Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-01
ABBOT KINNEY
RESENTS ACTION
Will Meet the Board OF Trustees Half
Way In the War Which They
Have Declared on
Venice
snecial To The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
VENICE, Feb. 2S.-with the delibera-
tion and eye to detail of a general
marshaling his forces Abbot Kinney,
with the full strength of the Venice
chamber Of commerce pledged to ms
cause, is preparing to meet more tnan
half way the thrust directed at him,
and through him at the very vitals OF
local business interests, by the boaro
of city trustees Tuesday when Wltn-
out warning and in the face OF plt
ter feud waging between them ana
Abbot Kinney who In his tight IS tne
accredited representative of the prop,
erty owners of this section, a moral
reform movement was Instituted 70
take effect at midnight tonight which
threatens to effectually lid" the town.
The members of the board frankly
admit that their drastic action was
not long under consideration, and the
inference is taken by well informed
citizens that the measure was con
ceived by the trustees as a means OF
bluffing off the proposed suits against
them, to be instituted Monday and ag-
gregating $150,000 which sum property
owners claim will not cover the losses
they have sustained by reason OF tne
boards indifference In the matter OF
sewerage conditions. In direct opposl-
ton to the appeals of the community
expressed by individuals at board
meetings and contained in numerous
petitions that have been presented, the
board has for more than year al
lowed the municipality of Santa Mon
lea to dispose of its sewerage by means
of tho local septic tank system, al
though the facilities have proved to-
tally inadequate to properly treat the
excess increment Lewis q. Bradt,
secretary of the Venice trade organiZa-
ton. said today that there would posi-
tiveiy be no wavering on the part of
Mr. Kinney and other property owners
in their contemplated action for dam
ages against the board members II
the board does not accede to the de-
mand that the Santa Monica sewer con-
nections be cut before Monday MORN
Ing.
The trouble between the Kinney COM
pany and the city trustees dates back
a considerable length of time, although
open hostilities were not indulged in
before the boards refusal. three
months ago, to accept from Mr.. Kin
ney on behalf of the city a gift of a
centrally located building site on which
to erect the proposed municipal struc-
ture. The claim of the board that the
property was for legal reasons unavatl-
able for city hall purposes was en-
phatically denied by Mr.. Kinney, whose
lieutenants intimated that other rea-
sons caused the board to reject the
offer. A month later the trustees ac-
cepted a site for the building at Toxic
station, new practically undeveloped
tract of land half a mile back of the
city's business center, and the tran
saction appeared to have special sig
nificance insomuch as Dana Burks,
chairman of the board, and David
Evans, who a week later was made a
member, were the donors of the site
and hold large property interests in
the vicinity.
On Mr.. Kinney's recommendation
the chamber of commerce has under
taken movement to divert the site
for technical college purposes and an
effort is being made to enlist the
Rockefeller education fund committee
in the interests of the project.
This action has aroused the board