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v THEATRICAL COMMENT [From Dnnlop's Stage News.] Nellie McHenry will have her next tour at Norfolk, Va., September 7th, un der the management of Manager A.J. Spencer, using tbe great success A Night at the Circus. The company will be .much the same as last year, the addi tions being the De Witt sisters and Will West. Miss Alma Strong, for several seasons the leading lady of the Kbeaand Maggie Mitchell companies, has been engaced to create the part of Olga in Darkest Rus sia, which will be produced Sept. 18th. Mies Strong is a direct descend ant of John Adams, second president of the United States, and her grandfather. Col. E. Babcock, was the first editor of the Hartford Mercury, the first Demo cratic newspaper in New England, ol which the present Hartford Coment is the successor. Roland Reed is looking'at the won ders of the world's fair this week, the leader of a big party, which includes his lfi-year-old daughter and Mies Isa dore Rush, his leading lady. Sadie Martinot is eummtrin,, in Bos- E. S. Wiilard is still in Chicage play ing to splendid business at Uooley's theater. Victorien Sardou cabled to Cbarlos Frohman on Saturday that the play he 'is writing for that manager will be fin ished by December. Wemyss Henderson sailed on Thurs day for England to secure novelties for David Henderson's American Extrava ganza company. Marcuß R. Mayer returns to New York July 22d. Patti, whom he will manage, begins her American too/November 9th. Samuel Popular Cox is on the high Toad to perfect recovery and is able to be seen occasionally on Broadway. Fanny Rice has returned from her European trip with several new plays, one of which she will try next season. Ed McArdle will probably sail for Car acas, Venezuela, next week to establish a place of amusement in that capital, similar to the Imperial Music Hall in New York. Alma Strong will noon bring suit for $10,000 againat tbe Tyler opera bouse in Trenton for injuries sustained inn sea eon while playing there. Miss Lulu Klein is at Lake Weloken ttebacook, Maine, catching salmon. Some one has eaid, "let rue make a nation's songs. I care not who may make her laws." The terrible omnipotence of song waa recently illustrated in tbe experience of that charming actress, Selena Fetter, the leading lady of the Friend's company. Miss Fetter was on her way to Salt Lake City to spend tbe eurniner vacation, and while at became interested in a group of LTte In dians who were huddled on tbe platform of one of tbe cars. To tne intense as tonishment and amusement of the act rets, a little papoose, not more than four years old, began humming in a shrill, childieh voice—"Ta rara boouide aye." That terrible and abortive musi cal (?) conglomeration seems to spare neither size, sex nor previous condition of servitude. Ali Baba, now running at the Chicago opera house, has two new features which are in the nature of a sensation — The Rainbow Dance and A Trip to America, tbe latter being an allegorical transformation scene described aa being superior in brilliancy and good taste to anything of the kind ever before wit nessed in this country. Some 2000 ! electric lights are used iv the scene, but tbey are sn masked that tbe disagreea ble glare so often conspicuous in stage electric displays iB entirely absent. Tbe . rainbow dance is pei formed by seven dancers in a scene entirely black. Even -tlie stage is covered with a black cloth. Tho lights used are of tbe most brilliant description. Big, Korsi of the Casino de •Paris composed the dance for the Chica go Optra bouse. An earthen jug ornamented witb mythological relief figures and Malacca, formerly tbe pronerty of Shakespeare, and by him bequeathed to bis sister Joan, was sold at auction last week in London for £182. Tbe forthcoming season at the Du quesne theater, l'ittsbnrg, proniiees to be a brilliant one. Among the attrac tions already book by W emyss Hender son are tbe following: Thomas W. Keene, William Crane, Isle of Cham pagne, the Amberg Opera company. Julia Marlowe, Fanny Rice, A Lady of Venice, Evans and Hoey, Stuart Robaon, Felix Morris, Richard Mansfield, James O'Neill, Nat Goodwin, James T. Powers, Wilson i ■■•'.!, Lillian Rusbsll Opera company, tbe American Extinvaganza company, Wang, Rusßell's Comedians, Proleesor lierrmetin, Francis Wileon Opera company, Pauline Hall Opera company, and Posßart. Jauieß J. Corbetfe season will open on December 18 at the New York Grand opera, which will be immediately after fefs meeting with Charley Mitchell, iir. Corbett's season haa been booked solid iv firet claae theaters only, and :.. terms are said to be as high as those paid any ateilar attraction now before tlie American public. Gentleman Jack is to be rewritten, allowing Cor bett more ecope us a comedian, in which line of business it ia said he excels. About the mont prized among the possessions of the young author of Friends, which uiude such a triumphant tour of tlie country last eeason, ia an orange colored ekuli cap with thia in scription, in the baud writing of the great tragedian: "To Edwin Milton Royle with tub compliments and best wishes of Edwin Booth, May, 1888." The cap had been worn by Mr. Booth as Shylock and hud been made from part of a bat worn by Mr. Royle in the part of Tubal, and was presented to the young author-actor upon bis retirement from the support of Mr. Booth where he had Mb first few years' experience ac an actor. Gua Heege, author of Yon Yonaon, ia Btill in Sweden, where he weut to study tbe people he co cleverly puts on the stage. When last heard from he was at tbe university oi Upsala, preparing for a journey throngn .Norway which will end in the land of the midnight sun. From Ultima Thule he will return to Christi ana by water, stopping at Tronhjim and Bsrgen and then cross the North sea to Hull, England, where he will take ship for New York. He bas finished a new Swedish dialect play in which Jacob Litt will star him the season after nex r . Miss Jennie Reiffarth has been en gaged by Manager Frank Maoder for the Lawrence Hanley company. One of the newnesses of the newl» decorated New York Star theater, which young Lawrence Hanley will reopen on I August 14th, with Blanche Marsden's I Tbe Player, is a Turkish cigarette and coffee room georgeously frescoed and up holstered. Mr. Edwin W. Hoff, for the past five years with the Bostonians, has been re engaged by the same management, most agreeably to both, as leading tenor of tbis splendid organization. Every one haß remarked tbe great improvement in Mr. Huff's singing this