San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-02

any time. He has labOriOusly
tried to get us to accept those gar
bage furnaces at $4,000, without
ever saying they were according to
contract or not, and always goes Off
on the subject Of incineration. |
can silence him right here by tell
ing him emphatically that every
sensible person in this city is in
favor of the incineration.
Fourth-lf he would go to the
experts and ask them whether
these 9Sl carts of garbage were
completely destroyed or not, they
might produce samples taken out
Of the ash pile strong enough to
burst his great cigar boxes, not
thoroughly burned, by any means.
AS to the 1882 dead animals"!!!
he refers to, there certainly must
have been a terrible epidemic
amOngs tie live stock in San An
tonic during these 30 days and am
fearful that our stock will be COM
pletely annihilated, il it averages
such rate of mortality, which is
equal to ll,772 dead animals per
year. | think his lordship must
have counted chickens, mice, cana
RE birds, geese and feathers to
make such a showing, with a
mouse counted in double once in
while.
Fifth am astonished that a
man SO full of statistics, don't even
know where he lives, and particu-
larly so when he goes in to give me
his birth place and biography; be-
cOuSe he says that East Commerce
street is in my ward, No. Z. East
Commerce street is the dividing
line between the Fifth, Sixth, Sew
enth and Eighth wards, and is
represented by Hoetling, Linn
burger, Daugherty and Beckmann,
respectfully. He lives in the Sixth
ward. This information l give
gratis
Now dear doctor, | firmly be-
lieve and know that you are a good
physician. | wouldn't have voted
for you as city NJ. d., had it not been
that | considered you competent.
But | don't believe you know as
much about garbage furnace as
boy knows about religion. Your
idea about incarceration is all right
and meets my approval, without
investigating. Your references in
Dallas to whom you wrOte-even
though | should write, | would be
puzzled to know how there came
to be "president of the Dallas
city council" or any other city
council in America. Hereafter you
had better address your commune
cations to the San Antonio city
council and leave the "president"
business off.
AS to my being the cause Of that
furnace being placed in the Seventh
ward, you are as far off as in many
other statements. | was in Dim
nit county, Texas, when the mat
ter was passed upon, and on my
return Immediately began an OPP
position to its location, but fought
the acceptance strictly on the terms
of the contract.
You are most woefully cleft"
or your "memory" certainly left
you when you say that "endOrse-
ment was written by our Hon.
Mayor" That endorsement was
written in type, presumably in
Dallas, and you signed it, just as |
stated, and the records will show
it; for when | wrote my criticism,
| had your own letters and the
original before me, and every quo
tatiOn is absolutely correct.
Now, about taking the SANTA
ton business off your hands, | OBJ
iect, unless you turn over that al
mighty 1925 per month, also. Come
up to the city council once in a
while and let us see your smiling
face, and instead Of advising Dali
las on sanitary matters, advise
your own city a little and you
need not be afraid. We all
voted for you, and as
yet you have not even
acknowledged the compliment by
favoring us with your presence a
single time, and when petitions
and reports in garbage business
We're referred to the Board Of
Health and other committees on
the day of meeting you were most
conspicuous by your absence.
We would like to get better ac-
quainted with you and we don't
want you to think that you are
personally assaulted" when we
criticise your mistakes. We have
that privilege both as officials and
as citizens, and propose to exercise
them whenever occasion or neces-