The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-03
FORECAST FOR THE COUNCIL
Matters Which Will Come Up
at Mondays Meeting.
Recomme ndations From the Board
of Public Works.
The Ninth Ward Wants = Branch Police
Station - Some Petitions
and Protests.

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not completed their reports last night
and they will probably not be CON-
pleely prepared until the council me ct.
on Monday at 8 O'Clock.
The board of public works took long
drive on Thursday, visiting several parts
of the city and taking notes on various
things under it's department..
On Friday morning the board met
and prepared the following report:
In the matter OF the petition from H.
Knauff ct al, asking permission to i'm
prove Jefferson street between Wesley
avenue and the city limits by grading
with the natural material on the street,
curbing with cement and sidewa king,
we recommend that the same be granted
and the city attorney instructed to pre-
pare and present the necessary ordinance
granting such q permission.
Recommend that the specifications
presented by the city engineer for cross
walks with cement concrete and broken
stone concrete base and asphalt surface
snd with asphalt and broken stone con-
crete base and asphalt surface, together
with the plans for said crosswalks be
adopted and placed on file in the Office of
the city clerk.
In the matter of petition from A.
Bricker ct al. asking that bridge be
constructed on Seventh street, leading
from the river brink into the river 80
that persons desiring to take sand and
gravel may have access to the same, we
recommend that the petitioners be al.
lowed to put in ouch bridge as will
answer the purpose, at their own ex-
peuse and under the supervision of the
street superintendent.
Recommend, in the matter of petition
from f. Hutchinson ct al. that the city
engineer be instructed to give grade
stakes on Seventh and Lemon streets,
and the street superintendent be in-
structed to clean out the cutters on both
sides in such o manner as to drain the
stagnant water from the street, and that
he also be instructed to put 2-foot
culvert across Seventh street on the
west side OF Lemon street in such
manner as to take the etagnant water
from the north side of Seventh street.
Recommend that the petition from
Mrs. A. F. Coronel ct al. be filed, as
action has already been taken in the
matter.
Recommend that the petition from P.
DAWN ct AL, asking permission to inn
prove DAWN and Second streets by pri.
vate contract, be referred to the city
attorney to draft an ordinance of per.
mission in accordance Herewith.
Recommend that the petition from R.
s. Walton ct al, asking to have the
pepper trees trimmed at the southeast
corner OF Rose and Second streets, be
granted, and the street superintendent.
instructed to have said work done.
In the matter Of the petition from the
Southwest Los Angeles Improvement
association. we recommend that the
same be referred to the city engineer to
make necessary survey Of the land to be
taken for the opening OF said street, and
the city attorney instructed to draft
necessary ordinance of intention the
district OF assessment to be furnished by
this board.
Recommend that Wolfskill avenue,
between Fifth and Fourth streets on the
east side of the street, be repaired by
the street superintendent.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to place CROSS
walk at the intersection of Union ave.
nue. and Court street, in accordance with
the petition from j. A.. Mcmillan ct al.
In the matter of stagnaut water at the
northeast corner of Tenth and Pearl
street. recommend that the street super.
intendent be directed to repair the gut
ters as proposed by the city engineer.
and the engineer be DIRECTED to give him
the grade stakes.
Recommend that the Consolidated
Electric Railroad company be instructed
to place pipe running from the south
west corner of Bellevue avenue and New
High street, across Bellevue avenue.
under the car tracks, to the northeast
corner OF Bellevue avenue and New High
street, to connect with the sink basin,
for the purpose OF carrying off the water
that forms lake on the south side of
Bellevue avenue.
Recommend that the trees on the
south side OF Boyd street, between Wall
street and the electric light, be
trim med.
Recommend that the following cross
walks be placed
Across Twenty. eighth street, east side
OF Main street; across Pico strest, east
eide OF Santee street; across Main str eet,
east side of Hancock street; across Pearl
street, south side of Seventh street;
across Bishop street, at inters ection OF
Buena VISTA street.
Recommend that the following cross.
walks be repaired:
Intersection OF Fourteenth and Hill
streets. Eighteenth and Grand avenue,
Eighth and Olive, Ninth and Pearl,
south corner Also and Alameda, Com
msrcial and Vignes, College and Casta-
lar, Temple and Beaudry avenue, Pasa4
dena avenue, west side DAILY; Pasadena
avenue. south side OF Sigsr; Truman,
north side of Downey avenue; Twelfth,
west side of Main; Main, south side OF
Twelfth; Los Angeles. south eide of
Fourth.
PETITIONS AND PROTESTS.
Sylvester Grant petitions the council
to have one OF the new frs,alarm box es
placed at the junction of Boyle avenue
and Seventh street. or in that vicinity,
on Boyle heights.
OTHER CITY BUSINESS.
Dodd & O'Gara, the contractors, de-
sire to sell the sprinkling hydrants
erected by them at the corner of Grit
fifth avenue and Twenty eighth streets,
Twenty.seventh street and Central
avenue and East Washington and
Central avenue. The hydrsnts were
put in by the firm when they were
grading Order q Dow's Adams street
tract and they now offer them to the
city for 500 each.
Two nroteata have beau filed in thu