The herald., 1897-03-23

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der the bond act.
In regard to the establishment of the
grade of Kohler street between Eighth
| and Ninth streets. ordered by your hon.
orable body on February 25, 1897, would
state that it would be unadvisable to
establish the grade of said street at
| present for the reason that to remedy
the nuisance of storm water complained
| of in petition of McQuilken ct al, here
with returned. and to establish grade
| for Kohler street that will properly
drain said street, which is the outlet
! for a considerable territory, 1t Will be
! necessary to open Kohler street through
| from Ninth to Twelfth streets. The
| fall now on Kohler street from Eighth
to Ninth streets is too small to properly
| drain the street while If Kohler street
was opened through to Twelfth street
there would be plenty of fall, and the
grade of Kohler street could be laid
| close to the ground and drained under
Ninth street by short storm drain.
This would relieve the whole neighbor-
/ hood of the storm water complained of,
which relief, in the absence of general
| system of storm drains, can be obtained
| in no other way.
I herewith present final ordinance es-
tablishing the grade of Eleventh street
from Central avenue to west line of the
Memeyer tract.
DAILY STREET FRANCHISE.
The matter of the DAILY street fran
chise was next taken up, and Judge c.
Silent, on behalf of the property own
ers, stated that an agreement had been
reached between the citizens and the
railroad company. The proposed fran
chise has been amended on three points.
The time of trips is reduced from half
an hour to every fifteen minutes, that
all cars shall run up to IL o'clock. and
stop at all street crossings and that the
purchaser of the DAILY street franchise
shall provide for transfers, so that resi-
dents on that street will be able to reach
the city for one Scent fare. The prop
erty owners further agreed that TIE
company shall have a special privilege
on Daily street for four months. Judge
Silent stated that the property owners
also desired to file written statement
with the council defining their position,
so that hereafter there should be no
question as to where they stood. The
people understood that the railroad
/ company in asking for all these fran
chises did so to control the main artery
into the city. and that they would only
use such portions of these franchises as
will facilitate rapid transit between Los
Angeles and Pasadena. without regard
to the conveniences of the people of the
east side. This being the case, they
wanted to be in position, when the rail-
way company came before the council
and asked to be allowed to abandon
such unusued franchises, to insist that
either the company should build and
operate it's road or allow the use of its
connecting lines by competing COM
pany or companies. The people did not
want to be put in the position of having
stood by and allowed these things. and
then when the matter came up be told
that they had said nothing. and there
fore were not entitled to redress.
On motion the franchise now being
advertised was reconsidered, and the
ordinance as amended was read.
Councilman Nickel thought that the
purchaser of the franchise should be
compelled to light the streets through
which the road passed, and offered
motion to that effect, which, however,
failed to receive a second.
Amendments were then inserted pro-
viding for the free transportation of
members of the city council and board of
education, in addition to policemen ana
firemen, and the amended ordinance was
passed, as was also the special privi-
lege" ordinance.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the recommendation of the street
superintendent, the contractor for the
Improvement of Sunset boulevard was
granted an extension of sixty days in
which to complete the work.
On the report of the supply commit
tee the street superintendent was au-
thorized to purchase 400 yards of gravel
at Smith and Thirtieth streets, at 80
cents per yard
On the report of the finance commit
tee, the usual demands were allowed,
and the usual acquisitions were ap-
proved on the report of the supply COM
mittee.
BIDS OPENED.
The following bids We're opened, read
and referred to the proper committees:
To construct brick culvert across
Adobe street-Edwards & Beyrle pro-
posed for the sum of $269; Henry Thomas
proposed for the sum of $174; David Null
rein proposed for the sum of $40; Nell
son Hollaway proposed for the sum of
25 cents per cubic ward, $1S5; w. A.
Frick proposed for the sum of $40. as
per specifications, or will substitute 30
inch cement pipe for $40 less than above
figure. NJ. ]. Darcy proposed for the
sum of s95. Referred to the board of
public works
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The report of the finance committee
was read and action taken Is follows:
In the matter of the communication
of Jonn r. Mathews, No. $780, asking
that a census be taken of the city of
Los Angeles, as provided for by act
passed February 25, 1897, providing for
this work, we recommend that COM
mitee of three be appointed by the pres
ident of the council to confer with the
board of education at its meeting on
the evening of March 23d, and arrange
for having this census taken in connec-
tion with the school census WHICH is
about to be ordered taken by the board
of education. So ordered.
In the matter of petition No. 296, from
S. Carllis ct al, asking that restaurant
wagons be abolished from the public
streets. we recommend that the city at
torney be instructed to present an or
dinance amending the present ordinance
relating to these restaurant wagons SO
as to deny them the use of the streets
until after the hour of o'clock D. M
Action deferred one week
In the matter of petition from P. J.
Mays, asking for return of $4 6S. being
amount of taxes paid on personal prop
erty for the years 1S95-96, and assign
ing as a reason that she was not the
owner of such personal property assess
ed at that time, we recommend that the
petition be filed. So ordered.
In the matter of petition from H. G.
Wiltshire ct AL, asking that Sunset park
be Immediately improved we recommend
that when the apportionment is made
for the coming fiscal year that provis-
ion be made for the Improvement Of
this park. So ordered.
In the matter of the report of the city
clerk recommending that tax certificates
Nos. 1852 and 1858 for the year 1886