The herald., 1898-07-25
NTHE STREET


water question recently amid a group of
friends, that Los Angeles never was a
pueblo, and therefore never had the water
rights of a municipality. That is proved
in Judge Chapmans argument on the mat
ter in the water case, where he quotes
from the letters from the viceroys and
ernors of Alta-California, corroborating
that assertion. Legally this city never
was a pueblo until 1t was made city by
the Americans"
There is one thing the authorities will
have to do to make the plan of the city
taking the water plant and administering
1t satisfactorily to the taxpayers and that
is to stop the useless offices they propose
to create. I noticed In the list of employees
as outlined In the council proceedings re-
Gently that they are to have three men at
fat salaries to do the work that is now
done, and done well. by Superintendent
Mulholland. Why If they carried out such
ideas, an addition would have to be built
to the city hall to hold the employees of the
water department. I can just imagine
Mulholland smiling when he read that list
Of proposed officials. He does, as said.
the work that is now proposed to be given
to three men, and while he works hard
and we'll he has not SO much to do but that
he can find time to enjoy life fairly WELL
Perhaps the happiest man in the city
when the news arrived that the San Pedro
harbor contract had been let CTom Gibbon
was in San Francisco) was Harry Haw-
good, the engineer Of the Free Harbor
League. Hawgood was formerly the resi-
dent engineer of the Southern Pacific COM
pany and an excellent one he was. But
he had decided difference with the execu-
tive of the company in a matter that re-
bounded greatly to his credit. He chose to
resign rather than follow a course that
could not commend itself to him. He has
naturally since then felt somewhat hos
tile towards the inmates of the yellow
knockery, and when the harbor fight came
on he jumped into 1t with ardor, making
1t a matter Of pride to show his old en-
ployers how he could fight when he was
on the side of right. His services were
acknowledged to be invaluable when the
Walker commission came here, and his
lucid presentation of the case knocked
the props from under the pleas made by
Hood and Corthell. Hawgood was the
first man to treat the phenomenon of the
"Salton Sea" from a logical and scientific
point of view, which he did in an admira-
BILE paper prepared for the railway COM
pany at the time.
Fred Henderson, of the Santa Fe, has a
story which he tells about man who had
a sanitarium at some mineral springs in
the San Joaquin valley, which is illustra-
tive of the exuberant imagination Of the
west. The man found that the waters of
the spring were of particular benefit to
disorders of the liver AS he had a rebel
lious organ of that kind and was cured by
drinking the outflow of the spring, he built
a hotel and induced many afflicted in like
manner to come there. They were all
cured. of course, and he made a lot of
money: but at last he had to yield to the
inevitable, and he died. One of the resi-
dents of the place was dilating ON the re-
markable properties of the water to Wis
itor, who, however, modestly commented
on the fact that the mans death seemed
to show that the springs were not so eff
cacious after all. "Bless your heart" was
the answer, when he died he was dead all
right enough; but let me tell you we had
to cut him open and club his liver to death,
it had become so full of vitality
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