season, which is due to his indefatigable studying with one of New York's most famous teachers. Mr. Hoff has declined numerous offers for the summer, as he intends to devote his vacation to still further improving his voice and method at the summer residence of his teacher. The authorship of In Old Kentucky, tbe new play to be produced in Ssptem ber, has been ascribed to different writ ers. It is said to be a remarkably strong plsy, presenting a striking picture of Kentucky life during a most interesting period of her history. It is whispered that James Lane Allen, the brilliant Kentucky writer, is the author, and that he was aided and abetted by that other distinguished Kentuckian, Henry Wat terson. If this be true, it is barely pos sible that we are at lasttohavethegreat American play. Joseph Grismer and Ph«De Davis will have nearly all the original people in the cast of The New South, at Hoyt'a Madi eon Square theater, August 14th next— Messrs. Scott Cooper, Charles Mackay, Holbrook .".'inn, Ben Cation and Mist Bebe Vining. It is now reported tbat Sarah Born hardt's jewels, valued at 300,000 francs, were stolen in Valparaiso. Mascazni haa finished his opera, Wil liam Ratcliffe, end has already sent the score to the Berlin opera house, where the work will be brought out next sea son. John Jennings is still at his farm in the Vermont mountains, and propoaea to remain there until the last bell rings. The new Ellis theater at Johnstown, now building, will, when finished, be the prettiest theater in Pennsylvania. Clyde Fitch is to adapt Corignan versus Corignan, the new French play for whic.i Charles Frohman Becured the American righta while in Paria re cently. The costumes for the new play, A Lady of Venice, which is to introduce Mica Katberine Ciemmonß as a star, under John W. Hamilton's management, are being specially made by Herrmann, and will, when finished, tie exhibited in a prominent Broadway store. They are to Co3t $11,000. A Ltdy oi Vemca Will be seen iv New York oo tha stage of the Fifth avenue theater in February. William Winter, dramatic editor of the New York Tribune, is reiting at Men tone, near Los Angeles. W. M. Wilkinson, Alexander Salvini's en'erprising manager, ia still in New York, but may yet take a trip across the ocean before his season begins. Fred Peel has returned to New York after his summer wandering in the west, and is booming Basil City, a very pretty farce comedy written by Ous Heege. The acquaintances of the late Manola Mason company are much interested in the peculiar position of the butchers, bakers aud candlestick makers of New Roshelle. Happy, boyish, deep-schem ing John Mason must liveand dine well, and he enjoya the dilemma of hia butch ers and grocers as being of great fun. If the tradesmen do not feed Ihe Masons tbis summer tbey will surely lose the bills contracted last year; if they do the amount is only added to, and there you are. The Jeremy Didlers of the profes sion are trying to get credit for a crown to present to Mason. John A. Dixs famous dispitch, "If any many man attempts to haul down tbe American flag shoot him on tbe spot!" is the keynote of William A. Brady's lates scenic production of Old Glory, which was written by Charles T. Vincent, one of tho leading American playwrights. The play is in three acts, and constats of atirring naval tableaux, and the atory coneists of incidents at tbe commencement of tbe late war, and ia said to be extremely interesting Mr. Mark Tbail, tbe well known manager, has taken charge of this production for Mr. Brady, and he promises oue of the best entertainments of tbe coming sea eon. Mrs. Bancroft, tbe well-known actress, waa thrown from a cab iv London Mon day and run over. She received injuries tbat necessitated liar removal to a boa pital. The Younger Sm is the aelccted for Belaaco'a new play. Marie George, who has recen'ly been pi tying the role of Brigette in The Isle of Champagne, waß married in New York, July 18tb, to W, L. Brown, a non professional. Summer opera ia being successfully given at the Island of Deaehree-stioa-ku, eii>ht milea below Detroit, with tbe New York Acme Optra company. It is tbe only Hummer suap in the country that is pay ng. The Algerian is the title of tbe new oomio opera by Glen M»cDonough and Reginald DoKoven, in which J. M. Hill will star Mime Tempeet next seasan. It will b* product*) in Buffalo, N. V., in September. Delia Fox, wbo will leave the Panjan drum tympany July 15th, will sail for Europe on the 26th for a six weeks' va cation. Shi; denies the rumor that she will star next season, and asserts that rdie will re-j'iin DeWolf Hoppjr in Sep tember. I bate to contradict a lady ! Mrs. G. W. Purdv, better known by ber stage name of Fanny Rice, arrived in this city recently. Mrs. Purd, mt to Europe about two months ago I -r health, wbich is said to bave been h improved by ber trip. It is annou -d that while Mrs. Purdy waa in Pans ehe signed a contract fo sing there next year under the management ot a prominent manager, and also that she brought back with her two new comedies, a LOS ANGELES HERALD SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 23. 1893. three-act operetta and a number of for eign novelties, which ahe propoaea to present in this country next season. Addie Camming has gone to Lenox, Mass , for the summer. Dave Robinson of the New York Em pire theater will next season manage the Galveston theater for Henry Green wall. Berry Desant will bein advance of tbe Lawrence company next eeaaon. Robert Chester, father of C. M. Chea ter, of Leater and Williama, died at hia home in Philadelphia on Sunday. John E. Hogaithy .will next aeaeon manage Rich and Harris' A Country Sport, in which Peter F. Daily will be the star. Misg Alma Strong has gone to her home in Georgetown, D. C. Herr Richard Strauss, who is at pres ent staying in Sicily, is hard at work on the third act of his new opera Guntram, and it is expected that it will be finished in tbe autnmn. The death has taken place at Copen hagen of Herr Hans Peter Hoist, the Punish dramatist and lyrical poet. He was aged 82. Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davies in augurate their sscond season of The New South at New York Madison Square the ater, Monday, August 14th, an event originally arranged for the initial east ern representation of this highly success ful American drama a year ago. It wns only on account of the play not being in readiness at the opening of last eeason that ATrip to China was not interrupted in its run. