The herald., 1898-07-15
WANT A NEW CHARTER
RAsAp1NA HOPES 70 OWN IT'S
WATER SYSTEM
Objections to OIL sprinkling-Ffank
Nerwood's Painful Accident
From q Dynamo Z.

From q Dynamo &.
/. PASADENA, July 1A-(Oh1ce of The
, Herald, So East Colorado street.) In re-
eponse to cali by prominent citizens In
{, terested in the formation Of a new charter
and the municipal ownership Of the water
system there was a large and enthusiastic
mass meeting this evening in the board Of
trade rooms, about one hundred gentlemen
being present during the evening. 1t is the
general belief Of thinking Pasadenai1s that
the city needs a new charter. About q
: year ago mass meeting was held with p.
M. Green as chairman, and Messrs. H. G.
Reynolds (chairman), w. 8. Wright, w.
q. Arthur, Colin Stewart and g. F. Ker-
naghan were chosen committee to draft
Z new charter. This committee held sew
eral meetings and made some progress.
Interest abated, however, and It became
impossible to get quorum.
So the matter Jagged until the meeting
this evening. G. A. Gibbs was chosen
chairman and o. T. Fellows secretary. e.
II. Lockwood spoke In favor Of municipal
ownership of water, not because the pres
ert companies are not good, but because
the city Is growing and the general feeling
IL In favor of it. Now was good time for
the city to buy its plant, because the water
stock Is low.
J. r. Greer said municipal ownership Of
water Is a great public necessity. G. F..
Kerhaghan thought that as there are three
companies now and the business could be
run under one head cheaper.
Or. E. L. Conger said the city should be
the one corporation to own the water.
Corporations Of private parties are formed
for dividends, but the city would not de-
clare dividends nor aim at them, and the
profit would thus be spent in improve
ments.
r. M. Green made the point that 1t would
be impossible for the city to own the water
because all the companies have pipes laid
outside the city limits. We would have to
annex the surrounding county before we
would actually have municipal ownership.
III other words, Mr.. Green's point was that
the city could not control the lines outside
the city, and as the water source Is outside
the city the whole scheme would be impras-
ucable.
w. s. Melick called attention to the law
which provides that q corporation cculd
sell the water to outside parties.
Mr.. swerdfiger remarked that more wa
for street sprinkling.
In view of the arguments pro and con It
was decided to put the motion for the APP
pontment Of committee Of five by the
chair to look into the legal status of the
question. The motion was carried. The
chair will take some time to appoint the
committeeman they will report at the next
meeting, which was later fixed for next
Thursday evening.
Mr.. Kernaghan of the charter committee
spoke upon the question of new charter
and stated that the trouble with the pres
ent committee was really that it has had
too much time. Attempts at meetings wef e
made, but the committee kept putting the
matter or The committee Is a; present
engaged upon the draft of a new charter
which will be submitted to the citizens.
DR.. Conger moved that the committee
BIZ requested to put the business into prop
er shape to be submitted the the 1egsla-
trre. and this motion be the sense of the
meeting. The motion was carried with the
additional amendment that the committee
be requested to repor tat the meeting next
Thursday vening.
Oil for sprinkling
City Superintendent of Streets ]. A. Blu
Pasadena, for the purpose of inspecting the
line of street extending from the south city
limits Garland avenue) to Alhambra
which was sprinkled about eight days ago
with crude oil. The dust was found to have
been laid effectually, but there is one draw
back which would probably bar the use
Of the stun inside city, viz, the smell,
which, while not being very offensive, is
~ -
Mr.. Buchanan thinks, however, that the
oil will prove an excellent thing for coun-
try roads, where the houses are sparsely
Z located. Mr.. Buchanan will probably make
an experiment on one or two city streets,
which are extraordinarily dusty. The man
i who sprinkles the oil agrees to keep Gar
field avenue in good shape for six months
for 500. Residents say that they noticed
the smell little at first, but have now be-
I, come used to it. Some claim that there is
no smell left. but the smell is evident to
ss,sf-s F.b2Iorwood Injured
Frank Norwood. a young man of about
% years, who has charge of one OF the
dynamos and assists the engineers at the
electric railways power house, met with
q very severe accident this morning He
was cleaning the dynamo when he accident
ally cut Off the electrical circuit in such a
manner as to cause q live flame of consid-
cradle strength to flare up into his face. His
hand and face were badly burned and II
was feared that his sight might have been
destroyed. A special car brought him up
to Dr. Ayers on North Marengo avenue
with all speed. and 1t was found that his
eyesight will not suffer permanent injury.
He was taken to his home on Bellevue drive
and later was removed to the receiving hos.
pital for careful medical treatment.
Brevities
News has been received of the death of
James Barrett in Boston, formerly garden
. er at the Green park. Garrett came here
several years ago with Walter Raymond
and served as gardener at the Raymond
until that hotel was burned, when he was
hired by Col. Green. He left for Boston n
little more than a year ago.
Miss Fannie Belle Robinson and O. c..
Skinner were married on July 7th in Cleve-
land. Both parties were formerly residents
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