Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-31
A NUISANCE COMPLAINED OF.

A NUISANCE COMPLAINED OF.
A large number Of ladies and gentlemen
from the eastern portion OF the city appeared
before the Board of Health at the Office Of
DIR. Hatch Saturday evening. The meeting
had been called by the Board to investigate
certain charges preferred by Miss Helen
Weir and those assembled were there to
testify in the case. The following is copy
of the charges:
To the Board Of Health-Geutlemen have long
been thinking Of making appeal to YOU on behalf
OF the citizens Of that part OF the city in which my
| school is situated. There are two causes which
! combine to render the whole neighborhood around
Twenty and streets not only intensely IN
pleasant, but extremely unhealthy. II is not q
matter Of opinion, but simply fact, which demands
investigation at the hands Of the officers whose duty
1t is to look after tn; public welfare Of city.
The stencil originating from lanyard on Twenty.
| seventh street, between and h, Just above the
| school house, actually causes nausea among
the pupils, and very often | am compelled
to close the front doors and windows in that d:rec-
| ton when the wind comes from that quarter. Then
| the condition Of the slough, one block distant,
| caused BY the brewery which is emptied into it, ia
| something very lOathesome. The stencil from that
cause without the evil on the other side, is scken-
] ing At times. The citizens have come to NE from
| time to time during the last eight years. during
| which time l have been Principal of the school
there, begging me to make this appeal to your hon
/ orabe Board which have neglected to do, but
no longer postpone, from the fact that the evil from
! the brewery has become so much increased lately
/ Hoping and praying that your attention may be
seriously drawn 10 an earnest investigation OF the
g. .ng evils which surround US in this part OF our
| > tifll and fourishing city, | remain, very re-
si,sctfuily, HELEN WEIR.
SACRAMENTO July 5, 1882
| To the Honorable Board of Health We, the I'M
designed indorse Miss Weirs statement in regard
to the sanitary condition OF neighborhood 1t is
our most earnest wish that by the speedy &C ion OF
| your honorable Board We may be relieved of the
evils under which We are at present living. Very
| respectfully,
T. C. Churchman, Twenty fourth and ]; C. K
| Grant, ST., Mrs. s. Blair, Ms. E. johnson, Mrs.
| Bennett F. Comstock, Mrs Row, G. NJ Siyter. A.
r. Hickey, Joseph Hickey, George Mudlox, Michael
Doud W. NJ. %ilber, George d. Clark, n. c. Clark,
A. V. Clark, Charles Orr, Paul Van Haten, C. N.
Foote, Eliza Ranlette,, Mrs. Mose, James
| T. Stracher, Mrs. Stracher, Christina Linberg,
! L. Wait, W. II. II. Hatch, Mrs F. C. Hunt, Mrs II.
| r. Parker, Sarah Demming, VIM. Demming, II. F.
| Bundock, Thirtieth and N; j. F. Bundock, E. r.
| Clark, 1000 X j. p Bergman, Thirtieth street J.
G. Berry, Mrs. Johnson twenty. seventh and N; A.
| II. Flint, Vim. Wilcox, ?. Isaacs, Mrs. P Derman,
}. c. Boenbacher, John Smith J. E. Curl, Mrs.
J. Smith d. a. Faulkner, Thos. Goudin, NJ. Eu-
gem, R. Warall, Simon Stern er, n Halligan, J. w.
Brady, d. II. Gullion, P. Haley, Martin Hook, A. P.
Williams, William Walter, A. II. Foster, N. FL
bred.
Add. G. Hinkson appeared on behalf of
the petitioners, and suggested that sworn
testimony be taken in the case. George Z.
Bates said he appeared on behalf of those
opposed to the petition. He thought the
| Board could be more enlightened By per.
sonal examination of the premises com.
planned of. He recommended that no
testimony be taken, but that the Board
as body inspect the hide and tai
low house. The Board themselves are each
better able to judge Of sanitary matters and
| matters pertaining to the health of CON-
munity than any one of the witnesses who
are subpenaed to give testimony in the case.
The President stated that as there were so
many present. and so much interest was be-
| ilg manifested in this case, the Board
would listen TO what the witnesses bad to say.