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal will take a fourth trip to America in tbe autumn, leaving England about September 23d and open ing in Now York on October 9th. She: "Why do you always go out be tween the acts?'' He: "It makes too much disturbance to go out when the act is on." Joseph Jefferson ia at Buizard's Bay hobnobbing with President Cleveland. He has bought an island in Wakeby lake, near the bay, and Baya hia health is first class. It is again announced that Rose Coghian has become Mrß. John T. Sulli van, and as neither of them has denied tbe report it ia probably trne. H. B. Phillips, father of Harry Phil lips, wbo will next eeason put Crazy Patch on the road, ia the oldest Ameri can actor living. Arthur F. Carmodv, the clever San Francisco correspondent of tbe New York Clipper, is in New York. Billy Lester, of tbe variety team of Lester & Allen, died at Fair Haven, Conn., on Tuesday from cirrhoaia of the liver. Anson Pond's A Desperate Man will be sent on the road during tbe coming season. Alan Dale, tbe dramatic editor of the New York Evening World, is spending his vacation at Aebury Park. Harry Phillips hae already completed all preliminary arrangements for next aeaeon, when he will present Crazy Patch, one of tbe very funniest of farce comedies. The company has been booked for 32 solid weeks, including all tbe large cities. Tbe ladies of the company will be headed by Kittie Mitchell, a charming comedienne and beautilul woman, wbo can not only act, but can sing and dance ac well. Julie Senac, another magnificent specimen of womanhood and a member of the cele brated Senac family, and Mollie Gaylor are among the lady members. Three remarkably clever young comedians have been secured —W. H. Murphy, Charles Hoisan aud W. A. Daniels —a trio that would be bard to beat as mirth pro vokers. Other clever people are being negotiated witb. Harry Graham will be tbe musical director, and is now in Eng land hunting up novelties to in troduce into Crazy Patch. Mr. Phillips is also arranging for the eeason of 94-95 a strong comedy organi zation to be known aa the American | Comedy company, playing only tbe leading theaters from two to four weeks each. A well known author is now at work on a new farcial comedy for the opening attraction. Marie Wainwright says she will not retire from tbe stage, because in the first place she bas found out, all of a sudden, that some property ehe owns in Califor nia may not be co valuable as she had | thought it to be, and then quite a num ber of theaters would not cancel time booked by ber witb them. W. F. Dickson, manager of Thomas W. Keene, will shortly make a trip to I Canada. j Max Zoellner has been re-engaged by ; Mr. Augustus Pitou for next season. Robert Mantell has gone to Salt Lake City. The Dramatic News is out this week in an entirely new dress and a new and convenient form. Tbe paper bas been made a 24-page publication, and is ex ceedingly handsome. Prosperity sticks out all over the Dramatic News. Pretty Mattie Ferguson, who waa for three years leading soubrette with tbe favorite W. J. Scanlan, haa been engaged for a aimilar position with Eugene O'Rourke in the Wicklow Postman. Agnes Hern don will produce two new plays during the coining aeason. Prof, and Mra. Kellar are now in the very heart of their long and splendidly successful engagement at Daly's thea ter. Ou many nights tbeir audiences are limited to the capacity of the bouse. They give a wonderful performance. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Robeon are at Cobaeset, Mass. W. F Dickson will continue as mana ger o£ Thomas W. Keene next season. A new book by Kamsay Morris will be published in August. Magician Kellar's wonderful enter tainment draws large audiences to Daly's New York theater nightly, in spite of the warm weather. He would be able to remain in the, motrapolia for a whole year if he wished to. Manager William R. Hayden It in New York these warm days sup3rin tending all the new scenery und cos tumes wbich are being made for Mr. Stuart Robaon'a elaborate revival of tha Comedy of Errora. Ramsey Morria ia making beta that next season he will have (be handsom est leading man on the American stage. Hia name id Edmund Maurice and he cornea from England. Maurice was the original Bootlea in Booties Bab • in Bog •land. He played tho part more than 1000 nights. The owners of the ground upon which the New York Casino is built claim that tbe lease has been forfeited by permit ting tbe arrearages to accumulate, and have begun proceedings to dispossess. The lease of tbe grouud has yet nine yeara to run at $12,000 a year. The lia bilities of the concert company are snid to be: A claim of the Aronsons lor $81,000 pledged first mortgage bonds as collateral security for money raised to build the theater; $7000 of first mort gage bonda unpledged, which the Aron aonß claim to still hold; $90,000 of other first mortgage bonds outstanding; $9000 of billa payable and $52,000 of other debts. A plan of reorganization pro posed is the issne of ¥160,000 in first mortgage 6 per cent bonds; $100,000 of second mortgage 5 per cent bonds; $125,000 of preferred stock and $200,000 of common stock, in all $575,000, with which it ia proposed to take up the present outstanding bonds and meet the present debts and liabilities. Tbe pro posers of this plan give the expense of running the theater at $5300 per week, or $212,000 for 40 weeks, and estimated the receipts for 40 weeks at $240,000 or a net profit of $49,000 a year. David Henderson is in New York. Business at the Chicago opera house, as well as at the other principal Chicago theaters, he save, has been very large since the beginning of June. Evelyn Pollock has married a 22-year old Yale student named Kirkover in Boston, and 11. Donnely Kirkover, the Chicago turfman and father of the sprightly young man, found it out on Mouday. J. K. Emmett's schooner yacht Siren went on Abraham's ways at Cold Spr ng harbor on Tuesday to be cleaned and painted. When tiniehed the young star will start on another cruise. A current rumor asserts that Julia Marlowe and Robert Tabor have been united by marriage. McKee Rankin hna written a new play. It ia called The Baxters, and is in three acts, scene being laid in North ern Ohio, at President Garfield's old home. Mr. and Mrs. McKee Rankin will use it during the season oi '91-95. Jessie Bartlett Davis has resigned from the Boetonians and has announced that she has permanently retired irom the profession. Annie Dewis has signed with Cosgrove A Grant to be featured as Kittie Star light, in The Dazzler, for next season, commencing August 14th, at