, 1892-09-13
A CLEAN CITY.
improvement in the Sanitary Con
ditiOn Of Olympia.
Removal of OecayIng Vegetable
Matter From the AIIeys---Nui-
sances Abated--A system of Gar

Matter From the AIIeYs---Nut.
sances Abated--A system of Gar
bage Carts--Street Sweeping.
During the past four weeks, between
twenty and twenty-five pestilential nui.
sances have been abated by the city au.
thorities, number of them being almost
in the business center of the city. This is
but slight precursor of the general cru
SADIE that will be waged against the filth
and uncleanness in every quarter, as soon
as Health officer Newell is provided with
increased facilities for carrying out the
plans he has in mind. OF these plans lit
tie can be said at present, but at the next
meeting of the council DR.. Newell will ex-
plain the situation in detail and explicitly
set forth the needs of the city for main
tanning a degree of cleanliness that will
effectually check the invasion of a con-
tagious disease.
When DR.. Newell assumed the duties of
health officer he found the alleys, back
yards, areas, vacant lots, etc., in many
places literally covered with sticks, trash
ashes, rotten lumber, together with an ac-
cumlation of vegetable matter, forming a
hot bed of disease that needed but the in
tiuence of a hot sun and little water to
make business good for the doctors.
Nuisances of an unmentionable charac-
ter perfumed neighborhoOds that could
present no legitimate excuse for being thus
disgraced. A reform was at once inaugur-
ated in this direction and the result has
been a wholesome sweetening of the at
mOsphere, to say nothing of the destruc-
ton of ever active factories for the manu-
Or on
system for gathering up and rev owing
the accumulation of dirt on the paved
streets has been established, and has been
the means of giving the city very tidy
appearance. Owners of property sweep the
dirt up in piles so it can be removed by the
city's wagons. Alleys are treated in the
same way, and in that way much of the
general accumulation of trash is being
taken away. This system will be improved
and extended as rapidly as possible. Thus
far it has been maintained by the cO-opera-
ton with the officers of the city govern
ment of the business men on Main and
Fourth street, who are not compelled by
any law or ordinance to sweep up the dirt
1t operates upon the principle that the city
can be kept clean by each man sweeping in
front of his own door yard, and so long as
the present active cooperation continues
there will be no trouble about keeping the
streets clean.
MuCn OF Ine present ACTIVITY IN the oil
rection of cleaning up the city is due the
timely encouragement given by THE
TRIBUNE. A thorough recognition of the
great need Of some such improvement was
brought about, and now the work will be
carried forward with constantly increasing
vigOr.
Chief Savage has supervision of the garb-
age wagons and announces that the work
of removing the refuse matter could be
greatly facilitated if the house keeper
would pile the stuff into boxes and bar
rels.
Garbage carts would be welcomed in the
outer residence portion of the city, where
it is impossible to dispose of refuse from
the kitchen without dumping it into the
alley-a practice that makes the cholera
fend grin with delight. 1t is quite proba-
BILE that as soon as the city can bear the
expense, wagons will be assigned to the
outer residence streets for the purpose of
carrying away kitchen garbage. Boxes
and barrels can be filled and at regular in
tervals emptied and the contents carried
away at the expense of the city. In other
places it is the custom to tax the house
holders ten cents a week for removing
garbage, but the municipality of Olympia
is willing to bear all expense incident
thereto if the citizens will place the garb-
age within reach.