The herald., 1897-05-29
Board Of Public Works
Recommendations
WIDENING OF DARWIN AVENUE.
WIDTH CHANGED TO EIGHTY
FEET
Meeting Of the Land Committee-Talk
of Another Public Market-M.
p. Thye's Proposition

At the meeting of the board Of public
works yesterday. only routine business
was transacted. Messrs. Blanchard,
Mathuss and Ashman were promptly on
hand and at once proceeded TO dispatch
business, taking up in regular order the
petitions that had been referred to
them AS a result of the days work
the following recommendations were
adopted for submission to the city coun-
Gil at the next regular meeting:
In the matter of the petition from c.
W. Hyatt ct al, asking that the graoe
of Thirty-fifth street, between Olin ana
Figueroa streets, be established, ana
said street between said points be grad
ed. graveled, curbed with cement and
sidewalked with cement four feet VIDE,
recommend that the city engineer be in
structed to prepare ordinance of inten-
tion to establish the grade as petitioned
for, and when said proceedings are
completed to present ordinance of in
tention of improvement of said street
between said points.
In the matter of the petition from M.
B. Boyd, asking that Third street, be-
tween Bunker Hill avenue and Hope
street. be graded, curbed and guttered
recommend the same be referred to the
city engineer to present ordinance of
intention.
In the matter Of the widening Of Dar-
win avenue, between Griffin avenue and
Thomas street, recommend that the city
L. foI To i
nance of intention, making the width
of street eighty feet, instead Of sixty
feet as heretofore recommended by this
board; the assessment district to be be-
tween Workman street and Thomas
street and the city engineer prepare
map of district for city attorney to pre-
sent the necessary ordinance.
Recommend that the protest from e.
j. Taylor ct al. against the widening
of Darwin avenue, between Griffin ave-
nue. and Thomas street, be filed.
Recommend that the communication
from the Wabash Guide and Sign COM
pany, offering to place guide and sign
posts in this city, be denied.
In the matter of the petition from j.
E. Brown ct al, asking that cement
sidewalk six feet wide be constructed
on Eastlake avenue from Downey ave-
nue. to Main street, under the Bond act,
recommend the same be referred to the
city engineer for estimate of cost, and
IL the same exceeds the amount re-
quired by law, then to present the nee
essary ordinance of intention.
In the matter of the petition from c.
]. Fox ct al, asking that the grade of
Figueroa street between Temple and
Diamond street be changed and estab-
lished, recommend the same be referred
to the city engineer for estimate of
frontage.
Recommend that the petition from
Thomas Leahy, asking permission to
put in the regulation redwood curbs on
Eighth, Enterprise and George streets,
between Alameda and Lemon streets,
be granted as soon as the grade Of said
streets are established.
In the matter of the protest against
the sidewalking of South Workman
street, recon- mend that the protest be
sustained and the proceedings aban-
doned.
In the matter of the petition of George
H. Dunlap for the putting in of a reg
ular alley crossing a the intersection of
the north line of Seventh street, with the
alley from Sixth to Seventh street, in
the block between Main and Spring
street, to prevent water from running
into the cellar Of his property al that
place, recommend that the same be filed.
In the matter Of the resolution of
Councilman Mathuss in reference to
street work done by private contract,
recommend that hereafter all parties
making street improvements under pri-
yate contract be required to use the
form of contract and bond which can
be obtained i'll the office of the city en-
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