The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-06-27
workman GAINS A POINT
Has Another Opportunity
at His Franchise
NIL The BIDS WERE THROWN OUT
Yesterday With the Board of
Public Works
TAX EATERS INTERESTED
The Estimates for Running the City
Government
They viii Be Considerably Higher for the
Coming Year
TAX EATERS INTERESTED
The Estimates for Running the City
Government
They viii Be Considerably Higher for the
Coming Year
A Sudden and Pronounced Boom Noticed In
zanja Water - Preparing to Enforce
the New Hltching Ordinance.
City Hall Flotsam

The board Of public works was busy
discussing electric road franchises dur
ing the morning hours of its regular
weekly session held yesterday. The
! heart of ex-Mayor w. H. Workman was
made glad by a recommendation agreed
upon that all Of the bids for the privilege
to operate the proposed opposition road
to and from Boyle Heights, be thrown
out.
The board also yesterday acted upon
the following:
| Recommend that the petition from the
Mateo Street and Santa Fe Avenue
Railroad company. asking the council to
pass an ordinance granting them per-
mission to convert their street car line
! into a single or double track electric
| railroad line. be granted and the neces-
sary ordinance placed upon its pas
sage.
| Recommend that the draft Of an ordi-
nance presented by the Mateo Street
| and Santa Fe Avenue Railroad company
| for the privilege Of constructing street
car track between Stephenson avenue
| and Palmetto street, be referred to the
city attorney.
Recommend that the draft of an or
dinance granting right of way over
certain streets to the Southern Califor-
mia Railroad company, as presented by
the city attorney, be placed upon its
passage.
Recommend that all bids to improve
First street between Boyle avenue and
Anderson street be rejected.
recommend that the petition from
r. ]. Adcock, asking that Darwin ave-
nue. from Duillard street to johnson
street be graded, .graveled, curbed with
cement and sidewalked with cement
sidewalk five feet wide, under the Bond
provisions of the Vrooman act, be grant
ed and the city engineer instructed to
prepare and present the necessary esti-
mate of cost and If the same exceeds
the amount required by law, then to
present the necessary ordinance of in
tention.
Recommend that the petition from r.
Leon, calling attention to the condition
Of Wilmington street between Jackson
| and Requena streets be referred to the
street superintendent with instructions
to clean up said street.
Recommend that the petition from
White and Bell ct al, asking that the
rails be removed from Cummings street
south Of First street to East Fifth street.
upon the ground that the same have
never been used, be granted and the
street superintendent be instructed to
remove the same.
Recommend that the report Of the
I health officer, calling attention to the
stagnant water at the corner of First
street and Rosemont avenue, be re-
ferred to the city engineer.
In the matter of the report of the SUI
perintendent of street sprinkling, recon-
mending that Pico street from Alvarado
street to the end of the car line and Cen
trail avenue from the Southern Pacific
railroad tracks south should be sprink-
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do nothing in this matter until the an
nexation suit is decided, which is set
for trial July 21st.
In the matter of the report Of the
health officer stating that it would be
wise legislation to give him authority
to employ two horses and cars and four
men to be used in keeping the cutters Of
our paved streets clean during the day.
we recommend that this request be
granted; the horses to be given him from
the fire department and the carts and
harness owned by the city turned over
to him, and that the city attorney be
instructed to prepare and present the
necessary ordinance ordering the en-
ployment Of the men asked.
Recommend that the petition from L.
M. Davenport ct al. asking that Bloom
street between Main street and Alham-
bra avenue be graded. graveled, curbed
with redwood curbs, be granted, and
the city engineer instructed to prepare
and present the necessary ordinance of
intention therefor.
petition from Col. John r. Berry was
read, asking permission to use a trac-
ton engine for hauling crushed rock to
pave with prepared macadam on any
street. The petitioner appeared and
stated that he could furnish paving por~
phyry at $115 per ton (the amount now
being paid being $3.50 per tom If he were
granted permission to use the engine.
1t would haul forty to sixty tons at a
load. The petition went over a week in
order to give the board chance to ex-
anime the engine and material.
THE TAX-EATERS' FEAST.
The estimates for conducting the
various departments of the city gov
eminent will soon be in. They must be
filed with the auditor by July 18th. The
latter official has the right under the
charter, and 1t is his duty, to trim the
figures after they have been submitted.
SO as to keep the possible expenditures
within a reasonable bound. More
money will be needed this year than
ever before to run the city. Building
Superintendent Charles L. Strange Is az
far the only officer who has his figures
in shape. They are as follows:
Salary of superintendent, $4,000