The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-01-07
The Auditor Instructed to Trans
fer Certain Moneys
STRAW ON OIL REFINERIES
The Council Refuses to Suspend Its
Rules
Opposition Led by Councilman Snyder-The
Ordinance Laid Over for One Week.
Other Business

to transfer to the central police station
fund from the internal and sewer fund of
1870, the sum of 500, 900, and also to
transfer to the same fund the premium on
the central station bonds amounting to
$2SO3.2O. This transfer wipes out the
deficiency created in the police station
fund by the payment last spring of certain
bonded interest.
The council yesterday sustained the APP
peal of J. j. Bradshaw and others against
the street superintendent assessment
warrant for the sewering of Fremont ave.
nue.. The appeal of j. p. Rowan from the
assessment in the sewering of Elmyra
street was overruled and the hearings
against the assessment for the sdewaiking
of Eleventh street and the sewering of
Maple avenue, were postponed for one
week.
The notification from the contractors
that the extension of the Hayes-street
school building was completed and ready
to be turned over to the city, was referred
to the special school building committee
and the superintendent of buildings.
The recommendation of the board of
health that a certain district located in the
river DO toms be set aside by the city for a
public corral and hay market was referred
to the land committee. and the recon-
mendation that one Theodore Roberts
have returned to him $50, the amount of a
saloon license during one month when his
resort was not kept open, was referred to
the finance committee.
The recommendation of the park COM
missioners that Hollenbeck park be fully
supplied with water was referred to the
zanja committee, and the request for an
ordinance to prevent infiammatory discus
sions by large crowds in Central park was
referred to the city attorney.
The contractor having in charge the inn
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Burlington avenue to Alvarado street was
granted a thirty-day extension of time in
which to complete his work, and the report
of the special committee investigating the
ownership of teams in the street depart
ment was filed and the committee ordered
discharged.
The draft of the contract to improve Los
Angeles street between Fifth and Seventh
streets was approved, and Oh motion of
Councilman Kingery the city attorney was
instructed to present an ordinance pro-
hibiting improper advertising on bill boards
in the city.
The various recommendations of the
board of public works and sewer commit
tee, as previously published were all
adopted.
TIE special committee on viaducts re-
ported, recommending that the Los An
geles street railway company be allowed
TO extend the approach at the north end of
the viaduct a distance not to exceed $50
feet from it's present terminus. Also that
the approach on the south end be extended
In the following manner: The approach to
commence at point not nearer than tbir-
ty feet from line drawn at right angles to
Upper Main street from the north curb at
the intersection of Upper Main and Ala
media streets to the west curb of Upper
Main street; this approach to be SO con-
structed that loaded teams may pass I'M
der it the full width of College street, and
also that when completed no point of it
sall be nearer the west curb line of the
street than it is at present.
The above was adopted.
Bids for 100 tons of barley hay for the
fire department. and proposals for city
printing were ordered to be advertised, and
the recommendation of the supply COM
mittee that all departments hereafter Or
der only such things as they must have
was filed, as was also the statement of the
city clerk showing how economy has not
been practiced in any department during
the first six months of the present fiscal
year.
The mayor submitted the following:
To the honorable council of the city of Los
Angeles:
Gentlemen-A vacancy existing in the
board OF engineers appointed under the
provisions of ordinance No. 1926, new Sc
ries, by the removal from the city and res
ignation of G. P. Bockins, G. w. Judkins is
hereby appointed to the same for the un-
expired term.
The appointment above was approved.
Judkins is chief engineer at the Traction
company's power house.
The city clerk reported that in the mat
ter OF the sidewalkng of the north side of
Fifteenth street from Hill to Main streets
notice of street work was published Decem-
Der 9TH. Time for protest expired De-
cember 2lst. No protests have been re-
ceived.
In the matter of the grading, etc., of
Fourth street from Chicago street to Fresno
street. notice of street work was published
December 9Th. Time for protest expired
December 21st. No protests have been
received.
In the matter of the sidewalking of
Twenty-first street from Main street to
Grand avenue, notice ot street work was
published December 9Th. Time for pro-
test expired December 21st. No protests
have been received.
In the matter of the sewering of Breed
street, from First street to Michigan ave-
nue., notice OF street work was published
December Sd. Time for protest expired
December 10th. No protests have been
received.
The rules in all of the above were s,,s.
pended and the final ordinances adopted.
The board OF public works reported, rec
ommendipg additional crosswalks, as fol-
lows: Over Twenty-eighth street. on the
east side of Hoover; Twenty eighth street,
on the east side of Grand avenue: Sever
ance street and Adams Grand avenue and
Twenty-third street, Santee and Twelfth
streets; Pico and Santee streets: Central
avenue and Eighteenth street; Twenty.
third street and Maple avenue. The re.
port was adopted.
The finance committee presented the
following:
Recommend that the ordinance fixing
the number of persons who shall be EN-.
ployed in the street department of the city,
as presented by the city attorney, be placed
upon its passage.
Recommend that the petition from Jerry
Hitch, asking for a rebate on account of
saloon license for 221 West Third street.
be denied.
Recommend that the petition asking that
the license be taken off from real estate
dealers be filed.
In accordance with the recommendation
of the board of health, we recommend that
the city attorney be instructed to prepare
ana present the necessary ordinance pro-
yiding for the following fees for registra-
ton IN the health office: Tor each physi-
clan, surgeon, dentist and pharmacist, SO
ito register but once); midwives, to register
annually, w each; medicine vendors, to
register annually. 81 each; certificates of
birth or death under seal so cents each.
The above recommendation were all of
them adopted.
The following was submitted: Your
committee to whom was referred the mat
ter OF changing stone on central police
from granite to sandstone, beg leave to re-
port that they have carefully considered
the merits of the various material and