The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-16
HESS IGNORANCE.
A Bad Break of the Councillor
Shown Up.
Money Should be spent for Sewerage, Rather
Than to Grade and Gravel streets
in Heiss' Subdivision.

The friends of one Heiss. who. for some
unknown reason, was elected as council
man from the Second precinct, should at
once make an inquiry into his condition.
No one ever accused him of beng over
burdened with gray matter, or of having
even mediocre ability, but no one
ever expected that he would make him.
self appear SO foolish as he did when he
caused 10 be printed in the Tribune of Sun.
day the interview concerning the sewerage
system Of this city and the manner of dis
posing of the filth. When the fellow Heiss
says the statements made were for political
effect, he knew he was saying something
that was not true. They were made be-
cause the health Of the city is threatened.
He appears to know as little about the
sewerage as he does about the ire de-
partment. AS member of that committee
he recently signed q report recommending
an appropriation OF $500 for the purpose of
purchasing Pompier life saving appar-
atus. When asked by Evans what kind of
ali apparatus it was, he colored and con-
fusedly confessed that he didn't know, and
his admission was greeted with derlsive
laughter, even by the members who were
of the same political faith.
For the benefit of the cranky individual,
~
About four years ago purchased prop
erty on the west bank of the Jordan some
| ], 800 feet below the sewer pump, for a
home; my object in purchasing that par
ticular tract being to support myself by
scraping sand from the river bed for use
by contractors. and builders. All the men,
bers of my household were in blooming
health, and everything went merrily for q
time. That sewerage system was eStab-
lished, and that pump started up-lackiug
capacity in the start, and now run merely
as sham sud make believe, While an I'M
derground pipe conducts the filth into the
river. Ali my children became sick with
diphtheria, likewise my wife, and last of
all myself. DIR. Hall, the health officer
who put out the signal flag, said the sewer
was the cause. One OF my children died
in May. one on June l, ana one on June g..
The rest of US recovered. The sewerage
accumulated so that now the bed of the
river is covered to the extent of from four
10 six inches with human excrements,
filthy paper, lemon ana .orange peel, ETC.,
effeciuaNy preciuding the scraping of sand
so far as | am concerned"
The disposal of the sewage is problem
that the city must tackle ard that at once
Ali the twaddle that can emanate from
such men as HESS will not mend the
matter.
And right hereit may be stated that the
sewage stump is q much more appropriate
place for The spending of the taxes of the
citizens than the streets of subdivision on
the other side of the river, which it is said
Heiss owns, or at least is interested in. The
money spent in grading and crawling those
streets would have gone some distance
towards remedying the sewage evil The
money spent in sprinkling those same
attracts also comes from the city. if the
word of the youth who was caught one
Sunday lately driving sprinkling cart
can be taken.
Two of the city councillors were driving
on the newly graded streets OF Heiss' SUBJ
division.
"Aello," said one of them to the youth
on the wagon. II didn't know that the
county was doing sprinkling work this far
outn
The county isn't doing it. It's the city
that is dong it,'' replied the youth.
OF course, Heiss viii also deny this, too.
He will probably say the grazing and gray
cling have been done by poll tax labor, but
as acting-chairman of the committee on
streets, he VIII have hard work to explain
why streets nearer the heart of town have
been neglected and the work put in on his
addition