Evening journal., 1893-06-17
THE ZgPHYRS OF ORANGE GROVES
That Is what the Sewer Odors are Like
Compared TO the Tatnau street 'Insti-
tuition -

| mat Is what the Sewer OdOrs are Like
Compared to the Tatuau street 'Insti-
tuition"
West street citizens have again come
to the front with their protests against
the unpleasant Odors arising from the
slaughter houses and fat factories in the
neighborhood Of Tatnall street, between
Second and Third The recent efforts on
! the part Of the EVENING JOURNAL TO stir
| up the Board of Health to prompt action
toward the cleansing of certain foul.
smelling districts have had suchlsplendid
ELECT on the localities complained of
| thst the West street sufferers concluded
to take tine same course. Accordingly.
/ the citizens of West street between
| Third and Fourth wrote strong but
terse letter TO the EVENING JOURNAL,
this morning ana thirteen of them signed
the letter
The protests and complaints received
at this Office were not only published
where definite information and data were
furnished by the cOmplainants. but we're
immediately taken to the Health De
partment aud the reasons for not remedy.
ing the evil were obtained The Health
Department side OF the case was also
published
The following is the letter received at
the EVENING JOURNAL Office this morn
ing signed by thirteen good and true
West street citizens
To the Editor of the Evening Journal.
Have we such an institution i'm this
city as Board of Health, If so are the
members of the said board i'm Europe.
Chicago on Alaskan If they are in this
city they must have entirely lost the
sense of smell. We read occasionally of
a raid by said board upon solitary slop
barrel or the apparatus of some poor
negro's 20 Ex Co. because of the often
sive smell-tear of cholera, &c. But.
Mr. Editor, such petty odors are as
zephyrs from orange groves, com.
pared with the vile disgust
ing, deadly, loathsom -damnible stencil
that is belched forth from that
internal institution on Tatnall street
between Second and Third. The hot sea
son is upon MS Tired humanity. worn
out with the heat and labors of the dav.
seeks rest and sleep Doors and windows
are OF necessity cast wide open 20 catch
every possible breeze and sleep is difficult
at best. But suddenly this Tatuall
street cholera bed. like some monster
from Dante's Inferno belches forth its
disgusting fumes, as it has the past few
evenings, and hundreds of men. women
and children are forced to suffer the tor
ture OF the damned Through a long
hot night, Oh, We Gods, is there no relief2
Is there no lawY What is the Board of
Health for2
BY publishing this You will oblige
many suffering residents of W est street.
Executive Officer Groves. of the Board
of Health, was seen regarding this mat
ter this morning and he said that the
slaughter houses were inspected every
week. They are kept as clean as
slaughter house can be but yet ina hot
weather stencil arises
Last year, and this too, we have had
complaints about the stencil arising from
the surroundings The wOrkmen of the
Morton Poole Company had to stop
work one day last summer because Of
some refuse that had been thrown i'm the |
sewer by an employe at the slaughter
house and had washed down TO the
mouth and lodged Blood from the
houses washes into the sewer now Dut
there is no ordinance preventing this
"a new sewer has Just been begnn on
Orange street, then probably the stencil
viii not be an annoyance to the Tatnall
residents One man in this city claims
that he can'smell the slaughter house at
Fourth end Market streets This COM
pauy is running their business in opposi
tien to that man aud that is evidently
the reason why he makes the assertion
The only preventive of this stencil is
10 have the establishment moved out of
the city. We have no power to order
that done and are aware that those who
have their money invested in the place
do not care TO make change"