Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-06
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
IN LIVELY SESSION
LIQUOR LICENSE QUESTION
WARMLY DEBATED
President Eakin Vigorously Denounces
His Colleagues for Ordering Use
of Septic Sewage Tank
Discontinued
Especial to The Herald.l


OCEAN PARK, Oct. 6.-The meeting
of the board of trustees this evening
developed into an exceedingly livery
affair, with many near personalities
being exchanged between the members.
A couple of lively preliminaries pre-
&C led the main event, which wound up
with all of the trustees on their feet
at once, striving to make themselves
heard. The first excitement was pro-
duced by Trustee McKinnon, VINO, IN
the capacity of chairman of the finance
committee, declared that city employees
were in the habit of ordering supphes
without securing the necessary author-
ity. He incidentally remarked that the
city was paying out some $500 a month
and that If the practice was not DIS
continued the deficit at the end of the
year would be little over $4,000.
On the question of allowing restau-
rants selling liquors to remain open all
night If they so desired, trustee Gfll-
fifth took the opportunity of making
vigorous protest against the way in
which the liquor interests were domi-
mating the affairs of the city. DO we
want the name of a wide-open town,
where the young men of Los Angeles
and our own beach towns are being
ruined?" exclaimed the trustee. AIM
from in the morning till IL O'Clock at
night enough time to sell whisky? Mr..
Chairman, 1 put myself on record as
protesting against any such action.
President Eakin took the stand that
the ordinance would only put the res
taurants on an equal footing with the
Los Angeles places, in that persons re-
turning from the theaters would have
an opportunity to tronize, their home
resorts At the roll call following Trus-
tees Eakin, McKinnon, Mayer and F'os-
ter voted for the measure, while TruS-
tee Griffith registered an emphatic
mo"
Eakin Lands Body Blow
AS a windup to the evenings enter
tainment Trustee Eakin threw small
sized bomb shell into the meeting,
when he elected the information from
City Electricion Eichbaum that the
sewage of the city was running into
the ocean in it's raw state, in spite of
the fact that the city was the owner
of a septic tank.
"Mr. Eichbaum, who ordered you to
discontinue the use of the septic tank?"
thundered the president. Trustees
McKinnon, Mayer and Foster. an
swered the electrician. At this mo-
ment all the trustees were upon their
feet striving to make themselves heard.
SOMEBODY maze a motloH 10 reler lne
matter to committee, whereat the
president of the board, raising his
voice above the confusion, shouted:
mo, sir, this matter will not be re-
ferred to a committee. We will handle
it right here and now. L want it to
go on the record that these trustees,
while admitting that they are abso-
lutely ignorant of the matter of the
septication of sewage, deliberately or
dered raw matter to be pumped into
the ocean within 300 feet of one of the
largest pleasure piers on this coast,
endangering the lives of thousands of
people.
II want it known that this committee
exceeded it's power when it gave such
an order. l also want it to go on rec
ord who We're on that committee, and
want it known that the rest of the
trustees had no hand in the matter"