The herald., 1897-02-02

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this time
The finance committee further re
ported as follows:
Your committee feel compelled to cal
the attention of your honorable body Z
the demands of j. b. Franklin for col
lecting and cremating garbage under
existing contracts. We have approved
with great reluctance the demand ol
said ]. b. Franklin for January service:
as follows:
To collecting and cremating
garbage ........... ......... 81 ,O4l. tt
To collecting and cremating gar
bage in annexed districts...... 5o0.o(
s1,541 &C
We would respectfully call your at
tention to the injustice done the tax
paying residents living within the old
limits of the city by using of their funds
| in paying for the collection of garbage
in annexed districts, an amount of
money one-half as large as the sum paid
| for similar service within the old limits
of the city.
| Councilman Nickel wanted to know
whether the committee had any data by
which this matter could be reached.
| On the face of it, there was something
wrong. and he thought the matter
should be referred to the grand jury for
| investigation. Either the first contract
was too low or the new one too high.
! Councilman Toll said that the COM
mittee knew nothing, as they had not
made the contracts. The great dis
parity in the amounts, only S1Q41 for
the whole city, and $500 for the sparsely
settled districts. had been so glaring as
to excite comment, and they thought it
their duty to call the matter to the at
tention of the council.
Il think if the matter is sifted down
it will be found that the garbage Is not
properly collected anywhere in the city,"
said Mr.. Grider "Of course when COM
plants are sent in wagon may be sent
out, but that is ALL
II want the whole matter looked into
at once" said Councilman Mathuss. 1t
looks like a steal-it looks crooked. and
l do not hesitate to say So"
Councilman Nickel thought the mat
ter should be looked into at once, and
he therefore moved that the city clerk
be instructed to return the demand at
once, which motion prevailed.
The matter of the employees of the city
was again called up, and amended so
as to read. Citizens of Los Angeles, and
that the names appear on the present
printed Great Register of the county"
The council then took a recess until
2 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The council reconvened at 2 o'clock,
WIFI IIeSluSHt Gil ANiIhOli III TIC
chair, and the special order for that hour
the hearing of protests against sewer
ing of Eighth street and Golden avenue,
and none of the proteStantS appearing,
the protests were denied.
The next special order, the hearing of
protests in the matter of the opening
of Mateo street. went over for one week
on motion of Councilman Ashman.
The report of the board of public
works, as heretofore published in the
Herald, was read, and the various
recommendations were adopted.
STREET NAMING COMMISSION.
A message was received from the
mayor transmitting the report of the
commission on revising and changing
street names. Messrs. Burks and Cor
man of the commission appeared be-
fore the council and urged that action be
taken as soon as practicable, as the di-
rectory company was waiting on the
matter before proceeding with their
work, and unless immediate action was
taken the people will be kept out of the
benefits for year or more. On motion
of Councilman Toll, the matter was de-
ferred until Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
The commission, after calling atten-
ton to the confusion in street naming
that their Investigations had disclosed,
the large number of duplicates, etc,
state that they have endeaNored to
straighten out all of these matters and
presented an ordinance changing the
names as agreed upon.
The changes of the principal streets
are comparatively few in number, but
are mostly of small thoroughfares in the
outlying districts. BY the recent an
nexation some seventy-five duplicates
were brought into the city, and these
have been corrected and suitable names
given where they were needed. The
principal change made is that Pearl
street has been changed to Figueroa
street, being a continuation of that
thoroughfare, while the Figueroa street
in the northwest hills has been changed
to De La Guerra street. In the Highland
Park district, in Difference to the wishes
of a number of people in that locality,
a compromise was reached and thor
oughfares in that section will be desig-
mated as ways" commencing at
street, which is designated as Way Fif-
teen, and continuing to the northeast
city boundary, which is Way Thirty
seven. Lettered streets in Pico Heights
have been done away with, in Difference
to a petition signed by several hundred
residents, and suitable Spanish names
have been provided. The avenues In
the recently annexed Vernon district,
from A to F. have also been done away
with and suitable names provided.
The commissioners, in their report
transmitting the ordinance, say:
after being in session six weeks, the
commission has succeeded in eliminat-
ing all duplicate street names and other
wise removing the most palpable alb
surdities from the city map. 1t has also
given a single name to such streets as
before had from two to five names.
In applying new names to streets
which had to be rechristened, the COM
mission has aimed to perpetuate histor-
ic personal names, that were prominent
in the first California days since the
American occupancy. 1t has seemed fit
ting that discoverers, founders, mis-
sonares, American pioneers and old
settlers of fame in the history of the
state should be thus commemorated.
LAS vast majority of the city streets
birthplace or from the family names
of present residents), and as the old
names had been almost entirely obliter-
ated, the commission has made use of
many Spanish titles, taking care that
they shall be appropriate musical, not
too long, and not easily mispronounced."
The commissioners also presented a
corrected map of Los Angeles, upon
which the suggested changes are indi-
Gated in red ink.
CITY ATTORNEYS REPORT.
The city attorney presented the fol-
lowing report:
Gordon for SIS, referred to me, I beg
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