The San Francisco call., 1896-03-08
The Residents of South San
Francisco Say the Pens
+, Must Go.
PLACES THAT BREED PLAQUES.
Mr.. Woolf's Ideas of a Lady's ParIor.
The Hog Limits to Be
Changed.

The citizens of those portions of South
San Francisco known as the Bay View
Tract and the Excelsior Homestead are
complaining, and with excellent reason,
OF the hog ranches in the vicinity of their
homes.
pig at best is not dainty in his tastes,
and will grunt joyfully in view of mud
bath in any convenient puddle, but it is re-
served for the penned-up swine of South
San Francisco to demonstrate how low
these animals may sink and live. And to
the moral credit of those imprisoned pork
ers some of them do not live. as the dead
carcasses now lying inside of the pens at
many of the ranches will prove.
But nothing euphonIc will fully and
clearly explain Just now filthy these places
are, and a look at the creatures wadlng IN
the cesspools OF their habitations is dis
gusting In the extreme. The pens in every
case are too small for the number of hogs
crowded in them, as all of the ranches are
owned by small landholders, who make
their living by fattening swine for the mar
ket. The animals are fed on the Stops
from the restaurants, and every day these
unsightly tankwagons can be seen making
their way over the hills to the hog ranches.
Neither vehicles nor drivers are very
nice affairs as they go along the public
thoroughfare.
There are about twenty-five of these hog
farms within the City limits, each and
every one of them a nuisance to the neigh
borhood. In many places families living
near these unclean spots have been at
tackled by sickness In the form OF an
| epidemic. Empty dwelling-houses can be
seen alongside of hog ranches where the
tenants were driven away by the malodor-
| Gus and germ-breeding institutions.
| The Excelsior Homestead is a pretty
| tract drained by Islas Creek, and along
! both slopes of the stream the hog-rancher
has located with his pens and slopwagon.
When the drainage from the establish
ments reaches the creek the little stream
| flows on polluted to the bay. Arthur Nc
Cooey has a ranch on Italy street OF 800
hogs.
| This is one of the places complained of,
and when Health Inspectors Kinne and
Duren and the reporter visited 1t yester-
day they found that an effort had been
made to clean the pens. However, for
sanitary purposes, if not for the practical,
| the attempt was failure and the place
was not nice, to say the least.
| G.. Herrin has an atrociously unclean
ranch at the corner of Athens and Italy
streets-mark how the classic ana the arts
are associated with the South San Fran
| cisco home OF the hog.
John Tyson on Madrid street, near Per-
sia, has about 100 swine penned up in un-
speakable filth, and to every three hogs
he has one cur dog that growls and growls.
| julius Woolf, who runs a ranch at the
corner of Paris and Italy stfeets-ihe
European names of the thoroughfares go
| one way and the names of capital CT les
the other on the Excelsior Homestead
was helping to feed Tyson's swine yester-
day. He mentioned that his own place
| was "a lady's parlor' compared with Ty-
sons. The visitors learned subsequently,
! that Mr. Woolf's ideas of "a lady's parlor"
l I, Tod 1ad cnt nf
pens pig was never confined in. Wnen
the hog farms leave the City Mr.. Woolfs
should head the procession.
| In all the ranches on the homestead the
drainage of the pens is allowed to run
into the street, creating nuisance In pub
lie view OF the passer-by. In some places
efforts have been made to impound the
seepage by catching it In deep holes dug
for the purpose. This creates cesspool
which does its part in poisoning the at
mosphere and spreading pestilence
around. But bad as affairs are on the Ex-
celsior homestead, down in Bay View they
are worse. Many places in this pretty
suburb are made unfit to live in by the
neighboring hog farms.
Here the dead animals were found lying
in the drainage outside of the pens. Frank
Schuster has about thirty hogs in few
old filthy pens on the corner OF Twenty.
first avenue South and street. He stated
his place and cleaned his yard. The place
did not appear to have been visited by any
tide since the deluge.
The place of Peter Godfrey, a near neigh
bor, was equally bad, but the ranch of
George Siam bough threw all the others in
the shade. Its foul, or rather vile, condi-
ton, is indescribable and merits the imme-
diate attention of the Board of Health.
In fact the line known as the "bog linn
its' should be placed further south, so
that the swine-infested spots in Bay View
and the Excelsior Homestead be cleansed.
In view of the numerous complaints
from property-owners in those tracts the
health authorities are satisfied that the
matter must be acted upon and the
ranches removed to localities where they
will not be an offense to residents in the
vicinity.
1t is estimated that of the 80, 600 paupers
in London two-thirds are able-bodied and
capable of working.