Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-09
THE GARBAGE.
A Letter of Advice to CompIainants From
DIR. Garrison.

A Letter of Advice to CompIainants From
DIR. Garrison.
WHEELING, w. VA, July 8, 1889.
To nc Editor ofls Register:
SIR: Will you permit me, through your
columns, to say to the people who write me
communications beginning with, 81 wrote
you last week in regard to the
garbage man failing to take
our garbage away" 1.-THE garbage
has not been removed from my place for two
weeks" Garbage has not been removed
from this neighborhood for so long that it
is becoming a nuisance, and sickness will
result if something is not done immediate
ly; 1.-THE garbage man takes the garbage
away from No. - street, only once
week." "Please have the garbage cart
call at my place and remove the garbage"
"The garbage man goes through our alley,
looks and passes on without taking the
garbage" "If you dont't make the gar
bsge be taken away from mi house you
will hat to anser in pOless
cort as you threten us" "Your atiension
is called to No. -, Alley -. The garbage
will brede sicknis and deth." please
call and see the garbage lying in the alley
back of No. -, street." my garbage
has not been removed since lost Monday
and want it taken away" and 90 on ad
ndusesun ad infRiUM, and whose sigma
lures are appended in some instances, and
in others the nom de plumes Citizen"
Householder, Democrat Resi-
dent - ward" Friend" "Yours
Truly" "Voter, +" Taxpayer" "Nabers,"
etc, and to all those beside who complain
through the telephone, or complain upon
the streets. To those who complain in
temperate, dignified language, and to
those who get mad and curse about the in
sufliciency of the service, that l do not
mind their complaints, but do object to
being blamed for the evils which l am
almOst totally powerless 20 remedy.
Complaints are best made in writing and
will meet promptly with the best relief l
am able to bestow. To the question,
"How often is the garbage man required
to remove the garbagt?' l will say that
the ordinance under which he operates and
whose provision be gives bond to comply
with strictly, requires him to call for ard
remove the garbage from every house in
his district once daily six times week
during the months Of June, July, August
and September. AS matter offact every
body knows that the contractors do not
pretend TO live up to the requirements Of
the ordinance. In the Second district two
carts are employed part of the time. In
the Third district two are employed part
IL T. Curl Nd
man attempts TO do the work OF eight. In
the First and Fifth districts their respec-
tive contractors are joint proprietors of one
horse and cart, with which they gather
and remove garbage in each Of the said dis
tricts upon alternate days Of the week.
This, too, in the face of the provision that
REQUIRES that no contractor shall be inter-
esied in more than one district.
The trouble is that these men know that
the Health Officer has been made practi-
cally to understand that he must not in
terfere with them. The people who COM
plain of non-removal of the garbage, as a
rule do not care to appear as witness
es in police court, and so the
garbage contractor is assured against pEos-
ecution for violation of the law, hence he
gathers the garbage only when, how and
for whom, his caprices dictate. This
is a sad state Of affairs for any
community that makes pretentiOns to
cleanliness and order. Nevertheless this
is precisely the condition of the situation.
Respectfully,
GEO. l. GARRISON, NJ. D.,
Health Officer.