St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-27
ALDERHIANIC COMMITTEE ON IL
CENsE WILL REPORT, UNAN- X
IMOUSLY AGAINST Fl.
WEST SIDE COMPLAINTS,
THE FLUSHING PROCESS OR GRE.
( NATION MUST BE sUBsTa- =
TUTED
IN CARING FOR CITY,s WASTE.
One Company Asks Time to Er.ectsi
Plant but 1t Will Probablsss > y
Not Be Given.

~ FSS~ahi tebtiOii tlldE Rave
been disposing of the night soil by,
the burying process will cease doing
business for while if the board of
aldermen follows the recommends.
ton OF its committee on license which
met yesterday afternoon. That com
m1ttee recommended the passage of
Assemblyman Johnsons scavenger
ordinance which prohibits the dis
position of night soil in any other
way than by flushing the stuff into
the river through pipe or by Gre
mating 1t, and positively forbids the
purifying Of the same. What is still
more important to the sanitation
companies now employing the bury
ing process, the ordinance is to take
effect Immediately upon it's publ
cation. 1t may be passed tonight at
the adjourned regular meeting of the
board of aldermen, or it may not be
enacted until the regular meeting
next Tuesday evening. In the latter
case it would be officially published
the following Wednesday and Thurs
day, in which case the sanitation
companies will not enjoy their pres
ent. privileges for more than ten
days.
The meeting of the committee on
license yesterday afternoon was
short, but spicy. Aid. Hare and Aid.
kartak were the only members of the
committee present, Aid. Milham, the
remaining member, being out of town. =
Aid. Kartak is the chairman of the
committee, but at his request AID
Hare acted as chairman. ~
The sanitation companies were not
all represented. Attorney Woodruff
and Patrick Scannell were there in
behalf Of the Peoples Sanitary Ex-
cavating company, and the North
western Sanitation company, which.
has the artesian well plant in sue
cessful operation on the west bank
OF the river, was represented by
Messrs, Bohrer and Moriarity, the
proprietors, and Richard Walsh, their
attorney. Health Commissioner Stone.
was also there. JTi =
Mr.. Woodruff and Mr.. ScannelI ssaid
they had no objection to the assembly:
ordinance restricting the methods lof
disposing of night, soil to cremation or
the flushing process, provided 1.-The
time within which it was to take, eff
feet was extended sufficiently to enable
them to equip themselves with a plant
such as the ordinance requires. Mr..
Woodruff reminded the committee that
at meeting of the joint night Soil
committee, some three weeks ago, Mr.,
Johnson himself had recommended
that the ordinance should not take eff
feet, until Sept. 10, but that since then
because Of a, petition from, West side :
citizens protesting against. the dump
ing of night soil in their locality THE
ordinance had been SO amended as to
take effect Immediately. This, Mr.
Woodruff and Mr.. Scannell insisted,
would be unjust to them, as it would
not give them time to prepare a. plant,
and in the meantime the Northwestern
Sanitation company would secure the
whole business.
After little more discussion and a
speech by Attorney Walsh in behalf of
the Northwestern Sanitation company,
Aid. Hare, the acting chairman, put
quietus upon the protesting companies
with the following remarks:
when this matter came up nearly
a month ago, you gentlemen could not
have failed to see that the great ma
jority Of the council were opposed to
the burying of the night soil You
have had time since then to equip your
selves with the means required by
this ordinance and the former similar
health ordinance, now in the hands of
the night soil committee, but you have
not done so. And now you come be-
fore us with absolutely nothing to offer
and ask US to give you forty-five days
time to equip yourselves in accordance
with the requirements of this ordi-
mace. In the meantime, the citizens
of the West Side-which is my ward
are complaining bitterly of the an
noyance and the nuisance caused by
the burying Of the night soil there,
l therefore see no other course to take,
and"
81 move we recommend the ordi-
nance to pass interrupted Aid. Kar-
| tax.
Thereupon the two members of the
COMMITTEES, constituting majority of
| it, even had the absent member been
| present, voted AYE"
In the course of his remarks Aid.
| Hare called attention to the fact that
| the Northwestern Sanitation company
| had gone ahead and constructed it's
artesian we'll plant without any bonus,
guarantee or even a promise from the
| city.
Aid Kartak asked DR.. Stone why it
was that the St. Paul Carriage COM
| pany, formerly the st. Paul Santa
ton company, had recently secured the
| lions share of the work. DR.. Stone
| said he could not answer the question
| except upon the supposition that the
company referred to had been more
| active in drumming up business.
The Johnson ordinance, however,
will change the aspect of things if it
| passes the board of aldermen.