The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-19


what n visitor thinks OF Dallas.
To the Editor OF tbs Herald
Walking around Dallas. | wondered if
she had a sanitary commission, or board of
inspectors, or anything Of that kind. lfshe
has, tho members have certainly bee
bought u by the doctors and undertakes.
They certainly know nothing of tho germ
theory If disease; never heard of Bacteria,
and arc ignorant Of their effects. | think
they should be summoned before an examin-
ing committee, who should ascertain the
state II their knowledge, and especially the
state of their olfactory organs. And every
member of these boards should be furnished
with microscope ind taught how to useit
Certainly he should have some intelligence
in regard to tho local causes Of diseases,
Those who have control Of municipal affairs
must be ignorant in that direction or else
they have very culpable contempt of hui
man life. Wherever there ia damp
ness there is disease, and no city
should permit one mud hole in her corporate
limits. But Dallas is one huge mud hole.
How many green, ranRling pools one sees in
town. Now, lfnitro-glycerine were slowed
away at every corner some of the people
would feel little uneasy, but conceive nj
tro-glycerine is much less dangerous than
these cess pools.
| was shown where some christian society
had dug out foundation for church and
left it 50. They should be compelled to
build on that lot or haul dirt to fill up the
hole. There are y great many holes that
should be filed up, and great many low
places drained. Dallas needs q hundred
Irishmen to ditch and level her lots. "0h,'
says one, " that would cost money" The
present condition of things costs great deal
of human suffering and a great many human
lives. One of your merchant princes died a
few years ago. A man in the prime of life
should not die. Perhaps that man lost his
life for want Of sewer. Had he not better
have given $4,000 for sewerage. There is .
man of influence in the city council. He is
always advising economical measures Be-
ware sir, your wife or child may pay the
penalty of your economy, if you don't pay it
with your own life. Economy should never
be thought of in cleansinS a city. Such econ
omy is very expensive in the end. Why, n
vessel Of water could not set uncovered in
the main streets of Dallas without becom-
ing poisonous. wonder the wealth Of Dali
cemeteries. Intsead of building lordly
palaces, | wonder tho rich do not save
their money to build mausoleums over their
tombs. Do the people of Dallas want to
live? Amt they tired of this wicked world?
| imagine the city officers have a supreme
contempt for life. Don't they sing all the
time 81 want to BIO al angel2" Pity some
of them could not be, If their places could
be suppeu With those who love life and
health and purity. Oh, says one, the poor of
Dallas do wallew in the fifth, but live in
lordly mansion on the hill. Don't you
breathe the same atmosphere they do /?
Ifdyptheria should break out in novels of
the poor, would it be confined there? By no
means. You cant say, ~ am not my broth
er's keeper" If you do not help to keep
your brother you will perish with him.
This has moral aspect, too. Every city has
hor great unwashel, Now tracts, preach.
ing and benevolent societies will do some
thing TO reform; but prior to all, live them
a clean atmosphere and pure water. Filth
and vice are insepanbly connected. No
wonder Dallas has such name. Ii | lived
here, and there wac green, ranking pool in
front of my premises would sue the cor
poration or somebody.
wish woman had voice in these city
councils There would be one Of Dinah's
"big cleaning up" days in Dallas soon.
mean no harm. | have spent few days
here very agreeaoly, and shall carry to my
home some pleasant memories of your city.
A DENTON WOMAN IN DALLAS.