Bangor, Me. Lee Harrison and W. E. Blande have ongaged the following people to support Eugene O'Rourke in The Wicklow Poet man next season: Mattie Ferguson, Elsie Jerome, Polly Poland King, El veria Crockery, .1 ernes J. Tighe, Robert Vernon, Norman Campbell, Edwin Bethel. jßmea G. Bauer, Lou Allyn and Mark Price. Tennessee, or the Maid and the Con vict, an American comic opera in three acts, by John Campbell Craig, with music by R. W. Edwards, had ita firet production July sth, at the Grand opera house, Evansville, Ind., under the aus picesof the Evaneville Press club. Edwin Booth's grave in Mount Au burn cemetery, near Cambridge, Mass.. is kept covered with flowers. Most of the fragrant tributes to tlie dead actor's memory have come from Mrs. Jack Gardner, the Boston society leader, and Julia Ward Howe. The funeral of Georgia Drew-Barry more, tbo actress, who died at Santa Barbara, Cel., July 2, took place from St. Stephen's church, Philadelphia, 12th. The engagement of May Irwia com pletes Peter F. Dailey's company for John J. McNally'a A Country Sport. Daniel Bandmaun, the tragedian, procured a divorce from his wife, Mil licent, several months ago. He then married Miry Kellv of San Francisco. Judge Henry of Park County, Mon., rendered a decision July 10th, setting aside the divorce —tableaux! Guy de Maupassant, the celebrated French writer, d:ed at an asylum for the insane near Paris, July 7th. M. de Vlaupaeeaat.who was of ancient Norman lineage, was born August 5, 1850, at the Chateau de Miromesmie, Seine-Inferi eure. He was one of the moat gtited Frenchmen of his day, and in addition to hie special literary work, which was the writing of novels and of short sto ries, he was the author of several nlays, among which were Histoire dv Vieux Temps and Musette. For the past 18 months he haß been insane. Thomas Q. Seabrooke ears lie will try a new opera . Sew York hext May. Edwin Min,=r, who will manage Edwin Vroom next season in Ray Bias, has engaged Joseph Wheelock, Rosa Rand and 8. K. Chester to support his star. Mr. Vroom'a season wiil jopen at the Filth-avenue theater in August. Katie Emmett, having postponed her trip to Europe until next eeason, on ac count of her husband's illness, ia sum menng at Atlantic City. During Franklin Fylee' three months' vacation, wbich he ia spending in the west, Jnmea L. Ford ia hia substitute as dramatic editor of the New York Sun. Jeseie Williams has been engaged by Henry E. Abbey to be musical director of the new theater at Broadway and Thirty-eighth street. It is said that the late Charles Palmer, who was the manager of Helen Barry, insnred his life for $50,000 in the actreas' favor. Robert, otherwiae "Bobby" Gaylor, supported by a strong farce comedy company, will continue next season in Sport McAllister, opening in New York on August 14tb. Gaylor is jnst closing a Pacitic coast tour of 15 weeks, and has not played a losing night on the entire trip. Kate Claxton is at her villa at Larch mout. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Price are at As burv Park. Bessie Clayton haa been engaged for next season by Francis Wilson, and will appear in Erminie. William A. Brady arrived in New York on Monday. Auguatua Thomas has begun to work on the new play ordered by Charles Frohman. The plot ia founded on inci dents in the political life of Waahing ton. Albert Bruning ia fishing in the New Middle Dam, near Androscoggan lakes, iv Maine. Last week he caught the largest trout that has been taken on a Hy this spring. It was a beauty and weighed 3'» pounds. Of course there have been heavier ones caught, bat all with bait. Miss May Brookyn is summering at Long Branch. The Plever, in which Lawrence Han ley will appear at the New York Star theater, Auguet 14, is the first work of Miss Blanche Marsden produced in New York. She will, however, have three plays on the road during the coming season. Young Aleqander Salvini will not visit his illustrious father in Florence, Italy, this year, owing to his fear of being held in quarantine on his return. He in sum mering on the Palisades, on the Jersey bank of the Hudson, overlooking tbe metropolis, "Uncle" John Webater ia summering at Navesinfc, on the Jersey coast, anil proposes to remain there until A Night at the Circus is ready for tbe rond. Diotice. /"'ONSUMERS OF WATER FROM THE LOS \J Aiigeics City Water company plant are hereby notified tbat if they permit any build ing or meet coat'actor to use water from their in diatr.s, unless such contractors show a per mit from this company, th irwatei will be shut i.il without further uoti c, and penalty will be cnar.ed for '■ueb infraction of the regula tions b fore water will auain be put ou. U- ANGELES CITY WATER UOJdTANY. 6-10 3m Ordinance No. 1768. ( NEW SERIES.) AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTEN tion of the mayor and city council of the city of Los Angeles to change and establish the grade of BELMONT AVENUE From the north line of Otter street to the north line of Bellevue avenue, and fixing the limits of the district to '"' assessed to pay the cost, damages and expenses thereof. The mayor and council of the city of Los Au geles do ordain as follows: Btx-noN 1. That it Is the Intention of tho council of the city of I-os Angeles to change and establish the grade of BELMONT AVENUE From the north line of Otter street to the north line of Bellevue avenue as follows: At the intersection of Otter street the grade shall be as now established, 108.00 on the northwost corner and at a point in the east side opposite said corner; at the intersection of Bellevue avenue 109.80 on the southwest and southeast corners and 171.00 on the north west and northeast corners. And at all points between tbe designated points the grade shall be established so as to conform to a straight line drawn between said designated points. Elevations are in feet and above the city datum plane. Sec. 2 The boundaries of the district to be affected by said change and to be assessed to pay the damages tbat may be awarded by reason of such change of grade are hereby designated and established asfollows: Begin ning at the northwest corner of lot 1, block. 