Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-20
UNIQUE SCHEME
MAY RAISE Coin
PASADENA ADMINISTRATION
GOES TO PEOPLE
Non-sulting Of Case In the Superior
Court Gives Chance to Realize
on the Bonds Now
Released
Pasadena Agency,
161k East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main I52.


& PASADENA, July 19.-It seems prob
able that during the next week or ten
days unless interfered with by legal
+ prohibition the administration will Of
fer for sale its proposed electric light
Fling and fire department bonds amount
ing to 100000.
The ordinary bond buying public will
in all likelihood not be asked or ex-
pected to bid for the issue, but every
tinducement held out to the individual
citizen of Pasadena.
The present situation with reference
to the two bond issues authorized by
the people at the recent election is
most peculiar.
It will be remembered that shortly
after the favorable verdict of the peo-
pie upon the bond issue the Edison
Electric company secured an injunction
against the sale of the bonds upon
svaried grounds, such as the holding of
the election on a legal holiday and the
fcasting of illegal votes.
The hearing of the case was set for
July 20 in the superior court and the
legal representatives of the city assert
that they were prepared to meet and
answer every contention of the Edison
complaint.
Non-sulted Case
Yesterday the attorneys of the Edison
company announced that they had non
suited this case and begun another in
the United States federal courts to de-
Jtermine whether or not the projected
municipal electric lighting plant would
not be unconstitutional. Legal advice
today assures the administration that
for the time being nothing stands in
the way of the city's offering and selling
the bonds, providing, of course. that
Someone can be found VINO is willing
to take them with the Edison suit hang
ing as a cloud over them.
< City Attorney Wood states that the
New York bond experts, Dillon & Hub
tbard stand ready to certify that the
steps taken by the city leading up to
the issue of the bonds have been in
proper and legal form, while Eunsaker
e Britt. the well known attorneys in
Los Angeles, are equally ready and
willing to guarantee that there is no
legal force in the contentious raised by
ithe Edison people as against these
bonds.
VIII this satisfy Pasadena small in
vestors that the fire department and
municipal electric lighting plant bonds
are safe enough to buy, is asked.
If they so conclude, are these small
Investors ready to help the administra-
tion out of the hole into which it has
been precipitated by the Edison suit =?
No Admissions
Neither Mayor Waterhouse nor any,
one else closely connected with the ad-
ministration will admit tonight that
such a step has been decided upon, but
there is the best of authority for say
ing that 1t is in contemplation aside
from the certainty that the step would
be logical and probably successful.
When questioned as to the likelihood
that the Edison people would seek to
enjoin any such action on the part of
the city City Attorney Wood said that
should the company so desire it would
be obliged to put up bond sufficient
to indemnify the city for any dam
ages the injunction should cause, a
thing which he does not believe the
Edison people would care to venture
upon.
Then, too, an injunction at this time
would necesSitate the Immediate thresh-
ing out of the points at issue, before
the affair could reach the United
States supreme court, another thing
which the Edison people do not seem
TO desire. Mr. Wood does not think,
therefore, that move to sell the bonds
at this time would be interfered with.
The condition of the city's fire de-
partment at this time and a desire to
help the city in it's fight against the
Edison Electric company are believed
by many to be sufficient to bring out
the peoples savings for a popular loan
such as the present sale of the 5000 OOC
bond issue would be.
Mayor Waterhouse insists that the
latest move of the Edison company is
really intended to delay the settlement
of the suit rather than to hurry it, This
view is shared by many friends of the
administration and the new scheme
suggested above is likely to be the im.
mediate outcome.
Grown City Notes
According to word from the secre.
tary of state at Sacramento East Pasa-
denn and Oak Knoll became a part al
Pasadena on Tuesday. when the
requisite entries were made on the state
records.
Congressman James McLahclan en-.
tertained a few political friends at tbs
Hotel Maryland last night in honor OF
his colleague, Congressman ]. N. Gill
lett. 1t is said that the candidacy o
Mr.. Gillett for the gubernatorial nomi
nation was not discussed in any shape
or form.
Justice Congdon held both of thc
negro boys, Decatur and Pain, for tra
this morning and they were placed ii
the detention home at Los Angeles. TIL,
Mexican boy found in their company
Joe Somarano, was placed on proba'
tion. He has never before appeared be.
fore the police.
The board of education will meet to.
morrow evening to determine whether
or not the bid of Dawson e. Daniels fol
the Garfield school building will be in
sisted upon or another bidder substl
tuted. 1t appears that the firm laboret
under a misapprehension in making
their bid and now seek to be excused
The board holds a certified check fol
$1,000 submitted with the bid and may
decide to keep the check and to adver.
tise for new bids.