The herald., 1897-04-06


hand as usual at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning in the council chamber, and
the clerk was in his place, but it was ter
minutes later before a quorum of coun-
cilmen wandered in, and the council was
called to order but the full membership
was present before the reading of the
record was concluded. The lobby was
filled, a number of ladies being among
,the crowd, with a sprinkling in the gal
derry.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
The city clerk reported that it was in
order to pass the ordinance ordering the
work for the widening of New Main
street, but as the ordinance was not on
the clerks desk the matter went over
until the afternoon.
The report of the street superintend-
ent. as published in The Herald Sunday
morning. calling attention to the miser-
able condition of Main and Spring
streets, and the imperative necessity
for their immediate repair, as well as to
the condition of many of the fire hy-
drants throughout the city, was read,
and, on motion of Councilman Nickel,
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public works.
The usual routine reports were read
and ordered filed.
DELINQUENT TAXES.
Tax Collector Gish presented the fol-
lowing communication TO the council:
The second annual payment of city
taxes for the fiscal year 1867 will be-
come delinquent on April 26th, after
which / am required by law to prepare a
roll of delinquent taxes with penalties
and costs computed thereon; also COM
plete list of unpaid taxes, together with
description of property for the official
advertisement, and after sale of prop
erty roll of property sold TO the city,
together with certificates of tax sales in
duplicate for filing with the city clerk
and treasurer: also a detailed report of
unpaid taxes in May and a final report
in July after sale of property for the
consideration and action of your honor
able body. This work requires the re-
tention of my present office force, as all
this work must be completed within the
time prescribed by law would, there
fore, most respectfully request that !
be allowed one deputy in addition to the
one provided for in the recent salary or
dinance, he to serve from April 1st 10
August 1st, 1897
The matter was first referred to the
finance committee. on motion of Council
man Nickel, but this action was after
wards reconsidered. and. on motion of
Councilman Toll. the deputy was al
lowed, as asked.
ALL FOOLS NIGHT
Councilman Baker stated that petit
fion from the w. c. T. U. was on the
clerks desk, and that as delegation of
1adiec i'm aftan6a who u-ichad n
address the council he asked that the
matter be taken up at once.
The petition was then read as follows:
To the Honorable President and Mem
;bers of the Council of the City of Los
angeles: Gentlemen-The undersigned,
being especially interested in the well
fare of the homes of the city of Los An
.geles. and fully realizing the dangers
10 the youth and children of the city, as
demonstrated last year during the hours
of La Fiesta known as All Fools night.
nrgently petition your honorable body
to pass an ordinance prohibiting any
and all persons from masking their
faces during any night of La Fiesta of
1857 from sunset to sunrise
And we further petition that all laws
and ordinances which al any time gov
ern this city may be from April goth to
oath, 1897, thoroughly enforced, especial
1y on the night of the Fiesta known as
the night for the revelry of maskers.
We also petition that the recently
enacted ordinance known as the curfew
law may be strictly enforced during the
evenings of the said Fiesta. For this
we earnestly pray.
Yours for the prevention of crime. Los
angeles Union of Woman's Christian
Temperance unions.
MRS. LAURA T. CARTER,
President
x MRS. HESTER T. GRIFFITH,
Vice President
MISS G. T. STICKNEY.
Committee.
Several of the ladies then addressed
the council, urging the members to take
prompt action in this matter They
state that in their rescue work they had
found numerous cases of where good
girls had been led astray through the
liberty and license which was allowed
on All Fools night. They also asked
that the law in regard to soliciting on
the streets be rigdly enforced during
Fiesta, as we'll as the recently enacted
curfew ordinance.
President Silver announced that the
petition would be referred to the COM
mittee on public morals, when Council
man Hutchison objected, saying that
this matter had already been referred
to that committee over a month ago, or
q motion made by him. and that it had
been returned to the council with teer
He thought that the council should take
serious action in this matter, and to that
end he moved that a special committee
of three be appointed to prepare prope,
ordinance and report at the afternoon
session, or as soon as practicable.
President Silver resented the assertion
that, the council had treated the matter
lightly, saying that it had never been
before this body. Councilman Baker
also denied that the matter had eve,
been before the committee on public
morals, but that they had been consid-
ering the advisa bility of presenting an
ordinance on the lines as indicated
Councilman Hutchison said he wished
to correct himself in one particular only,
and that was that the matter had been
referred to committee Of the whole in
stead of the committee on public morals.