The herald., 1895-11-16
No SUPERVISOR APPEARED
And the Dead Animal Contract
Again Recommended
WILTSHIRE TENDER ACCEPTED
First Real Steps Toward the New
Boulevard
No Action Taken Yesterday by the Board q
Public Works Relative to TIE
Myers Petition


to recon- mend to the council at its ses.
sion next Monday that the offer OF the
Wiltshire company. in which that corpor.
alton agrees to donate to the city strip
of land 100 feet wide running 1900 feet
east and west through the center Of lot
2, block %, of their lands near westlako
park. for a boulevard, pa accepted, and
the city attorney be instructed to present
the necessary ordinance dediceting for
the similar purpose the like strip Of land
running along the east line Of lot 3, block
rs. which latter are city lands.
The board also yesterday agreed 70
again recommend that the bid OF william
Peterson to dispose Of dead animals be
| accepted, with the proviso in the contract
that the council reserve the right t. an.
null the same by resolution at any time
that the latter body feel SO disposed to do.
The mem bers of the board waited several
hours for the supervisors to make their
| appearance and object to the proposed
crematory which will have to be operated
fUi the purpose, but no one of the county
solons made his appearance. Supervisor
| W. l.. Woodward, in whose district the
| crematory will be locatsd, sent word to
! the city hall that as he was due at home
he could not make mis- appearance before
the Loard of public works to argue the
became a nuisance to his constituents he
would take the necessary steps to have is
suppressed.
The board also yesterday agreed upon
the following recon msndations. all OF
which will come before the council on
Monday:
In the matter of the improving of Bush
street, we recommend that the ordinance
to improve this same by private contract
with an additional clause including
asphalt sidewalks at the CROSS streets be
| placed upon its passage.
| Recommend that petition from J.Tillsy
ct al, asking that the grade of Third
street between Alameda street and the
Bigelow tract be changed, BIZ referred to
the city engineer to estimate the 'front.'
age, and il the same represents majority,
then to present tho necessary ordinance
| of intention therefor.
| Recommend that the city engineer be
instructed 10 present map showing the
| proposed lines of Sixth street from Ere.
mont avenue to st. Paul avenue, using
the northerly line of lots and IL. block
| 106, Bellevue Avenue tract, and its pro.
longation, as the north line Ut the pro-
| posed street. ..ae-:.
Recon- mend that the comm unication
from Francisco Fewius in references to
| damages for tho opening Of Darwin av-
enue be denied. ..-. ',s@i
Recon- mend that thu petition from g.
| W. Jessup asking permission to construct
private telegraph line between Seventh
and Broadway and ISL South Hill street
| the property owners over whose house
| tops the same is erected is obtained and
| no poles are erected.
Recommend that petition from Mrs. W.
O'Donahue ct al, asking that an ordin-s
ance be passed prohibiting poultry from
running at large in the territory bounded
by Figueroa, Fifteenth. Georgia Bell
and Seventeenth streets, be granted, and
the city attorney be instructed to prepare
| and present the necessary ordinance.
Recommend the petition from Q. W.
Moncton ct al, asking that Cummings
street from Brooklyn avenue to Michigan
| avenue be graded, graveled. curbsd with
edwoo1, under the bond provisions OF
the Vrooman act be granted, and the
! city engineer instructed to make the me-
| cessary estimate OF cost, AID If the same
| exceeds the amount required by law then
to present the necessary ordinance of in
! tention.
Recommend the petition from E. Bou-
ton ct al: asking thst Golden avenue.
| graded, graveled, curbsd with cement
curb, be granted and the city engineer
instructed to prepare and present the nee
essary ordinance of intention.
| Recommend the petition from SuseA
| Thompson street, bstwesn Adams and
| Twenty-thlrd streets, asking that the
| same be impOveo by private contract, be
| filed said petition being represented by a
| minority only, and that the city engineer
| be instructed to present the necessary Or
| dinance of intention TO grade, gravel.
| curb with cement, under the Vrooman
| act.
| Recommend that the appeals from A.
M. Theal and from Mrs. e. Breckenridge
BIZ referred to the clerk to presnet to
council at the proper time that appeals
| should be received
Recommend that the petition from
| Harry Hall er al, asking tnat cement
sidewalk five feet wide be laid on the
north side OF Fourth street, between Wall
| and San Pedro streets, be granted and
the city engineer instructed to present
the necessary ordinance of inten ton.
Recommend that the bid of Dodd &
O'Gara for improving Eighth street, from,
Lake street to Grand View avenue, at
81. so per lineal foot FIR grading and graz
cling complete; so cents per lineal foot
for curb; Is cents per lineal foot for gut
tiers. and IL cents pes square foot for side
walks. be accepted and the resolution OF
award adopted.
Recon- mend that the bid of c. NJ.
Woody to improve State street. from
Fourth street to Fifth street, at 95 cents
per lineal foot for grading and graveling
complete; IS cents per lineal foot for
curb; IL cents per lineal foot for gutter,
and 81 cents per Iineal foot tor sewer
Cuin plebes Ue accetpeu anu INC reSUlutlOu
of award adopted.
Recommend that the ordinance to side
walk Fifteenth street, from Grand ave-
nue. to Hill street, be Sled, the work be-
ing completed.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to clean off the
cement walk on Boston street, between
Pearl and Centennial streets.
In the matter of the report of the
board of education recon mending certain
Improvements in and around the build
ing at Union avenue, we recommend that
the school board be requested to make
the Improvements needed.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to take the necessary
steps to abate ths nuisance caused by
stagnant water standing IN the storm
drain which runs from the caole road cul-
vert ct First street down Alamsda street
to point between Second and Third
streets.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent bs instructed to lower the pave
ment at the intersection OF Fourth and
Broadway on the west side so that water
can flow down the street without cover
ing the sidewalk.
The petition from thu City Light and
Power company, requesting that another
franchise for electric lighting be adver-
tised for sale, was not acted upon by the
board.