Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-13
CLEANING THE POINTS.
RESIDENTS MEET AND PREPARE TO
GUARD AGAINST DISEASE.

Sanitary and Other Committees Appoint
ed to View the District and Have the
Work Done-The Feeling Is Strongly
in Favor of Annexation.
The residents of the Points met at
the office of Squire G. A. johnson on
Monday to consider the best means by
which the sanitary condition of that sec
ton of the town would be improved.
The meeting organized with G. A. John
son as chairman, Edward Kehoe secre-
tary and Frank Wenner treasurer The
following committees were appointed
and given instructions regarding the
nature of the work that will devolve
upon them.
Sanitary-Wm. J. Eckert, Condy 0.
Boyle, Francis Brennan.
Quarantine-J. J. Powers, John Too
mey, Charles Sault.
Financial. c. Berner, George Sip
Pile, Peter Timony.
DR.. Murray was selected as sanitary
inspector.
Dr. Mcknight, deputy medical inspec-
tor for the state hoard of health, ad-
dressed the meeting and gave several
good suggestions upon the work of clean
ing up. Remarks were also made by
DIR. Murray, D. J. Mccarthy, l.. Olsho
and 7. A. Buckley.
On Tuesday morning the sanitary COM
mittee began tour of inspection and
found number of places that required
attention. In the majority of houses
visited the occupants stated the requests
of the committee to clean up would be
cheerfully complied with, but few
seemed disposed to object, and in sew
eral instances nuisances were discovered
that cannot be abated without sewerage.
The committee also complains that the
borough sewer outlet, as it now is, is
source of danger and liable to breed dis
ease, owing to its proximity to the built
up portion of the Points. 1t is likely
that the committee will ask the council
to extend the outlet down at least 100
yards further.
The sanitary committee has decided
to put its district in such condition that
the residents need have no fear of any
disease or epidemic gaining foothold
there.
During the week representatives of
the TRIBUNE have interviewed many of
the largest property holders and tax
payers on the subject of annexation of
that section to the borough, and it can
be said that the feeling was never before
so strongly in favor of coming in. Those
who opposed every former movement of
this kind are now satisfied that they
were working against their own interests
by keeping the Points out. The saloon
men, who were the protesters at other
times, find that it is not profitable, even
with REDUCED license fee. to risk the
health of themselves and families by
living in a place that is filled with
disease-breeding spots, which can only
be removed by sewerage, and that
cannot be obtained in any other way but
| by annexation.
The numerous other advantages that
would be derived from having the whole
town under one municipal government
have been told in these columns several
times, and the people of the Points, Bir-
vanton and South Heberton ought not
be so unmindful of their own interests as
to let the matter lag any longer. The
town will never make any substantial
headway while two-thirds of it remains
in the township.
The residents and council of the bor-
ough have shown themselves favorably
inclined to welcome these parts of the
town in upon several occasions, but the
movement has been killed so often by
men in the Points that borough people
of late will not take any active part in
the matter and consider it immaterial
whether the others come in or stay out
When the last petition was presented
to court, together with the maps, surveys,
ETC., of the portions desiring to be an
nexed, it was approved promptly by the
grand jury. Then few of the saloon
men, who did not like the idea of pay
ing $75 per year more for their licenses,
engaged an attorney and protested.
There the matter has rested since last
fall, and if they mean business this time
they should have the protest withdrawn
without delay, so that the Indebtedness
of the borough and township, and the
school districts, can be audited and ad-
justed by L. A. Lynch, Esq, who was
appointed auditor by the court before
the protest was filed.