Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
CLEANING. WHARVES,
Fifty Men With BrOoms and
Scrapers Will Scour the
River Front To-Day.
THE FIREMEN WILL ASSIST
By Flushing Sewers After the Dam
Wickets Are Lowered.
A LOCAL QUARANTINE SCHEME.
terrible Condition of the Ohio River Below
the Two Cities.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH MAY ACT

To-day will be a busy one among the
city's employees Many of them will be
utilized IN the movement to clean up the
sewers and wharves. The Davis Island dam
wickets will be lowered at 9 o'clock this
morning. As the rivers recede a force of 80
men from the Public Works Department
will be stationed along the wharves on
Water street and Duquesne way with
braoms and scrapers to wash off the nasty
sediment deposited along the shores
BY 10 o'clock it is expected the water
will have fallen so that the sewer mouths
will be above the surface. Then the work
of flushing the sewers from Brady street to
the Point will begin. A detail of fremen
from each engine house in that district will
go along the streets opening the water
plugs to allow the water to pour into the
sewers. A sufficient number of plugs will
be opened TO cause such heavy stream in
the sewers that all deposits will be carried
out to the rivers and the passages made
clean, as they should be.
Rubbish From the Sewers.
-Four steamboats, were busily engaged all
day yesterday dredging the accumulated
sediment at the mouths of the big down.
town sewers. At the Brady and Try street
sewers considerable difficulty was encoun-
tered Logs ana boulders had been carried
out to the sewer mouths, and we're covered
with mud, sewage and slaughter house otiaL
The dredgers had great difficulty in re-
moving the distinctions, and at a
late hour last night two boats
were still at work on those two
sewers The other two boats had better
success. They worked on the sewers down
around the Point on both rivers. What
they were dragging away could not be seen,
but the slimy stuff which loated to the sur
face showed that good was being done. Over
on the Southside the boats will work to-
day. All the sewers over there were found
10 be in fairly good condition except at
South Eighth and Twentieth streets. Over
in Allegheny the worst trouble was eneoun-
tered at the Killbuck street sewer, and one
boat put in the day cleaning it No serious
trouble was experienced at any other sewer
and the work progressed satisfactorily. The
boats will probably finish up their work to-
day in both cities.
An Oui-of-Town Quarantine.
Immigrant Inspector, Layton attended
the daily meeting of the Emergency Council
in Mayor Gourley's Office yesterday morn
ing. At the suggestion of Mayor Gourley
he subsequently visited the officials of the
various railroads to see what arrangements
could be made for establishing quarantine
against immigrants. Nh. Layton will report
at the meeting this morning. Mr. Layton
said it would be impossible to establish
quarantine by which immigrants could be
transferred around the city by branch rail-
roads. In the case of those coming to the |
city to remain, their baggage could be
thoroughly disinfected at out-of-town
points Mr.. Layton was seen last evening,
and said that all the railroad officials he had
seen had heartily agreed te make any quar-
antine provisions suggested by city officials.
The authorities in both cities are now
prosecuting persons who fail to obey no.
tices given them to abate nuisancestand con-
form with the law. Inspector McGeary,
of the East End, yesterday entered
suits against James Musgrave, Mrs
Wesley Kreil, C. W. Hamilton, John
HorsefaIl, J. S Adams and Mrs. Emme Cas- |
key. Failure to clean up backwards is |
the charge Chief Murphy entered suits |
against "a butchers in Allegheny yesterday |
for failing TO cover their sewer traps with |
gratings and for throwing offal into the |
sewers. Superintendent Muth, OF Allie
gheny, discharged Policeman Schmelter be-
cause he neglected to distribute the cholera
circulars issued by the Mayor