The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-05
UNHEALTHY BEAVER PONDS
NUMEROUS CITIZENS PROGLIIM THEN i MENACE TO HEaLTH.

Monster Petition Pre- ented ts seieetmen
 Last NIght-It Was Referred to the Com mittes on Finanee -Sinta and Tenth
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 The residents and property owners of the Ninth and Tenth wards were pres. ent in full force at the meeting Of the selectmen last evening in the interests of the purchase by the town of the Beaver ponds district and Its conversion into a public park. Among those pres ent were Aldermen Russell and Benham and Councilmep Peaker. Booth and Kelly of the Ninth ward. Aldermen Mcdonald and Reyes and Councilmen Punderson. Fabriaue and Clark of the Tenth ward. Commissioner Lyman II. Johnson, Jailor O'Keefe. Ex-Judge Shel- don. County Health Officer Hoadiey and q number of others.
 The petition which confronted the selectmen was about nine feet long and contained about 1000 names. It asked that the town should not abandon the project of buying the Beaver Pond land as the question was one of the utmost importance and concerned both the health and welfare of the residents of that section of the city.
 Alderman Macdonald was the first speaker of the evening in favor of the petition. During an able exposition of the Beaver Ponds question he said the declaration had been made that the town meeting which ordered the appropriation for the project was not a fitting representation of citizens, was not numerously attended. Tn view of this statement" he contiued. we now present this petition. which Is signed by hundreds of our citizens. Everyone will admit that the Beaver Ponds are a menace to health and the pestilence breeding nuisance should be done away with. The work could be done without any great outlay of money and we all desire to see the vote of the town meet ing carried out. If the bogholes. stag nant pools and swamps were made firm ground the health of the residents would be materially improved and the section become one of the healthiest in the city.
 Concilman Clark stated that he had | cold, malaria and headache, all in consequence of living In that district but when asked by Selectman Pohlman what the boundaries of Beaver Ponds were. was nonplussed and hastily with drew from the meeting. Councilman Peaker claimed that the air in the vicinity of Beaver Ponds was most offensive and full of malaria. He also said that Doctors Whittemore, Converse and Anderson had been at- tending members of his family for chills and fever and malaria and all three declared that the sickness was caused by the stagnant pools in the | vicinity {
 Remarks of ai like nature in refer Fence to the question were made by Councilmen Booth and Kelly, Alder men Reyes. ex-Judge Sheldon and oth- CTS. Finally the board decided to ac. cept the petition and referred the en- tire matter to the committee on finance. The selectmen next turned their at- tention to the widening and straighten- ing of East WestviIIe street in Vest vile. Some of the property owners want a slxty-foot roadway, others fifty foot and others forty-foot. Alderman Macdonald. one of the property own CTS, favored a fffty-foot roadway and offered to give Yen feet of his land if the street were widened to fifty feet. The selectmen voted to give a hearing to all persons interested next Tuesday night and then adjourned.