The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-21
THE FIRST STEP IS TAKEN
Official Action to Solve the
Tramp Problem
BY BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Businessmen and Others Argue for
the St0ckade
Favorable Action Recomm endeG to the Ccun-
ciI-The Building Superintendent win
Make the Plans Recomme ndations

A joint committee representing the
chamber of commerce and the associated
charities was before the board of public
works yesterday to argue for the stockade
and quarters for hobos, which it is pro-
posed that the city build for the purpose of
solving the tramp problem, so far as it per-
tains to Los Angeles. For the chamber of
commerce there were present President
W. c. Patterson, Judge Graft and DR.. j. A.
DAWSON, and for the associated charities
Captain John Cross. Secretary T.
j. Stewart, and Messrs. Pridham
and Jevne. The committee made q
plea along the line of the
resolutions of the chamber of COM
merce upon the subject, which were
published in THE HERALD few days
ago. Later the board of public works
agreed to recommend to the council that
the necessary stockades and other build
ings needed be erected. and that the build
ing superintendent confer with the chief of
police and the board of park commission
ers, relative to the necessary details as to
what may be needed. The board will to-
day take some action upon the street
sweeping bids opened last Monday.
Other Recommendations yesterday agreed
to were as follows:
That the petition from H. j. Woollacott
ct al. asking that Ninth street be widened
from Main to Pearl streets in the manner
set forth in the petition, be granted and
the city engineer instructed to furnish the
city attorney with the necessary data for
drawing the ordinance of intention; the
district of assessment to be upon both
sides of Ninth street from Main to Pearl
streets, and the city attorney be instructed
to prepare and present the necessary or
dinance of intention therefor.
That the petition from II. Mallinow ct
al. asking that Thirty-sixth street between
FiRueroa and Wesley avenue be graded.
graveled, curbed with cement curb and
sidewalked with a cement sidewalk four
feet wide be granted; work to be performed
between Figueroa street and the west city
limits, the balance of the street being out
side of the city limits, and the city attor-
ney be instructed to prepare and present
the necessary ordinance of intention there
for.
That the petition from Mary E. Stilson,
asking that Douglas street be graded from
the south line of Edgeware road to the
south line of Sunset boulevard, under spec
iflcatiohs No. 8, and that redwood curb
be laid from the south line OF Edgeware
road to the south line of Kensington road,
aud from the north line of Allison avenue
to the south line of Sunset boulevard, and
curbed with cement curb from the north
line of Kensington road to the south line
tof Allison avenue, be granted and the city
engineer instructed to prepare and present
the necessary ordinance OF intention
therefor.
In the matter of the petition from the
Los Angeles Electric company, in refer
ence to the order of the council instruct
ing them to move pole on the north side
of Second street, between Broadway and
Hill streets, we recommend that the reso-
luton adopted at the meeting OF the 9th
inst. be rescinded.
Recommend that the plans for under
ground system to be constructed on Broad
way, between Second and Third streets. as
submitted by the Sunset T. & T. Co. COM
munication No. 1872, be approved
Recommend TINT the petition from ]. j.
Richardson, asking to have cement work
tween Fourth and Fifth streets, be filed, as
the work has already been ordered.
Recommend that petition from L. D.
Smith ct al, asking that Ruth avenue. be-
tween Fifth and Seventh streets, be graded,
graveled, guttered and crosswalked, side
walked with cement walk five feet wide,
and a cement curb and sewer constructed
thereon, under the Bond provisions of the
vrooman act, be granted, and the city en-
.gineer Instructed to prepare the necessary
Iestimate of cost, and il the same exceeds
the amount required by law, then to pre-
sent the necessary ordinance of intention.
Recommend that the petition from H.
Steere ct al, asking that the grade of the
north side of Bernard street from a point
3s2 feet west of Buent Vista street to a
point $40 feet west of the same be changed
as shown by profile accompanying petit
ton, be referred to the city engineer to es-
innate if majority of the frontage
affected thereby is represented on said
petition, and if it is to present the neces-
sary ordinance of intention.
Recommend that the petition from NJ G.
McKoon ct al, asking that a cement side
walk be laid on the east side of Kip street
from Orange street to the turn in Kip
street, and on the west side of Kip street
from the turn in Kip street to Seventh
street, be graded, and the city engineer be
instructed to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance of intention therefor.
Recommend that the petition from S. G..
Dodge ct al, asking that Fifth street from
San Pedro street to the Arcade depot be
paved with asphaltum and granite cutters,
and severed, be granted, and the city en-
gineer instructed to prepare and present
the necessary ordinance of intention there
for.
Recommend that the petition from M.
Parker ct al. complaining of nuisance
IN the vicinity of Savannah and Michigan
avenues. be referred to the city engineer
to report what measures are necessary to
abate the nuisance.
Recommend that the petition from the
Porphyry Paving company. asking that
the street. superintendent be instructed to
make proportional assessment for the
improvement of Also street from Alameda
street to the Los Angeles river, be denied.
Recommend that the city engineer be in
etructed to present ordinance of intention
for improving Maple avenue, between the
south line of Sixth street and the north
Line of Seventh street, by grading accord
ing to specifications No. 3, curbing with a
cement curb and sidewalk with cement
sidewalk five feet wide, according to spec-
tications No. II, and repeating ordinance
No. 3155.
Recommend that the petition from Wit
mer Brothers, asking that the grade of
Quebec street and Newhall street. between
Ocean View avenue and First street, be es-
tablished, be granted and the city engineer
tnstruc ted to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance of intention therefor.
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