Omaha daily bee., 1893-07-21
JUDGE SCOTT STOPS A SMELL
Temporary Relief for Nostrils in the Vicinity
Of the Jones Street Damp,
BUSINESS MEN OBTAIN AN INJUNCTION
strong Hand OF tho Law rIucks n sweet
Rose Of Rclicf-squattcrs Also Com
ntude to Nncato-PetIticuers
Look Pleasant,

For the timo being, at least, the city will
have to discontinue the dcpositing OF garb-
age at the foot of Jones street. The strong
arm of the law has reached out and ordered
the city officials and all garbage haulers to
Keep of the premises until such time as tho
courts can pass upon some legal questions
regarding tho oitys right to deposit offal
and refuse in that locality.
AT late hour yesterday afternoon John
Powers, John +. Coots, Drcxol & Son, tho
Aultman-Iaylor company, the Arctic leo
company 'and the New Omaha Thomson
Houston Electric Light company Joined In a
petition, in which all Of tho plain tifrs, or pc
itioncrs avcrrcd that the maintenance of q
garbage dump at the foot of Jones street
was menace to the public health; that IL
was nuisance and that 1t. by reason of its
rank odor, injured the business which was
conducted in that part of the city. This pc
tltion was taken before Judge Scott, where
aided by an attorney, the petitioners sue
cccded in securing n temporary restraining
order, to continue in force until hearing
can be reached, the time for which has been
hAod for Tuesday, August /, at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon OF that day.
Has Long Been borne.
For many ilong, weary day the Jones
street dump, likewise the one at
the foot of Davenport street, have
"smelcd ana smelled" and caused dis
satisfaction. 1t looks now, however, as if
dump business is likely to receive its uuletus,
for il the plaintiffs in the present case carry
their point, they will ut once take some steps
toward the adjustment of the Davenport
street dump, several of the complainnnts
being owners of property in that vicinity
Time was when the city of Omaha had
two garbage boats, onto (Which the wagons
laden with malodorous things used to drive
and, when the boats had been lloatcd out
somc distance, the wagons aforesaid would
spill their fragrant contents into the stream
which discolors the Mississippi just above
St. Louis
But it happened on an evil day in srring.
the garbage boats being frozen in at their
moorlngs and insuf1iciently secured that n
breakup occurred, ana took the boats with
II, anu since then the municIpal-
ity or OFF,, Omaha has had to nut
up with couple of pieces of
river bank over which to drop its garbage
The fact is that since one man backed his
wagon over the bank and lost a team of
horses, the garbage cart drivers have been "A
little too careful, with the result that about
hait the dumpagc clings to the bank and
makes life burden for those who have to
work or live in the vicinity.
Squatters WIN Also Go.
1t may be a relief to many to learn that
the squatters who have been living in the
neighborhood of the dump have been
or are about TO be evicted. Nearly
all of them have moved out, and
the rest will not remain long. This will re-
move at least one menace to the public
health by procluiing the possibility Of the
dissemination of contagious diseases likely
10 De acquired by The Squatters in picking
up old clothing, bedding and so on thrown
on the dump, AS is their habit.
Omaha Is not the only city on the river
that IS by way of abolishing river dumps
There is going to be a meeting of the river
commissioners at st. Louis on August
/, at which will doubtless be
promulgated an order for cvery
city. town or hamlet on the Missouri river
to refrain from dumping into that stream
Moreover, 50 far as Omaha is concerned tho
corporation Of Council Bluffs is likely to
take a fall out of the Nebraska metropolis by
asking for an injunction TO prevent Omaha
from spelling her little sisters water supply,
whicn Council Bluffs claims is beng done by
the output of the North Omaha sewer.
Ancnt the abolition of the Jones street
dump, it may be staten that, while nearly all
the residents of that locality are gone or arc
not likely to linger longer, the big firms
which own adjacent property have several
hundred employees whose health is monarcd
every day by the stencil which emanatcs
from the offal on the dump, and the step
taken by the firms above mentioned was
rendered necessary by this fact.
In view OF existing hygienc conditions,
with cholera Just aching for chance To step
through Castle Garden and hit us below the
belt people who are annoyed with fragrant
nuisanccs like the Jones street dump are
getting II little anxious. The condition of
sanitary affairs is serious in Chicago also,
several complaints having been registered
recently on account of the bad smell given
forth by the Chicago river and the Eighty
fourth street dump.