The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-22
But the Oil Inspector Must Work
Harder
NO BILLS WERE ALLOWED
The Supply Committee Makes a Radical
Departure
4 Business Proposition From the Board Of
Supervisors to the City Council-Superin-
tendent Howard Makes q Suggestion

James Methvin, the oil inspector, still
lives. Nearly all of the oil men have now
paid their license as ia required by law,
and the few who are still holding aloof are
expected to come up to the captains office
and settle by tomorrow evening. The ALL
thorities are, however, still of the opinion
that one or two refractory operators may
have to be arrested.
The finance committee of the council
yesterday agreed to recommend that In
spector Methvin hereafter collect the
licenses and that a report upon his collec-
tons be filed with the city clerk once q
month. 1t was also agreed by the COM
mittee to allow the city assessor three adj
ditional deputies at $50 each, who will be-
gin work on January and will be em-
ployed up to July.
The supply committee yesterday filed
the following:
Your supply committee beg leave to re-
port that they present no requisition this
week for approval. That under the reso-
luton of your honorable body instructing
them not to presc4t acquisitions where the
amounts drawn upon the cash fund ex-
ceeded the amount estimated in the levy
for any given month, they are prohibited
from approving acquisitions as the amount
drawn upon this fund to date is in excess
of the amount allowed by such levy.
The board of supervisors, by Chairman
A. M. francisco, have filed the following,
VIII III will come before the council at it's
. sion tomorrow:
The Evergreen cemetery association hay
ing refused, after December 81, 1895, to
take charge of the grounds or superintend
any interments made within the ten acres
decided by it To the city of Los Angeles, the
county, through it's board of supervisors,
xuttl MI nj ia n IN alInarT.
tend the same, il your honorable body will
give the county entire control over the
ground with power to regulate the manner
of interments and fix charges for the same,
all receipts arising tharefrom to come to
the county; either party to the agreement
to have the privilege OF terminating 1t on
six months notice.
The board of public works yesterday
made the following additional recommends
atoms to those already published:
In the matter of railroad tracks on AL
hambra avenue, we recommend that the
street superintendent notify the Southern
Pacif1 c railway company to place such cul-
verts as are necessary to take all water
from the intersection of Workman street
and Alhambra avenue.
Recommend that the street superintend-
ent remove all earth that is in danger of
falling upon the stairs at the southeast COR
ner of -and street and Broadway.
Recommend that the street superintend-
ent be instructed to place catch basin on
the northwest corner of Third and Chicago
streets to connect with a thirty-nch storm
drain.
Recommend that the ordinance of inten-
sion to sidewalk Hill street from Pico to
Seventeenth streets be placed upon it's pas
sage.
Recommend that tho building superin'
tendent be instructed TO present plans for
barracks to be built in Elysian park, and
confer with the chief of police and park
commissioners in reference to the size and
location of the same
Street Superintendent Howard, in COM
munication to the council, says:
'Af err an extended observation in the
oil district between First and Temple
streets | contemplate great inconvenience
in the cutters and streets of the low or por-
tons of the city, by the winter rains carry
ing the oil down into the same. The lake
in the old Second-street park is natural
reservoir for the drainage of this district,
and by properly constructed gate at its
outlet this oil can, in my opinion, be con-
fined and the water drained from this
point. This is u matter of vital impor-
lance to the streets. and should receive at
tention at once "