Show jill DONATE SQUAQE Council Committees Report in Favor of Grant FINAL ACTION POSTPONED The Committee Report Favoring the Grant of Pioneer Park to the Bail road Company Was Signed by Thomas Cottrell Hewlett Whitte more Hartensteln and Robertson Consideration of Report Went Over for One Week But Little Doubt that Square Will be Donated A dozen or more of those who are Interested in the granting of the Pioneer square to the Los > Angeles Salt Luke Railway company were In attendance at the session of the City Council last evening They listened to the rending of the report of the com inlttces to whom had been referred the petition of T E Gibbon and others asking the donation of Pioneer square In which It was slated that all persons up to date had been given an opportunity oppor-tunity to be heard and the committees had come to the conclusion that they would report In favor of a resolution vacating Pioneer square at a public park The report was signed by J J Thomas Charles Cottrell F J Hew lett R B Whittomorc E A Harten stein and A A Robertson Cunning wanted the report to go over for one week Thomas objected and wanted the report re-port adopted Fcrnstrom and Canning both said there were ten petitions against the granting of the square already In the field which would be presented lo the Council next Tuesday anti these would be signed by at least 1200 people They asked that action be deferred under the rule In this they were opposed by Thomas who Insisted that the matter be disposed dis-posed of at once but President Buckle ruled that an objection by two mom hers would postpone consideration for a week and the report went over At the close of the meeting Hewlett said there was no doubt but that the Council would vote to donate the square As to the legal complications that might arise well that was another an-other matter The Committee on Municipal Laws recommended that the Rapid Transit company be allowed to extend a switch on Ninth South street Adopted The Board of Public Works was instructed in-structed to advertise for bids to repair the eagle on the Eagle gate Beatty wanted his ordinance in reference ref-erence to the burning of leaves In the city limits taken up but a majority of the members had left the building and as n quorum was not present it could not be done and the Council adjourned |