The herald., 1896-06-20
notify said company to remove said

notify said company to remove said
. traps.
Twelfth-Recommen that protest No.
SAT, from M. CheeSborough, against the
Improvement of East First street from
Evergreen cemetery to the city limits,
be denied.
Thirteenth-Recomm that the bid
Of w. L. Riley to improve First street
from Pearl to Beaudry avenue at S2!o
per lineal foot for grading and gravel
ing complete; II cents per lineal foot for
curb; Is cents per lineal foot for cutters
and 81 per lineal foot for crosswalks, be
accepted and the necessary resolution OF
award adopted.
rteenth-Recommend that the bid
of French & Reed to improve Hamilton
street at 81 cents per lineal foot for grad
| ing and graveling, 81 cents per l1neal
foot for curb, II cents per square foot for
sidewalk, be accepted and the necessary
resolution Of award adopted.
MORE SWEEPING, LESS SPR1NK-
LING
John H. Drain, superintendent OF
street sprinkling, yesterday filed his
weekly report to the council with the
city clerk. Mr.. Drain makes the follow
ing recommendations in regard to prop
erly caring for the asphalt paved
streets:
/ will again call your attention to the
damage being done to the asphaltum
pavements by excessive sprinkling. The
pavements have become full of depres-
sions. The sand and gravel accumulate
in these places, then when the street is
sprinkled the water settles in these de-
pressions, causing the pavement to rot
and every wheel passing over it grinds
the gravel and sand into the softened
asphaltum, thereby destroying it.
Asphaltum pavements should be kept
as dry as possible: this is absolutely nee
essary. In my opinion it is economy to
do more sweeping and less sprinkling;
while it may cost more at the present
time, it will be doubly saved when it
comes to repairing the pavements With
the amount of business we have on our
streets. l believe 1t is impossible to keep
them clean unless they are thoroughly
swept every night, but unless they are
swept 1t is absolutely necessary to
sprinkle them.
The people generally think the streets
are swept every night; some are, but
most are not. Take Second and Fifth
streets. for instance. The main thor
oughfares to the depots are only swept
twice a week. therefore it is necessary
to keep them wet all the time to make
it possible for the people to live there.
l would recommend that Pico street
from Alvarado street to the end of the
car line be sprinkled. This is good
graveed street, but it is fast being de-
stroyed for want of water Also the
graded portion of Central avenue from
the Southern Pacific tracks south should
be sprinkled.
SIGNED THE ORDINANCE
Mayor RAIDER yesterday concluded to
give the recently passed hitching ordi-
nance practical trial, and attached his
signature to the document making it
law. The ordinance provides that 10
vehicles shall be hitched for more than
half an hour within the following pre-
scribed limits:
Main from Temple to Fourth: Spring
from Temple to Fourth; Broadway from
$50 feet north of First to $50 feet south
of Third; Temple from Main to Broad
way; Market from Main to Spring:
Court from Main to Spring; Franklin
from Spring to Broadway: First from
Main to Broadway; Second from Main
to $50 feet west of Broadway; Third
from $50 feet west of Broadway; Fourth
from Main to Broadway. No hitching IS
to be allowed in these limits without a
permit.
CITY HALL NOTES
George B. Vacher yesterday filed his
official bond rs poundmaster in the sum
of $4,000, with l.. n Kercheval and Jo-
seph Odwarker as sureties.
Property owners on sherman. Dora
and San Joaquin streets in the Mob Hill
tract have petitioned for the Construc-
ton of sewers on those thoroughfares.
Among the permits issued by the su-
perintendent of buildings yesterday was
one to Pietro Gagliano for a two-story
six-room frame building on the east side
of Maple avenue. between Eighth and
Ninth streets, to cost $1,000
The board of public works members
visited Central park yesterday after
noon to inspect that portion of the street
which needs sprinkling, but which is not
as yet legally within the city limits.
The mayor yesterday signed the or
dinance changing the boundaries of the
Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards
to include the newly-anneXed territory
to the west of the city.
The street superintendent and not the
council fixes the time limit in which
street work must be done. The council
however, has the right to enforce that
limit after it has been fixed.
Deputy Street Superintendent Hut
ton says that the scheme of flushing the
dirty cutters is a total failure, and the
council will be forced to get some teams
and hand sweepers in order TO keep the
cutters clean. The experiment of flush
ing the cutters was tried on Spring
street, but all the filth was deposited at
the street intersections or wherever in
dentations occurred in the gutter, ana
matters were worse than before until
the hand sweepers ana the carts gather
ed up the filth. There is no method of
getting rid of this surplus water run
through the cutters, and the whole
scheme is utterly impracticable, says
the deputy superintendent.
The health department will probably
be requested at the next meeting of the
council to make immediate investigation
of the reservoirs of the City Water COM
pany and report what should be done
toward improving the supply. The
school authorities are convinced that
much OF the prevailing sickness is at
tributabla to the impure water fur
nished. and will insist upon some action
being taken at once.
For the Chiidren's Sake
If YOU have child who is suffering