The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-08
THE NEW oRIEANs DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875

into mould, solid and inodorous, some Of it
requiring pick to break up. The only por
the last few months, and it required this COM
fnittee to conceive that q party having per-
NIT 70 remove a certain number OF loads
would voluntarily befoul his cart, his person
ana his premises with rottenness, when there
IS lying as accessible to him thousands OF
| loads OF excellent filling.
And the evidence is Overwhelmingly in sup
port OF what common sense itself suggests as
Che TACT, that parties taking away from the
bad.
The dump they speak Of is large, and it
would have been larger in fact so numbered
by deposits, as to be unserviceable, had not
eucry administration IN The last fifteen yett's
caused or permitted the removal OF such por-
| tions as had been fitted, by complete
transformation into mould, for use as filling.
| Indeed many portions of the rear have had
| streets, and private places which were
stagnant pools, impossible and breeding dis
| ease, which were made high and healthy by
| the use OF this better class Of filling. And the
cumulated evidence OF these facts this con-
mttee has ignored and falsiied Again this
wise committee declare that 'the appearance
OF the dump shows the removal of 1000 loads
within the year." etc. Can they explain
how they ascertaned how many loads were
taken away at all, or even how many were
how many had been dumped, how are
they to judge what went away? If they saw
5000 loads, then to know that 1000 had gone
they must have ascertained that there had
been originally 10000 loads. And if they
knew how many loads had originally been
there, how could they tell when the 1000 had
been carted away-whether this year, last
year, or tive years ago? Surely, the appear
ance OF the dump is not O. creature of the
| last few months. I, therefore, charge that a
| tn IEphnHf 7uIo ft
clared that proof has been made that 1000
loads have been removed within the year. or
within With any given period whatever.
This same committee, although ruling ,ny
report, over the whole ground, and do this az
unfairly as they have done the other. They
declare that streets were filled with "oOcnaiUc
0arboge,'"' hidden by "a slight covering OF
earth This is a willful distortion of evidence
for it has been clearly shown that none of this
Worh is done at all IN summer but only in
cooler weather, and that only aCi1ster gorbage
has been used, and this covered by two feet of
good earth It has been shown that winter
garbage IS not offensive, being composed prin-
| cipally OF cinders, ashes, broken coke, ETC.,
from winter fires, with but little vegetable
matter, whereas in summer fruits, vegetables
etc, predOminate, with but little cinders OF
ashes. Messrs. CaVanac, Harrison, Pierce
| and many others testified that roads built OF
these winter collections of cinders, etc, Gov
cred with earth, haze made the most solid
roads, and have been made and approved Of
| by preceding administrations
And this committee after declaring as an
excuse for not hearing my witnesses, as to
the origin and history Of the present epidemic
that they were not investigating that ules-
tion, branch out upon it and make base ap-
peal against me to those who have been
stricken during this sad summer.
OF course they must attain their dogrnati.
call y propounded knowledge upon these sub.
lects by intuition, for they refuse to receive
DIR. Choppins reports or to listen to other
competent evidence. The facts In this connec.
front, in the paved and well kept sections Of
Z the city, and that there IL 1rds most fntai DR.
Chopin, In his report to the Board Of Health
published in the papers OF August 30 last de.
c&res, in relation to the first fever centres, az
follows:
From these three foci of infection, that is
/. the district between Cont, Common, Marais
and Bienville streets; g. between Melpomene
Race, Annuncation and Magazine streets
8; the immediat ate locality Of the corner OF
Front and Girod streets-from these foci the
disease spread all over the city,
| Certainty these places are all far from the
dump and from the garbage roads. More
over, residents along Annunciation, Con
Carondelet streets las do all our citizens,
know that these unfortunate avenues We're
visited earlier, and scourged more severely,
than the rear portions OF the city, whose
|
hands And such was the testimony of mem
bers who resided on the streets 50 repaired
and who had themselves solicited the work
to whom this committee, by it's unseemly
| haste in adjOurnng, refused to listen and vet
they ialsify the history of the epidemic t.,
give me o cowardly blow, and endeavor tc
excite against me the bitterness of an afflicted
people.
This committee claim that they were not
convened for whtewashing purposes. Of this
I acquit them; for their record shows, in my
opinion, tar greater partiaiity for the SCOT
bag than the Whitewash brush
[ therefore charge that these gentlemen
| have, from the creation Of the committee pre-
Judged this ease; that they have rejected
competent evidence and distorted what little
| they consented to receive; that they have
played fast and loose in their rulings as to the
scope OF the Investigations, and have con-
Quoted themselves throughout in d spirit of
shameless and open vindictiveness, and have
at length presented a report which might as
| ly upon their organization, SO little have they
| been guided or affected by the evidence
| | submit herewith communications from
newspaper reporters who were present at all
the sjttngs of the committee and of Mr. Will
liam Beattie, the stenographer who took
notes of the testimony, and regret sincerely y
/ that was prevented from elicitng before the
committee the testimony Of his Honor the
Mayor, as the chief executive of the city gov
ernment, as well as that of the City Surveyor
but being prevented I submit letter Of Louis
FL. Pile, Esq, ex-City Surveyor, whose opin-
ion is worthy Of attention.
OFFICE DAILY CITY ITEM /
New Orleans, October 80, 1873
Mr.. John McCaffrey, Administrator of Improve
ments:
Iloo4. Vo,,r oopo Yn,,nioa ion, JatoJ Oo4o