30. of the Los Angeles Inprovement company's subdivision of part of lot 3, block 3D, Hancock survey, thence southerly along the westerly line of lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of said block 30 to the southwest corner of said lot thence fol lowing the southerly lino of said lot 5 to tbe northwest corner of lot 6 of said blook 30, thence southerly along the westerly line of lots 6, 7, 8 and 9 of said block 30 to the northerly line of Otter street, thence along the northerly line of Otter street to the northwest cor nerof Otter street and Belmont avenue, thenco across Belmont avenue to the southwest corner of lot 9of block A of said Los Angeles Im firovement company's subdivision of part of ot 3, block 39, Hancock survey, thence along the southerly line of said iot 9, block A, to the southeast corner thereof, thence northerly along the easterly Hue of fotsO to 1, Inclusive, of said block A, to the southerly line of Belle vue avenue, thence westerly along the south erly line of Bellevue avenue to the northwest corner of lot 1, block 30, the point of begin ning, excepting therefrom any public street or alley that may lie within the above desoribed district. Sec. 3. The city clerk shall certify to tho passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same io be published for ten days in the Los Angeles Herald, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in force. 1 hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance wasadopted by the council of the city of Los Augeles at its'meeting of July io, 1893. C. A. LUCKENBACH, City Clerk. Approved this 15th day of July, 1893. T E. ROWAN, 7-18 10 t Mayor. ""Ordinance No. 1762. (NEW BERIER) AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTEN tion of the mayor and council of the city of Los Angeles to change and establish the grade of the south half of the intersection of PENNSYLVANIA AND MICHIGAN AVENUES And fixing the limits of tho district to be as sessed to pay the cost, damages and expenses thereof. The mayor and council of the city of Los An geles do ordain as follows: Section- 1. That it is the intention of tho council of the city of Los Angeles to change and establish the grade of the south half of the Intersection of PENNSYLVANIA AND MICHIGAN AVENUES As follows: At the intersection of Pennsylvania and Michigan avenues the grade shall be Changed and established at 80.00 on the southwesterly corner and 85.50 on the southeast corner; the grade at the Intersection of Michigan avenue and Pleasant avenue, Michigan avenue and Echandia street, Echandia street and Pennsyl vania avenue shall be as now established, and at all points between said designated points the grade shall be established so as to conform to a straight line drawn between said desig nated points. Elevations are in foet and above city datum plane. Sec 2. The boundaries ol the district to be affected by said change and to be assessed to pay the damages that may be awarded by rea son of such change of grade are hereby desig nated and established as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of Michi gan and I'leasant avenues and running thence along the south line of Michigan avenue to the westerly line of Echandia street, thence south ; er4y along the westerly line of Echandia street ito the northwest corner of Pennsylvania • avenue and Echtyidia street, thence in a direct " mc to the southwest corner of lot 11 of a sub division of block T of tbe Mount Pleasant tract, thence in a direct line to the southeast corner I of lot 1 of said subdivision of block T, thence along the southerly line of said lot 1 to the southwest corner thereof, thence northerly along the easterly lino of Pleasant avenue to the point of beginning, excepting therefrom any public street or alley that may lie within the above described district. » Sec 3. Ordinance 1723, new scries, in con flict herewith, is hereby repealed. Sec. 4. The city clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be published for ten days In the Los Angeles Herald, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and he In force. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was adopted by the council of the city of Los Angeles at its meeting of July 10, 1893. C. A. LUCKENBACH, City Clerk. Approved this 15th day of July, 1593. T. E. ROWAN, 7-18 lOt Mayor. Ordinance No. 1779. (NEW StRIKS.) AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE NUMBER of einploses ln the city clerk's office, and their compensation. The mayor and council of the city of Los An geles do ordain as follows: section 1. That there shall be employed ln the city clerk's office two deputies whose sal ary is hereby fixed at $tiO pc r mon h each: one deputy, who shall also be the official stenog rapher of the C'ty, whose salary Is hereby fixed at $70 per month, and one copyist, whose sal ary is hereby fixed at $50 per month. Sec 2. ihe city clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause it to be pub lished once in the Lob Angeles Herald, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be ln force. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinanco was adopted by the conncil of the city of Los Augeles ot its meeting of July 17th, 1893. C. A. LUCKENBACH, City Clerk. Approved by me this 20th day of July, 1893. T. E. ROWAN, 7-22 It Mayor. Notice to Stockholders. NOTICE IS HBREBT GIVEN TO THE stockholders of the Sliver Valley Land and Water company, a corporation, of the county of Los Angeles, state of California, that on Tuesday, the first tday of August, 1893, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., a meeting of the stock holders of said cmpany will beheld at the office of the company, at room 15, 12014 South Spring atreet, ln the city of Loa Angeles, state of California, for the following purpose, to-wit: Firit—Repealing or amending by-lawa or adopting (additional by-laws of ssid company, eJecond—Authorizing disposition of stock purchased by said company at delinquent assessmeut sale. And for tbe transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Two-thirds of the subscribed stock is neces sary to be re at said meeting. By order of the board of directors. Los Angeles. Cal., July 13,1803. Attest: [seal] A. K. RHEA, Sjcretary. 7-lti 14t E. HATfON, President. ABAI E OF CONDEMNED PUBLIC PROP er'.y will take place ln this city commenc ing at 11 o'clock a.m. Ju y 28, 1893. in the rooms now occupied as offices at tucse head quarters on the fifth floor of the Bryson l> Hid ing at the northwest corner of Bouth Spring and West Seoond streets, adjourning at tbe proper time to the basement of toe said build ing. The articles to be sold are as follows: Chairs. Usb Stoves, Tables, Desk, Chandeliers, Safe, Matting, Window Shades and Awnings, &c , ifcc , and other articles not herein speci fied. Many of the articles that are to be sold are entirely serviceable, but are of such a char acter that tbe Govern men t. has no further n ed of them. All articles sold can be moved with out material damage. Terns cath on day of sale. Artie es sold must be removed by tbe purchaser from the premises on os before Aug ust 2, 1893. K. B. ATWUOD, Major aud Chief Quartermaster, Los Augilcs, Cal., July 18, 1893. 