Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-22

state Work 90 stop. rs tho state
FUND farms Out az BE Only $780,
900 gustcnI of NI.OOO.OOO

state work 20 stop. rs tho state
Fund farms out 10 BE Only S3OO.-
900 sHs;cnd of sI,DOO,O0O.
JoHNsFows, Pa, aug. 10 Governor
Beavers finances havs gotten into tan
gle which nothing less than special SEES
sion of the legislature oan unravel. IL
appears that either the legislature must
be brought together or the Oonemaugh
valley DO reduced to charnel-house,
where pestilential germs shall Turk con.
tinuAlly aud death stalk abroad. The
state board o. health has bean prosecuting
Its work OF excnvating cellers and purify
ing the streets with heroic energy, and
Contractor Mclean and his men have
been assiduously removing the debris.
Meanwhile Governor Beaver has been
continually goading them at their work
| in evident anxiety to bring 1t to an end.
| Within week he reduced MoLean's
working force by half, and a few DAYS
sEo ordered the dismissal OF about 30
men from the force Of the board OF
health, TINS reducing their labofers to
paltry dozen.
The cause for this strange ft Of coon
omy has only now appeared. Instead of
heving received the guarantee Of 5 ,Op0,-
900 fron Philadelphia capitalists for the
prosecution OF the work OF the state, the
sum advanced was but $4,000 Thi1
amount has now been we'll nigh expended.
There ia mot dollar left with which to
continue the task and when the governor
ahall visit Johhstown 10 day or two It
ia expsctSd that he will dismiss the board
OF health and every laborer who IL now
welding pick and shovel In the interesta
of sanitation. Secretary Lee and his
colleagues on the board OF health have
been greatly agitated at this news, which
recently came 20 their cara. The work
ia oot nearly all done and to ceass nov
seems like leaving Johpstown to the
merciss OF plague end psstilsncs.
Over 5000 psrsons are believed to heve
periahed in the food, and scarcely two
! thirds OF the bodies have been re-
covered. Not day passes but two o.
thras msuslod oorpaes are uuesrthed
. osten in the most unexpected placer. 4
! man stumbled by accident upon the dear
{ body OF his father 10 his back yard o rev
days ngo, inrrustei by the tainns9t film
( OF earth. Il IL not UNCOMMON TO dis
, cover bodies in the cellars of houses tina
; are still standing end now undstgo'ni
) repair, or to CONS across them few fee
, below the present level Of the street
| Many OF tue uue1cAVAteu eelthf6 hio btis
Z sinks OF putrid filth, thick with dooaye
. animal matter, which emits n sickenini
steneh. DisintectAnts have been s.rewl
/ about the town literally, Int they vii
D be povsrless to ward Of disease unles
4 their efforts are seconded by NOR
8 material work.
Q DR.. Lee has been away from Johns
!, town for several days. He ia said to b
!. greatly disturbed at the probable ou'
come Of the shortage, but sees no remed
s for the trouble. IL is questioned anon
n business men TODAY es to just how IL
/. report became current from Maine
9 California that Governor Beaver had ol
e tainad $l,0U0,0OJ from Philadelphia
10 ''Some of Us have wondered conside
1t ably said prominent official OF Il
10 Cambria Iron Company, "that Qlak'
3 City capitalists should advance such
Il large sum for such purpose wltho
10 interest. Some few Of us doubted, to
IN that 1t actually bad been raised. d
10 doubts now have been confirmed"