, 1873-08-17
U{})e Gbiifeapu Uribn4lt.
Sunday Morning, August II, 1873.
THE CITY BTEECHEs,

In tho city, which is visiting certain districts with
considerable severity. It mattors littlo whether
It 10 tho real Asiatio oholora sporadic cholor OF
cholora morbus. 1t is something TINT doatroya
life. It ia dangerous disease, and 1t is directly
aggravated by filth. II might be reasonably
presumed that, with the presence of such
disease In the city, the guardians OF ita
iealth would DO moro than ordinarily dill
gent. Perhaps they aro 80; but it Is
fnct that nogor bofore wero tho senses offended
with 30 many wel-dolned and dreadful stonches.
I7irst-There ia q largo area Of the woBt and
southwest part Of tho city which is not drained
at oil. This ia not tho fault Of tic Board OF
1realtl,. Sewers will bo laid probably al fast as
Is practicable; but this area requires frequent
watching, and disinfocting III the moro offensive
spots,
Second-T1lo various BtonoloH from the render
port wore mover 80 offensive as they are
this summer. On last Thursday night for in-
stance, tho wind changed to tho southwest
about miduipht, and brought stonch with 1t
across the southeastern part Of tho city that WIS
almost suirocatiug, and lastod during the 1argor
part Of tile night. This matter has, more than
once, boon laid before tho authoritioH. Tho
Mayor has examined it, and declared it to be a
nuisance. Tho City Attorney has examined
it, md declared it to be nuisance
undor tho law. Tho Donrd Of Health
las examined it, and pronounced it to bo dam
gorons to tho health Of tho city, md there-
foro nuisance. Tho physicians Of tho city are
unanimous in tho Same opinion. Tile Common
Council has declared 1t to be nuisance. Tho
Courts have decided 1t to bo d nuisance, and tho
oily ordinances fully provide for tho abato-
,lout Of this particular nuisance, and
got it still romans, and oyory yoar
becomes a grenter nuisance. This, however,
docs not discharge the Board Of 11oaltl from
the duty Of constant effort. There must be
Homo way Of sottling the question that tho gon-
eral public Of this city has rights NJ we'll as this
handful of soap-groaBo manufacturers, and of
preventing tho latter from ondangoring tito
pockets and tho Dourd of Health will ovontu-
ally discover tho solution of tho problem il thoy
keep tugging away at 1t.
1hird-rho Bridgeport Btoncheg nrc now REIN
4orcod by another stencil from the Hamo general
quarter, which is worse than all tho Bridgeport
stenchos. combined. FROM Twenty-hfth to
Thirty-ninsh stroot, along the lilo Of
Clark street, which is tho route trayorsod
by tho Michigan Southern aud tho Chicago
II Rock Island Railroads, there is o daily aver
aye Of ut least milo OF empty freight-cars
standing on tho tracks. and tho lnrge majority of
these arc hog and cattle cars. Tho stonch from
these, especially from tho hog cars, ia almost
uncomfortable. It's effects are plainly manifested
in the fact that tho greater pnrt of the cholcraio
sickness in the city ia confined to this section
between Clark street and the river, whero tho
people aro brought into immediate contact with
this horrible stencil. Whom the wind il from tho
northeast, these people got the odor of the hog
cars. When it is from the southwest, they got
tic odors from Bridgeport. Thus hemmod in
botween these two stenches,--for the wind
rarely blows from any other quarters
than thcso,-tho people aro scourgod. With
tainted wcl-wator to drink aud tainted mir to
breathe, what wondor TINT they sioken and die
Fourth-The restaurants OF this city noedrogu-
Eating, not only the small and filthy ones, but the
largo and apparently clean ones. Tho proprietors
of the smaller ones hayo no pride about their os-
tablishments, and dump their refuse garbage any
where. The larger establishments koop up q
cloan front and hide their filth in tho Alloys An
instance Of this IL afforded in the McVickors
Thoatre alley, backing on which are three
OF the largest rostaura,lts in the city. On
some days, the stencil from the barrels
and boxes Of garbage il almost intolorable, and
1t iB inevitable TINT much Of it must get strown
about tho alley aud bo left to rot in tho sun. It
ia Rafo to say that the unfortunate individual
who once passes by the rear OF these places
will have little stomach loft to 60 in by the front
Of thema unlosB his stomach is lined with cop
pcr. All oyor the city, tho smaller restaurants
dump their garbage indiscrimlnatoly into the
guttor1 in 'front.' or into tho noy in tile rear, as
it happens to DO llanslicst, and tloro tho foul
asuG lies anil rots In the sun md posons tho
air.
FUM-some Of our leading thoroughfares arc
in dreadfully filthy condition. State street
will answer aB d samplo for nlany otlora. I1oro
ia leading street which traverses tile city from
one end to the other. It ia filed with teams MI
ttay long and crowded with horso-carA mud tho
s'dowalkH ara constantly thronged with peles-
tr'ans. Surely suol1 street rs this ought to DO
kcpt clean If no others arc, and yot State etreet
from Harrison TO Twenty-Hcconl IL one OF tho
tilthioat IN tho city. The guttors OIL either side
poolA Of groom, stagaant, n,attor into
Which cabbago-eaves, corn-hnaks, chunks of
rotten tomatoes, and all sorts Of
aecaying vegetables and fruits are thrown,
choking them ur 30 that they do not ompty
themselves into tho sowera. A largo part Of tho
buildings on this street aro Bma! huckstora'
ehopa and dirty saloons, tho odors from