The herald., 1896-03-28
BOYLE HEIGHTS IS HAPPY
A FRANCHISE FOR ITS NEW ELECTRIC
ROAD WILL BE ADVERTISED
The Line ID Expected to Be Ready by October
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Subsidy Has Been Raised for the Purpose.
Yesterday at the City Hall


Subsidy Has Been Raised for the Purpose.
Yesterday at the City Hall
The property owners of Boyle Heights
were largely in evidence at the meeting of
the board of public works held yesterday,
when the application for franchise from
w. H. Workman and others was before
that body. Determination could be seen
upon their faces. They have raised the
bonus required, some $4,000, to secure
the construction of the road from the cor
ner of Third street and Stevenson avenue,
from which point all parts Of the city can
be reached by either the Los Angeles Elec-
tric Railway company or the Los Angeles
Traction company's existing lines, along
Fourth street to Evergreen cemetery.
The following contract has been signed
by the property owners along the line of
theiroad:
"For and in consideration of the con-
structioh OF double-track cleo
trio railway, with rails to weigh
not less sthan sixty (6O) pounds per yard,
equipped with first-class cars, and in opera
ton before the last day of October, 1896,
the undersigned freeholder agrees to pay
to - company in thirty (30) days after
the completion and operation of said rail-
way, with a service of at least one train
each way over the line of said railway, at
least once every fifteen (15) minutes, be-
tween the hours of o'clock am. and l 80
PM, the sum set opposite my name."
The board of public works yesterday de-
cided to recommend the advertisement for
the sale of the franchise petitioned for.
The road is expected to be in operation
by October next. 1t will take in the Hollen-
beck Home, Hollenbeck park, Evergreen
cemetery and the other public institutions
and points of interest on the other side of
the river.
The board yesterday also acted upon the
following for submission to the council on
Monday: Recommend the petition from
A. Wohlforth, asking permission to grade.
gravel. curb with redwood and lay gutter
on Echandia street from the south property
line of Pennsylvania avenue to the north
property line of Pleasant avenue, be grant
ed, and the city attorney be instructed to
prepare and present the necessary or0i-
nance granting said permission.
In the matter of the petition from j. H.
Abbott. calling attention to the condition of
the storm drain at the southwest corner of
Fourth and Broadway, we recommend that
the street superintendent be instructed to
keep the catch basin at that point cleaned
out.
Recommend that the petition from Jas.
Fl. Blanchard ct al, asking that the grade
of First street, from the center line of Pearl
street to the center line of Beaudry street,
be established, and that thereafter the same
be graded, graveled and curbed according
to specifications No. 5, bo granted, and the
city engineer be instructed to present the
necessary ordinance of intention for es-
tablishing said grade, and after said grade
ia established, to present the necessary Or
dinance of intention to improve the same
as petitioned for.
In the matter of the petition from j. H.
Blanchard ct al. in reference to the grading
of Second street, between Pearl and Free
mont avenue, we recommend that the
street superintendent be directed to replace
the wooden curb removed therefrom when
the property owners have placed said street
on sub-grade.
Recommend that the city furnish thirty
inch cement pipe for 27O feet of the ar
royo between Pearl and Fremont avenue
and $50 feet for the arroyo between Eighth
and Ninth streets, all to be put in by the
property owners without expense to the
city.
Recommend that the petition from j. H.
Blanchard ct al. in reference to the inn
provement of First street be filed, as the
matter has already been acted upon.
Recommend that the city engineer be in
structed to present the necessary ordinance
Of intention to grade and gravel Sixteenth
street, between Hope and bigueroa, ac-
cording to specifications "a, construct ce-
ment sidewalk six feet wide and cement
curb according to specifications No. II and
crosswalks according to specifications ?.
Recommend that the petition from X. W.
Wing ct AL, asking that ordinance No.
$3.50 be amended so as to permit the inn
provement of Thirty-sixth street from
Figueroa street west by using the natural
coil instead of gravel, be denied.
Recommend that the bid of Stansbury &
Moore to improve Sixth street, between
Wolfskill avenue and Gladys avenue, at
$l.27 per lineai foot for grading and grav-
cling, 35 cents per lineal foot for curb, l 8
cents per lineal foot for cutters, IL cents
per square foot for sidewalk, S1.1O per
lineal foot for for sewer complete, and 81
per lineal foot for crosswalks, be accepted
and the accompanying resolution of award
adopted.
Recommend that the street superintend-
ent he instructed to extend culverts across
Fifth street, at the intersection of Wall
street.
Recommend that the petition from L.
Jacoby ct al, asking that a cement walk
six feet wide be laid on the west side of
Hope street, between Twelfth and WASH
ington streets, be granted and the city en-
gineer instructed to prepare and present
the necessary ordinance of intention.
Recommend that the petition from
William Widemeyer ct al, asking to have
tie grade of the alley in block d of the
Lake Shore tract established, be granted
and the city engineer instructed to prepare
and present the necessary ordinance.
Recommend that the protest from Mar
Raret Moore ct AL. against the sidewalking
of Center street between First and Also
streets. be referred to the city engineer to
report if majority of the frontage affect
ed thereby is represented on said protest.
Recommend that the ordinance of inten-
ton to sidewalk the south side of Fifteenth
street, between Grand avenue and Hill
street, be filed.
Recommend that the city engineer be
instructed to present the necessary ordi-
nance to sidewalk the south side of Sew
enth street, from Moore street to Alvarado
street, with cement sidewalk six feet
wide.
The application for the E. f. Peck elec-
trio lighting franchise was not yesterday
considered.
THE PRINCIPALS ARE MAD
The Times on Thursday printed what
purported to have been an account of the
principals meeting held on Wednesday.
The story as printed is denied as being SEN
sational and absolutely devoid of truth.
The alleged facts have set the whole school
department by the ears, and Principal Ed
ward L. Hutchison is out with card which
is, to say the least, just a bit warm. Hutch
ison says:
WITH THE PRINCIPALS
EDITOR HERALD:-The alleged report of
the meeting of the principals of the city
schools which appeared in yesterdays
Times was the most inaccurate report of