The herald., 1896-01-05
When the Various City Parks
We're Begun
THEIR VALUE APPROPRIATED
II Was q Good Day For Buildings
Yesterday
The nayor Signs the New Sweeping Contract.
1t Does Not Cost So nuch AS
Formerly

Park Superintendent Elmo r. Meserve
has compiled for the park commission a
resume of the various parks in the city,
their location and acreage and the total
cost of maintenance of each from their
foundation down to December |, 1895.
The totals given below embrace an approx
innate value and consequent cost of the
various lands of the different park areas,
and should not be confounded with actual
expenditures:
East Los Angeles Park-Located in Los
Angeles, junction of Alhambra avenue and
Mission roads contains 81 acres; estab-
lished in 1855; total cost to December st,
1895, $1lO,119.79.
Westlake Park-Located on West Sew
enth street and Park avenus; contains So
acres; established February. 1888; total
cost to December lst, 1925, $l2S, ,S71.34.
Elysian Park = Located on north city
boundary and West of Buena Vista street.
contains about 500 acres; established in
1889, but little work done until sprihg of
1892; total cost to December 1st, 1895,
k147 .6S39 81
'.Camino del Burro''-Formal opening
December 81, 1892; cost from May lst
to November l, 1892, $3.50 %; nothing
charged to this account after November J.,
1892; properly belongs to Elysian park
first planting of trees in large amount was
$4,000 from the state experimental sta
t1On, at santa Monica. IN the spring OF
1889, at a cost of $500.
Echo park-Located on reservoir site No.
4, north of Bellevue avenue, one block
north of Temple street; contains thirty
three acres, most of which is lake or
twenty acrss under water; established,
October, 1892; total cost to December L,
1895, $16,33S.7O.
Hollenbeck park-Located on Boyle
Heights, between Fourth ard Sixth streets,
on Cummings avenue; established 1892 {;
total cost to December l, 1895, $21,-
646.12.
Central park-Located between Fifth
and Sixth and Hill and Olive streets, con-
tains nearly four and half acres; an old
established park: cost to December /,
1895, SIS ,293.77.
St. James park-Located north of Adams
street and near Scarf street; donated to
the city by Harvey & King. November,
1891 contains about three-quarters of an
acre; improvement begun S92 total cost
to December l, 1895. $6O49 40.
Plaza park-Located in center of city, :,
North Main street; circle of 21O feet in di-
ameter; an old established park; cost to
December l, 1895, 81 1882.
Prospect park = Located on Boyle
Heights, on Echandia street; heart-shaped,
contains two and a half acres; established
$8O6S.16.
City Hall park-Establishe autumn of
1889; cost to December l, 1895, $739.O5
TIE BUILDING RECORD
Permits for new buildings aggregating in
value $4,000 were issued yesterday as
follows:
To Frank Walker, for a set of $1,000
frame flats on First street, near Flower; tc
G. Nd. Harding, for $3.50 dwelling on Or
ange street, near Burlington avenue; te
Hugh Heaney, for a $225O dwelling or
Pasadena avenue, near Truman street; to
NJ. o. PEPPER, for $500 dwelling on Ma
pie avenue, near Fifteenth street; to II. III.
Reynolds, for a $1,000 dwelling on Twenty
seventh street, near Maple avenue; te
Laura Naramore, for a $1,000 dwelling al
126 North Hill street.
CITY HALL FLOTSAM
The mayor yesterday signed the new
street sweeping contract.
Under the new dead animal contract, the
supply committee yesterday approved bills
amounting to $63.62. Under the old con.
tract the cost of similar work last year
averaged $316 month.
The special committee having in charge
the location of the proposed new public
market, met yesterday and after examin.
ing the bids for the various land sites
offered for the purpose, adjourned to in
spected the lands themselves, which will be
done one day during the coming week.
The park commissioners yesterday rec.
commended the printing by the city of 500
copies OF the park superintendent's annual
report. and it was formally approved. The
plans were submitted for the proposed
tramp barracks, the building of which is tc
cost according to the estimates submitted
$3.50. The board is determined that the
chain gang is not to be housed at Elysiau
park. and will work upon the parks only
such men who, unconvicted of vagrancy
or any other otfense, are in need of en-
rIOvmont