The herald., 1896-10-02
STREET NAMES,

Editor Herald: Learning that the Los
Angeles Directory company is about to
commence work on a greatly enlarged
and improved city directory and system
of city maps, giving numbers, streets
and names of houses, owners, etc, it
would be well to try to get the naming
of our streets in such shape that their
location can be better determined than
is the case today, where they principally
run by Individual names and often in
duplicates and triplicates, as is the case
especially since the admission of the
new territory.
Some months ago large number of
the principal property and house owners
along Buena Vista, and especially Pasa-
dena avenue petitioned our city council
to change all the names of the streets
intersecting Buena Vista and Pasadena
avenue, commencing with Orth street
as Seventh avenue, leaving the space
between Orth and First street un-
changed and running east to the present
city limits, which would then be Fifty
second avenue in place of Walnut street
of which we have only three in the city
at the present time.
That the naming of avenues and num-
bering all streets running south and
north and intersecting Pasadena avenue
would facilitate and simplify matters
great deal, not only for the general pub
lie, but especially for our public officials
express, telephone, telegraph and other
cases of a similar nature, and more es-
pecially for our postal authorities. no.
body denies, for 1t must be pretty hard
matter for them to decide where to send
letter addressed to say, John Smith.
so and so, Walnut street, avenue A,
Buena Vista street, etc, that are to be
found about six miles apart in three diff
ferent directions in the city.
Aside from all this, it makes quite
different impression on our eastern cou-
sins and perhaps on Uncle Sam, him
self, who will soon have large stock of
the genuine Bryan silver dollars to in
vest in public improvements when he
hnds that the City of the Angels (some
little off COLOR has grown to such an ex-
tent that the streets in western direc-
tion run up into the forties and towards
the east up to Fifty-second avenue. 1t
might even enable us to get a more rea-
sonable and liberal appropriation sent
If the old man knew it for the accommo-
dation of our always crippled postoffica
facilities. 1t might be quite a help to
our Steve" when he makes a demand
next session of the United States senate
for larger share of the public pudding.
That it would save the business COM
munity an immense amount of trouble
to know just where to find place when
all streets running south and northwest
of First street were numbered, as they
are mostly now, and all in an easterly
direction indicated by numbered ave-
nues. ] think 1t indisputable and in less
than three weeks the general public
would be educated up-to it to such an
extent that hardly any mistaken would
occur and as for our tenderfoot friends
it is at present almost an impossiblity
to find anybody il they only have the ad-
dress by streets and numbers.
The petition spoken of above, I be-
lieve, is fast asleep in some of the few
pigeon holes marked non-political that
are doomed to everlasting rest byNour
present city council. Please see. Mr..
Herald, il you can resurrect it.
G. J. f.