The herald., 1896-03-06
Assessment Issued for a Big
Sewer District
PUBLIC MORALS COMMITTEE
The New Adjunct Has Already Begun
Work
Seine Practical Suggestions to the Board Of
Park commissioners-No Site for
the Public Market Yet

was yesterday issued, and will be delin
quent and draw 10 per cent thirty days
from the date of recording in the street su.
periutendent's Office.
This district is embraced in the followine
streets: Shatto street from Wilmer te
Union avenue, Orange from Wilmer tc
Alvarado street, Seventh from Union tc
Alvarado street, Eighth from Lake to Park
city limits, Ninth from Burlington to alley
east OF Beacon street, Vernon from Shatto
to Orange. Ingraham fom Bellevue avenue
to ABOUT $50 feet east of Union avenue,
Bellevue avenue from Ingraham to Sew
enth street, alley between Beacon and Bur-
lington and from Seventh to Ninth, alley
between Burlington and Bonnie Brae and
from Sixth to Ninth, alley between Bonnie
Brae and Westlake and from Sixth to
Ninth, alley between Westlake and Alva-
RADIO and from Sixth to Ninth, alley south
of Seventh from Alvarado to Lake, alley
between Alvarado and Lake and from
Seventh to Ninth. Lake street from Seventh
TO Eighth, Grand View from Eighth to
Ninth, alley betw cen Lake and Grand View
and from Eighth to Ninth, Park View from
Eighth to Ninth.
The total cost of the work was S2S ,9SS.-
IS, the total length being 2l l,S25.24 feet
of sewer laid.
PERTAINING TO THE PARKS
Tho board of park commissioners yes
terday morning formally decided TO rec
ommend to the council that the new park
near Westlake be named Sunset.
A communication addressed to Joseph
Earnshaw, a landscape engineer, adj
dressed to the mayor. was read to the
board yesterday by Secretary Mendenhall,
as follows:
In response to your kind invitation to
suggest any improvements to the city
parks that might occur to me during my
temporary stay in Los Angeles, take the
liberty of referring to a change in West
lake park which seems to be desirable,
and one which. owing to the extensive
grading now being done in that locality,
could probably be effected at reasonable
expense.
II would suggest that about half an acre
of the south end of the lake next west OF
Alvarado street be filled up to a proper
grade and the space utilized for the benefit
of visitors. and especially those attracted
to the park on concert days. The park
low contains much larger proportion of
water surface than is either necessary or
desirable; the portion of the lake referred
to is rarely used for boating purposes, and
might when filed be laid out SO as to en-.
vide a large carriage space, which, in con-
nection with a driveway partially around
the edge of the lake and interseclng the
main avenue a little west of Alvarado
street would relieve the streets in the vicin-
ity that are now often dangerously block
AIDED on musical occasions. The present
walks are generally remote from the ter
mini of the street railways and additional
walks near the principal entrance are
needed, as they would afford direct access
to the music stand aud boathouse, which
are the two principal objects of interest to
the general public.
''Although not strictly in the nature of q
park suggestion, I would further remark
from what have observed. that the SER
vices of a plating and gardening commits
sion, controlling the lines, grades and
widths of streets, might result in marked
improvement in the future appearance of
this city as no offsets would then be per-
mitted in the lines of the streets. which
should be continuous, and the grades of
the streets would not, on account of false
economy, SO nearly conform to the original
surface of the ground as at present, but
would, by general deepening of the cuts,
bs established with reference to easy, per-
manent grades for public travel, and the
furnishing of sufficient material for the
proper development of the low adjacent
lots, instead of allowing street improve
ments to be located and made according
holders whose real inteit sts would be bet
ter promoted by the join. intelligent ac-
tion of said commission and the city en-
gineer.'
The suggestions contained in the above
were endorsed, and will later be acted
upon.
The occupancy of part of Elysian park
by the Los Angeles Railway company was
referred to Commissioner Post with power
to act.
The superintendent was instructed to
look into the matter of cutting out trees
opposite the Knob Hill tract at Westlake
park. and report at the next meeting.
The communication of G. d. Willard,
secretary of the chamber of commerce, in
reference to the liberty pole for Central
park. was referred to committee consist
ing of Captain Cross and Mathew Teed,
who will confer with the Fiesta committee
and the Los Angeles Electric company with
power to act.
The proposal of the Consolidated Pipe
company to supply pipe was accepted and
it was recommended that the council enter
into contract as follows: Five hundred
cents; 100 feet six-inch. Eastside park, SO
cents; 1000 feet four-inch, Eastside park,
2OLs cents: 1900 feet two-inch, Hollen-
beck park, 2OH cents: 1900 feet two-inch,
Holleubeel park. $lO.35 per 100 feet; 100
feet one-inch. Hollenbeck park, cents.
-AIi tbS pIJo is W 10 uIppeu anu u0IVGr6u
and the six. eight and four-inch pipe to be
laid.
MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE REPORTS
The following recommendations were
yesterday filed addressed to the council:
Gentlemen-Your special committee on
public market site beg leave to report rec
Ommending that all proposals received for
a market site be rejected and the city clerk
instructed to readvertise for proposals.
Your committee on public morals beg
leave to report in the matter of petition
No. 1875 from the Methodist preachers
meeting that such petition be referred to
the city engineer, with instructions to SO
amend all specifications for public work as
to comply with said petition.
Your sewer committee beg leave to re-
port recommending that the petitions, v.
M. Hatfield ct al, from A. Stump ct al,
and from w. A. Stratton ct al, be referred
10 the health officer to report on the mat
ters therein contained. o..
Tho petition referred to by the new COM
mittee upon public morals, is the one pro-
testing against Sunday street work, and
petitions acted upon by the sewer COM
m1ttee are protects against the construc-
ton OF certain sewers located in the
Seventh ward.
CALL OF STATE
Capt. Cav. Alexandra Bertalini, com.
manding the Italian frigate Cristoforo
Colombo, now lying off San Pedro, yester-
day afternoon made an official call upon
the mayor. lie was accompanied by f, 3.
Grimaldi. Italian consul-general at San