, 1881-01-23
DR.. De Wolf Pays No Attention to Com
VI. plants Of Bad Sewerage.

! to show the exact sanitary condition OF tho city
hence anythtn9 derogatory to sanitary law VIII
be given MS facts IN concise and uhmlstakabl'
| language.
A not very gentle hint, in the shape Of th'
| narration OF very questionable transaction
was given in THE TR1BuNE's last sanitary article
! tending to show that some of the employees O
the Health Department added the error Of ve
| nality to tho fault OF incompetency, and tho re
| porter who uccom panied tho sanitary exper
yesterday in Il trip through some Of the board
! lighthouses on the West Side succeeded In find
| ing further evidences Of the peculiar transac
| tons Of the Sanitary Inspector whose shoHtcom'
| fng6 had been previously noticed.
J. Before indicating the success which ATTENDED
! this hunt for official shortcomings 1t may bt
| stated as an interesting fact that OH Thursday,
the day upon which the last sanitary article aIr
pearcd, the official which 1t complained OF very
! sedulously visited number of persons on the
| West Side from whom he had oudeAyored to So
cure fnyors by virtue Of his official position. an6
| endeayored to square" himself with them By
| attempting to tqlk tham into Il more charitable
appreciation Of his motives.
| The person referred to In last Thursday
! TRIBUNE as having improperly sought to ad-
| vance his personal interests by virtue Of hi:
official position was
sASrTARY-1ysPECroR ELLIOTT,
an alleged alien. who has tho health Of the
Eleventh Ward In his keeping, By virtue OF bis
relationship to an intimate friend Of Mayot
Harrison. Quite accidentally THE TRIBUNE re-
| porter happened yesterday upon West Nadl-
son street druggist who hnd very entertaining
story to tell OF this olrcful's methods Of doing
business. In the course Of hts duty Inspector
Elliott had occasion to order the removal from
the roar of No. ass West Madison street Of pile
OF ashes which hnd accumulated there from Mr.:
Walkers drugstore. Nr. Walker promised tc
hare the matter attended to, aud endeavored ia
do so. but before tt was accomplished tho In
spector cu1led round again, anu pcre1nptorily
ordered tho ashes removed. Mr.. Walker ex-
planned that his intentions had been good, and
promised 70 have the ton done as carly Us possl-
ingly unheuthy nature of what he character
izes US nuisance, and insisted that tho ash-piie
druggist explained that be had difficulty in fad
Ing ctrter, Uttered to have tho 1ob done IN
consideration OF $1.jO. cnsh down. This seemed
and tho Inspector went oI in good hlmor. He
did not return, nad the parties who were to re-
move the nshes did not make their appearance.
tnued to accumulate. At hast the atrnr was re-
ported to the Health Uepartmen: and DR.. Dc
Wolf, after making IN Investigation. discharged
tho offender, who was retnstatcd In ol3ice within
twcNty-f fuur3 OF his decapfta1tts0. ..
Tho reporter met with barber on West Muui-
son street, 10 whom tho same official made n
proposiriot, TINT, in consideration Of bis having
the hair which accumulated In his shop and bis
asncs removed, the barber should Keep his hair
barber rejected tl1e proposition and threatened
to report the Inspector 10 bis superior officer,
wbereupon Elliott by offering 70 purchase !.
razor aad by, being otherwise solicittons
OF The bnrber's welfare, Sought To
keep bin quiet ~ to the trlasactton
10 sht had not tie I last %
paid another visit to the bnrher, and made fur
her efforts to secure his silence us to tho trans-
action. '..-....
4 West Madison street shoemaker also had a
little story to tcil about the man, who, he
saId. by virtue Of his otI3ciAi posis,on aud prom
lscs to settle the account upon tho earliest pay-
day, succeeded in securing a quantity Of goods
frutn hin. otily partial payment of which ho
had been able to secure, and TINT only by gen-
crou5 use OF
EST1:EArNG posrAb-cARDs.