722 6t Notice to Whom It May Concern. PAWNBROKERS' AUCTION BALE ACCORD inu to law of unredeemed goid, diver, filled case aud nickel watches, diamond and gold earnings breast-pins, rings, sleeve buttons, collar buttons, silverware, gold-headed can;s and umbrellas, clocks, guitars, mandolins, violins, banjos, pistols, guns, rifles, opera and field glasses, morchaum pipes and cigar hold ers overcoats, coats, pants and vesta, valises, trunks, books saddles, mrveyors' instruments, drums and musical Instruments, and all good i pawned with me from July 1,1802, to January 1. 1893, at No. 143 North Main street. L. B. COHN, Pawnbroker. H. ETTLING, Auctioneer. 3-24 6m Ordinance No. 1776. ( NKW SISRIES) AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND council of the city of Los Angeles, order ing certain work to be don* on BRIDGE STREET. The mayor aud council of the city of Los An geles do ordain as follows: ... ~ , section 1. That the council of Ihe city of Los Angeles deems It to bo required by the pub lic Interest and convenience, and hereby orders the following street work to be done according to the specifications contained ill its ordinance No. 1680, to-wit; Ist. That said BRIDGE STREET, In said city, from the northeasterly curb lino of Pleasant avenue to the westerly line of State street, Including all Intersections of streets (ex cepting such portions of saiil streei ami Inter sections ns are required by law to be kent In order or repair by any person or company hav ing railroad tracks thereon, and also excepting such portions bs have already been graded, graveled and accepted), bo graded and grav eled In accordance with the plans and profile on file In the office of the city engineer and specifications on 1110 In the Office el Hie city clerk of the city of Los Angeles for graded streets, said specifications being numbered ■>. 2d. That a redwood curb he constructed along each line of the roadway of said Bridge street from the northeasterly curb line of I'lecs ant avenue to tho westerly line of State street (excepting along such portions of the line of said roadway upon whfoh a redwood, cement or granite curb has already been constructed anil accepted), ln accordance with specifica tions In the office ofthe city olerk el said city for constructing redwood curbs. 3d. That a cement sidewalk six fectinwidth be constructed along each side of said Bridge street from the northeasterly curb 1 me of Pleas ant avenue to the westerly line of Slate street lexcepting sucli portions of said street between said points along which a cement or asphalt sidewalk has been constructed ami accepted), said sidewalk to be constructed in accordance with specifications on file In the office ol tbe city clerk, said specifications being numbered BBC. 2. The city engineer having estimated that the total cost of said Improvement will be greater than one dollar per front foot along each line of said streut, including the cost of intersections,lt is hereby determined in pur suance of an act of the legislature nf the state of California, approved February 27th, 189.1, that bonds shall be issued to represent tlie cost of said improvement Said bonds shall be se rial, extending over a perion of ton years, an even proportion of which shall be payable an nually on the second day of January of each year, after their date until the whole are paid, and to bear intereat at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on tho sec ond days of January and July of each and every year. BBC, 3. The city clerk la hereby directed to publish a notice of said work' inviting sealed proposals or bids for doing said work, und referring to thespecillcatlous posted vi vu "ie, for two days, in the l.us Augeles Herald, a dally newspaper published and cir culated in this City, hereby designated for that purpose. Bald notice shall require a certified check or a bond, cither, as prescribed bylaw, and for an amount not less than 10 per cent of the aggregate of the proposal. He is also di rected t<> post said notice with specification! copantelously for live dayson or near the coun cil chamber door. Sec. 4. The city clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance, and shall cause the same to be published for two days in the Log Angele* Herald, and thereupon and there after it shall take effect and be in force, 1 herebyecrtify that the foregoing ordinance \va . adopted by tbo council of the city of Log Angeles, at its meeting of July 17, A. D. 1893, by the following vote: Ayes—Messrs. Campbell, Oaffey, Innes, Mini son, Nickell, I'essell, Rhodes, Strohm and Pres ident Teed, (9.) • C A. LUCKENBACH, City clerk and ex-ofnclo clerk of the council of tbe city of lxis Augeles. Approved tbis 20th day of July 1893. T. E. ROWAN, 7-22 2t Mayor. Ordinance No. 1778. (NEW SERIES.) AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND Council of the city of Los Angeles, declar ing their intention to construct a sewer along T\V KN T Y-THI III) ST X E ET. Ths mayor and council of the city of Los An geles do ordain as follows: Section i. That the public interest and con venience require, and that It Is the Intention of the city council of the city of I.os Angeles to order the following work to be done, to-wlt: First--That a public sewer bo constructed along TWENTY-THIRD STREET, in said city, from a point opposite tho west line of lot '81 of the Longstreet tract to the sewer in.inhole now built at the intersection of Twenty-third street and Grand avenue, and across all intcracctionsof streets, together with manholes, lsnipholes and Hush tanks. The size of said sewer shall be eight inches in internal diameter, and be constructed ofsalt glazed v-itrlficd pipe, brick, iron nnd cement. All of which shail be constructed in accord ance with t lie plans anil profile on file in tin; ofliee of the city engineer and specifications on file In the office of the city clerk of the city of Los Angeles, said specifications being npnibered fourJirea.T 7 T*' I 1 1 T / T ' i (The cost of'cdnslrJiWint.Mild (Snill In assessed against'all lots and lands fronting upou the same. Ski\ 2. The slreot,«uperlnten«lcnt shall post notices of this workaif required by law, und shall cause said notice to be published for six days In the I.os Angeles Dally Herald. Six:, 3. The city clerk shall certify to tho passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published for two days in the I-os Angeles Daily Herald, and shall post the same conspicuously for two days on or near the chamber door of the council, and thereupon nnd thereafter It shall take effect and be in force. