Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-20
CITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Shall the Slaughter-Houses be Removed
Outside the City Limits?

Bids for constructing an IRON pipe anG
tank. at Eighth and Y streets, had been adj.
vertised for, and but one was received. The
bid was rejected and the time continued foI
one week.
Three bids were opened for the grading
| of Twelfth street, from n to R. That OF
Robert Miller, being the lowest, he was
awarded the contract.
Residents on the south side of d street.
| between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets,
| protested against the building of new
sidewalk The protest bore the signatures
of Mary Alderman, 7. p. Smith w. J.
Smith, NJ. l.. Hammer, J. H. Lowry and
| Mary Hill. The time for building the walk
was, upon motion continued until the first
Monday in October
a petition numerouSly signed, was pre-
scented to the Board, asking for the amend
| ment Of Section Is of Chapter 8 of the City
Ordinances. The ordinance as it now
stands reads: No cows, exceeding one in
number, shall be kept by any family
within the limits of the city of Sacramento
for the purpose of selling milk, or for dairy
purposes, south of b street, and north of r
street, and west of Sixteenth street" They
wish to amend so as to be able to keep
three COWS by one family in said district
| The matter was laid over for consideration
The CITY Attorney filed Il communica-
| ton with the Board, advising that as there
was no tax levy for general purposes this
year. per cent. of the gross collections
should be paid into the general fund
amounting to about S1,20O-to detray the
expenses of collecting, etc
James n Porter, City Treasurer, reported
that on April 9th he had on hand 5000,
| 3OS SO; received during the month, Ssh
$40 - paid out in April, SIS, 203 II.
L. c. Chandler came before the Board to
complain of Il nuisance. When he stated
the object of his visit, broad smile per-
vaded the audience. for it was the first
time he had ever made charge of the kind
and he had been sued upon Il similar charge
upon several occasions However he had
a good case He claimed that the nauseat-
ing fumes emanating from the Smoldering
hay in the Figg building on J, between
Second and Third, was very obnoxious and
deleterious to the health. The Board
agreed with him, and authorized the Health
Officer to have it abated Immediately.
A resolution OF intention to improve
Third street, from l. to 2, was passed.
The City Attorney was requested TO file
a written opinion as to the advisability of
constructing pumping works for pumping
sewage lillO lllt IlNCI, ana us 10 NlltlltT
injunction could prevent it.
+. II. b. Nielsen and J. NJ. Miliken, repre-
sentativeS of the Citizens Committee. APP
peared and asked what steps, if any, had
been taken to procure the odorless eXca-
vator They were informed that nothing
so far had been done, nor could be, until
the tax for that purpose had been collected.
The matter of the assessment for the i'm
provement of Fourth street from J to K
was settled upon this basis: The first 50
feet Oh either side to pay seven-eighthS, the
next so feet to pay one-eighth of the en-
tire cost.
4 large number of bills We're audited and
ordered paid.
sLAUGHTER-HoUsE NUIsANCEs.
For several years past there has been,
seemingly, an intcrminable war between
the prOprictOrs of slaughter-houseS and
glue factories, in the eastern part of the
city. and the residents in their immediate
neighbOrhOod. 1t has even gone so far as
to get into the churches, and it is openly
charged that the Principal of the Twenty
siXth-street school was discharged because
she claimed that the 0dOrS from a glue fac
tory hard by were not just rs good per-
fime rs the Jockey Club of Lubin's En-
tracts The hostile parties have appeared
a number of times before the Board of
Health, and some time since that Board
declared the glue factories, hog-pens and
slaughter-houses to be nuisances. and
directed the Health Officer to proceed
against them as such. The officer immc-
diately notified the owners of the offensive |
property that the same must be abated be- |
fore the 18th of May 1t appears that in
not 4 single instance was the order of the |
n y II ! IL 1
off from day to day, saving they had been |
unable to secure other quarters etc. The |
last few warm DAYS. the inactivity of the |
Health Officer, or the failure on his part to
enforce his orders has created in the east
ern part of the city an excitement which
apparently only needs leader to make
FIRsT-cLAss MOE.
About twenty, a larger portion of them
employees of the railroad shops, appeared
before the Board of Trustees and demanded
that they should be protected in their lives
and property by the city authorities, 50 long
as they paid their city taxes.
EX-Sheriff Hebron. an owner of one of
the slaughter houses complained of, was
present and made a statement. He admit
ted that there was stencil in the neighbour
hood. but not To such a degree as COM
from the glue factory. He said he recog-
niZed the rights OF property owners 10 com
plain, but he also could see the hardship
that would be enforced, and the expense in |
CURED, by causing the removal Of the
slaughter houses HeSaid he would promise
in the future not To keep any hogs within
the city limits. and that the hides. blood. |
offal etc, of the slaughtered animals should |
not be suffered to 90 upon the ground but
be removed outside the city limits daily |
while yet in fresh state and consequently |
there could be mo more smell from slaugh- |
tcr-huusc conducted in this manner than
from an ordinary city market. He prom
ised to till up all his low lots with sand. |
whitcwa>h and purify the premises 50 that I
his slaughter house would not faint the air |
with the least Objectionable smell. He !
called the attention OF the Board to a num- |
berof swill-gathcrcrs. who tattened swine |
and poultry in that vicinity from the gar |
bage gathered from kitchens throughout |
the city. These, he claimed, We're the chief |
cause of the objection complained Of He |
favored the passage of an ordinance now |
before the Board of Trustees, amending |
Section :, Chapter 10. Article II. of an |
ordinance passed June 81 1872 1t provides |
that there shall be no Slaughter-houses |
within the city limits, excepting east of |
Twenty-ninth street and south of Z, and in |
the district south of X and west of Third |
street This ordinance, if passed, would !
not interfere with Heilbron's and other |
slaughter-houseS One provision of the |
proposed amendment makes either the |
landlord or agent responsible for any NUS |
ancc on the premises, and anyone who de- |
posts garbage or filth on lot or street be- |
comes personally responsible.
II Will be remembered that, under the |
old ordinance, there was trouble in en- |
forcing any action against landlords or |
agents in Chinatown. the judgments of the |
Police Court being reversed by the Superior |
Court. and il was to remedy this defect and |
to reach the landlords that the proposed |
ordinance was framed
Mr.. Wright. one of the complaining par |
ties, made a long, eloquent and argumcnta- |
tive speech TO the Board, which was at |
tcntively listened to, and which will no |
doubt receive careful consideration at the |
hands of the Trustees. He stated the cX-
act condition Of affairs, and depicted in |
the most eloquent manner the odorifcr- |
Gus and
STRENGTHEN RING ATMOSPHERE.
Laden with the seeds of disease and death. |
that peryades the portion of the city in |
which he has his little home and where |
he and his little family reside. lie said on |
warm. Sultry days they found it impossible |
To stay in their house without having to |
close all their doors and windows No |
matter how tempting a dinner might be |
set before him, the nauSeating stencil com |