The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-28
Mayor and Aldermen of Mime.
apoIis Send Resolutions
THE CAUSE OF THE DELAY
The Fire Department May Not Turn Out
on July 1
Yesterday with the Board Of rlre Commits
sioners-Speclficatlons for New Sum-
mer Police Uniforms

other officials or minneapolis were IN
this city some six weeks ago the party
was most royalty treated by the NUM-
cipal officials and others Of this city. The
Minnesotans never made any acknowl-
edgment of the entertainment extended
to them while here, and in time it came
to be generally accepted that the visi-
tors were far from what had been ex-
pected. Yesterday City Clerk Charles
A. Luckenbach received from Charles
f. Hanly, clerk of Minneapolis, the fol-
lowing communication, which is ad-
dressed to the council:
Herewith enclosed please find engrav-
ed copy of resolutions passed by the
city council of the city Of Minneapolis
at a regular meeting held April 80, 1896.
1.-THE apparent tardy recognition of the
faVOrs therein mentioned is accounted
for by the statement that our city coun-
Gil did not meet until nearly three weeks
after their return. The necessary delay
in publication of the proceedings and
provoking delay by the engraver, ex-
plains what would otherwise call for an
apology. The delegation recognized
that courtesies extended were to the city
of Minneapolis and not to the Individual
persons, hence the official recognition.
Permit me to add my personal ap-
probation of your hospitality"
Accompanying Clerk Hanly's letter
are copy Of the handsomely engraved
resolutions signed by Fred B. Snyder as
president of the Minneapolis council,
who, by the way, was the only member
Of the Minneapolis city government left
at home, while his colleagues were here
and elsewhere upon their jaunt, and by
Mayor Robert Pratt.
The resolutions extend thanks also to
the various railroads and other cities
which assisted in making things agree
able to the Minnesotans while they were
absent from home.
MAY NOT PARADE
At a. meeting of the board of fire COM
missioners held yesterday, Chief Moore
recommended that the petition of A. j.
Kohl to erect a boiler and engine on lot
Is of the Woodwork tract be granted,
the recommendation being adopted.
A request from the Fourth of July
celebration committee that the fire de-
partment parade ON independence day
brought from Commissioners Vetter and
Kuhrtz a protest Vetter thought that
for reasons of the public safety the de-
partment should not turn out. Com
missioner Kuhrtz thought that there
having been a turnout during the Fiesta
lar request now pending were not
granted. Action upon the matter was
postponed for one week.
The application of E. Coleman to be
permitted to operate a hand laundry at
GAS Upper Main street was referred.
The board decided to close the Frasher
matter definitely by filing all of the
to blacksmith shop adjoining his resi-
dence at 800 San Pedro street He will
now have to go into court and prove that
the shop is a nuisance.
Upon motion of Commissioner Vetter
a requisition for $50 for paints and oils
for use upon the tower now being built
at the East Los Angeles engine house
was hung I'D for one week,
1t developed during the meeting that
the owner of the property in which Is
located the Third street engine house
threatens to increase, on July 1, the
rental which the city is paying by $50
a month. Commissioner KuhrtZ re-
marked that he for one would not be
scared.
The request for a fire alarm box at
the corner of College and New Depot
streets was filed.
The chief was instructed to personally
interview the property owners in the
district where Engine company No. :
is to be located relative to the proposed
new home for that company.
NEW POLICE UNIFORMS
Every one OF the ninety odd members
of the police force will within the next
| month have to be equipped with a brand
new uniform. Commissioners Long,
Cook and Barham, who have the matter
in charge, yesterday sent broadcast to
local tailoring establishments the fol-
lowing specifications:
For coats and vests: Eighteen ounce,
indigo dye, to staad nitric acid test.
For pants: Twenty ounce, indigo dye,
same test as above.
For coat Innings and vest backs:
Double warp farmers satin, permanent
finish; samples to be furnished by each
bidder.
For sleeve and vest Innings and pants
waistband Innings: genuine Ferguson
satteen.
For pants pockets: Best quality drill.
Workmanship to be first-class in
every particular and fit guaranteed, and
to be subject to approval of uniform
committee.
A certified check for $500, or bond
for full amount of contract to accom-
pany bid, said bond to have the sigma
ture of at least two sureties, and to be
approved by said uniform committee.
Said uniforms to be manufactured in
the city of Los Angeles and to be reg
ulation sack suit police uniform
Sealed bids to be presented to w. F.
Parker, clerk of police commission, at
the mayors Office on or before Tuesday,
June I'd, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Every officer discovered demurring to
the idea of new summer toggery is to
be summarily dismissed from the force.
The new uniforms will cost each, COM
plete, between 500 and $25.