San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-11

pr0pOSlClOn, even III Cne eTTdtlC Iue-
ologlan OF our great religious daily
! cannot fathom 1t. -
! Mayor Paschal set forth In clear
statement made before the doctors,
and published in the great expo
nent of piety, that the burdens OF
our tax payers would not be in
creased by the adoption of the sew
err proposition. What was "whats
this" doing that he did not have
time to tackle the mayor?
There is not a householder in
this city today who is not con-
fronted with the gravity Of our
sanitary condition. Our public
and commercial buildings, hotels,
restaurants and saloons, situated
so as to use the river, the bitches
and San Pedro creek are severed
into these water ways in the very
center of the city.
Our public school houses, where
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crowded together for nine months
in the year, are in worse fix, so
far as sewerage is concerned, than
any institutions Of our city. Can
this be delayed.
On private premises cesspools
and vaults are in use, thus each
family has a disease breeding pool
right under their noses, becoming
more noisome every day - and
worse still, more impossible to
keep in a perfect sanitary condi-
ton.
Our health ordinance, regulating
privies, cannot be enforced,-it is
the most harrassing and expensive
measure ever attempted to be en-
forced. The pollution of our streams
is beyond prevention unless we
have sewers,-the burden of keep
ing private vaults and cesspools
eileen is greater than the tax will
be to furnish modern system Of
sewers.
Our city has grown beyond the
physical possibilities of cleanli-
ness unless we have sewers. The
fact that this public necessity has
been so long delayed is the greater
reason that it should speedily be
undertaken.
The present city administrators
has been charged with being slow
about putting this question to the
people and it is to be regretted
that the people have not had the
opportunity to express their wishe
untrammeled by political excite
ment or sordid schemes Of local Of
| flee hunters. But it has taken time
| to work out a thorough scientific
plan of sewerage such as now pre-
sented.
The most valuable consideration
of the contract made with the
Water company is the free water
for sewers 1t would be throwing
away the fruit Of long and Bit
| ter contest to secure advantages to
the public to neglect at this time
to speedily put the sewer plan in
force.
The employment of one of the
most eminent of the worlds sani-
| tary engineers has secured to our
| city a plan that we can thoroughly
rely upon for all future time, not
an eXpedient of today-a plan if
carried out will place our city in
the front rank Of health resorts
the world over. But we owe this
to ourselves, as we'll as to future
population.
To the credit of our medical men
they are unanimous in favor of
sewers. If they were impelled by
motives Of gain they might re-
main neutral and await the har-
vest of death.
"What's this" your tourist hotel
would only be an additional nui-
sance without sewers.
/ On Their Bridal Tour.
George Reeder, of the United
States signal service Of Corpus
Christi, arrived in San Antonio last
evening, accompanied by his wife,
and registered at the Menger. They
| uern married ar CorpuS Christi
yesterday morning and are now on