Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
The City Will Be Thoroughly
Saturated With Both Dis
infectants To-Day.
USING THE SPRINKLERS.
Chief Brown Purchases the Purify
ers by the Wholesale.
THE OFFICIALS MEET AND TALK.
Mayor Kennedy's Proclamation to the Alle-
gheny People.
EMIGRANTS BEING PUSHED THROUGH


Chief Brown, of the Department of Pub
lie Safety, yesterday purchased 100 barrels
of copperas, and to-day every street and
alley in the city will be literally sprinkled
with the disinfectant The copperas was
last night dumped into huge water tanks,
where it will be dissolved. This morning
the copperas water will be turned into the
sire ct sprinklers After every street and
alley in the city has been swept
and cleaned, the sprinklers will be
driven about through the city, and every
thoroughfare will be thoroughly saturated
with the liquid. This evening several hun
dred bushels of lime which have been Or
dered by Chief Brown will be scattered
about through the city.
Chief Browns Hopes
"With the copperas and the lime we hope
to do considerable toward keeping the chol-
era away from the city," Chief Brown said
yesterday. "We have just completed
most thorough examination of our city and
we find it cleaner than it has ever been
in my experience. The proposition to drain
the rivers is of the greatest importance. The
draining of the rivers will be great benefit
to Pittsburg, but it will be of still greater
benefit to Allegheny where they get their
water supply out of the river just below the
mouth of the big Thirty-third street sewer.
We will not be stricken with the cholera if
cleanliness will prevent it." Chief Brown
concluded. ri have never known the city
to be so thoroughly aroused. Every official
seems anxious to do something that may
tend to keep out the scourge, and the people
themselves seem to be thoroughly alive to
the situation. The police department has
been wonderfully industrious. Every police
man has been acting as a health officer. In
fact each officer, day and night, has been
required to make complete investigation
OF the condition of his particular district,
and the report, always written, has been
disposed of as we have thought best
Know Where They Stand.
"Tfthe policeman's report refers to streets
we have the matter referred to the High
way Department If the report called at
tention to any other matter We have
it referred to the Health Depart
ment, and by this arrangement
we have secured positive information on
the sanitary condition of this city and we
know just what is needed and where it is
needed. Our rivers l think is where the
greatest attention is required now and after
they are drained and purified I think we
will have done everything possible to pre-
vent the disease from securing foothold
in this community" r.
The emergency council. composed of the
Mayors of Pittsburg and Allegheny, the
heads of the various departments in the
two cities and many prominent citizens
met yesterday morning in Mayor GourIey's
office. All those present seemed anxious
to go to the limit in their efforts to do
something in the fight to prevent any en-
croachment of the epidemic into this vicin-
ity, and all united in one harmonious effort
TO fight off the disease.
Many Men at Work.
Chief Clerk Bigomon, who represented
Chief Bigelow, of the Department of Public
Works, at the meeting, reported that he
had force of 375 men employed at clean
ing the streets and flushing sewers. Many
of the men he said were working day and
night. He believed that the general over
hauling of the streets will be concluded
within few days.
Chief Brown presented the reports turned
in yesterday morning by the police. The
documents showed the exact condition of
every district in the city. The reports
showed that the citizens generally are obey
ing the orders to clean up and that the
police and the authorities are having little |
or no difficulty in getting at the real con-
dition of affairs The reports further
showed that the disposition to clean up e1-
tended to the cellars and private sewers. In
presenting the reports Chief Brown ex-
planned the extent and importance and value |
of the information supplied by them. ''The |
best evidence that everybody is interested"
Chief Brown explained, sis the fact that |
disinfectants are getting scarce in every
drugstore in the CITY,"
Suggestions Accepted.
Mayor Gourley read a letter which had
been written him by Colonel T. P. Roberts,
and which was printed in THE DISPATCH
yesterday. The suggestions in the letter
were adopted. The proposition to have the
steamboats, agitate the rivers after the
wickets at Davis Island dam are lowered
was also accepted and will De followed out.
A meeting of the Coal Exchange will be
held on Monday morning to arrange for
shifting the coal in the harbor to permit of
draining the river A meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce will be held on Mon
day afternoon when the subject of SANTA
tion will be discussed and the matter of
draining and flushing the rivers will be
considered.
The work of cleaning the streets of ALLIE
gheny has been inaugurated in earnest
The policemen, iremen and employees of
the street department have been at work
for two days in flushing the streets and
sewers. Ten additional health inspectors
have been employed over there.
Alarm in Allegheny.
Mayor Kennedy has issued the following
notice:
All. citizens of Allegheny are hereby noti-
fed to at once put their houses, cellars
yards and water closets in good sanitary
condition.
Anyone not complying with this notice
Will be prosecuted under the health laws
and ordinances, within one week from the
date hereof. In order thai a dreadful scourge |
of cholera may be averted, free use of dis. |
infectants is advised.
Every house must have n receptacle for |
garbrge and the same emptied twice q week |
until further notice.
All persons who have been notified to |
make sewer connections must do SO at once |
or they will be prosecuted within one week |
from the date OF this notice.
One hundred barrels of lime and so bar |
rels of copr eras have been ordered by Chief |
Murphy and they will be distributed |
throu ghout the Northside to-day.