Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-14
CITY TRUSTEES.
The sIaughter-House Question Again to
the Front-More Street Improvements.


; The City Trustees met IN regular sessio
yesterday morning, all the members pre-:
ent.
Chief Engineer Foster, of the city waite
works, reported that during the past wee
the machinery had been in operation Il
hours and that 1929, 500 gallons of waite
had been pumped.
]. n. Herndon, Superintendent of tn
City Cemetery, made a report for the mont
of September There were during tina
time SO deaths in the city, and II inter
ments His collections were $495 80.
The opening of bids for the improvement
of the north levee, from Burns Slough t
Brighton, was postponed until 10 A. NJ. to
day.
An order was passed for the construction
of new sidewalks on the west side of Fiji
tenth street, and on both sides of Twelfth
street, from P to Q.
An ordinance prepared by the City AT
torney for the purpose OF levylng tax o
100 cents on the 500 was introduced ant
laid over for one week. This was done tt
comply with the mandate of the Supreme
Court in the city bond cases. The City
Attorney said he had not officially heard
anything from the Supreme Court, but thai
unofficially he had learned that they re-
fused to make any modification OF the per.
emptory writ made some months since.
THE sLAUGHTER-HoUsE NUISANCE.
August Hebron appeared before the
Board and submitted the following, which
I he desired passed as a substitute for Section
| of the ordinance relating to slaughter
houses:
Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any per
son to slaughter any animal or to erect, main
| tain or use or cause to be erected, maintained
| or used, any house. shed or building as a
Slaughter-house within the incorporated limits
of the city of Sacramento which shall be injur-
ious to the health, indecent or offensive to the
| senses, or which shall in any manner interfere
| with the comfortable enjoyment of life or pros
perity by any person or number of persons in said
city, or to keep any pit, pool or vat of standing
water for tanners or dyers' use or for any
other purpose whatever that will render il un-
wholesome or offensive, or to dicharge leave
open, place or Keep in any street, alley, public
square, lot, yard or other place within the city,
any noxious privy, sink or cesspool. manure,
stagnant water, cleanings from any privy, sink
or cesspool, or any dead animal, bird or fish,
green hides or skin skins sp ptrid pnsound un.
filth of any kind or nature whatsoever.
Mr.. Hebron spoke for upwards of an
hourin support fhis proposed amendment.
He said they did not come before the Board
begging or asking for any right or privilege
that could not consistently be granted any
citizen or taxpayer. He claimed that they
had asked nothing from the CITY authori-
ties but what was fair and just They had
been met at every turn by an unjust ordi-
nance that said, in substance, it matters
not how well you may conduct your bust
ness, how clean you may keep your prem
ises, or however unobjectionable may be
your slaughter-houses, you have to get
out" An appeal had been made, he
claimed, to the public through the columns
of the press that they maintained a nui-
sance which was menace to the. health of
the community. This he denied, and, as
proof of his denial, recited the fact that
they had secured signatures of all the citi-
zens in the immediate neighborhood to
statement that branded that assertion as
untrue. He said all they wanted was q
fair trial by a jury of twelve citi-
zens, and let them say whether or
not their premises were nuisance.
This opportunity, he argued, should be
accorded to every American citizen His
property should not be confiscated without
he had fair and impartial hearing He
claimed that the passage of the amendment
would not in any wise permit them to
maintain nuisance, but would give them
an opportunity to defend themselves in
Court, and they then,,would be able to prove
that the charges preferred were malicious
and false. He said he was positive that the
ALLEY between J and K streets, from Second
ito Seventh, was in a worse condition, con-
stained more diseased and rotten garbage the
year round than could ever be found in the
of their slaughter-houses UNI
der the most unfavorable conditions, vet
the Board of Health live in that neighbour
hood, and apparently are ignorant of the
filth existing in that locality Chinatown,
from Second to Sixth, the stencil arising
from any portion of which would paralyze
IA concentration of the smell that would
arise from an aggregation of all the slaugh-
|ter-houses in the county, is allowed to
exist in the heart of the city. He appealed
Ito the Board to at least put them on
AN EQUALITY WITH THE CHINESE.
Mayor Brown said he thought, in view of
the fact that the slaughter house cases were
now in the Courts, that it would not look
well for them to step in and say, - We will
take this matter in hand and settle it. We
Twill repeal the ordinance and dispose of
this question"
Mr.. Hebron replied: Why not? We
have a slaughter-house within the city
limits, well-known fact 1t was proven
at trial few days since, yet the jury in
substance said that we did not have any
thing of the kind, and why? Simply be-
cause those men saw from the nature of the
testimony, and the refusal of the Court to
allow us, which was proper under the
existing ordinance, an opportunity of PROV
ing the falsity of those accusations, and
not wishing to drive an extensive and in
dispensable business from the city, know
ing full well that greater evils, if ours is
one, exist all over the city, they refused to
find us guilty. They were good men and
true. Why compel them to render such
verdicts? They will not decide according
to the ordinance but as TO existing facts,
and as their better judgment dictates.
City Attorney Anderson was present and
said the passage of the proposed ordinance
was in effect the repeal of the present
ordinance He did not think it should be
acted upon hastily, and, at all events,
should not be passed until after the cases
now on trial had been decided.
Mayor Brown said he had understood
that the Heilbrons had stated in Court that
ifthe Supreme Court held that the ordinance
was valid, they would Immediately remove
from the city
Mr.. Hebron said the statement had been
made but it was false. They wanted no
special privileges, but did ask the repeal
of a law that was oppressive upon one class
Of citizens. He asked Mayor Brown and
Trustee Gutenberger if they would be will
ing to pass an ordinance against gas factor
les and foundries. Why were not those
institutions-the first loud in its smells, the
second full of cinders and noise-not in
Guided with his business? Were they any
less clean, less Objectionable or more neces-
sary
The discussion took a very wide range.
and was participatedin by all the members
The Trustees concluded to lay the matter
over for few days without action.
The question rs TO the propriety of the
City Board of Education purchasing the
building lately occupied by Mrs. Herman
Perry as boarding school on | street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh, was discussed
at some length. They agreed that if the
property could be obtained for 5000 it
would be q good investment
After allowing large number of bills
and ordering the same paid, the Board
adjourned.
Hurt HIS SHoULDER.-James McLaugh-
lin, one of the railroad yard men, jumped
from an engine that was doing switching
on Front street, between ? and Q, yester-
day forenoon. TO turn q switch, but when
his feet touched the ground he slipped, in
consequence of the muddineSS, and, in en-
deavoring to save himself from falling,
collided with an upright switch, the col
lision knocking him down. He jumped
up, turned the switch with one hand, in
Il i Il.