St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-21
A MILL CITY MONDAY
Coaching the Intelligent
Youth Who Are to Do the
Inspection Act.
a Texas Colonel and a Repub-
lican Talk Of the Sec
tional Issue.
The Interminabie Crossing
Case Still Vexes the Board
of Trade.
Prohibitionists Talk Of Drinks
and Presbyterians of Sun
day Sports.

The council chamber presented very
thoughtful and scholarly appearance
yesterday afternoon. The desks OF the
thirty-nine aldermen were occupied by
men of all ages, from the old soldier
to the recent sprig of manhood, all in
tent upon the work of answering on
paper long string of questions that
had been prOpOunded to them. The as
semblage was the result of the health
departments call for competitive eX-
Spector. The GLOBE last week present
ed the names of twenty-nine candidates
who had sent in petitions. Yesterday
more than half dozen more were added.
The full list included the following
names.
j. A. Arneson William Boyer, j. p. Bitch
feldt, F. a. Briggs. H. w. Brown, John Brue-
shade, B: +; Cole. A. J. Creigh, J. G. Cressy,
Gillesby, G. A. Harvey, j. G.. s. Hasel-
tine, c. NJ. Hooper. Leonard Kingsbury,
Peter Knepper. d. H. Mcpherson, Charles
Metzger, E. G. O'Donnel, L. n. Parker j. W.
Paul. Q. Roques, Ole johnson, [. A. Rupge,
EeJ. Smith, G: E. Swanstrom, George Turner,
John Woodbury., d. NJ. Perkins, Blake.
Crocker, j. Gaines, ]. P. Casey, George E.
Beardsley.
Ali the old inspectors. except Charles
Snyder, reapplied for their. positions.
The examination was no farce, but was,
if anything severe, as samples of the
questions will show. Candidates were
required first to state their names, ma
tionality,. place of birth, length
of residence in the city, and
state what languages they spoke.
Then to test their knowledge
of local geography they were asked to
tell how many wards the city had,
bound the ward in which they resided
and bound the city by its limits on each
side. Then of the practical problems
that confront health inspector in the
discharge of his duties was tested in
questions like these:
What is sewer gas?
How would you distinguish between sewer
and coal gass
WHAT'S potable water?
What sort of soil or formation will best Sc
cure the purity OF well water?
Is driven or dug well most liable to con-
taminatiOn?
What is ground air?
What is a deCdoriZer?
What is disinfectant?
How would you disinfect cistern?
How would von disinfect clothing?
What are the essentials in disinfection of
rooms or dwelling houses?
What materials would you use. and how?
Of what benefit would be the exposure OF
infected clothing or bedding to the sunlight
or air?
State the essentials of well-constructed
cesspool.
What are the essentials to be secured in a
sanitary dwelling house!
Some of the candidates labored faith
fully from to 5 o'clock to answer the
fOrty-two conundrums propounded, aud
good many evidently passed fair; if
H., do NI,o
answers were Immediately enclosed in
envelopes and sealed. and will remain
so until the afternoon before the next
council meeting, two weeks from next
Friday, when they will be examined.
and the board of health will return the
rank of the applicants to the council.
The council will be asked to elect seven
inspectors instead of five for the sum-
mer, at least.