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The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
LOS ANGELES
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and give bond in the sum of s2O 900. conditional for the compliance by them of the conditions of this con- tract, to be approved by the Mayor of said city. and will pay all State and county taxes assessed upon said water works during the said period of thirty years. Always provided that the Mayor and Common Council of said city shall have and do reserve the right to regulate the water rates charged by said parties of the second part or their assigns, provided that they shall not so reduce such water rates or so fix the price thereof to be less than those now charged by the parties of the second part for water; provided that a certain contract or lease heretofore executed by the Mayor and Common Council of said city to Jean L. Sansevaine of said water works, of date of October Is, A. D. 1865, to be surrendered up and cancelled at or before the signing of this contract, provided, always, that the rights and privileges by these presents conceded to these parties of the second part do not embrace to any extent, or have any reference to, the water works of said city used for the distribution of water for the pur- pose of irrigation. or affect in any manner any rights of irrigation, either existing at present or which may hereafter exist, except as to the ten inches of water as hereinbefore provided. And it is expressly stipu- lated and covenanted that the said parties of the second part shall not dispose of any water for the purpose of irrigation, but shall only take from the said river the water necessary for domestic purposes, as above specified. In testimony whereof the said par ties have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
 LSeal] JOHN KING. President.
 Approved this 22d. day of July. 1868.
 ISeall c. AGUILAR, Mayor.
 JOHN s. GRIFFIN,
 P. BEAUDRY,
 $. HAZARD.
 This contract United States Distric Judge Olin Welborn has decided i le~al and binding as to both parties.
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It will be noted that the agreement which is so fully set forth provided and evidently contemplated municipal ownership of the water plant of the city at it's expiration.
 Anyway, the people have for the last ten years always so regarded it. When the municipal campaign of 1896 opened the voters of the city realized that the public servants chosen at the December election of that year and taking office on the first Monday in January of 1897 would be called upon to adjudicate the question of municipal ownership of the plant The Council men chosen would go to make up the legislative body of the city The Mayor, the head of the corporation, would have the power to veto all acts of the Council The City Attorney would be the legal adviser of the Coun- cil and Mayor, while the City Engineer would be the expert relied upon for knowledge and information concerning the water company's plant
 All political parties declared in favor of. municipal ownership, and the indi- vidual candidates vied with each other in seeing who could carry out the idea that ne was ana dlWayS had been in favor of the city furnishing it's inhabi- tants at the cost of distribution the water which it was admitted the muni- cipality owned.
 The water company also had inter- ests at stake in the campaign and the corporation through it's agents en- deavored to play some very clever schemes whereby the people would be deluded. It succeeded. Perhaps not before the election, but it certainly did afterward.
 The corporation realized that its very life was involved in the result of the election, and, as well, matter of anywhere from a million and half to two millions of dollars. The work it did was under cover and was under stood only by those who were close to its directing spirits.
 Herculean efforts were put forth by the water company to defeat M F. Snyder for Mayor. It was fruitless. He was elected by 1900 majority.
 In the matter of City Attorney and City Engineer the candidates who were endeavoring to beat each other were none of them objectionable to the water company save J. R. Rush, who
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ran for City Attorney. He was de- feated.
 But it was in the Council that the water company got in its finest work Four Republicans and four Democrats were elected. The I, -gue for Better City Government elected one Council man, and he had the deciding vote in the Council This was Herman Silver, the member from the Fourth Ward.
 There was considerable speculation about the organization of the Council. Mir. Silver settled it by combining win the Republicans, ar he was chosen president of the Council. It was by this clever move that the Republicans were ostensibly enabled to organize the Council, but really MT. Silver and the League for Better City Government are responsible for the present admin istration of the affairs of the city. The Mayor is like the fifth whe-l to a cart so far as concerns his legal power to do or undo what the Council does.
 When President Silver appointed the important Committee on Water Supply he named F. NJ. Nickell, a Democrat, as chairman. This was regarded as extraordinary-that l1der the circum- stances a Democrat should be n med for that committee, which would have all to do with the settlement of the water question.
 The friends of municipal ownership then and there began to realize that once more the people had been deceived and that the prospects for an equitable settlement of the problem were becom- ing dim.
 Time passed on, and, under extraor- dinary pressure from the people, the Council took one limping step after another, but no move seemed to bring any nearer the great desideratum of municipal ownership.
