Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-15
AT THE CITY HALL.
miscellaneous Matters of Interest to
Taxpayers and the Munic-
iDnI Officers.

The city physicians Office is crowded
these days with applicants for treatment
and for medicine for sick relatives at home.
A great majority of the applicants are
women most of whom are the wives OF
laboring men. They nearly all tell the
same story-husbands out of work and
children sick. But there is noticeable here
an element which the city physicians as
sistants say is new. 1t is made up of the
man or woman who has seen better days.
They are usually well dressed. with cloth
ing. perhaps, just beginning to show the
effects of wear. Then there are others
who are afflicted with imaginary ills. They
are not quite sure they are SICK, put thlak ;it
there must be something the matter with
them, and as long as the city pays the
bills they are willing TO be doctored. Sun
another class, which Is suodiylslon 81 OIL tiie
ible with Incidence and bad liquor, op-
crates on the theory that 1t IS eXpedlent
to get all one can of anything that Is Iree'
What they do with the medicine Is a mys-
terry One of the attendants said yester-
day: u.o,, old .ror,or has been here =
dozen times, l guess. after camphor. She
said that her daughter was subject to
headaches and that camphor only woul1
alleviate the pain. The last time she was
here l found out where she lives, and yes
terday L went there. She lives in a little
shanty on East Third street. The window
sills and mantels and every nook and
and, from their appearance, the corks had
not even been drawn. The old woman was
not at home, but a negress who lives IN
| part of the shanty admitted me. she SAID
| the old woman had no daughter, and she
couldn't conceive what was wanted OF the
| camphor."
| extent, which applies to the mayor for
| clothing and provisions. They usually go
| to the mayors Office first, then come down
the elevator and pay the city physician
| visit.
| AS a sequel to the broken rock scandal
which engaged, the attention Of the board
| of public works for several weeks last
| fall, the last of the debt owed the city by
| Contractor ]. E. Ferris was yesterday
| wiped out by the payment of $20992 This
rock had been broken by the workhouse
| gangs and was sold by eX-Comptroller
| Shannon to Ferris to be used as macadam
No record was made of the TRANSACTIONS
however, and for a time 1t looked as II the
| city might not be able to collect the debt
Ex-Alderman A. B. Olson called at the
| city hall yesterday to kick about the un-
| sanitary condition of o. X. creek. He says
| there are smells reeking up from the bee
which he doesn't know the English names
| of. He also found language inadequate tc
| express the condition of the Southwest
boulevard, but said if the slush got mucf
| deeper the ordinary wagon traffic woulc
have to give way to a convoy of dongoias
The owner of a frame barn at 1O16 Grow,
street yesterday complained to the boar
of health that a garbage wagon drive
had backed his vehicle into the structure
demolishing it, and burying cow an'
| three pigs in the debris. The animals wer
rescued alive. but he wanted the city t
pay him SO for the barn. He was told tina
the board of health had no jurisdiction IL
the matter.
The largest benefit assessment that ha
ever been paid in Kansas City was received
yesterday in the office of the city treasure5
The amount was $6,41T44, paid by A. r
Meyer for benefits assessed against land
in the South park district, fronting upol
East boulevard, near the southern cit
limits. The interest upon this amour
would have been $3.50 day.
President r. L. Yeager, of the board o
education, has received a letter from Cat
Physician Coffin, notifying him of the un
| sanitary condition of the Chace and MorS
schools. He says the heating apparatus i
these buildings is very badly arranged, re
sulting in an ununiform heating of IN
rooms. The school board will give tn
matter its attention.
Six cigar and news dealers called upo
! City License Inspector Earhart yesterda
to protest against paying their license Q
SO a year, when grocets, druggists an
inspector told them that their only remed
, was to see the aldermen and have IN
ordinance amended.
.. Attorneys Haff and Palmer and Enginee
= Kessler, of the park board, yesterday II
, spected the properties which are to |
taken for Penn valley park, preparator
to the trial of the case after the jury
impaneled tomorrow.
David Mccormick finished paving Wasl
ngton street yesterday, He also finisht
, | another small job, which consisted of rol