The herald., 1896-03-29
IHE C0UNC|LMEN WORRIED
MONEY WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE NEW
POLICE STATION
The Building Is Costing $77, 900 More, With
the Land Upon Which 1t Is Located. Than
Was Intended-A Petition for Another
Electric Road Franchise

Where the money 10 to come from which
10 to pay for the new central police station
now In the course OF construction, is one of
the perplexing problems at present bother
ing those in control of affairs about the
city hall.
brought 42,S03.2U. Added to this was
the sum of s42, 900 brought by the sale of
the site of the present police headquarters,
located on Second street, which makes a
total for jail.building purposes of $54.-
S03.2O. OF this sum the council last year
borrowed $42 900, which was used for other
than the purposes for which the money was
on hand. Through a transfer which 10 now
generally admitted not to have been alto
gether legal, this money has since been re-
turned to the police station funds.
The lot upon which the proposed new
building Is to stand cost $26, 900, and the
contract price of the building itself was
$S0,B5O. Added to these sums there have
been disbursed $500 for sundry purposes s.,
which swelled the total cost of the building
to $1O7,2O1. or an excess of,the moneys on
hand for the purpose of $22 ,397.SO. There
will still be owing Contractor John Reb.
man, when his work has been completed,
money is to come from is what is now both
ering coll ectively and individually each of
the nine councilmen in the city hall.
STILL ANOTHER ELECTRIC ROAD.
W. Z. and w. Wiltshire have filed with
the city council an application for fran
chise for an electric railroad from The
junction of Alvarado and Seventh streets
to Rampant streets, THENCE northerly to
Sixth street, thence easterly to Alvarado
street, and from the junction of Ninth and
Lake streets, connecting with the road
hereinbefore mentioned upon Seventh
street: also for permission to lay switch
from the main tracks on seventh street in
to and upon block "B'' of the Wiltshire
Boulevard tract.
fifteen blocks, ard will be completed in
about ninety days. 1t is to be operated in
connection with the proposed big Wiltshire
tourist hotel.
PROTEST AGAINST A WIDENING.
The council will, tomorrow, be called
upon to act upon the following:
Mary NJ. Shaw, J. M. Riley. Pomeroy &
Harrison, Pomeroy & Davis. Jesse Arnold
and others hereby respectfully repre-
commissioners who have been ap-
pointed to assess the damages for the
widening of said street (San Pedro)
have not properly performed their
duties, and their report should not BIO
adopted. Your petitioners are informed
and believe that said commissioners have
recommended that a large amount be paid
for damages in taking of land for said
street that already belongs to the city,
and for which your petitioners should not
be assessed in any sum whatever.
That since these proceedings have been
begun property owners on the corner of
Second and San Pedro have leased that
property for labor exchange and hay and
feed yard.
Your petitioners pray that said report be
rejected; that the matter be referred to
the city attorney, with instructions to bring
proceedings for the removal of all obstruc-
tons of said street, and that the whole pro-
ceed' gs for the widening of said street be
abanuoned.
CITY HALL FLOTSAM
Several of the members of the council,
accompanied by Building Superintendent
Strange, yesterday morning visited the
ficially test the heating and ventilating
placed in the various new school buildings.
The tests made were more than satisfac-
tory.
Ed B. Webster has made to the council a
proposition to decorate the city hall and
police headquarters for Fiesta with Japan
ese lanterns and American flags for $15.
He also offers to furnish a more elaborate
decoration for 500.
Two separate petitions, largely signed by
the furniture dealers of the city, have been
filed with the city clerk, requesting that
the council enact an ordinance imposing a
tax of $25 upon auctioneers on the ground
that most of the latter are non.residents
and non-taxpayers and their competition
is hardship to those who reside here and
are compelled to pay taxes.
The health office is being flooded with
complaints accompanied by samples tend
people of the city is anything but what it
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