 In the meantime, for reasons which must have been substantial, but which are not known to the average citizen, three of the daily papers of the city the Times, Herald and Express-be- came silent on the water question. If they had anything to say it was in condemnation and denunciation of ! those public servants who were en- l deavoring to carry out their ante-elec- tion pledges, solemnly made to the people. Shafts of ridicule were hurled 1 at the Mayor and at the two Council men who were endeavoring to do what 1 they considered to be their duty to their constituents.
 It soon became apparent that the three daily newspapers named were l syndicated for the purpose of delaying l if not to entirely defeat municipal ownership.
 All efforts to get the water committee of the Council to do anything effective were fruitless. It held infrequent meet l ings at unknown times, but what it l has ever done to hasten municipal ownership no man knoweth.
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am now as always in favor of build ing at once and now a new and com plete water system, completely ignor- ing the water company, but I have small hopes that this will be done. I believe that after all possible delay has been obtained in other ways, the majority of the Council will order a reappraisement of the water com pany's plant, and that the matter will be so arranged that a much higher appraisement than the former one of S1, ,190, ,655 will be made; that when July has come and they are certain who the third referee will be, the water company will consent to sell it's plant at a price to be fixed by arbitration; that referees will be appointed who will report a much higher valuation than that reported by City Engineer DOckweiler last summer; that the people will be asked to vote bonds to consummate the purchase; that the bonds will be defeated. and then the people will have to settle the matter at the next city election. Yours truly,
 L. M. GRIDER, Councilman of the Sixth Ward, Los Angeles
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To the Editor of the Call
 Sir: In the Los Angeles municipal campaign of year ago the platforms of all political parties fairly roared and beloved for the municipal owner ship of a water plant and for the con struction of an entirely new water plant at the earliest possible date.
 The Democratic and Populist plat forms. upon which I was elected to the City Council, together with three others, declared "Unqualihedly and unreservedly in favor of an entirely new plant to be owned and operated by the people for the people, the rates to be charged to be upon a basis of actual cost of distribution"
 The same platforms also declared in favor of "A supply of pure water from mountain sources in place of the un- desirable 'substance furnished us by the Los Angeles City Water Company; and they were no less clear and clamorous in favoring the construction of the proposed water plant with sufficient pressure for fire purposes, thus saving the city a large portion of the annual expense of $S1.- 900 for an expensive fire department besides thousands upon thousands of dollars every year in fire insurance" The final clause in the said plank was as follows:
 We demand that the necessary proceed
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 New Plant.
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The City Engineer was finally direct ed to make an estimate as to what an entirely new distributing plant would cost He made it, and figured that for a city of 350,0OO which was the basis he was instructed to figure on, it would cost $3, 100000.
 Then the City Engineer was asked to take the water company's inventory of its property and figure what it was worth to the city.
 For this work Ernest Abs Hagen, a competent engineer of unquestioned reputation and ability was chosen. He made an exhaustive examination as per the water company's own return of it's property The result of his examina- tion he himself speaks of elsewhere. That result was that the water com pany's plant at liberal valuation was worth to the city $1,192,000.
 The water company's price was and is now understood to be S3,000, 000, al- though it has never yet given a posi- tive price to the City Council.
 For once the corporation had been outgeneraled. Engineer Abs Hagen's report was submitted to the Council by the City Engineer, and it raised con- sternation in the ranks of the water company. their allies. official and unof- ficial. and their newspaper organs.
 Abs Hagen was bitterly condemned and denounced, and he has ever since been excluded from city employment. He made an honest report and lost all prospect of present employment by the city. His report did not suit those who are running things.
 But the figures and facts set forth in his report never were assailed. They are absolutely unassailable.
 This report of Abs Hagen's, made as the City Engineer. was bombshell in the City Council. The members there who seem to have forgotten about what
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To the Editor of The Call-Sir: A water works system. complete in all it's appurtenances, subservient to the needs of a city with over 100000 inhabitants, with a supply and distribution sys- tenn sufficiently large to respond to the needed subsequent enlargements, in order to meet the requirements of a yearly increasing population; well planned, carefully executed and economically administered-is not only a necessity of the present age but a boon to the people whom it deserves. Dependence on its ac- curate, never failing action reduces the expense caused by fires, 1t insures clean streets, we'll flushed sewers, wholesome water for domestic uses and it reverberates in general to the credit of its owners, l. e., it pays handsome interest on the capital invested.
