Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-27
PLAN TO WIDEN
COLORADO STREET
PASADENA THoR0UeHFARE IS
TOO MARROW
City Council Agrees to Important Pc
tltIon for the immediate Wlden-
ing Of Principal 5usi-
ness Street
Pasadena Agency,
l6M East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main l52-


PASADENA, June 26.-Probably the
most important question taken up by
the city council at its regular meeting
this forenoon was the matter Of WIDEN
ing East Colorado street between Ray
mond avenue and Broadway. This
project has been much discussed by
the public during the past few days,
unexpected opportunity for doing some
thing definite arising through the tear
ing down of the one-story shacks fac
ing Colorado street on the north and
lying between the Santa Fe tracks and
Broadway.
The Chamber Of Commerce Building
company, Of which Leo G. Mclaughlin
Is secretary, plans to erect on this site
a handsome six-story brick and steel
business block and the ground is now
being cleared for that purpose. The
narrowness Of the street in the busf-
ness section has grown to be a con-
siderable menace to the section, threat
ening to force business to other parts
of the street where there is more ROOM
When the question was broached to
the new company they quickly saw
the Importance of immediate action.
The petition presented to the council
today was signed by the Chamber of
Commerce company. owning III feet
frontage, the f. & w. Thum company,
owning forty-three feet, and H. F.
Metcalf owning fifty-one feet. 1t is
understood that enough of the frontage
on the south side of the street has
pledged its support to the plan to
guarantee majority of foot-frontage
In favor of the plan.
The petition asks that the street be
widened ten feet on the north side,
clear from Raymond avenue to Broad
way and that within thirty-five days
an assessment district be formed to
pay the expense of such widening. The
council agreed to the proposition and
granted the petition by unanimous
vote.
Appoints Legal Representative
Mayor Warehouse appointed and the
council confirmed James E. Byrne as
temporary assistant city attorney. 1t
is understood that the appointment is
only for the purpose of aiding the
present interchangeable city attorney in
clearing up the present unexpected
rush of legal business.
The offer of the Edison Electric COM
pany. through it's president, John B.
Miller. to bear the expense of another
bond election on the fire department
and ordered filed without action. IN
deed, the council was not in the best
mood toward the Edison people.
Mayor WaterhouSe presented a let
ter he had received from the editor of
the Daily Bond Buyer of New York
stating that the Edison people were
sending broadcast in the east copies
of their complaint in the bond injunc-
tion suit against the city, apparently
with the design of discrediting the mu-
nicipality in its future offerings of
bonds
The journal in question has called the
attention of Investors to the fact that
when the city offers bonds for sale they
will have been approved by Dillon &
Hubbard as fully legal.
The council and other city officials
are highly indignant at the effort in
dicated by such action on the part of
the Edison people to make the eastern
public conversant with only one side
of the present controversy, especially
when it is held here that the grounds
upon which it is desired to enjoin the
issue of the water and fire department
bonds are ridiculous in the extreme.
The administration insists that the Edi-
son company is taking an underhand
and unfair method of fighting the case
outside of the courts.
President Miller, when seen this af-
ternoon, denied that any such attempt
TO ldiscredit the city or to carry on the
fight outside of the courts was being
made or will be made and that the
case now on is in entire good faith.
But the Edison people are not in high
favor with the city just now.