The herald., 1895-04-07
| WORK FOR THE CITY COUNCIL
Bids for a New Police Station to
Be Received Tomorrow
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Another Electric Franchise to Be Put
Up for Sale
Petitions and Reports Filed The Report Of
the City clerk-Other Public
natters

Bids for new police station will be
opened at the council meeting tomorrow
and already several have been received by
City Clerk Luckenbach.
The board of education will meet to-
morrow night and the library trustees at
80 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The following matters will come up for
consideration:
Board of Public Works
The board of public works has made the
following supplemental report:
Recommend that the ordinance estab-
fishing the grade of Cortez street from
Belmont avenue to Lake Shore avenue be
placed upon it's passage.
In the matter of petition No. 352 from
E. W. JONES' we recommend that Ramlsh
d Marsh, the contractors removing gar
bage, be notified to comply strictly with
the terms of their contract and with the
specifications in the removal OF said gar
bage.
Recommend that protest No. 342 from
L.. N. Breed ct al, against the contem-
plated improvement of Breed street be-
tween First street and Brooklyn avenue
be referred to the citv engineer to report
the frontage represented on said protest.
Recommend that protest No. 2O1 from
property owners on Ash street. protesting
against the opening OF said Ash street,
be denied.
In the matter of petition No. 34S, from
Kerckhoff- Gunner Mill & Lumber COM
pany, we, recommend that the city engl-
neer be instructed to establish the grade
OF Towne avenue from Eighth to Twelfth
streets.
Recommend that the petition of the
Southern California Railway company,
asking that the width of Second street at
its eastern end be reduced so that the
uniform width of the street shall be
about fifty feet be denied.
Recommend that the following petitions
be filed, Nos. 341, 343, $50, and 331.
| In the matter of the nuisance at the in
tersection of Los Angeles and Fifth
streets caused by stagnant water, we re-
com mend that the matter be referred to
the city engineer and street superintend-
ent to report some remedy to carry the
water south across Fifth street.
In the matter of the opening of Avlla
street. we recommend that the district OF
assessment be both sides of Avila street,
between Macy street and Bauchet street,
and that the city engineer furnish the
city attorney with the data necessary to
present an ordinance of intention to open
said street.
Upon examination we find that Grand
av,nue, CIV Washington and % ferson
streets, between the rails and tracks OF the
railway company and for two feet on
each side thereof, is in a wretched con-
dtion, in many places the rails standing
above the level of the street. We there
fore recommend that the street supern-
tenent notify said railway company to put
the street in proper condition at once.
Petitions and Reports Filled
A petition has been filed with the city
clerk by the Pacific Land company, ask
ing that Dora street. beween Sixth street
and Ocean View avenue, be graded,
graveled cobble guttered, cement curbed
and cement sidewalked.
Reuben H. Lloyd has petitioned that the
grade of Twenty seventh street, between
Figueroa street and Key West street, be
esta blished.
The city clerk has prepared a report to
be filed with the council on Monday
showing the collection of $42 as tax sale
redemptions for the month of March,
fees received from "a REDEEM ptors.
P. Steinhart and others have filed Pc
tition with the city clerk to be presented
to the council, asking that the nuisance be
abated caused by stagnant water on
Twelfth street between Union avenue and
Burlington streets.
Wants an Electric Franchise
c. s. Walton has filed the following re-
quest with the city clerk to be presented
to the city council on Monday:
II respectfully ask your honorable body
to advertise, according to law, a franchise
to erect and maintain poles and under
| ground conduits in the public streets of
| the city of Los Angeles, and to run wiles
| through. over and under the thorough
| fares of said city, for the transmission of
| electricity for light, heat and power. for
the peirod of twenty-f five years from and
| after the passage and approval of the ordl
nance, copy OF which is hereto annexed
and made a part of this petition.
"Your petitioner, recognizing. the fact
| streets of this city at the present time.
| thickly lined and dis6gured with poles
! and overhead wires, and realizing the
| great danger to life and property in cases
| of conffagrations, which are liable to oc-
cur at any time, and also the hindrances
to the proper working, OF the fire depart
ment at such times. also taking into con-
sideration the condition of the said
| streets when the two or more proposed
! electric railways will have erected the
necessary poles and wires to operate
| them, also. considering the fact that it is
/ contem plated, in the near future, to cleo
| tricize the present cable railways, thereby
necessitating the erection OF more poles
and wires, respectfully calls your attention
| to the following:
"First-The franchise for which your
petitioner asks will not permit the erec-
! ton or maintaining of poles or overhead
wires in the district bounded as follows
Commencing at the corner of Los An
geles and Marchessault streets, thence
south ON Los Angeles street to Seventh
street, thence west on Seventh street to
Hill street, thence north on Hill street to
T Temple street, thence east on Temple
street to the junction of Spring and Main
streets, thence north on Main street to
Marchessault street. thence east on
Marchessault street to Los Angeles street.
including said boundaries.
"Your petitioner, realizing the value OF
this proposed franchise and following the
precedents of eastern cities, offers in ad-
dtion to the usual concessions OF city
police, telephone and fire alarm privi-
leges, two per cent of the gross receipts
received in consequence of the privilege
granted by said franchise, to be paid
into the city treasury annually, which
would necessarily aggregate large sum of
money for each year during the life OF
said franchise.
The franchise herewith submitted is
one containing conditions and in form
such as has been heretofore adopted. ap-
proved and advertised by your honorable
body.
The City Clerks Report
The city clerk has filed the following re-
port to be submitted to the council:
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