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was adopted by the council of the city of Los Angeles at its meeting of July 17th, A. D. 1893, by the following vote: Ayes—Messrs. Campbell, Gaffey, Innes, Muhson, Nickell, Pessell, Rhodes, Strohm and President Teed—(9). C. A. LUCKENBACH, City clerk and ex-ofllclo clerk of the council of the city of Los Angeles. Approved this 20th day of July, 1893. T. E. ROWAN, 7-22 2t Mayor. An Ordinance to Suspend tbe State Game Law So Far as It Relates to Male Deer, Elk, Antelope, Mountain Slieep or Buck. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF TIIE county of Los Angeles do ordain as fol lows: c ection 1. That every person who, ln the county of Los Angeles, state of California, shall, within the two years uext (except from the fif teen h day of July to the firm day of September lv e*cb year), hunt, pursue take, kill or d stray any male deer, elk, antelope, mountain sheep or buck shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sac. 2, Any person found guilty of a viola tion of any of the provisions of tuls ordinance shall bo fined in a sun not less than fifty dollars or be imprison- d in the county Jail of the coun ty not less than fifty days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. Sec 3 This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after tbe twenty-ninth day of July, 1893, and snail be published, together with tho names of the members of the board of supervisors voti-ig for and against the same, for the period of oue week, in tne Hkrald, a news paper printed and published in the county of Los Angelea I seal] E. A. FORRESTER, Chairman pro tern. of the Board ot supervisors of I.os Angeles County, California. Attest: T. H. WARD, Couuty Clerk and ex Officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, Cali fornia. By W. H. WHITTEMORE, Deputy. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, J County or Los Anseles. ( I, T. H. Ward, county clerk of the county of Loa Angeles, state of Cailf rnia, aud ex officio clerk of the board of supervisors of said coun ly, do hereby oertify that, at a regular meeting of the board of supervisors of Los Angeles county, sute of California, held on Thursday, the l.i n day of Ju y, 1893, at which meeting there were present bupervisurs U. A. Forrester, chairman pro ts-m, A. W. Francisco, James Hay and James Hanley aid the clerk, tbe fore colng ordinance, containing three sections, was considered section by seotlon and each sec tion separately adopted, and that the said or dinance as a whole was then passed by the fol lowing vote, to-wlt: Ayes: Supervisors A. W. Francisco, E. A. Forrester, James Hay and James Hanley. Noe»: None. Absent: Supervisor J. W. Cook. ln witness whereof, 1 hive hereuu o set my baud and affixed my official seal this 13th day of July. 1893. [SEAL] T. H. WARD, County Clerk and ex-offieio Clerk ol the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles couuty, Calif or ma. * By W. H. Whittimore, Deputy. 7-10 7t Notice to Heating amt Ventilating; Contractors. npilE CITY BOARD OF EDCCATION WILL JL recetv i bids for the proper heating and ventilating of the High school building until Salurlay, July 29th, at 12 o'clock noon, at ro, m 25. city hall. Plans and specifications •ml .t certified check of $300, for a guarantee, payable to the order of the undersigned, must accompany each bid. Tlie board reserves the right to reject any and aU bids. F. W. STEIN, Chairman Com it tt tee ou Building. Ordinance flo. 17 77. (Nifi akuiKa.) AN ORDIMANOSsOF TIIK MAYOR AND council of tha ohy ~l Lot Ange.es, Order ing certain work to St don . on BALOtRM STREET, {he mayor and oosncilot the city of Lot An geles do ordalu at follows SacTioN 1. That tba council of the oity or Los Angeiesaeemalttob.) required by tbe public Interest and eonyenlenoe, aud heraby orders tho following street work to be dove ac- SrJi s 10 i?° "P"<Jl<l''atlons oontatned in Ita ordinance No. ldo2. towit: Flrst-lhat said B il.Dwin BTREET. }" ~l<l "ity, from the easterly enrb line of Workman street to the weasterty curb Una of 1 humaa street, including all intersections of streets (excepting turn portions ot said street and lutersectloua aa are required by law to be kept in order or repair by any person or com piny having railroad tracks thereon, also ex cepting such portions as bare already bean graded, graveled and accepted) be graded and graveled in accordance with the plana and profile on die ln the offioi of the city engineer and specifications on Die ln the office of tbe oity clerk of the city of Los Angeles for making graveled streets, sild speoittcatlons being num bered five. Seoond—That a redwood ourb be constructed along each line of the roadway of said Baldwin street from the easterly ourb line ot Work man street to the westerly ourb line of Thomas street (excepting along auoh portions of the line of H<ld roadway upon which a redwood, cement or granite curb haa air adv been con- Mructed aud accepted,) ln accordance with specifications ln tne office of the oity olerk ol of said city for constructing redwood curbs. Third - That a cement sidewalk four ieet ln '.v vi i n be constructed along each side of said Baldwin street, from tbe east erly curb line of Workman street ti the westerly curb Hue of Thomas street, (excepting such portions of said atreet between said points along which a cement or asphalt side walk bai been constructed and accepted,) said sidewalk to be constructed ln accordance witb specifications on file in tbe office of the city clerk, said specifications being numbered Sec. 2. The city eugineer having e»ttmat»d that i h • total cost of said Improvement will be greater than one dollar per front foot along each Hue of said street, including the eoit of lnte sections, It Is hereby determined, In pur suance of aa act of the legislature of the slate of California, approved February 87,1893, that bonds shall be Issued to represent the cost of said improvement. Said bouds shall be serial, extending over a period of ten yeara, an ev<m proportion of which shall be payable annually on the seoond day of January of each year, aftor their date until the whole are paid, an i to bear Interest at the rate of 7 per oent per annum, payable semi-annually on the seoond days of January and Jnly of each and every year. Sac. 3. The city clerk Is hereby directed to publish a notice of said work. Inviting sea ed Jiro. osatsor bfds for doing said work, and re erring to the specifications posted or on tile, for two days ln the Los Angeles Hkrvld, a dally newspaper published and circulated iv this city, hereby designated for that purpose 8»ld notice shall require a certified check or a bond, either, aii prescribed by law, and for an anioun' not less than 10 per oent of the aggre gate of the proposal. He ta also directed to post said notion with specifications conspicu ously for five days on or near the council chamber door. Sec. 4. The city clerk shall certify to th.