OF the Council
After a Two Days Siege
E0UALIZING CITY SALARIES
President Teed Gives Notice to Amend
the Ordinance
The City Engineer Sends In a Lengthy Report
Detailing Incidents of His Recent
Eastern Trip-The lotions

The council yesterday cleaned up the
vast amount of routine business which
had been gathered together last week,
the work requiring two days session
before il could be disposed of.
A new ordinance to gradeV street
from Sixth street tc Eighth was adopted.
The contract for the work has been let,
but through an error in the proceedings
the job has never been commenced.
The recomm endation of the Lania COM
mittee. that PERMISSION be granted the
City Electric Lighting and Power COM
pany to take water from zanla
R, at an annual rental OF $120 was
adopted, as we're also the recomme n
dations of the bridge committee. that tie
street superintendent repair the floor OF
the Walnut street bridge and the cutters
and eastern approach of the Ninth street
bridge.
The reports of the finance and sewer
committees and the board OF public
works, as published from time to time
within the past fifteen days in these COL
umns. were all adopted.
The draft Of the contract with Mackey
e. Young. to construct the various new
school houses. was adopted.
The draft of the contract with J. G..
Farnsworth for the boating privileges at
Holenbeck park for a period of eighteen
months, and the contract with Gilbert
Webb to furnish rolled barley for the fire
department, were both approved.
The Clark e. Paxton bonds in the mat
ter of certain electric street railway fran
chises were filed.
The city engineer was allowed two ad-
ditional surveyors during the month Ut
October, whose pay will be $4 a day.
The following communication from At
torney Will D. Gould was received and
filed:
| am of the opinion that the proceed
ings in the Beaudry avenue and Figueroa
street di stricts are legal.
The petition was for all Of the streets
named in the district and all of the
grades have been changed and made to
conform to each other and ma ority of
the frontage signed the petition. A
street should be construed to mean in
this cass the street.
The statute provides that all parties
can have their day in court; that all par
ties can protest ami have hearing; that
all parties shall be notified and the pro-
ceedings thus had shall be final. All this
has been done and is conclusive and final
l think the contract should be signed
and the work proceed.
The Nordholt property on Sixth street
and the Mesmer property on Boyd and
Omar streets, both school sites, were fin
ally presented free OF incum brance and
the demands for the same were ordered
paid.
The ordinance to improve Georgia
Boil street from Picu to Eleventh bv pri-
vate contract was adopted and the amend
ment of the building ordinances providing
for fire walls in flats and tenement houses
was referred to the building committee.
President Teed, during the day, called
attention to the unequal salaries at pres
ent paid in the various city departm ents,
and stated that at the proper time he
would move that new salary schedule be
adopted to take effect on January 1. 1896.