The herald., 1895-02-24
..IoJonA BEFORE THE COUNCIL
Committee and Official Reports
for the Week
OFFICIALS ASK FOR HELP
Plans for a New City Jail and Court
House Proposed
OFFICIALS ASK FOR HELP
The Finance Committee Asks for the
Attorneys Opinion on the Bond
Electric Ordinances

weekly reports were not aDle TO entlrely
cope WITH and as result the reports were
not all prepared yesterday.
The finance committee was in session
part of the day and passed upon quite a
few OF the unimportant issues before it,
but did not finish its report. The Fiesta
matter went over another week and the
bond election ordinances were not finish
ed. 1t is now understood that the propo
sition to include bonds for new city Jail
and court house. The City Attorneys
opinion on this plan has been asked for
and the ordinance will wait until the
opinion is filed.
lThe Board of Public Works prepared a
partial report yesterday, after having
spent one day during the week in drive
around the city. The report is as follows:
In the matter of the petition OF O. a.
lvers ct al, asking for franchise for
double track street car railroad on West
Fourth street, between Bonnie Brae street
and the west city limits, we recommend
that the City Attorney be instructed to
prepare and present a draft of an adver-
tisement asking for proposals for double
track electric railway franchise on First
street from Bonnie Brae street to the west
city limits, the work to be commenced
by the parties to whom the franchise is
granted, ninety days after the granting of
tne franchise and to be fully completed
within nine months thereafter.
Recommend that the petition from
+. B. Yoakum, asking permission to take
earth from First str ct, on the side of lot
16, block W of the Mott tract, be granted
under the direction of the Street Superin-
tendent.
That the petition from Annie f. Neu-
hart ct al, in reference to the grading of
Key West street, be filed, as the Council
has no jurisdiction in the matter, it being
private contract.
That the petition from W. s. Cross and
others in reference to grade at the corner
of Ninth and Main streets, be referred to
the City Engineer for such recommendation
as he thinks proper in the matter. That
the petition from c. Vonderkuhlen and
others asking to have cement sidewalk
nine feet wide laid on the west side OF San
Pedro street between Fifth and Sixth
streets, he granted and the City Engineer
instructed to present the necessary ordi-
nance OF intention; the same to be held
two weeks to give property owners an
opportunity to do the work by private
contract.
That the petition from the Christian
Church and Others asking that a cement
sidewalk six feet wide be laid on the
north side of Eleventh street from Grand
avenue to Pearl street, be granted pro-
vlded majority of the property owners
along said str ct will join in said petition
That the petition from c. H. Schrontz
asking that the distractions be removed
in the alley running along the south side
OF the Dalton Street tract between
rwenty-tifth and Twenty third streets be
granted and the Street Superintendent
be instructed to remove said distractions.
That the petition from Martha Brown
and others asking that the Council pass
an ordinance regulating the keeping of
chickens and other domestic fowls within
l,.,t.,, to- AL Dill.
Douglas street, Temple street, and Cas-
telar street, be granted and the City At
tOrncy instructed to prepare and present
the necessary ordinance.
grhat the petition from Jesse Hunter
and others, property owners on the west
side of Flower street between Eighth and
Seventh streets asking to have the grade
changed on said street SO as to conform
with the present curb, be referred to the
City Engineer to report if a maority of
the property owners affected have signed
said petition, and if said change of grade
should be made.
That the City Engineer be instructed
to present the necessary ordinance of
intention to establish the grade of Bloom
street between Main street and Alhambra
avenue.
That the Street Superintendent be d-
rected to lower the gutter crossing Wash
lngton street on the south side of San
Pedro street so as to prevent the storm
water which runs down San Pedro street
turning at that point down Washington
street.
That the Street Superintendent be in
strncted to construct a platform at the
northwest corner of street crossing near
where the fire plug is located and run
ming seven feet west from said crossing;
said platform to be the width of the cob
bic gutter.
That the Street Superintendent be in
tal
Main street ut the intersection of Chest
nut street.
That the City Engineer be instructed to
present the necessary ordinance of inten-
tion for the sidewalking of the east side
OF Douglas street between Kelam street
and Carroll avenue with a cement side
walk five feet wide. Said ordinance to be
held for two weeks to give the property
owners an opportunity do the the work !
by private contract.
That the City Engineer be instructed to
present the necessary ordinance of inten- |
zion tn sidewalk Centennial avenue from a /
point sixty feet north of Temple street to
Bellevue avenue. Said ordinance to be |
ted two weeks to give property owners |
al opportunity to do the work by private |
contract.
That the Street Superintendent be in
structed to place crOsswalk across Pearl |
street on the north side Of Bellevue ave- |
nue.; also across Ninth street on the South I
side of Grand avenue.
That the petition of M. n. Avery and |
others, asking that the west side of Union |
avenue between Seventh and Ninth street |
be sidewaked with cement, be granted |
and the City Engineer instructed to pre-
pare and present the necessary ordinance |
of intention therefor; said ordinance to be |
held for two weeks to give property own
ers an opportunity to do this work by |
private contract.
That the petition from z. A. Miller and
upthers, asking that a cement curb and a
Aive-foot cement sidewalk be land on the |
Z. lst side OF Oak street, between Washing |
aFsn and Twenty-irst streets, be granted |
) nj the City Engineer instructed to pre-
pare and pesent the necessary ordinance
0l intention thereof; said ordinance to be
hcltl for two weeks to give property own.
ers the opportunity OF doing the work by
private contract.
That the petition of j. Herbst s. A.
". Carver and G. Raphael and the protest
from J. W. Smith be filed,
That the proposals to improve Doug
llss street between Kensingt0n Road and
Edgeware road be rejected for the reason
1nat the grade has not been csta bished ON
said street, and the pending proceedings
for the Improvement of said street be
abandoned. And we also recommend that
the City Engineer tix the grade of the
street.
IL the matter OF the petition from J. A.
Daniels, protesting against the way in
which Palo Alto street is being graded,
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