Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-09
REHABILITATION
or a Health Officer About the City
Seine OF His Very Interesting
Experiences.
An Encounter With BulldGgs-A Scheme
to Scare a Serraat-Neighbors'
Petty Jea,Ousies.

An encounter WIN DHIluUSS-A SCHEME /
to Scare a Servaat-Neighbors'
Petty J~ea,Ousies.
"The ssnitsrisn's LOT il no easier than that
of any other policeman" remarked an at
tache of the Board of Wealth 10 an APPEAL
man yesterday.
"You have some queer experiences, l sup
pose" was the reply.
"Yep, indeed. We have to deal with all
sorts Of people, and when we 90 into a build.
ipg we can never be certain that We will ge:
out without a scratch"
"But you do not incur any actual daI- !
ger?
"Nc, / annot cay that, and yet / have
been in come tight places. You see every
man, woman and child looks upon the sani-
tary officer az a meddlesome, inquisitive, bad
tempered sort Of mopgrel official, whose
greatest delight is to catch somebody mar
ping. They cannot understand that the very
sight of neat and clean premises ia refreshing
to us, but imagine we are always
con A STILL HUNT
for filth and that We are disapp linted il we
do not find it. Toe average house girl has not
. very great amount Of energy, bat il there Is
any time in her life when she rouaes herself
from her Miss Lydis-Lsnguish condition it
is when che opens the door and finds q sani-
tary officer awaiting admission. The force
with which the door is slammed is s0msthing
alarming, aud If the sanitarian's nose we're az
long as 1t Is supposed 10 be il would invari-
ably be hattened beyond all recognition. OF
course we have learned something by ali this
experience, and to put one's quickly be-
tween The ell and the moving door is one OF
thPm.n
''Then you are not slways cordially vel
comed?"
ITO be 60 is a dangerous omep. ! remem-
Der when / first started out that l rang a
front door bell on Vance street and The mas
ter OF house came to see what was wanted.
1 told him l desired to
INSPECT HIS PREMISES.
"tCertainly, sir. With pleasure. Glad TO
have yon do 60. But of course you do not
mind goirg around the eide wayP
81 replied that / had none in the werld. i
noticed a sort of hard glitter in his eyes Sc
he spoke, but l let that pass and walked
around through the gate he pointed out.
The moment 1 stepped inside three of the
ugliest brutes you ever cav came bowling
from under the house, with teeth enough
showing 10 remind ooe OF a dentist's show
window. l didn't have lime to undo the
gate that had fastened when 1 shut it behind
ms, but the way | went over that fence would
have made my fortune 10 the ring. There
stood the man who had opeued The door for
me, evidently waiting for developments.
"tDo you iuish all your inspections 50
| quickly?' he asked; and then when | said
something shout dogs he added, with a grir,
'Ah, yes, ] neglected 10 tell you about tue
dogg. They are full-blooded and have al
ready eaten up one man and p boy.'"~.
show did you manage ?' the reporter
asked.
easy enough. 1
'GoT oUT NY PISTOL
and told him l intended to inspect his prem
Uses aud warned him if he cared anything
for his dogs he had better chain them up.
He cut up a little but concluded st last to do
80. Yet 1 found his premises in first-r ate
condition, showing that he was prompted by
the purest antipaihy. / do not mesn 10 say
we are SO badly treated every where. Il is
the exception rather thsn the rule. At sev-
eral places the ladies inaisted on inviting me
into the parlor for a nice Confidential chat.
An old lady on Elliott street said she was
real glad to see me The other day, when 1
called, got me a chair in the sitting-roop,
brought me a glass Of ice-Sster and a far,
and then made a coufdant OF me. She had
a servant who had been with her a long
! time end of whom she thought a good deal.
The woman, she said, had one fault-she
would throw slop in the yard and was con-
tinually getting tire slop sink stopped up by
her csrelessness. She cisliked to scold
her too much, ss she was a very valuable
servant and she was sfcaid she would leave.
The old lady had
"a NICE LITTLE SCHEME
fixed up. She wanted me to 60 around the
back alley, and call the darky and scare her
| half fn death hu q thraaf To avreo. hor tho
next time she w;s guilty of such su c~ff-ts'.
l entered into the plot, and it worked like a
charm. Oh, there are all sorts of schemes
and counter schemes in this business. Some
men come to me and take me aside Filth the
greatest possible secresy, IS il they were
afraid some fearful consequence would ensue
If they were seen talking TO me. They in
v~ariably want me 10 notify their landlord OF
something needed about the premises, but do
not care tn be knoR IN in the u after. O.hers
buster about aid Insist upon my serving
notice upon their landlord, aud Tell him l
sent you,' they will say. Oar rule is TO ar.
rest. The tenant, you know, and Wien we in
vestigste aud find a nuisance aud iurn lhese
complaints against the very persons who
make them, there is a howl, you may bslievs.
Why, some of them fairly froth al the mouth.
You have no idea of The
AMOUNT OF BITTERNESS
that often exists between neighbors about
s%auitGry matters. Whenever an invesiiga-
ton is made the nearest neighbor ia at once
accused of making a complaint. We never
get the credit If finding out anytbiog t r cur
selves. But we get a good deal OF itfnme-
ton this wagon account OF the petty jsal.
ousies II neighbour"
"You have a rough time in some Of the
tenements, i expec'."
"Yes; l always dread to GO through one
OF them. In the Harbsrt block last week We
struck an old woman who's poke the cheesie t
kind Of Dutch. She did not know a dtz n
words of Eoglisb, and when / got after her
about throwing Stop 10 the yard she acted
like a rsving maniac. L verify believe she
thought / accused her OF murder. Wei, she
ran to the window-it was on he fuurIh
fl ,or-aud l am certain she would have
jumped out if | had not resireinsd her. /
was forced at last 10 take her ia charge, and
going down the SIR set 10 the Staten she was
continually picking rsgs out of The gutter,
rubbing them over her face and throwing
them dow again. Finally L made her un-
derstand s,mething of the charge against
her Snd
SHE DEGAN YELLING
fS!op bucket! S op bucket!' at the top Cf
her voice. Nearly every day we have n
l~aughable e1 perience. Yesterday / went
uOWu on bedIo street. 10 DuuL IOf a pie oil
sshes 1 had been informed we're in a cellar.
When l went in the door the man in charge
remarked that there were son ashes in The
cellar, and he wished would have the land
lord remove them. He admitted he had
placed Them there, but obi cted TO having
notice served on hiu. He thought tia land
lord ought TO be the proper party. He got
the notice, of ceurse. The laudlords sre not
all saints by any means, but some of the ten
ants put them to a great deal If unnecessary
trouble. The other day The owner OF a house
on Cau:ey street was sent for in hot haste 10
make a little drain four feet long and six
inches wide, to draw of the water from a
small hole of standing water. And there is
one thing l have noticed all over the city.
Numbers of good houses, belonging to non-
residents who have left them in the han Is Of
agentP, are beirg ruined by dsrkies to whom
they are rented. Instead Of rem ing the whole
house to some respectable white person at a
easonable sum, they
"LET OUT THE ROOMS
at SO much esch TO negroes, by which meaus
they realize a much greater sum. But the
/ houses are ruined"
"Do you ever meet with opposition from
persons upon whom notice is served to make
sewer connections?"
Sometimes We do. In the Tenth ward,
on the new lima, we met with a great deal