The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-01-25
The Ordinances Returned to the
Council Unsigned
IS A TEMPORARY MATTER
Yesterday With the Board Of Public
Works
The Experts Working Upon the City S
Books-Pioneer Potts Funeral Today.
The Second School Term

the following:
Ordinance of intention to improve a
portion of Breed street; Ninth street; to
construct sewer along Bellevue avenue;
Fifth and Croker streets, Fifth street,
Sixth and Croker streets, Pico, Twelfth
and other streets; also an ordinance to
amend an ordinance providing health and
quarantine regulations; ordinance to
amend an ordinance regulating the prac-
tice of medicine, etc.. ordinance establish
ing the grade of Pico street from Maple
avenue to San Pedro street; ordi-
nance establishing the grade of
Buena Vista street; ordinance chang
ing and establishing the grade of
Third street; ordinance of intention
to establish the grade of Mateo
street; ordinance of intention to change
and establish the grade of Kip street; and
resolutions of award to the following
parties: Watson and Weiss, to sidewalk
Alvarado street; David Mulrein, to side
walk Olympia street; Richmon and Bets
worth, to improve Thirty-third street; j.
Kirkpatrick, to improve Towne avenue;
Richmon & Betsworth, to improve Elmore
avenue. and P. M. Darcy, to sewer Main
and other streets.
Ordinances of intention to improve
Thompson street, Burlington avenue; to
establish the grade of La Veta place, Sum-
ner place; improving certain portions of
Chicago and Florida streets and Golden
avenue; constructing sewer on Olive
street, Fourth street and Omar avenue;
changing the name of a portion of Loomis
street to Sixth street; establishing the
grade of Thirty-sixth street; the resolution
Of award to improve Lake street, and the
ordinance prohibiting the distribution and
posting of indecent pictures.
The last is the celebrated Kingery decol-
which a fannnrarIIV a
least, laid upon the shelf
All of the above will be again passed and
sent to the mayor, after the new contract
for city printing has been let, which will be
on Monday.
PUBLIC WORKS RECOMMENDATIONS
The hoard of public works, at its regular
weekly meet ing held yesterday, disposed
of the following:
Recommend the petition from c. H. Ha-
fen ct al, calling attention to the condi-
ton of the streets between Main and San
Pedro south of Ninth street, be referred to
the city engineer, to report what changes
can be made to help the petitioners.
Recommend that the petition from Frank
B. Harbert ct AL, asking that a cement
sidewalk five feet wide be placed on the
west side of Key West street between
Twenty eighth and Jefferson streets, be
granted, and the city engineer be instruct
ed to prepare and present the necessary
ordinance of intention therefor.
In the matter of proposals to sidewalk
First street,we recommend that all bid 8 be
rejected and the clerk instructed to read
vertise for proposals.
Recommend that the contract between
the city and the Porphyry Paving com pany
for the repairing of Upper Main street be
referred to the city engineer to make the
necessary estimate and report the expense
which would be incurred under said con-
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Recommend that the petition from A. H.
Odell ct al. asking that the grade of Towne
avenue from Sixth to Seventh streets be
changed, be referred to the city engineer
for frontage, and if the same represents a
majority. if practicable, then to present
the necessary ordinance of intention
therefor.
Recommend that the petition from E.
Bouton. asking that the city engineer be in
structed to make the survey of certain
land on the west line of Yale street, in
order that he may have the proper de-
scription for deciding the same to the city
for street purposes, be granted and the
petition referred to the city engineer to
comply Herewith.
Recommend that the petition from Bare
ct al, asking that CASTELAR, street between
Bellevue avenue and Ord street be graded,
graveled, ,guttered and curbed with red
wood curb, be granted and the city en-
gineer be instructed to prepare and present
the necessary ordinance of intention to
grade, gravel, gutter and curb with a
cement curb.
Recommend that the ordinance of inten-
ton to sidewalk the east side of Grand
avenue between First and Second Streets
be placed upon its passage.
Recommend that the ordinance OF inten-
tion to sidewalk the north side of Seventh
street from Lucas avenue to Union avenue,
be placed upon it's passage.
Recommend that the ordinance of inten-
ton to sidewalk the east side of Olive
street from Fourth to Fifth streets be filed,
as the work has already been done.
Recommend that the ordinance of inten-
ton to improve Sixteenth street from
Grand avenue to Hope street be filed, as
the work has already been done.
Recommend that the protest fro m F. B.
Harbert ct al. against the sdewalking of
the east side of Grand avenue, between
Sand street and Stevens place, be den led.
THESE MEN EXPORTING
The various men investigating the books
about the city hall have now gotten their
work we'll in hand. There are six book
keepers at work for the grand Jury, with
two assistants. The principals are.
W. P. Keller, tax collectors office; C. H
Lee, assessors office; G. A. Baskerville
street department; g. A. Hamilton, clerk s
office; A. H. Mammalian. auditors office
r. n. fOluueXCef. park department books,
The work of exporting will, it is expect
cd, not be completed inside of three weeks.
PIONEER OTIS FUNERAL
The funeral of j. W. Potts, tine old pio-
neer who died few days ago, occurs to-
day. A special committee of the council
will follow the remains to their last rest
ing place, and a committee from the park
department will also attend the ceremo-
MES. The following letter was yesterday
sent to the widow of the deceased, signed
by the mayor and the park commission:
Los ANGELES. CAL, Jan. "a, 1896.
Mrs. ]. w. Potts, Los Angeles, Cal.
DEAR MADAME:--lt is with feelings of
sorrow and regret that we hear of tue be-
reavement of your family in the loss by
death of the husband and father, j. W.
Potts, in whom we also lose a trustworthy
employe of the city, and it is with a feel
ing of qualification that we are enabled to
offer to continue the son of the worthy de-
ceased upon the work formerly done by
the father, so that the family may in no
way feel the pecuniary loss, as they have
sufficient to bear in the greater and ire
parable loss of the father
The park department will send a floral
offering to the family of the deceased of a
few last flowers from the plants the old
mad loved to cultivate so well.
Mr.. Potts death is the first in the park
department since that of Mr.. Tomlinson,
formerly park superintendent, who ex-
pred in 1898.
THE SECOND SCHOOL TERM
The second term of the present school