The herald., 1896-04-09
have CALLED THE BLUFF
THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS TO
THE CITY COUNCIL
Fire Alarm Boxes Recently Ordered Will Be
Placed II They are Paid Proclamation
for the City to Participate In Another
Southern Exposition

SOutNcIn EXpOSIttOn
The following. forwarded by City
Clerk Luckenbach, was read yester-
day before the board of fire commits
sSionerS:
At a meeting of the council held
March 80, the following motion present
ed by the councilman from the Fifth
ward was referred to your board: That
the fire commissioners be requested
to locate fire alarm boxes at Main street,
Grand avenue and Figueroa street to
the city limits, every 800 feet, and at the
intersections Of Washington and Es-
trella, Bush and Oak streets, Twenty
third and Hope street, Twenty-eighth
and Hoover and Key West streets,
Third and Jefferson and Key West
streets and Jefferson and Hope streets
In connection with the above the
clerk was instructed to forward to the
city council the following:
Acting on numerous requests for fire
alarm boxes referred to the board of
fire commissioners by your honorable
body, we have to state that there is
not at the present time a single box in
the department not in use and in or
der to comply with the resolution re-
ferred to, we hereby submit acquisitions
for twelve new boxes, with the request
that you approve the same. The above
is intended to determine whether the
council is serious in it's reference to the
commission of demands for innumer-
able fire alarm boxes.
The chief reported that all fire hy-
drants in district 10 have been recently
tested by the drivers Of the apparatus
therein.
City Attorney Dunn filed commune
cation advising the board that if GER
tain permit for the location of a black
Shnr tn hn
Eighth, Ninth, San Julian and San Ped
70, was obtained through fraud. it could
be officially recalled. The board de-
cided that If George w. Frasher, pro-
testant against the place, would bring
the evidence Of such fraud the permit
would be recalled, otherwise not.
c. M. Whittick and r. B. Cherritree:
We ask permission to erect seats dur
ing Fiesta week on the east side of
Spring street, between Fourth and
Fifth. The matter was referred to the
chief and the superintendent of build
ings with power to act. The applica-
ton of j. Delaney to be appointed
callman in the fire department was
filed.
ANOTHER SOUTHERN EXPOSITION
The mayor has received an invitation
for Los Angeles to participate in the
Tennessee centennial exposition, which
will be opened in the city of Nashville,
state of Tennessee, u. S. A., on May 1,
1897, to be continued for a period of six
months. The occasion for holding this
exposition is to celebrate the Tooth an
niversary of the admission of the state
into the federal union. 1t is announced
th~+ this heing the first event of the
0cents pc of marked interest, not
~oo-o, lie of the United States,
pck a. n, ie of all countries.
s.... Nashville is situated very
ieet, RIA phiCaI center of the
L IS. The same is true as
to of II er Of population; hence the
holt pc. an exposition at this par
ticulaI point makes attendance at the
least expense possible to the entire popu-
lation of the country.
1t Is the desire of the management to
make this an occasion through which
closer commercial relations may be cul
tivated not only between the people of
the United States, but as well those of
other countries; and the management
Is pleased to assure you that every pos
sible arrangement will be made looking
to that end.
In the matter of exhibits from foreign
countries, arrangements will be made
to enter the same free of duty, and no
charge will be made for space in the eX-
position buildings.
The rapid and substantial develop
ment of the resources, both industrial
United States known as the SOUTH"
warrants the assumption that this pro-
posed exposition will be of great profit
to those making exhibits along COM
mercial lines.
STREET WORK COMPLETED
The street superintendent has issued
the assessment for the Improvement OF
Sixteenth street between Bush and
Union. 1t amounts to $1571.S0 The as
sessment for the sewer on Savoy street
made on the 18th of March will have to
be recalled and readjusted. The max
ers OF the diagram submitted to the
street superintendent office omitted
one lot. The assessment for the re-
grading of Grand avenue between
Temple and Court streets has been
made. The amount of the assessment
is $141T21, payable to T.. A. McGreal.
THE ENGINEERS BLUNDER
Another mistake in the location of n
school house has been discovered 1t
is in the New Macy-street school build
ing, which is located twelve feet over
the boundary line of the school proper
ty. This same mistake at Boyd street
CO.'S $4,000 for fifteen feet. ,'he Macy
street building cannot be moved and the
lot must therefore be bought
The city engineers Office is blamed
for the New Macy street error.
HERALD ALONE RELIABLE
The Republican morning paper crc-
ated breeze in the sacred precincts of
the city hall Yesterday by a series of
interviews which were repudiated al
most as soon as the sheet made its ap-
pearance.
The Express last evening says: Off
cials over at the city hall are all torn
up over the interviews on the harbor
question which appeared in this morn
ing'S Times. Some of them claim they
We're grossly misquoted-wo words being
put into their mouths they say were
never uttered by them.
"One of these is Ed Smith the assist
ant chief of the fire department. L
was not interviewed by any representa-
tive of the Times. and what the Times
has this morning in reference to me is
a fake. pure and simple, Why should
hold up the mayor to criticism? Hasn't
he always been my friend? They can
print all the stuff they choose about
me, but that doesn't make me "A San
Pedro or nothing man. l am for Santa
Monica, San Pedro or anything else.
SO long as we get the $4,000, ,000.'
Building Superintendent Strange
said: This harbor business Is out of
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