Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-16
BONDS TO ASSURE
BRIDGE IN ARROYO
Pasadena Officials Decide on an
Election for Improvement of
Highway Near City

PASADENA, Aug. 16.-That steps
will be taken to call a bond election
for the building of the proposed in
termediate bridge across the Arroyo
Seco from West Colorado street to a
point on the Scoville grade leading to
the Eagle Rock boulevard, now under
construction, was decided at a joint
meeting of the board of trade bridge
committee, Mayor Farley and the city
council.
Plans for the original high bridge, 165
feet above the bed of the arroyo, were
dropped two months ago when the
intermediate plans were submitted.
Since that time there has been a diff
ference of opinion as to whether to
adopt the intermediate plans, which
had the unanimous Endorsement of the
bridge committee and a majority of
the council, or to take up the plans for
a low bridge, forty-five feet above the
present Scoville bridge, as urged by
Mayor Farley, c. B. Scoville and
others.
INSPECT SIGHT FOR BRIDGE
The decision to boost for the inter
mediate bridge was reached after the
committee and the city council, ac-
cmpanied by Mayor Farley and Will
liams & Nishkian, designers of the
intermediate bridge, Lad visited the
ground and gathered data concerning
grades. The original of the accom-
panying picture, which was prepared
by The Herald, assisted by the engi-
neers, played an important part in
making the project plain to those as
sembled.
A joint subcommittee from the
bridge committee and the council will
be appointed to visit the supervisors
and ascertain what financial aid will
be forthcoming from the county and
what suggestions the supervisors have
to offer as to how t. proceed in adj
vertising for detailed plans and other
data. 1t is thought the supervisors
will be asked to stand half the cost
of the bridge, which has been esti-
mated at $15O,0O6
The opinion of those at the joint
meeting was that the council and the
county supervisors should call for bids
along the line suggested in the Will
liams e. NiShkian intermediate plans
and place that firm on the same foot
ing with all others, rather than show
any favoritism. Chairman Knight ex-
planned that the firm in question, al
though the members voluntarily
evolved the intermediate plans which
solved the problem, had never enter
tanned any idea other than to compete
with the others when the matter
reached that stage
NEW ROUTE FOR TRAVELLERS
The advantages claimed for the in
termediate bridge are as follows:
1t will afford a direct route across
the arroyo with four and one-half
per cent grade on the Pasadena ap-
proach and four per cent on the west
approach; it will form a link in the
foothill boulevard system, upon which
the county highway commission pro-
poses to spend $450,000; it will be
part of the ninety-mile road from Red
lands to the sea; it will afford easy ac-
cess to Los Angeles by way of AMMAN
dale and a direct line to Santa Monica
and other beaches by way of Glendale
and Hollywood; it will connect the
San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys
and afford a desirable route for tour
lists from Redlands and San Bernar-
dino through Pasadena to Santa Bar
bara and northern points; it will af-
ford a scenic drive over the proposed
arroyo boulevard, for which Mayor
Farley has worked out elaborate plans
The arroyo boulevard can be easily
reached from the Pasadena approach
by those who desire to go to the IA
nous Busch gardens by that route
when COMPLETED