The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-13
THE GARBAGE QUESTION
AN AMOUNT OF PAINFUL TESTIMONY
REGARDING ITS USES.

which Ia produced from the secretary's official
report:
Bartholomew Blum, residing on Washington
street. between Roman and Prieur, was then
examined
BY Mr.. Cockburn-Pease state to the commit.
tee what you know In regard to the dumping OF
offal and refuse in the dumping ground, and OF
the removal of this offal and refuse into the
Witness-In July last made g complaint to
DR.. Holt of the poisonous, influence of the
dumping ground upon my place -,
stencil arising from the grounds, and sickness
was the result. I asked Mr.. Kaiser. the CON
aeg e doWn f tRe oan as he
grounds are in the Vicinity OF the dairies, and
the milk thereby becomes affected. u.,u, u,u
| had authorized him to dump the stuff theref
| Witness don't know. think It was not the
drivers fault r. the sumner When d Ice aa are
ag Yy Nj Mr .s1H eeweIl e long have you lived
! Witness-For over ten years
By Mr.. Howell-HoY long has the dumping
| been carried on here2
| By Mr., Howell-At what time Is the scent
stE99ngegt2 r., 4,,o ,no.,,nn ona ovon,no Tn 81,
| the houses Of the neighborhood people are SICK
] three In some and four in others. l have often
seen carts filled with refuse matter go into the
city, to be used to fill places. This WAS about
By Col,, Boswor'h-Do you know where they
Witness--No Three, or four hundred l9 az
| had a bad effect. as the hollows made by these
enited poso ne"s smells. know Of sons
| other instances of the removal OF matter from
the dumping grounds, but cannot name the
places to which 1t was carried. .
BY Col. Bosworth-How many families live
| around here?
fa ~ ~r' h0"9D-AfS 'n'S0 s''S0S u S''AA'SS
Witness-No, sir. -
BY Mr.. Coekburn-H Have any deaths occurred?
Dr.. jos Joseph Holt Ito Mr.. Cookburn,: I will
state to the committee that my report to the
ground, was sent by DR.. 0hoppin to Mr. Mccall
By Mr.. Howel-.Does milk absorb impurties3
| Witness-Yes, sir: 1t is @ we'll known fact that
milk will quickly absorb any atmospheric I'M
purity or peculiar. smell.
! Mrs. Anne Burkhart. residing on Washington
str ct. betveen Roman and Prleur streets;
By COL Bosworth- you see any hauling Of
uVWVi tRnesss-Yes Eight, ten. fifteen or more
carts were engaged In hauling matter into the
city. This was in April. [ cannot state now
whore it vas hauled to, but saw the hauling:
BY Mr. Coekburn- Please state what you
know about the hauling Of dumpage.
Witness-I hauled dump refuse from the
dumping ground to Ottman's place, on the
corner Of Fourth and st. Denis streets, IN
April hauled twenty FIVE loads. also hauled
twenty loads to the corner OF Washington and
Magnolia streets, for Mrs George slooesser;
By IN he ra Aou aetE a e
time OF these Tracy had two or WEIGH two,
Keegan three and Weleh's brother, one.
BY Mr.. oockburn-Where did the carts haul
Witness-.I Dc not know the exact locality,
By = G g BosW vtH you ever know of
any manure being hauled in from the dump
Ing grounds to manure gardens?
and Liberty streets. Mr.. Hare was hauling,
Welsh, corner of Washington and Willow
streets, was also hauling; The city carts, IN the
back into the city and filled street holes Daley.
corner of Third and st. David streets, also
hauled for private parties. ,r-o-.
frey. at The City Hall. 70 haul the stun; Mrs.
0Hmann also got permit from Mr. :, MSe e Pre-
! Mrs. sloesseragot her permit through Mr. Con-
BY Mr. Cookburn-Do you know Of any com
pensation having been given, Or received to
M @tt 81 Tue persons VINO 0f000'00 '"0S' D''
, Witness-No. sir.
frey had expressed his displeasure regarding
the taking of evidence without his being rep
resented, whilst DR.. Holt was present.
The chair replied that the presence OF Or
Holt had been purely accidental, they having
met him on their way to the dump.
who p Said that he would have liked to have beer
Mr. Bosworth rejoined that Mr. McCaffrey
! could not have shown the committee anything
The committee proceeded with their work
WHERE THE BLACK HOLE REPORTED IN TIL
DEMOCRAT COMES INTO PLAY.
> Mr. John F. Wilson took the stand: l reside
on Benvie street. between Rochebave ant
Tonti. I have seen dumping there since 1872
the whole street RochebIavel from Common tt
) Cont. The present summer the. street was
filled between Customhouse and Cont. [ die
, not exam no the character of the filing yer!
94Ge W de aak close ana Doors doe k
= night, in order that ! might sleep. | com
!, planned of the matter to the railroad com pany
their line and take the Canal street line. There
. were two dead dogs at one time, at night, par
the 10 f hn Ply wGG horb s made
9 dead dogs were dumped there from the carts
| on nTenti street there was dumping also. -
TO Mr. Msqc to as and
miscellaneous stuff. The dead dogs wer
dumped from the carts, The filling done thi
year and last year was between Canal and Cont
streets. I suppose the carts were corporation
u carts: I have no means to know the difference
I, TO Mr.. McCaffrey- dogs were dumpe'
!, after the street had been filled UP.
. q TO DR.. Holt-i know that the dead dogs Ia
9edr he sree Ras ryed
: Henry, Lint testified next: live at the corne
lived there for about twelve years; my house
about one block from the dumping ground. I
summer we are much Inconvenience by tn
smell and small flies: We can't cat in day tint
and have to close our doors at night to Sleep TIL
flies swarm In and around the house; all m
d children have been sick, and have four doWT
r. the people around where live are sick---i
ct every house. have seen plenty OF carts hanlin
O. land saw it, that carts were dumping garbag
"a on Liberty street. between Jackson and Philil
w. but did not see them dumping on Laur
street. saw about thirty carts hauling; the
took the hardened stuff. not the manure. fro1
the Dump"
~ TO Mr.; Bosworth-Mrs. Curtis ie the name.
d think who owns the lot of hogs in that neigl
% borhood. Sometimes she has over two hundre
. hogs that root In the pile.
&. To Mr.. Cockburn-I have seen dead dogs
re the pile. | saw niger there with knife an
N steel. He would sharpen his knife and skin Il
dogs to send their hides to the tannery.. Hos
,e would root among the dump, and eat the ca
o. casses: suppose the soap factory takes tt
T. many men hauling from there cant tel ov WI
- and haul off garbage; some took garbage, othe