Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
EAST SLDERS
GET BRIDGES
pRoMooLp AND HEALY CARRY
THEIR COLLEAGUES
FINANCE COMMITTEE SETS ASIDE
PRELIMINARY
Thousands of Property Owners North
and East Who Are clamoring for
Recognition VIII Get
Their Wishes


bridges will, If latest indications are
a good index, soon have new steel struc-
lures to meet their needs. :,
The tide has turned in favor Of Council
man Dromgoid of the First ward, and ne
will get his bridge and Councilman
Barney Healy of the Eighth will get his
Main street bridge.
Councilman Clampitt, as printed IN yes
terday's Herald, found that the entire
Second ward was a unit for the improve
ment, and the sections which depended on
the Main street highway also made an
Irresistible front.
AS a result of this thegfinance commll-
tee of the city council yesterday decided
to set apart 100000 to inaugurate the
bridge work, and next year this sum can
be added to as the work progresses.
Because of the tedious process OF law
and condemnation necessary the bridge
work can be started now, and 1t Will De
months before more money Will be
needed.
DromgoId Fights Hard
Dromgold has fought hard battle, In
volving as 1t did a clash with the follow
ing of Councilman Wallace, chairman OF
the finance committee, but the voice or
the people carried the day with the coun-
Gil and it looks as If the bridge issue
will win at Tuesdays session with the
$780, 900 appropriation settled.
The growing east side will thus get
new structure, which will put Pasadena
and Garvanza in closer touch with the
city and help the vehicular traffic might
| lily, and 1t will result in Buena vista
street being made wide thoroughfare,
consummation which the Second ward
has long desired.
| Growing out of the compromise the
| Southern Pacific interests will get small
slice of the hill at the edge of Elysian
park, where it's switching yards lie, and
| in return the company will give fifteen-
| foot strip all the way adjacent to It's
yards on Buena Vista street opposite
Elysian park.
Affects Large Improvements
improvements of a quarter of a million
dollars depend upon this bridge. Street
work will be followed by the building or
homes and business houses.
| If the structure is erected 1t will OBJ
viate the necessity of crossing the death
trap of the Southern Pacific and Maud
Junction and the Llewelyn iron works
and trolley passengers will get direct
communication with the district beyond.
| The Los Angeies Railway will use TWEEN
| ty-two feet or little over one-third OF
the bridge roadway. and 1T will pay one
third of the total cost of the structure.
| Inc southern racine Will COllltlOutC plV,
| 900 and give strip along Buena vista
street to make 1t eighty feet wide.
| In return the latter company gets an
i easement at the edge of Elysian park,
which gives sufficient room for two
tracks, which will help the movement OF
It's freight and passenger trains at thai
point.
i Ask for Fair Play
The East Side Improvement associa
tion, of which Councilman Dromgold II
president, is especially interested in max
ing Pasadena and Downey avenues tht
busiest and best thoroughfares in that
section because the tide of travel is
greatest over them.
| Supporting the arguments for a new
bridge of the Y style instead of the pres
| ent structure, which Is not properly sit
uated the east side people say that the
Boyle Heights section has secured five
bridges whereas the east side must be
satisfied with two.
The hitch dates back to the time when
owen McAleer was first councilman and
| then mayor.
| The steam and electric interests, with
whom he clashed, fought McAleer and
kept the First ward out of benefits be-
cause of McAleers fights.
McAIeer Stumbling Block
| Now that MeAleer is out of office the
companies which felt that they had been
unfairly dealt with are ready to do their
share toward increasing the prosperity of
the First and Second wards, and the
present fight has grown out of these con-
ditions.
| 1t is conceded that the Whittier travel
from the east is far less than that from
Pasadena, but were bridge bonds to be
voted on as an issue they would get little
votes from the Third, Fourth and Fifth
wards, because bridges do not interest
dwellers there.
! Thus bridge bonds cannot be put be-
fore the people for a vote now, but first
bonds can be, because they appeal to
everybody.
This is why the finance committee has
finally decided to call the first bond issue
election at once If the council will con-
sent.