The herald., 1896-01-15
The Police Board in Regular
Weekly Session
THE TALENT WAS GATHERED
4 Deceptive Conference in the Mayors
Office
1onday = Councilman Kingery Finds a
Strong Supporter-Buiding Permits

the ex-theatrical manager. The applica-
ton was referred, as is usual, to the chief
for investigation.
The chief reported in the matter of the
Scent restaurant on the corner of Main
and Requena streets that the landlord of
the premises intends at an early day to
force his alleged undesirable tenant to
leave.
The application of Robert C. Clark to be
appointed as special officer for duty at
the barracks of Gods Regular Army was
referred to the chief, as was also the hobo
restaurant problem.
Commissioner Long reported from the
social evil special committee, that the sit
uation on Alameda street was now worse
than ever before. He moved that the cribs
be removed from the street (hear, hear),
and that q committee of two be appointed
to see that this is done within the next two
weeks.
Commissioner wirsching thought that
the subject should not be taken out of
the hands of the police department, and in
this view the mayor mildly concurred.
A motion to this effect was finally put
and carried.
A committee representing the residents
about Station D, on Washington street,
police protection at night. The committee
was sidetracked to the city council, and
President Teed of that body, who happen
ed present, said: "You might just as we'll
save yourselves the trouble, gentlemen.
We are broke and the city treasury is
busted wide OPEN"
Officer A. P. Richardson had commu-
nication before the board, to the effect
that his defaulting note held by A. P.
Miller for 10, was an anti-electioii promise
to pay, which had been forced from him
with no intention on either side that it was
ever to have been paid.
The matter was permitted to drops
THE TALENT WAS GATHERED
There were gathered together in the
mayors office for nearly two hours yester-
day afternoon Hervey Lindley, Ex-Gov.
Lionel A. Sheldon, Capt. H. 2. Osborne,
Col. freeman G. Teed and the mayor. The
conference was not held behind closed
doors, the doors leading to the mayors
consultation room being in fact open
throughout the session. The opinion that
the conference was a political one was for
the latter reason early removed. The
party, it is understood, had met for the
stone laying of the proposed Masonic tenn
pie which occurs next month. The affair
is to be the most imposing Masonic cele-
bration ever held anywhere on the Pacific
coast.
ORDINANCES FOR STREET WORK.
The city engineers report to the council
on Monday embraced the following:
Ordinance of intention to establish the
grade of Mateo street, from Seventh street
to its present terminus; to change the
grade of the east side of Kip street, near
Orange street; to improve Breed street,
from Michigan avenue to Brooklyn avenue !:
to improve Nineteenth street. from San
Predro to Central avenue; to construct a
sewer on Bellevue avenue, near Pearl
street; to construct sewer on Fifth street.
from Wolfskill avenue to Crocker and
other streets; to construct a sewer on
Sixth street, from Gladys avenue to be-
tween Fifth and Sixth streets; to construct
q sewer on Pico street. Westlake avenue
Twelfth and Winfield streets. Adopted.
Final ordinances establishing the grade
OF Little Rock avenue. from Central ave.
nue. to Tennessee street; Pico street, from
point near San Pedro street to Central
avenue; east side of Buena Vista street,
from a point near Temple to within 100
feet north of Rock street; Third street,
from Alvarado to the west line of the Bige-
low tract; of Pico street from Maple ave-
nue. to San Pedro. Adopted.
In the matter of petitions asking for a
change of grade on Rosemont avenue from
First to Temple street, the same is found
to be impracticable. Referred to the
board of public works. Also the petition
of I. N. Van Nuys requesting that an alley
be opened from Fourth to Fifth street, be-
tween Main and Spring streets, which the
engineer reports does not represent a ma
jority OF the frontage to be assessed.
The ordinance of intention to construct a
cement walk on the north side of Seventh
street from Lucas to Union avenue was re-
ferred to the board of public works.
The petition of Louis Tagg and others
asking that E. Fourteenth street be inn
proved under the bond act was referred to
Councilman Pessell, in whose ward the
proposed improvement is located.
APPROVES KINGERY's IDEA
Councilman Kingery has found a staunch
champion in his crusade against the inde-
cent bills which are posted upon the high
board fences throughout the city. His
name is Thomas B. Henry, and he yester-
day filed the following petition addressed
70 the council:
~ would respectfully petition your hon.
ofable body to take some action to regulate
or entirely abolish from such blocks or
portions OF the city, where objected to by
property owners. the unsightly bill boards
20 prominently disfguring the streets of
this city.
''Thousands of dollars worth of i'm
proved property is rendered almost useless
Tor renting purposes by the erection of the sc
boards on adjacent vacant lots, often as
high as two stories. The sidewalks are
frequently Uttered with fragments. old Pc
pers, and smeared with paste, while the
rear of the fences affords every opportuni-
ty for the committing of unspeakable nus-
ances-a constant menace to health.
''As the owner of a piece of improved
property on South Spring street, between
Seventh and Eighth streets, costing me
$25, 900, which is practically ruined for
renting purposes by being fianked on all
sides by these hideous, unsigttly nuisances
I appeal to your honorable body for such
relief as can be granted"
THE BUILDING RECORD.
Permits have SO far during the present
week been issued for new buildings to cost
$2O,345, the most important being as fol-
lows:
To Bertha o. McCalland for $4,000 res
idence on Scarf street, near St. James
park.
To E. P. Normandin for a $3.50 dwell
Ing on Union avenue, near Sixteenth.
To E. 5. Robinson, for a $250O dwelling
on Union avenue, near Tenth street.
To S. Davenport, for $1,000 dwelling
on Ingraham street, near Wilmer.
To d. F. Hill, for $4,000 set of frame
mats on Fifth street. near Maple avenue.
To T. d. Valient, for $1,000 dwelling at
Twenty-ninth street and Maple avenue.
Try our port and sherry wines at rs
cents per gallon. T. Vache g. Co., Com
mercial and Alameda streets. Telephone
8O9.
A few secondhand Stearns bicycles in
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