Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

graphical situation and railway facilities
are even now 80 conspicuous, the latter
to be shortly increased from all points
of the compass. great feature Of our
growth has been and always will be our
climate. We do not invoke the much
used and abused word in the sense that
we desire that Los Angeles should be
would rather surrender the confirmed
invalid to the health resorts to the north
and to the south of us. What we do
claim in the line of climate is that ours
is such that thousands and tens Of thou
sands of people OF both sexes, who need
rejuvenating air, will come to Los An
geles-people full of energy and life-if
they shall find here the conditions that
exist in the Los Angeles of today.
We have just voted bonds for the
building of sewer system. That was
done with the view of preserving the
exhilarating and delightful atmosphere
which guarantees the health of our city,
That was move in the right Direction.
The council of this city has recently
taken move which we regard as dis
astrous new departure.
We allude to the concession to the
Cudahy company of the right to estab-
lish packing house in about the CEN
ter of the city, viz, near the Macy street
bridge. This concession was followed
by the application on the part of the at
torney for Simon Maier to erect an abat-
toir or slaughter house, which was
also granted. Undoubtedly the attor-
neys of the other butchers will shortly
follow with similar demands, and one
cannot we'll be granted without accord
ing similar privilege to all.
A halt should be called to this muni-
cipal legislation atonce. There is plenty
of room outside of the city limits for
these industries. We care not what
precautions may be taken, or what may
be the improved methods of handling
these places, they will constitute q
nuisance of most Objectionable char
acter. We shall shortly find ourselves
overwhelmed with more than the seven
and seventy smells that afflicted the
nose of Coleridge when he visited the
city of Cologne. There is plenty of
room for them all in the dry and sandy
lands south of the city. They can
there receive water as cheaply and
abundantly as at the Macy street site.
Councilman Nickel made an admirable
speech in the co1ncil against this con-
templated nuisance. He had been all
over the east where these packing estab-
lishmen.s are located and found that, in
every case, he was obliged to hold his
nose. In the summer time they were
simply insufferable to the olfactories
and very menacing to the public health.
The whole city is threatened by the
imminence of this nuisance. But this
is especially the case with East Los An
geles and Brooklyn and Boyle Heights.
In marked degree it behooves the
people of those localities to be up and
doing. The property in the immediate
neig hborhood of the Macy street bridge
will simply be annihilated as to values.
1t will be unstable and nobody will
wish to lay out any money on its i'm
provement. This is a gross injustice,
and its contamination ought not to be
permitted. No city council can validate
a nuisance.
This whole question will come up in
the council at its next meeting Let
all who are interested be on hand with
their protests. We would like to see
the Cadahy packing establishment sue
cessfully under way hereabouts, but it
ought not to be tolerated within the
city limits.