Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
DELEGATES DISCUSS
PAVING METHODS
WILL LEGISLATE TO OBLlTERATE
BILLBoARDs
City Attorneys Propose to Petition
Legislature to Enact Laws That
VIII Do Away with This Class
of Advertising
Pasadena Agency.
n North Raymond Avenue.
Phones: Sunset 1907, Home 2124.

PASADENA, Nov. 13.-Paving and
road building were subjects discussed
by the division of city engineers and
street superintendents at today's ses-
sion of the municipal league.
w. j. Boland, city engineer of Han
ford, told of the success of paving
fourteen blocks in that city with as
phalt at an average cost of IS cents
per square foot. He described the
specifications employed and then fol-
lowed q general discussion in which
the Barber company came in for both
excoriation and praise.
The methods employed by Warren
Bros. in laying bitulithic pavement was
next introduced by Engineer S. ]. Van
Ornum of Pasadena. He read the
specifications under which 1t Is pro-
posed to lay bitulithic material on Los
Robles avenue in this city, and In an
swer to q query stated that owing TO
the purpose of the company to thor
oughly examine into the proceedings
by which the council favors bitulith1c
and desire to wait until the winter
rains are over no work on Los Robes
avenue will be started before next
spring.
In the discussion c. c. Brown OF
Redlands told of his Investigations of
the bitulithic paving in Portland, KAN
sas City, Chicago and st. Louis, where
he found no two jobs alike. In chi
cagos he reported finding the paving
badly cut UP, while in Kansas City the
pavement is slick and slippery. st:
Louis, he said, is heartily in favor OF
the Warren product over asphalt.
The success of South Pasadena and
Glendale with the petrolithic method
of improving roadways was presented
by H. r. Postle, city engineer of South
Pasadena Other cities Interested in
this method are Redlands, Santa Mon
lea, Visalia and San Mateo, whose rep
resentatives Joined in the discussion.
J. w. Johnson, street inspector OF
Los Angeles, told of the methods of
brick paving in that city. Santa Bar
bara's municipal water sysetm was ex-
plotted by Engineer A. w. Lozier, who
told of the struggles of that city In
acquiring municipal ownership, start
ing in 1896 and after much litigation Is
proving of decided advantage to the
citizens They are now paying nal
rate of s1.25 monthly.
The municipal light plants OF Pasa-
dena, Riverside and Anaheim were dis
cussed through reports from the hgh'
departments of those cities.
This department wound up its pro-
gram tonight with reports on the park
Oakland and Sacramento, told by the
respective mayors. City Forester %
j. Harper of Los Angeles gave useful
advice regarding tree planting and 10
r. Allen told of the efforts of civic
bodies to rid Los Angeles of the OBJ
noxious billboard
The department of city attorneys
took up the billboard matter in an
earnest way with the result that a
committee will frame bill to be pre-
sented to the legislature giving cities
powers to regulate or even obliterate
the billboard entirely. 1t is possible
that this committee will be selected
and instructed to carry out the sense
of the convention before adjournment.
City Attorney Leslie r. Hewitt OF
Los Angeles rendered good account
of himself in a paper on public service
franchises, in which he holds that the
people have prior right to the use OF
streets and highways This subject
was generally discussed and resulted
in a consensus of opinion that the
league should use its best efforts to
curb the greed of corporations in en-
croaching upon the rights of the peo-
ple. How to do this will Also probably
be worked out by a committee.
The attendance at today's session OF
the convention was much larger than
that of yesterday, 1t is universally
regretted that Mayor Taylor OF San
Francisco cannot be present He has
sent final word that he cannot leave
his official business.