The San Francisco call., 1898-02-18
| WILL OBEY : TIE TIT COM CONDUIT ORDINANCE Los Angeles Corpora tions Forced to
 Submit. General Movement to Put All Wires Under
 Ground. Tearing Up of the Most Innpor- tant Thoroughfares Has
 Begun. A VICTORY FOR THE CALL. The Public Is Pleased and the Local Syndicate Press Hangs It's
 Head.
Tearing Up of the Most Innpor- tant Thoroughfares Has
 Begun.
A VICTORY FOR THE CALL.
The Public Is Pleased and the Local Syndicate Press Hangs It's
 Head.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17.-Every cor@ poration in Los Angeles affected by tho conduit ordinance has concluded to comply with it's requirements. It was announced semi officially some time ago that the Los Angeles Lighting Company would not do so. President W. B. Cline was quoted as having stated that he proposed to beat the ordi- nance; but President Cline has changed his mind, and has concluded to make no effort in the direction of setting at naught the legislation of the city. He has announced that his company will put its wires underground within the conduit district.
 It is quite evident that several corpo- rations did not until recently intend to comply with the conduit ordinance. They delayed operations in that direc- tion until the last. moment; but the pol icy which The Call has inaugurated, in fearlessly defending the rights of the people against the encroachments and unjust demands of the corporations and in bringing these reluctant combina- tions to a realization of the fact that there are certain duties which they have to perform to the public, has had good effect
 The universal compliance on the part of all the corporations with the new conduit regulation is a substantial vic tory for The Call. No other journal directed attention to the fact that some of the officers of the companies whose operations were affected by 1t had boasted that it would not bother them any, and at the proper time they would knock it out. The syndicated daily press has all along been protecting in- c- s-s- nanceS by the corporations, either by series of explanations or by an attack upon the expediency of an ordinance after it was passed. When it was gen. erally known that certain local com panies did not intend to comply with the conduit ordinance the local press had not a word to say. It did not call attention to the fact that the time fixed by the Council, April 10 of this year, as the outside limit within which all wires within a certain district were to be placed beneath the ground, was rapidly arriving.
 The Call did call attention to the fact, and, furthermore, placed the Councilmen on record as stating that if the law was not complied with by April 10 all wires overhead within the prohibited district would be cut. The result was an announcement of univer- sal compliance on all sides. There will now be at the lowest calculation six conduits under the streets of Los An geles in the district.
 The San Gabriel Electric Company, the Sunset Telephone Company, the Edison Electric Lighting Company, the Los Angeles Railway Company the Los Angeles Lighting Company and a con- duit built by private parties under franchise will be the six conduits be- meath the streets of this city. Of all the corporations the Sunset Telephone Company will have the most substan- tial conduit.