The herald., 1898-06-18

| YOUR committee is prepared to report to you
and advise that sum not exceeding $780,,
900 be offered by you fer the improvements
to be taken over, as provided in the con-
tract of 1868, including all the properties OF
the Los Angeles City Water company the
| Crystal Springs Land and Water company
and the East SIDE Spring Water company.
In his official monotone Deputy City Clerk
| Hasilins read the report Of the water sup
ply committee to the council at special
meeting yesterday afternoon, and the offer
had been made-the city had delivered Its
| ultimatum fixing price for the water com
pany's plant $1.7O0000' below the amount
asked by the corporation. No time was
wasted in arguments or grand stand ora
tor.cal efforts-the report Of the committee
was read, unanimously adopted and the
meeting adjourned in less time than II takes
| 10 tell 1.-THE agony was over.
Two o'clock had been set as the hour for
the special meeting and most of the inter-
estcd parties were on hand, although the
session was not called to order for half an
hour Representing the water company
were S. H. Mott and w. j. Brodr.ck, secre-
tary and vice PRESIDENT Superintendent
Mulhol.and and Attorneys J. s. Chapman
and Charles Monroe. Mr.. Woltman, agent
for Keas.er & Co.. the eastern bankers, who
recently offered to purchase the plant ana
run 1t for the city, together with his attor-
| uey, Max Lowenthal, were interested spec
| tators Engineers Fred Eaton and HaW-
good, City Attorney Dunn and Deputy
Crutcher, the entire council, with the ex
ception of Mr.. Mathuss, who is absent n
| the east, and a sprinklng in the lobby,
| completed the crowd in the council cham
| Der.
When Vice President Silver raped FOR
order there was instantaneous silence ard
| complete attention, something unusual at
council meetings. AS the water supply com
mittee, through Chairman Nickel. request
| ed a few minutes time in which to put tbs
| finishing touches to their report, the in
terva, was occupied with the appointment
| of two sets of commissioners for opening
streets and the election of temporary
member of the board of education to fill
| the place of the late unlamented Webb.
These matters being disposed of, Mr.. Nick
| ell rose with the momentous report in his
hand and said:
"As requested at the last meeting of The
council, the committee on water supply
1 have taken up the proposition as submitted
by representatives OF the City Water COM
pany, also the data that they furnished Us
with reference to the extensions they had
made to their plant since we had an esIi-
mate made of them some time ago by the
city engineer. I will say that within the
| limited time the committee has had 20 do the
work. we have done the best we could.
While we have lot been as thorough as we
might have been had we had more time, we
have taken it up where the engineer left i
| at his last estimate to this council and have
brought down such additions and extern
sons as we have found have been made to
| the plant, ard the committee has seen fit
to make written report to the council,
which I hold in my hand, stating about
what we have done and estimating the
amount they have expended on the plant.
We submit the report Mr.. President
Clerk Hask,ns read the report as follows
Your water supply committee have
had under a6visement since your last
meeting the various communications
from the CITY Water company and the
Crystal Springs Land aud Water COM
pany together with the maps fur
nished by them and others heretofore
prepared by the city engineer. We have
examined reports heretofore made by
the city engineer ard have had est
mates made of the additions to the
water company's plant since the last
report.
From all these sources OF information
your committee is prepared to report
| to you and advise that a Alnot ex-
ceeding one million, three hundred thou
sand dollars (s1,300,0O0) be offered by
you for the improvements to be taken
over as provided IN the contract of
1865, including all the properties of the
Los Angeles City Water company, the
Crystal Springs Land and Water COM
parry and the East Size Spring Water
company. as submitted in the schedule
| recently fled by those companies.
| Your committee would, as matter
of course recommend that the offers and
| each of them. made by the city water
company at the meeting of last Tuesday
| be declined, and would advise that your
offer Of this date be transmitted to the
| company at once and an answer re-
quested before the regular meeting OF
Monday. June goth, 1885,
INN edia tely upon the completion Of the
reading of the report President Silver put
the question as to the disposition to be made
OF it. Councilman Gridor mopsd to adopt
a second was heard, the roll was called and
by Il unanimous vote the council placed it.
self on record. Mr.. Nickel rose and re-
marked that he supposed that the report
| of the committee was enough to instruct
the clerk to transmit the offer that the city
would make to the Water company for their
| plan in due form.
| Silence ensued for a moment. broken by
| motion to adjourn. without dissent the
molten was carried and the savcl fell with
out word having been spoken by pre-