Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-03
MAYORS ACTION
MUCH CRITICIZED
PASADENA WATER MIDDLE IS
PERPLEXING
Opposition May Endeavor to Defeat
the Municipal Lighting Project
Favored by the Admin
stratlon
Pasadena Agency,
II North Raymond Avenue.
Telephone Main 1147.

PASADENA, April 2.--Mayor Water
house and his reported visit to Dillon
& Hubbard at New York city have been
the topic of conversation among busi-
ness men today to the exclusion of all
most everything else. The mayors
friends still contend that Mr.. Water
house did only the logical thing in
going right to the one legal authority
who could decide the vexing problem
and that nothing more than good gen.
eralship was shown by the step.
Those who have been leading the
fight against the mayor denounce the
action as unfair. underhanded and
cowardly and insist that they would
gladly have Joined the mayor in fair,
open and above-board representation of
both sides of the veXing problem before
the bond experts, in which case what
ever opinion had been obtained would
have been deemed final AS the matter
now stands the mayors opponents in
the discussion of the water situation
are further estranged from the city ad-
ministration than ever before.
With the final statement of Dillon &
Hubbard as to the instability of the
water bonds the mayor and city attor-
ney complacently await their oppo-
nents' first move, confident that they
have won the game. The situation is
peculiar and the proper step to take
is in doubt One suggestion is made
today by a councilman that the friends
of municipal ownership of water SIM
ply drop the entire matter in the hope
that such step will prevent the ad-
ministration "tinkering" with the prop
osition any longer. leaving further
steps to be taken by some future and
presumably more friendly administra-
ton. This proposition will be formally
laid before the board of trade.
1t is understood. however, that there
is fear in certain quarters that the
opposition to the mayor and the distrust
in his methods may result in a quiet de-
feat of the several pet bond issues
planned by the present administration,
especially the bonds for a municipal
lighting plant. People whose toes have
suffered from the robust tread of ad-
miniStration feet are said to be
anxiously awaiting opportunity to vote
on almost any old thing If it be only
favored by the administration. Mean
while things may be done in the regular
meeting of the city council tomorrow,
for the famous Crandall resolution an
nulling all previous water negotiations
will quite logically come to the fore |
again now that the city's accepted bond |
experts have decided that the bond |
issue is worthless.
Pacific Electric Changes
Arrangements are complete for ex-
tenSive changes in the line of the Pa
cific Electric railway tracks from this
city north to Altadena. In the first
place North Fair Oaks avenue on which |
the present double tracks of the Pacific |
Electric are laid will be straigtened |
SO that the street will extend without |
break along the west side of Noun
tain View cemetery to the north. Then
the roads private right of way on
the eastern side of the cemetery will
be abandoned by the road which will |
follow North Fair Oaks avenue as re-
as far north as MaripoSa |
street, Altadena, where the line will J
turn eastward to the Mariposa track
as now laid The right of way on che
east of the cemetery will next be made
into an SO-foot avenue, virtual ex-
tension Of Raymond avenue. These
changes will positively be made by the
first of the coming August.
Inquiry at the offices of the Pacific
Electric elicit the response that no
such plans are contemplated, but GER
tain written contracts have been en-
tered into by representatives of The
Pacific Electric which make these
changes as here given absolutely cer-
tain.
Frost Did Some Damage
Jack Frost got in his work last night
1r this morning along a narrow strip of
North Pasadena territory, only few
blocks wide. Early spring vegetables
md tender plants flattened to the
ground when the sun struck this mar
'ow strip this morning, showing the
sxtent of the damage Orange ana
,ther fruit trees in bloom We're hardly
Effected, according to experts. although
n many places the frost lay so heavy
hat one could scrape it up with the
land. At La Pintoresca the thermo1n-
ter registered as low as "a degrees, but
he handsome flower beds around that
hilltop hostelry were just outside the
each of the wave of frost and were
Tot injured. Further to the north, in
Altadena. the lowest point registered
W the Thermometer was 3S degrees ana
here was not the slightest sign of frost.
Further to the south in the body of the
ity and in the orchards to the east
nd south there was some white frost, /
'ut according to experts absolutely no I