• passigeof this ordinance aud shall oanse in - samo to be published for two days la tho I. >. Angeles Herald, and thereupon and there after It shall ake effect and be In force. I hereby oerttfy that the foregoing ordinance was adopted by tbe council of the Oity of 1.0- Ange es,at Its meeting of July 17tb, A.D. 1893, by the following vote: Ayes—Messrs. Campbell, Gaft'ey, Innes, Mun son, Nickell, Pessell, Bhodes, elrohm anC President Teed (9). C. A. LUCKENBACH. City Clerk and ex Officio Clerk of the Coun- 1 ell of the City of Los Angelea. / Approved this 20th day of July. 1893. ' T. B. KOWAN, i I 7 22 2t Mayor. ! Notice of Award of Contract, t IJUBSDANT TO BTATUTK3 AND TO THB 1 resolution of award of the city council o f the city of Loa Augeles, adopted July 17, 189 A directing thts notice, notice is hereby given that the said city council, iv open session, oil the 10th day ol J v v 1893, opened, examined and publicly declared all sealed piopoaals ol bids offered for tha following work, to-wtl: / First—That said I.VKI I, STRBBT,. In said city from tbe southerly cur line of Mozart street to the nortberl curb line of Kubrts street, Inc.udin all Intersections of streets (excepting me , portions of said street and ln.e section* a) nr. required by law to be kept in order or repai 1 by any person or company having rallroaj j tracks I hereon .and alao excepting such portloi as have already been graded, graveled aur accepted,) be graded and graveled ia accortft ancewltnthe plans and profile on file in tn office of the city engineer and specifications of i file in the once of the city clerk of the cltr i . Los Angeles for graveled streets, said specific | tions being numbered five. Second—That a redwood curb be constructs aloiigeach line of tbe road way of said Lyell sire from the soutnerl) curb ilnc of Mozart street tne northerly curb line of Knurls sire' (excepting along auch portions of the line < said roadway upon which a redwood, grant or cement curb has already been construct, aud accepted), in accordance with specific tlons ln the office of the city clerk of said oi for constructing redwood curbs. Sec. 2. The city engineer having estimate that the total cost of said Improvement will f greater than one dollar per front fool along er Tine of said street. Including the cost ol lul. sections, it is hereby determined, ln purauay j of an act of the legislature of tbe state of CI / fornia, approved February 27,1893, that boot I shall he issued to represent the oat of said lrl provement. Bald bonds shall be serial, extcr lug over a period of ten yeara, an even prop tlou of which shall be payable annually on U ecnnd day of January of eath year, after the) date, until'he wnole are paid, and to bear)' terest at tbe rate of 7 per cent per annul payable semi-annually on the seoond days) I Jauunry aud July of each aud every year. 11 And thereafter, to-wlt: On tbe 17th day July, 1893, awarded the contract for said w to tne loweit regular responsible bidder, to-« To Frick Bros., at the prices named for si work iv their proposal on file, to wit: $1. per lineal foot on each sldt, and that the st'j award has been approved by the mayor. i Clerk's ofiice, V>os Angeles, CaL, July X. 1893. f C. A LUCKBNBACH, ' City clerk of tbe oity of Los Augeles. 7- 2 2t Notice of Guardian's Sale of Jietj Estate. | XTOTICK IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT If a\ pursuance of an order of the Superlf Court of the county of Los Angeles, State) California, mado ou the 14th day of Oeiobf 1892, and corrected July 1, 1893, nunc pro tuf in id- matter of tbe estates of and guardlansl of Albert A. Benton, Josiah H. Benton, Mai 11. Benton, Harriet O. Benton, Edwin sf. Be ton, Flora J. Benton and Hurlbert J. Bentt the undersigned, the guardian of the perse and estates of said minors, will sell at prlvi sale, to the highest bidder, for cash lv gold C( of the United Slates, and subject to coofiro tlou by said Superior Court, on or after Fridi the 4th day of August, 1893, at tbe offloe Barclay & Wll«on, attorneys at law, 131 North npring street, ln the city and county Los Angeles, State of California, where b: -.• •:" be received, all the right, title and Inter tin.l the said minora have in and to all tl certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lyJ and Being In tho county of Los Angeles, St[ of California, and described ac follows, towls. An undivided one-half (ii) Interest 1n 1< (5) ln block U of the town of Garvania, l A nuclei county, according to the map recort ln book 0, pages 45 and 46, of mtsoellanec rec irds of said oounty. Terms and conditions of sale: Cash gold c of tbo United States; ten per cent of the i chase money to be paid on the aooeptanc oiler or bid, the balance on confirmation of by said superior court. Deed at expensi purchaser. I 1.., 18. IBM. paANCEBM . BII(TON ,\ Guardian of the persons and estates of said minors. 71» l)o Ordinance No. 1789 c (SEW SERIES.) AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR Tl employment ol ten special policemen di trig the vacation of tne regular members of t force. The mayor and oouncil ot the city of I Angeles do ordain as follows: bxcTion 1. There ahall be employed in t oity of Los Angeles for the term of seven? , days ten speolal pollcemon, to be appointed f| the police commls'lon, aud to ba employ"! and ass giied to duty duriug the time that re nlar members of the police force are having vacation, and to receivo tho lamo rate oi ooi pcnsatlou as the regular members whore viae they ttli. Sac. 2. The city clerk shall certify {o t passage of this ordinance aud thall cause It be puninh.il once lv the Los Angeles'Dal Hkrii.o, and hereupon and thereafter It sin take effect and bu in force, 1 hereby certify that the foregoing ordinal] was adopted by toe council of ihe city of I i ngeles at its meeting of July 17, 1893. m C A. LUCKK • HACH.fi Oity Clorl Approved thts 20tb day of ' fin.l * 1 „ • T. E. ROWAN, ■ 17-22 It Mayoff