So much for Sir. E1iott's inl!scretions in tho
yenal Ilne- His official iucapacty can he shown
10 tho simple statement That T. was ne who wns
residences on WASHINGTON street, near Union
Park, ana reported that their sanitation WIS
perfect, especially as to tho system Of sewer
1Eat not sewer in the block wus
trapped, a sanitary prccaution which, though
dnys have since elacsed, has not yet been ut
effected, tho tenants ct the new block will be Mt
the mercy Of scwcr-gas- tainted atmosphere as
lorE Us they {; ospy 2 [a+ H. .,,o tim
tor Of the Eleventh Ward arc the rufc In the
Health Department, md that, It the Aldermen
Of the other wards will display as much energy
IN bringing tEom tn proper appreciation of
their duty us Aid. Swift intends IT, employ In tho
rcctitlcation OF Mr. Eiott's errors. the sanitary
condition ct the city cannot fail to be greatly
IL their investigations yesterday afternoon
TnE Th1nuSE Committee on sewer-Gas visited
attention. % NJ NJ crowded @ 'i tenc;nent t na sur. SUR
Ss.sa Sta1ss 'h sssaehes a dYs eyafa them aets x'n
on tho other hand tho quarter Investigated was
West washington street where some OF tho
places visited such lilth was discovered :s had
tried their stonachs in Inst Wednesdays tour,
Yet enough wns seen to shots that In the flllcst
uarblc-fronts upon this fashionable street nre
to he found eesspoots rcef<u9 with tho Collect
ell denominations OF nonths OF housekeeping.
"sThc Committee or two confined themselves
almost exclusively to boarding. houscs,-a Glass
of dotniciio on West Washington street which IS
almost certain or being occupied to its fullest
eapaeity - Whoo r ros Of nonses f nerG are sr w.
numerous fnnaily of boarders, and, Judging from
the Developments made all shc rich food md aIl
to furtify their bodies azasnst that low condition
OF vitality In which the germ spreading scwcr
gus is nhfa to make its most deadly assaults.
front on the southwest corner Of Carpenter and
Washington streets. This house is occupied by
n full complement uf boarters, and the 1uvest1-
gators were the more deeply interested in ascer-
tanning something Regarding Its sanitary condi-
ton from tho fact TINT tloy hud learned that
tho luEdiady had OF late made so1n6 very sori-
GUS structures upon It. The lady, however, as
serted that. though She hud had grent trouble up
to short time since from the bad condition Of
tho sewerage, which generated sewer gas In vol
umcs aud sSenchc3 tItnuulernble, the landlord
hAs lately had matters attended to, and she now
had nothing ~ ind fault with.
Further west In the block q very different
state OF affairs was discovered. Here was found
IL house built aud severed on the old English
plan, and, in consequence ptentifuity supplied
With sewer-yas aud unhealthy oaors The Iut,y
cxpnln cd that the house was hardly ever en-
tirely free from vault cmanahons, which In the
summer we're hardly to be endured, and
even now maGe m occasional appear
ance. Tha lady led her visitors to
o sort Of shed leading from tho back Of the
house, and showed them there vuult which,
though not In service, was continually the
source of .sickentne exhalauons. She did NOT
know Just what other drainuge-pipci the vault
was connected with, hit she did know that the
carpenter who had the repairs Of the house to
attend to hnd insured her that the stencil WINS of
the beuithtest possible nature. aud thnt 1t was
the htghth Of folly to object to it.
: Dr. Williams pronounced the smell to be pstro
and u1ludultcrAted 6ewer-Eas, and that 1t was
caused by the decomposition OF animal and veg
etnb1e mntter- In tho prevailing cs,o weather,
ho @ explained, the gases we're not Gblc to rise to
nuv extent, but With the recurrence Of higher
temperature
TIE oDuR WOULD BECOME UNsUPPonTABLE.
The lady explained that she had noticed consid-
erabe odor Of the same character. though In