The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-20
WHERE TO THROW Stops.
The City Council Wants the Sanitary
Board to Say.

The City Council Wants the Sanitary
Board TO Say.
But half of the board of aldermen, Messrs.
Myers, Cam, Bailey, Harmon, O'Brien and
McGuire, we're present at yesterdays coun-
Gil meeting. The meeting was of short
duration. because there was little else than
routine business to consider, and the weather
| was too hot for any animated discussion.
! The ordinance making it unlawful TO
throw Stops or waste water into the cess
pools was the only thing which created any
| interest, and each alderman had little TO
say on the subject
Alderman Myers offered an amendment
allowing people who have no sewer connec-
tious in their houses to throw the slops and
waste water into sinks aud vaults
Mayor McDonough opposed the measure,
because it tended to make things much more
nusanitary il the stuff be thrown In the
vaults than under the present arrangement
of allowing the cesspools to carry 10 or.
The latter is much preferable, he thinks.
Alderman Harmon complained that the
cesspools were being constantly choked up
from the practice and giving forth stencil,
and be favored the measure.
Alderman Myers thought that law pro-
hiblting people from using cesspools for this
purpose would compel them 20 sooner make
sewer connections.
Alderman O'Brien said he would oppose
the measure because 1t was simply the
framing of one ordinance to compel people
to violate another. Sinks aud vaults
are no place for such refuse 70 be thrown,
and il It were allowed the health OF the CITY
would be greatly endangered, because OF the
continually unsanitary condition in which
they would be. Sewers are constructed for
the purpose of carrying of the refuse of the
city, and no good reason can be advanced
against the use of the cesspools for ike
purpose.
II people are stopped from using them,
said he, what are they going to do with
sIops and waste water9 Certainly they Will
not throw it into the vaults Of the promises
if they have any regard for their health.
They can't throw the stuff into the street,
and what must be done with it-carry 10 to
the river, over on Hutohinson's Island or
out of the state probaolyl
The ordinance, il adopted, said Alderman
O'Brien, would put the residents OF the
eastern and western portions OF the city to
great hardship, as the majority OF them are
not able to incur the expenses necessary to
make sewer connections. If the city wants
to abate the evil let it go ahead and make
the sewer connections wherever needed.
Alderman Cam said that the question is
one that the more IL is discussed the more
entangled it becomes He is opposed to
having slops thrown in the vaults or sinks.
nor does he want it IN the cesspools Tho
street seems to be the only place to put it
away. because then the earth absorbs the
matter
Alderman Bailey was OF the same opin-
ion as Alderman Cam, and il the oeespools
couldn't be used let the people throw the
stuff into the streets.
Alderman Mcclure said he was opposed
TO the ordinance, because instead of helping
IN stters it tended to make matters worse.
Better let we'll enough alone. 1t is much
easier, the alderman said, to clean out the
cesspools than to endanger the health Of the
city by having vaults filing up every few
weeks.
Aftor ell the aldermen had expressed
their views on the subject the ordinance
was, on motion of Alderman O'Brien, re-
fsrred to the sanitary board, TO be reported
upon at the next meeting.
The council took n recess until this after
noon at o'clock, when it will open the bids
for the pumping engines for the new water
works. All the bids must be handed in to
the clerk of council at or before IL o'clock,
city time, to-day. II any bidders show up
after that time their bids will probably not
be accepted, in view of the action OF coun-
oil on the Holly bid q few weeks ago.
Next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
the council will consider number OF ap-
raalad li0uor CaRaQ