The herald., 1896-06-21
.IAf C|TYS WATER SUPPLY
The Board of Health Is Aroused
to Action
MEETING HELD YESTERDAY
An Inspection Of the Various Reservoirs
Of the City
Meeting Of the Committee Of the Council to
Draft . Market Ordinance - The
Provisions Agreed Upon
MEETING HELD YESTERDAY

The crusade for pure water for drink
ing purposes inaugurated by The Herald
| is beginning to have it's effect. The prev
alence Of typhoid fever in localities
where the appearance Of the disease can
be traced directly to the impure water
| has aroused the board of health to ac-
ton, and the members are determined
to have remedy, II 1t can be secured.
An .impromptu meeting Of the board
was held in the mayors office yesterday
afternoon. Mayor RAIDER and Drs.
Smith and Moore were In attendance.
DR.. Steddom was unavoidably detained,
and. after remaining for some time. DR..
Moore was compelled to leave. The
members of the board had determined to
make an investigation of the water res
ervoirs of the city company, and to sug-
gest such changes as might In their
judgment improve the water supply. DR..
Moore was compelled to leave before
the meeting finally convened, but later
on the arrival of DR.. Steddom, the health
officer, meeting was held, and the
members made a tour of the reservoirs.
Mayor RAIDER has some very pronounced
views on the water proposition and it is
probable that q recommendation will
be presented at the next meeting Of the
council, ordering all the reservoirs COW
cred. Interest in the matter has now
been aroused, and it is now only a ques-
ton of time when some improvement
will be made.
THE NEW MARKET.
Councilmen Kingery, Ashman and
| Munson, the committee to draft an ordi-
nance providing regulations for the new
! market, to be established at Ninth and
Los Angeles streets, were in consulta-
tion during the greater part of yester-
day with the city attorney, drawing up
the ordinance, the main points of which
have been agreed upon. The ordinance
Will provide for the appointment of an
inspector, or market master, with full
police powers, and who shall receive the
rents for the stalls. and have general
charge of the market. 1t is the object to
| make the market a wholesale mart,
where the producers and hucksters can
be brought together without the inter-
vention of the middleman.
The ordinance will provide for the
rental charges of the stalls, time of oc-
cupancy, etc. The councilmen are de-
sirous Of making 1t possible for any SELL
er to rent a stall even though he wants
| it for a single day only. They also rec
ognize that the time Of possible lease
should be limited. and will probably set
that point at one year. No individual
will be allowed to rent more than two
stalls. This regulation will prevent pos
sible monopoly.
One very important fact in connection
with the market is that the engine house
now located on Ninth and Main streets,
and the lease for which will expire in the
near future, will have to be vacated. In
asmuch as new quarters must be found
it is quite likely, SO some of the council
men state, that the new house will be
put down on the public market grounds,
one block from it's present site. The
| rent saved by this method would almost
pay the monthly rental price of the mar
ket grounds.
The lot of ground which will be occu-
pied by the market has been divided by
the city engineer into III stalls of ample
size for wagons loaded with farm pro-
ducts. Two narrow roadways extend
through the evounds from one end to the
other. Stalls will be let at nominal rates.
MIR. STRANGE'S VACATION
Mr.. c. L. Strange, the superintendent
Of buildings, will leave for his vacation
today or tomorrow, and will be absent
about thirty days. This is the first
"lay-off" that Mr.. Strange has taken
since he entered on the discharge of his
duties. During that time he has made
all the plans for the new school houses,
twenty in number. and also prepared
the plans for the new city prison, now
approaching completion, besides attend
ing to all the routine work of his office.
He has been working very hard and
needs a rest. Mr.. Strange, having no
deputy, has paid for substitute dur
ing his absence. William Rommel will
run the office until his return.
WANT TO TEACH SCHOOL.
The regular weekly meeting of the
teachers committee of the city board
of education, was held in Superintendent
Foshay's office yesterday afternoon The
room was crowded with applicants for
positions during the afternoon, mostly
young women who are by the rules COM
committee and present their credentials.
Sunday trains for Long Beach and
Terminal island on Terminal railway
Leave Los Angeles S:15 and 9:15 a. M,
lilo and Sis p. m, Fare SOC round trip