 Such a system is needed for the city of Los Angeles The question of ob- taining the same has been agitated some years. It is now at the point of taking it's form of development, and in order to evolve such a system in the desired direction it must be guided from the start, trained and directed so as to produce an ultimate result ade- quate to the needs and wants of the people.
 As a beginning toward a successful end this city is confronted with the fact of having to buy water works system at the present owned by private parties, of either enlarging, renovating and inn proving such undesirable features In this system as are or may become ap- parent. or else substitute an entirely new system for the old one, which lat ter at all events will have to be bought and paid for at such a price as may be agreed upon.
 l A contract made thirty years ago ne- cessitates the acquisition of this prop ] erty. The price which is to be paid for | this property is the stumbling block for the rapid solution of the question. The purchase prise asked by the present owners is $3000.0O0. The sum offered 1 by the city and based on careful engi- neering investigations is a little over | S1,G0O,000. This produces a gap in the present business negotiations which ap- parently only time. arbitration. law suits and similar consuming ex- pediments may overbridge
 
 works system as it shows itself to be with what it ought to be leads to some astonishing results.
 It is the aim of the writer to present the existing conditions of the Los An geles water works system to the reader l in as calm, unbiased and correct a manner as possible, based upon a pre- viously made searching investigation ! reduced to a dollar and cent estimate. Every item of such estimate can be substantiated and verified.
 A schedule list of the city water works property was filed by the off, cers of this company with the city a,,- thorities. which list embraces every Lia-e o: reai estate, every piece of the numerous features. such as tunnels. conduits, reservoirs, power stations and pipe system, which go to make up q | large water works system. Water
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make water run up hill through iron rust.
 If The Call will but aid us in our work and lead us out of our legal and illegal dilemmas, the city of Los Angeles will owe The Call a debt of gratitude. Yours truly,
 EDWARD l.. HUTCHINSON. Councilman Eighth Ward, Los An geles.
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 THE EXPERTS FIGURES
What the Value of the Water
 Company Plant Really Is.

The property for which the water company is endeavoung to squeeze $3,oo0,OOo out of the people and which bargain the syndicate press of Los An geles has given its quasi approval to IS by one Of the best known expert en- . gineers in the country figured to be worth just $1, 192,ooQ
 Mir Abs Hagen has credentials which establish beyond question his experi- ence and ability. He is being followed and bounded to a more or less extent and an endeavor is being made to drive him out of the city by rendering it impossible for him to make living here. However, the effort may fail. Anyway, while Mir. Abs Hagen is yet here he has consented to give a few facts for the readers of The Call.
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Prior to his election to the City Council Edward L. Hutchison was an , instructor in the public schools of the y city. He was elected from the Eighth, ; the one ward in the city where the ; people of ordinary means make four 7 fffths of the population. He is very plain, blunt-spOken sort of citizen, ; young, active and courageous. He
 , tells what he thinks about the situa- ; ton.
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 . AS COUNCILMAN
 L. M. GRIDER SEES IT.

Councilman L. N. Grider always has been one of the best known real estate men in the city, He was elected to the Council from one of the anstOcratic
 wards and has made quite a reputation
 for himself. He has demonstrated
 , that he is beyond the reach of the
 water company. His views of the situ-
 |, ation are below.
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,rcKinley,s Message

The best thing in Kcklnley's message
is this quoted extract from Cleveland's
last annual message.
when the inability of Spain to deal
successfully with the instruction has
become manifest, and it is demonstrated
that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba
for all purposes Of its rightful
existence. and when a hopeless strug-
gle for its re-establishmpnt has de-
generated into a strife which means
nothing more than the useless sacrifice
of human life and tho utter destruction
OF the very subject matter Of the con,
fiict. a situation will be presented in
which onr obligations to the sovereignty
of Spain Will be superseded by higher
obligations which we can hardly
hesitate to recognize and discharge"
Contrast this Bit Of pure diction and
l%at-footed warning with the genera.
drift of McKinley's whole message. If
Cleveland a in the presidentiol chair
congress would never have been left at
SKIES and sevens when 1t come to act
ing on the Cuban matter. Cleveland
had the faculty OF saying what he
wanted and i'll terms over which thare
could be no mistake. Whatever his
faults, it could never be said that lie
wabbled when it became necessary to
express himself on national matters.
