The herald., 1897-01-26

walks and roadway were uneven, tna'
| the gravel was not satisfactory. and tna'
, the contractor be required to put the
street in proper shape before the accep'
. tance of the same The attorney for the
, contractor protested against the adop'
, ton of the report, saying that the report
was too general in its terms and dld no'
specify what was to be done, ana thal
the city should not discredit the report
of its authorized agent The attorney fof
the protestants called upon Councilman
Nickel for statement, and that gentie-
man denounced the whole job as an abor-
ton. and he thought that the contractor
should be required to do the work as re-
qured by the specifications; this was
the easiest way out of it. Mr.. Rusnton,
one of the protestants, also addressed
the council, giving history OF the I'M
provement and saying that the work
had not been done according to specii1ca-
tions and that If the street had been done
one-half as good as the specifications,
there would have been no complaint
The protestants only asked that the work
be done according to the specifications,
and the people would be satisfied. After
some further talk, on motion of Council :
man Nickel, the contractor was ordered
to grade the street according to plans
and specifications from start to finish,
which, he said he believed covered the
whole matter.
In the matter of appeal No. 10, from
Frank Friedman against the acts of the
street superintendent in accepting the
Improvement of Court House street, set
for hearing this day, and in the mean
time referred to the board of public
works, the board recommended the same
be denied and the actions of the street
superintendent confirmed.
| The attorney for the contractor ar
| gued against the adoption of the report
and pointed out what he considered the
| mperfectiors of the gutter, pointing
| them out an dasking they be correct
| ed before the acceptance of the street
Geo. r. Rheinchild. the contractor, also
addressed the council, saying that he
| had never graded a poor street in the
city, and that in this case he had done
the job strictly according to the specifi-
cations The report of the board was
adopted by a unanimous vote.
| The hearing of protests against the
| construction of a sewer on West Eighth
| street and Golden avenue was next called
up, and. there being no objections the
| matter was deferred for one week, on the
request of the president, in whose ward
| the proposed Improvement is located.
The balance of the report of the board
| of public works was then adopted, as
| follows
! In the matter of petition No. 4, from
| the Doheney OIL company, asking per-
! llliSSlbll W QIS a ullCn o iuCitS NIQS Dy
| II inches deep. within which to lay a 2
inch pipe along Park place. recommend
| said petition be granted and work be
done under the direction of the street
| superintendent.
In the matter of petitions No. 1160,
| from w. H. Griffin ct al, No. 63, from
Evan Lewi,, and No 64. from William
Tilman ct al, in reference TO the condi.
ton of East Ninth street. your COM
mittee beg leave to report that on in
vestigation they find said street in very
! bad condition and recommend that the
said petitions be referred to the city en-
gineer, with instructions to devise some
means to remedy the nuisance and re-
port the same to the council.
In the matter of petition No e. from
r. W. Bailey, asking to be granted
franchise for the construction of iron
sign posts, as set forth in said petition.
recommend the same be granted, and
the city attorney instructed to present
the necessary draft of FRANCHISE.
In the matter of the mud hole at Ra-
mirez and Howard streets, the board beg
leave to report that we see no way to
remedy this only by grading the streets.
In the matter of storm water at Twen-
ty-ninth street and Paloma avenue we
recommend that the same be referred to
the city engineer to devise a remedy
Recommend that the street superinten-
utIt pe INSTRUCTED 10 cledn out une gut
ters on Hamilton street. west of the in
tersection of Moffitt street, so that storm
water will run west on Hamilton street.
In the matter of the motion referred
to this board, that the street superin-
tendent be directed to cut ditch on
Alhambra avenue, between Mission road
and Johns street, for the purpose of
draining pools of stagnant water. rec
ommend that said matter be referred to
the street superintendent to abate said
nuisance.
In the matter of the proposals to i'm
prove Johnston street from Downey
avenue to Mission road, recommend thac
the bid of j. P. Mccormick. at So cents
per lneal foot for grading and graveling.
2S cents per lineal foot for curb. Is cents
per lineal foot for cutters, 95a cents per
square foot for sidewalks, and so cents
per lineal foot for crossWalks, be accept
ed. and the accompanying resolution of
award adopted.
Recommend that the bid of Hazard &
McCombs to improve Connecticut street.
between Vernon and Blaine streets, at
13 cents per lineal foot for grading and
graveling complete. % cents per lineal
foot for curb, - cents per lineal foot for
cutters. 94s cents per square foot for side
walk. be accepted. and the accompany
ing resolution of award adopted
STREET SIGNS FRANCHISE.
An ordinance providing for the adver-
tising Of franchise for the erection of
iron sign posts al the intersections of
streets in cItain sections of the city of
Los Angeles, and giving the specifica-
tions for the same was read Mr. Bal
ley. the contractor who asked for the
franchise, appeared and explained his
plan to the counciimen It includes the
painting of the addresses of business
men on the sign posts. from which the
revenue is derived. The contractor also
submitted designs of the posts as con-
templated. Referred TO the board of
public works.
BRIDGE COMMITTEE.
The bridge committee reported in the
matter of repairing the bridge across the
ravne on Adobe street between Alpine
and Bernard streets, that as the pro-
posed repairs would only be a makeshift,
recommended that a thirty-inch culvert
be constructed at the point named
which would be permanent and entail
no further expense on the city, and in
structing the city engineer to prepare
the necessary specifications Adopted
CITY ATTORNEYS REPORT.
The city attorney presented the fol-
lowing report which was adopted
| present herewith an ordinance re-
pealing ordinance No. S9SS and amend
ing ordinance No 22SS. The only diff
ference between the ordinance present
ed and the one repealed is that the form
er ordinance only required a half-nch
band around the top, middle and bot