The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-19
lineal foot; sidewalk. s,s cents per

ETH, 20 cents; c. L. Powell, 81 $40 cents;
Is. I.orenzi. S41a cents; j. E. White, 70
cents; j. Hyland. IS cents; A. p. Pusich,
| 81 cents.
To improve Chestnut street: Frank
| Moir proposed: Grading and crawling.
| $l.70 per lineal foot; curb 30 cents per
lineal foot; cutters, Is cents per lineal
| foot.
French & Reed proposed: Grading
| and graveling, S149 cents per lineal foot;
curb. 81 cents per lineal foot; cutters. IL
cents per lineal foot; crosswalks, 81 per
| lineal foot.
Prick Bros. proposed: Grading and
graveling SITS per lineal foot curb. 20
cents per linHll foot; cutters, IS cents
| per lineal foot.
To sidewalk Fifteenth street from
Grand avenue to Hill street: David
Mulrein proposed: IL cents per square
| foot
Watson & Weiss proposed: 11% cents
per square foot.
c. Leonardt proposed: liz cents per
square foot.
Gray Bros. and Ward proposed: IL
cents per square foot
Frank Gillespie proposed: 103a cents
per square foot.
To sidewalk and curb Ducommun
! street from Alameda to Amelia: Wat
/ son a Weiss proposed: Curb, 81 cents
| per lineal foot; sidewalk, 11$a cents per
| square foot. .,
| cents per lineal foot; sidewalk, IL cents
! per square foot.
| per iineal foot: sidewalk, ia cents per
| square foot.
! c. Leonardo proposed: Curb, IS cents
per lineal foot: sidewalk. II cents per
square foot. =,
Frank Gillespie proposed: Curb, 81
cents per lineal foot; sidewalk, l0ia
! cents per square foot.
GRAY Bros. & Ward proposed: Curb
So cents per lineal foot; sidewalk, l. cents
per square foot.
The bids for sewer work were referred
to the sewer committee and those lot
| street work to the board of public works.
MIR. FISHER PROPHESlES:
Among the petitions presented was
one by A. w. Fisher, the piano man,
reading as follows:
more with this matter, l am sure you
will pardon a last reference TO II. for
! months-many monthS-l nave Irorn
time to time visited the street superll
tendent's office with the request that
the ernbankmert adjoining my property
be cut back to the proper line, as 1t eX-
tended over the walk and resulted Ill
the pavement being continually cover
ed with earth, which falls from the en-
pankment
have been unable the past winter to
keep my walk clean because of the mud
from the adjoining walk After exhaust
/ ing all efforts for relief from the street
superintendent, | appealed TO your nom
orabie body about two months ago, win
the request that my petition be not re-
ferred to the street superintendent
office because of my profound faith in
the inaction that it would receive there.
1t was. however. so referred, and after
one more fruitless effort to get the relief
so long asked for / have become recon-
. h. t.1 +I,af IL q n '
Providence has ere now realized the mis-
take of the past. and before the begin
! ming of another year will graciously
make such changes as will bring us re-
lief and happiness. l have but one re-
! quest to make of your honorable body
| in connection with this matter, and that
is that You kindly file this communica-
ton where it may be easily seen, and
/ therefore acted upon Immediately after
/ January I. 1897.
! The above was ordered by President
| Teed to be so filed"
THE MOTIONS MADE.
Motions We're made in the council yes
terday as follows:
! By Councilman Snyder that the city
attorney be instructed to present an or
! dinance to repair Fourteenth street be-
/ tween Central avenue and Tennessee
/ streets by grading, crawling and curb
/ ing with cement. Adopted.
Also that the city engineer be direct
ed to make sewer connections to the
property line. Adopted.
Also that the street superintendent re-
pair Ninth street near the bridge. Re-
ferred to the board of public works.
Also that the cleaning up of First
street be abandoned. and the city engi-
neer be instructed to present an ordi-
nance to sewer Soto street from Second
to Fourth streets, and Second street
from Soto to Chicago.
BY President Teed, that the street su-
perintendent notify all property owners
on Main street between Ninth and Thir-
| ty-eiShth streets to make sewer connec-
tions before the street is paved.
Adopted
Also that the street superintendent
notify the Los Angeles Railway COM
pany to put their track in proper shape
on Pearl street between Seventh and
Ninth streets. Adopted.
BY Councilman Stockwell. that the
! city auditor transfer S667.S3 from the
bond fund of 1870 to the main sewer
! fund of 1877, and that the city clerk no.
tify the city treasurer of said transfer.
Adopted
By Councilman Munson. that the city
| engineer be instructed to give the prop
erty lines on the alley just opened be-
tween Fourth, Fifth. Broadway and
| Spring streets. Adopted
Also that the health officer be directed
! to post notices in Sunset park forbidding
the dumping of rubbish and garbage on
the grounds Adopted.
BY Councilman Ashman, that hereaf-
ter printing supplies for the city be pur-
/ chased only from firms paying full
wages and using the union label. Re
ferred to the supply committee.
BY Councilman Kingery that the city
engineer be instructed to survey and
make a map of the public market that
the city has leased at Ninth and Los
Angeles streets. so that the same can
be used by June l. Adopted.
Also that the name of George Fergu-
son as a commissioner be inserted in the
/ ordinance to open an alley between
Fifth, Sixth, Spring and Main streets
Adopted.
Also that the street superintendent re-
pair the gutter at Union avenue and
Tenth street. Adopted.
BY Councilman Ashman that the
street superintendent be instructed to
clean the cutters on Merchant and Koh-
| Ter streets between Seventh and Eighth
streets. Adopted.
Quarreled by the Gravesids
Morris b Hanford was found dead in
bed in the Windsor hotel in Bridgeport
Conn, MOndaV night His widow was