The morning times., 1896-05-21

Contractor Warfield and Health Officer
Woodward are not at all of one mind as
to the proper method for enforcing the
garbage regulations, affecting the trans
fer of the refuse through the streets.
This point, and the contention In re-
spect TO the removal OF refuse from the
Louisiana avenue and b street curbs, have
caused no little friction, and the health
officer is understood to have notified the
contractor that if he caused any trouble
about carting away the deCaying yege-
tables, the provision in the regulation, under
which he claimed exemption, would be
forthwith repealed.
The health officer proposes to fine the
contract ctor for the derelictions OF the
cart drivers, who are reported TO be III
the habit OF loafing on their routes, OF
permitting the carts to be overloaded, and
also of negeCting TO keep the lids OF the
carts closed While passing from house 10
house.
The contractor, on the other hand, con
tends that the drivers are equally, i not
more, culpabe, for the reason that there
is a specific regulation that applies to
them, and that the health department.
should have them arraigned in pollce court
under the law.
THE CONTRA CTOR'S VIEW.
Any other course, Mr.. Bayiy, as the con
tractors represent ative, says would be an
arbitrary exercise OF health office power.
That office, he says, is pos seSsed of all the
the lnforma lion necessary for conviction
OF the drivers, ana the fineing of the con
tractor viii he in effect the suppression OF
the cases against the really guilty.
The matter was thoroughly discuss ed
before the commissioners today, and it was
agreed that the drivers shall be prosecuted.
The District Commissioners have been
requested TO name commission, to con-
slst OF five or more citizens, to represent
the District at the Tennessee centennial
exposition. which will open in the city of
Nashville May 1, 1897, and continue for Il
period of six months.
1t was announced yesterday that nine
had been selected. aud their responses in
acceptance have been received. The list
is as follows: Ike 7. Jabe. Col. John b.
Brownlow, H L. West, II. ?. Goodwin, Col
John K. Carmody, w. S. Bro wnson,
Gardiner q Hubbard, DR.. II. l. Toner.
and Supt, w. Il. Powell Of the public
schools.
CENTENNIAL EVENT.
The exposition Will be in commemoration
of the one hundredth anniversary or the
admission OF Tennessee into the Union,
and the duty of the commission named Will
be 10 encourage aud promote commercial,
industrial, educational, and artistic eX-
hibltS" by District people and to arrange
for placing all such contributions in the
exposition buildings.
The bill pending i'll Congress to prescribe
the property rights of married women in
the District has again been reported upon
by the Commissioners and copy of the
correspondence between .he board and
Attorneys S 7. Thomas and j j. Darling
ton. respectively, is forwarded to Chair
man BabCock.
The provisions OF the bin has been de-
tailed in The Times.
The large quantity of refuse left in the
burned district as the result of he fire Of
Monday night was the subject OF dis
cuSSion yesterday before the Commits
sioners, bet ween the garbage contractor,
| represented by Mr.. S. P. Bayiy, aud Health
| Officer wood ward.
The contractor contends that the char
! aCter OF the stuff is not such as to rate IL
| as garbage, q large part of il being canned
| goods and ClaimS that under his contract he
is not obliged to remove it.
MUST BE SEPARATED.
Mr Warfield is willing to dispose OF
| it. if properly separated, but insists that
under the police aGd garbage regulations he
| should uCt he required to bear the expense
| OF caTtiuE 1t away. There are precedents,
he claims where the Custodians Were OBJ
| lgcd to remove similar refuse
The removal of the amount now deposited
on the sidewalks near the burned buildings
| will cost about $50. but tie contractor con-
| tends that another occasion might arise
when one hundred or one thousand tons OF
| such material might be dumped from a
| similar cause. which. with the precedent
sought now to lie established. lie would be
| Obliged to remove.
1t was finally agreed that the contractor
| shah remove the condemned material and
leave the question of equity to be hereafter
| considered