St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-08
PLENTY TO Do.
Considerable Business Before the
Health and Hospitals Commit

Considerable Business Before the
Health and Hospitals Commit
tee.
The council committee on health and
hospitals held busy meeting in the
office, of Health Officer Kilvington yes
terday afternoon. At the last meeting
of the committee, some two weeks ago,
the proposition of f. P. Brewer for the
disposition Of the city's garbage was re-
ferred to Kilvington for investigation.
The health officer Investigated and the
only, reasonable deduction that can be
made from what he found out is that
Brewer is crazy. Brewers plan for eStab-
listing dump somewhere below the old
steamboat landing, hauling the garbage
down the river to some point below st.
Paul OH flatboats, and dumping it on
the bank has been outlined before. Go
ing further into tile scheme,it is diScov-
cred that Brewer proposes driving piles
along the river bank at the downstream
unloading point, behind which the
manure and coarse garbage would be
dumped. The fiatbOatS would be pro-
vided with tanks for the carriage of
night soil, which would be pumped over
and behind the manure. That, in itself,
would be StupendOuS undertaking.
This is more so. Brewer was asked
what he would do during the six months
of winter. He replied that he had
already secured the use of a couple
of electric motors from G. G.
Goodrich for moving purposes, and that
he would store the garbage along the
river bank between the steamboat land
ing and the Franklin avenue bridge
until spring. when it could be tOwed
down the river. Inasmuch as this would
convert the property of the Sisters hos
pital, Heinrich's brewery. Riverside
park and Cooks quarry into a public
dumping ground, it is hardly feasible.
Moreover. the plant for doing this work
would cost nearly 100000, and Brewer
asks for guarantee OF five months;
hence the committee will report to the
council that the scheme is impracticable.
At the last meeting of the coun-
ell petition was presented, COM
ing from residents near Hoag's
lake, which recited that manure is
dumped there. that many fevers are at
tributab1e to the condition of that tract,
and that the whole is disease breeder.
The health officer denies that manure
is dumped in Hoag's lake, that the
health reports show fever from that
part of the city, or that it is menace
to health, inasmuch as Oak lake, con-
tinguous to it. is one of the healtmest
portions of the city. However, the
committee will report that the lake be
filled up in accordance with the pro-
visions of the ordinance.
The nuisance arising from the state
of the lot lying between Lyndale ave-
nue., Tenth avenue north, Eleventh ave-
nue. and Bassett's. creek, will be abated.
The water will be drained into Bassett's
creek, and manure and ashes will be
dumped on the lot. the surrounding
residents and the owner, j. b. Bassett,
promising to keep the manure covered.
1t was decided that hereafter the East
side dump, concerning which there has
been so much complaint, will he closed
from a. m. to p. m. At the meeting
Of the council on Friday night DR.. Kill
Yington will report a new method for
che disposition of night soil.