Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-14

A SEWER QUESTION last winter
the residents in the eastern part of the city
suffered considerably from insufficient drain
age facilities. Added to this vas the accunu-
lstion of rain water east of them that choked
the discharges to r street. For some years
the city authorities have pursued the policy
of putting in main sewers across the city
from north TO south as far east as was pos
sible with the amount of the sewer fund on
hand. While Mr.. Knox was Street Com
missioner he was an advocate of that policy,
with a view Of ultimately having as complete
and effective sewers east Of Tenth street as
there are west of it. There is now the sum
of about So, 600 in the Sewer Fund available
for that purpose, and if Mr.. Knox is selected
by the people as Street Commissioner, it is
reasonable to believe that he will at once urge
and secure the construction of a main sewer
from north to south along the best
line between, say Sixteenth ard Eight
zenith streets, IS originally contem-
plated. It will be remembered that the
region about the Intersections of /, G, III and
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets suffered
much last winter for want of such drain,
which, when put in, will do good service for
precincts 81 and a. Burns slough is now
out of the way, and there can be no repeti.
ton OF the overflow experienced in precinct
IL, and the outlet from which last year was
clogged because it was too small, and it was
too small simply because, when constructed,
there was not sufficient money on hand to
make the outlet as large as was planned and
desired by the authorities. The appropria.
tion, it is well known, gave out when the
drain and outlets from Y to X were con.
structed, and over which route the channel
was then sufficient. The work done north of
r street after that was merely temporary,
and was put in without sufficient means.
Examination into the facts and figures shows
that this was so, and that no money could be
had to then make the drain north of R street
ample in its passage across or under streets
running east and west.
ROUGH ON THE CHAIE-GANG.-Th present
New England lunch table at the Congrega-
tional Church is being very literally patron
lied from the Courthouse. Yesterday noon
the Sheriff had just taken seat at the lunch
table when q detachment of about twenty
officers and attaches at the Court bouse, and
several lawyers, came in together, headed by
| the portly Under Sheriff. An old lady who
was near the Sheriff, and whose eyesight was
better some years since than now, looked
over her spectacles and seeing the official at
the head of the goodly number arriving,
asked OF the official at her elbow, " Is the
chain gang coming ?" An effort was made
to suppress the fact that the innocent ques-
ton had been asked, but it was of that nature
that it leaked out
METROPOLITAN THEATER. :" Kentuck
was presented again last evening by the
Stetson troupe, and with still more of i'm
provement. Miss Ingham showed more
spirit and gave evidence of more earnestness
than on any previous appearance here. Mr.
Cotton has become prime fayorite. To-
night Mr.. Stetson's company will play the
standard drama, 1.-THE Marble Heart or,
the Sculptor's Dream" This is a favorite
play and one within the powers of Mr.. Stet-
sons company, which should be able to give
it well.
No GAs.-Gas will be shut off from the
city from A. NJ. to P. NJ. to-day. This re-
fers to burning gas if only all other gas
could be so treated, how blessed would be the
people.
| IMMIGRANTs.-O hundred and twenty
immigrant passengers, including As males,
will arrive from the East by the Central Pa
| ciic overland this afternoon.