The herald., 1895-06-01
The Board of Public Works
Takes Action
ALL COMPANIES AFFECTED
One Fare Anywhere Within the City
Limits
Council The Sewer Committee fleets
in Regular Weekly Session

The board of public WORKS, in weekly
session yesterday, made the following
recommendations to be acted upon by the
council next Monday:
Recommend, In the matter of the petit
ton from George Cummings ct al, ask
ing that First street from Boyle avenue
to the Los Angeles river be graded, srav-
eled, curbed with cement and sidewalked
with cement six feet wide. and severed.
under the bond provision of the Vroo
man act, be referred to the City engineer
to prepare and present the necessary esti-
mate. and il the same exceeds the sum of
81 per front foot then to present the nee
cssary ordinance of intention; and that
at the same time present plans and speci-
ticatiOns for a culvert acress First street
between Boyle avenue and the Los Ange-
les river. whore the Arroyo de los Posas
crosses the same, said culvert to be con-
structed previous to the work nerein
pc titioned for.
Recommend that the petition from l..
c. Tyler ct al. asking that cement
sidewalk six feet wide be constructed on
the west side of Grand avenue between
First and Third streets, be granted and
the city engineer instructed to prepare
and present the necessary ordinance OF
intention.
Recon- mend that the petition from
Charles p. Folkerth ct al, asking that a
cement sidewalk be constructed on the
east side of Georgia Bell street, commence
ing 120 feet south of Eleventh street to
Pico street, five feet in width, be granted
and the city engineer instructed to pre-
pare and present the necessary ordinance
OF intention.
Recommend that the petition from A.
Ashman ct al. asking that Georgia Bell
street be opened from Ninth to Eleventh
streets to a uniform, width of sixty feet.
pe granted and the city attorney i,istruc-
ted TO prepare and present the necessary
ordinance of intention therefor. The
district of assessment to include all prop
erty fronting on said street between
Ninth ahd Pico streets and the city en-
glneer be instructed to furnish the city
attorney with the necessary data therefor.
Recommend that the protest from lsa-
bella Cordes be filed. as all proceedings to
improve this portion of Main street have
been abandoned.
Recommend that communication No.
562. from T. T. Bradshaw be referred to
drain herein complained Of.
In I'll e matter of the petition from the
board of supervisors in reference to the
grade on the east side of Buena Vista
street, north Of Temple, we recommend
that the property owners be requested to
present a majority petition to change
the grade of said Buena Vista street to
conform to the present mprovem ents and
curb on said street before the sidewalk is
put in.
Recommend that the protest against
the widening of Hamilton place be re-
ferred to the city engineer.
Recommend that the petition from J.
Brousseau ct al be filed, as the WORK
therein petitioned for has already been
| done.
In the matter of the petition from the
Los Angeles City Water company ct al. (.
l L. inc usrf fn In
half of Sixth street between Lucas avenue
and Bixel street under specifications No.
5, be granted. provided all of the prop
erty owners on said street sign the con-
tract to grade IN accordance Herewith.
Recommend that the pstiton from e.
w. Potts ct a., asking permission to i'm
prove Sixth street bewteen Figueroa and
BiXel streets by private contract under
specifications No. s. be fled for the reason
that the grade of Sixth street at its in
tersecton with Figueroa street does not
conform to said Figueroa street grade. it
being eighteen feet higher than the grade
of Figueroa street, which is now being
| improved.
In the matter OF the sprinkling of Ruth
and Towne avenues form Fifth to Sixth
streets and Main street from Jefferson
street to the south city limits, and .Jeffer.
son street between Main street and
Maple avenue. we recommend that the
board of pub bile works be authorized to
| contract to have said work done.
! In the matter of street car transfers at
the corner of DAILY streep and Pasadena
avenue and Fourth and Spring streets,
| we recommend that all companies or
lessees operating cars over the line of the
franchise of the Consolidated Electric
Railway company be notified by the clerk
that they will be required to issue trans
fers 10th at Downey avenue and Fourth
and Spring streets, the same as is re-
quired of the Los Angeles Consolidated
Electric Railroad copmany at transfer
points.
In the matter of Court House street.
from Grand avenue to Flower street and
the intersecting streets. recommend that
the city engineer make a profile showing
present grades and present improve
ments, and also his recommendation as to
changing grades in making further i'm
proven
Recommend that the street superintend-
ent be sinstructed to remove the dirt
from the sidewalks on Belmont avenue
between Palo Alto and Kane streets.
Recommend that the street superintend-
ent be instructed to repair San Pedro
street between Fourteenth street and the
south city limits.
The sewer committee yesterday made
the following recommendations for action
by the council on Monday:
aIn regard to proposals for con structing Il
sewer on Also street, from Alameda to
Vignes. it is recommended that the bid
of Nicholas M. Qurolo to do the work at
81 cents ner fOOt rom plpte he accppte1