Possible he was too stubborn in forcing
his views upon congress, but in a
crisis like the present the president
should take the init. i've. As one con.
gresham expressed it, Mckinley
seems to be all balled up. 1t looks as
though a second term bee was Gathering
him not a little, and that he wants to
throw the entire responsibility upon
congress-.
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WHERE,

Where is recorded by tie National
French Draft Horse Association in The
National Register of French Draft
Horses Vol. 5, No, 5oS6. Foaled in 1887,
bred by Dillon Bros. at Normal, Ill,
sired by Estrador 2423. Whore is also
recorded in the American Percheron
Horse Breeders Association register
Nc. 622, where his pedigree is given as
follows: Sired by Estrador 1926, by
Ferona 1912. by French Monarch 2o5, by
Ilderine 1902, bv Valentino 1902, by
Vieux Chaslin 7O3. by Coco 7l2.. Where's
dam was little Pearl 1916 by Saint
Laurent 1876; second dam Boquet 526;
Rosette 1867 by Coco ia.
WHERE is q coal black, Is hands
high, very heavy name aud tail, and
weighs 1900 lbs. and over at six years OF
age and when grown will weigh .2,2OO
lbs. lie is a heavy draft horse, a good
walker Of quiet disposition, but when
woke up is very active and has a grand
movement that will please and astonish
all admirers of large forses.
A number of his colts are being kept
for breeders, aud are held at $500 aad
$500 dollars each.
WHERE will DC at home on Mondays;
w. NJ, Martins on Tuesdays; Cor nel,us
Miller's on Wednesday; Z. w. Harris
on Thursday; Kimball on Fridays and
Saturdays.
TERMS: To insure a good standing
colt: 50. For more than one mare, SO
for each standing colt after the first.
II you wish to raise horses for market
WHERE is the best, cheapest aud most
profitable horse for you to usa.
E.. P. and W. Al. BARKER.
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The rercneron ,,rnft uo,.c.

Prof. Samson Of tina Nathi onal College
has said: "rhs Percheron is a draft
breed Of the most superior quality. It
enjoys in Europe, and even in the whole.
world, the highest consideration. 1t
possesses an active. quick energetic
temperament and is capable Of pulling
heavy loads at q quick gait. Fast step
pnrs are comulon in this race. 1t has, on
account of its i%asontpstible merits,
carried all over the world the fame Ct
the little French province where its
beet ceuters OF production are to be
found.
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Miss Carrie Morris arrived from
Chicago Saturday and since, and for
some days before, great boxes OF nil
linerv good lave baen coming 10 the
Morris Sisters establishment, filled
with the very latest novelties for the
season, all Of which is of the greatest
interest to the fair sex.
Tho fair and dinner announced ty
the ladies OF the Presbyterian church
will be held in what is known as the
Waterbury restaurant building on Fri
day, April % There will be a sale OF
many useful and fancy articles. Ice
cream, candy and other light refresh
Dlents afternoon and evening ana a
good substantial dinner al 6 p. III. sllarp.
Although it LIS been conclusively
settled that there is no typical Ameri
can girl. the typical French gir.. does
exist. and is delightfully."- portrayed in
all her dainty, modest, unconsciously
coQuettish sweetness in French
Women,'an article by Harriet Monroe,
in the March number OF Demorest's
Magazine. Tho pen anl-ink illustra-
tons BY Penrhyn Staulaws are delight
fullyl Partisan both in thought and
execution.
D. II. Fell was unable to give his
kinetoscope Thursday night, as adyer,
tised in The GRAPHIC last week, but
has postponed it until Saturday evening.
Those who have seen one Of these
wonderful machines exhibited are
ready to testify to the excellence of
the entertainment. being something
entirely new in The picture line, The
pictures are exact reproductions OF
photography Of objects in motion, show
ing exactly how persons and objects
look in motion.
Miss Emma Rnish, daughter OF Mr..
and Mr.. Jacob Rash OF this township,
died Sunday morning after an illness
of three weeks. Miss Rash was a
young woman very highly esteemed by
a large circle Of friends and acquain-
taDces and tue afflicted family have the
sympathy Of the entire community. The
funeral services took place at Catholic
church Tuesday, Rev. Father Hoffman
oliciating. and was very largely at
tended. by Kimball people as we'll as
fron the country. The remains were
laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery.
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