Fourteen witnesses testified on behalf Of the
prosecution. the substance of their testimony
| being thai children going to school on J
| street, between Twenty and Twenty
| eighth, had suffered from the effiuvia arising
| from the hide house and tallow factory. 1t
caused them to become sick at the stomach,
vomiting ensusd, they would be too sick to
| eat their lunch, and were incapacitated from
a proper prosecution of their studies. People
| in the immediate neighborhood of the loud
smelling place during certain hours of the
day had to keep their doors and windows
closed, much to their discomfort. The odors,
especially in the morning, were sickening and
| almost unbearable for quite a distance. The
| odors were said to be much worse when they
were cooking tallow than at other times. The
drying of the hides also, it was stated by
several Witnesses, produced anything but
agreeable odors. The testimony throughout
was corroborstive, and went to show that
| the cooking of tallow, sometimes out of putrid
| flesh, was not only very offensive to the peo-
pie residing in the neighborhood and the large
number of children who attend school there,
| but that the same was known in several in
| stances TO be the real cause of sickness Mr..
| Hammond, representing the firm who owns
the property, and other witnesses testified as
to the cleanliness of the establishment and to
the manner in which the establishment for
years had been conducted. Most of the wit
nesses were men who are employed now, or
had been some time in the past, in and around
the hide house. They said they never had
been made sick by it, and did not think the
manner in which the business was conducted
would make any one sick or that
their work was at all unhealthy. The hides
were properly cleaned at the proper time,
sailed, washed with an Arsenic solution, and
| were scarcely offensive. The flesh used for
manufacturing tsllow was bought from the
butchers daily, rendered in the morning, and
the refuse removed in the afternoon. They
ucLlcu b1db tucy uccu any pulEiu lush III tLS
making of tallow. The complaint made
against the odor arising from sheep pelts was
| not on account Of any putrid fash on the
pelt, but merely peculiar sheep smell,
which stays with the pelt until the same is
washed. Counsel on both sides addressed the
Board briefly. The Board took the matter
under advisement, and adjourned to meet at
S P. NJ. to-day.
A BEAUTIFUL MEDAL.-County School
Superintendent Bishop has presented to each
school in the county having ten or more pu-
pills in the first and second grade beautiful
badge and silver medal The medal consists
Of o silver shield about one-snd-a-half inches
in length, milled on the edges, with herald
ic zone across the middle left plane, for the
engraved inscription of the name of the re-
cipient. The shield is suspended by tri-
colored ribbons from a silver star on a blue
ribbon, with silver lace fringe. The medal
has not been given for the best scholarship
merely, although that debarred no one, but
for the most meritorious boy or girl; one the
| freest from all bad habits one that was the
most industrious to work; one that was the
nearest what girl or boy should be in every
respect. This was decided in every instance
by vote of the school by ballot and upon
inquiry it has been found upon the authority
of teachers and Others, that in every instance
it was bestowed upon the right one. There
has been considerable delay caused by not
being able to get them engraved. The
following is list of those who have
won the medal, an honor of which
District, Annie Magsay Sylvan District,
Emma g. Lewis Richland District, Lille
Galloway; Capital District David Maher
Florin District, George Wilson; Pleasant
Grove District, Albert Windleman; Mich.
gan Bar District, Eva Joseph; Enterprise
District, Annie Lea Kenney Dist let, Mary
Cox; Washington District. Annie Brown
Davis District, John NJ. Putney; Victory
District, Eddie Lowry; Point Pleasant Dis.
trict, Neil Thompson Islston District, Hart
Smith; Elk Grove District, Christopher
Rhoads District, Laura Buswick Freeport
District, Mary Beach; Granite District Ida
Fischer; Calf District, Hattie Wright: Lee
District. Theodore Sanders Carroll District
Annie Ceee; Excelsior District, Edith lib.
bets; Suffer Districs, David Mcgowan La.
guna District, Silss Canady; Mokelumne
District, Suite Keenan,; Elder Creek Dis.
trict, Agatha Lowe; Walnu. Grove District,
Clara Sharp
DEATH on AN EsTIMABLE LADY Last
evening about o'clock, the wife of G. M.
Prodger, formerly Carrie NJ. Wadswortb,
daughter of i. Wadsworth, died at her late
residence, corner of Fifteenth and J streets
after brief illness. The best medical at.
tendance failed to restore her or relieve her
fatal malady The deceased was well and
favorably known in this community, where
she was reared and educated. She held the
position of teacher in the public schools Of
this citv for n nr1mhar IF vaara Tn bar nm
timely death the community loses one who
by her Christian character, moral worth and
exemplary life had drawn around her large
circle of admiring and devoted friends She
leaves bereaved husband, who has the
sympathy of large circle CT friends.
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