Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-27
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
The Slaughter-H House Cases to go to the
Courts-Sewage Matters.

the members present.
The first thing taken up for consideration
was the ordinance proposed at the las
meeting amendatory to Section I, Chapte
10, Article II, of an ordinance passed jun
81, 1872. 1t provides that there shall be n,
slaughter-houseS within the city limits
excepting east of Twenty-ninth street anC
south of ?, and in the district south of y
and west of Third street The ordinance
if pasted, would not interfere with He'll
bron's and other slaughter-houseS.
A large delegation of the residents of the
eastern portion of the city were present
and filed with the Board a remonstranct
which bore the signatures of one hundred
and forty-eight property owners east o.
| Twenty-eighth street, in the immediate
neighborhood of the slaughter-houses il
question, and two hundred and sixty-seven
taxpayers who live west of Twenty-eighth
street, but east of Twentieth.
The remonstrance. which was published
in full in last Wednesdays RECoRD-UNIoN
| was read to the Board and commented
| upon by Grove L. Johnson, attorney for
| those who are endcavoring to force the re-
| mOval of the nuiSanceS, as they term them,
from within the city limits. He made a
| long and earnest plea for his clients. He
claimed that the Board of Health had con-
demned the premises in question had in
| structed the Health Officer to cause their
removal and abatement, and that if the
| Trustees passed the ordinance in question
it would simply nullify the action of the
Board of Health, whom he claimed had
acted wisely and informedly. He said that
! some predicted that the city would be
| viz ha
and that the Board of Trustees should, by
every means possible, assist the Board of
Health in all such matters and should in
no manner pass ordinances that would
| operate in ContraventiOn of their plans.
| EX-Sheritf Hebron replied at length to
| the arguments of Mr.. Johnson He said
| he did not blame people for complaining
where there was a Just cause for COM
| plant. He claimed, however, that his
| Slaughter-hOuSe was not a nuisance, did
not create the obnoxious smells complained
Of and it would be wrong to cause him TO
remove his premises for an imaginary evil.
He said he was ready to remove his hogs
would do so tomorrow his wagon for re-
moving otfal and hides to point outside
the city limits was ready to do its work.
and in the future it would be an impossi-
bility for a nuisance to exist on his prem
iSeS. He complained bitterly of the feeling
that existed toward him; said it was I'M
warranted, undeServed; the assertions
made by those loudest in their protestatiOns
had no foundation in fact. They would not
listen 20 reason or wait for the result of the
proposed changes, but wickedly and per-
siStently clamored
FOR THEIR POUND OF FLESH
He said under the circumstances he had
IN, 70 staN
there for thirty years, and he proposed to
remain few years longer. He referred to
the dcath-rate in that neighborhood, and
said it was unequaled in any other portion
of the city. 70 his positive knowledge but
one death had occurred in that neighbor-
hood IN quarter OF Il century, and that
was a Chlnaman, who was knocked in the
head with Il Ratchet. He was not afraid.
he said, to submit his case to any fair
minded Judge for what was asserted could
not be proven, 50 far as his premises were
concerned. He called upon Nicholas Mohn
who was present. and who lived near his
slaughter-houSc, to state to the Board what
he knew about the premises
Mr.. MOhn fully agreed with all that Mr.
Hebron had said. The slaughter-housc
was no nuisance. and they who 50 asserted
did not know what nuisance was If he
moved his hogs and did as he said he
would do, there certainly could be no OBJ
lection 70 the premises. He said that there
were Ioud->melling places in the ncghbor-
hood, he was aware but they cmanated
from the hOg-YardS OF sWillmen and not
from the Slaughter-houses.
John kcrwin said he lived there for
thirty years, had raised family of seven
children. and that in his family there never
had been sickness. Those who now were
complaining were men who labored in the
railroad shops, and had lived there but
three or four years.
Johnson replied that Kerwin was sex
ton Ofthe Catholic Cemetery Mohn of the
Jewish Cemetery, and he did not think
they were competent to Judge for others,
regarding death disease,
DEcAYING REMAINS OR PUrRGD SMELLS.
They were too used to such matters. So far
Is the men who abored in the railroad
shops, he thought either or all of them
would compare favorabfy with Mr. Ker-
win.
Thercmarks of Mr. Johnson angered both
the sections. who claimed that they were
Just as good a. the attorney, and thought
their word was better than that Of any
lawyer.
Mayor Brown, fearing trouble would en-
sue, called the gentlemen to order
Mr. HciIbron tainted b,- tho remarks ,f
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swiII bushes, he moved eigbt blocks flr-
Their into the city. and now his sons olfac-
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