The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-27
THE ICE QUESTION.
Communication Sent to the City
Council bv Mrs. Jensen.

Following is the petition sent to the city
council by Mrs. Jensen on Tuesday night:
Salt Lake City. Utah. May %. 1897.
To the Members OF the Sanitary Commit
tee of the City Council of Salt Lake
City:
Gentlemen-Your petitioner respectfully
represents that she has been un1ustly
Disseminated against in an ATTEMPT on
the part of ]. J. Greenewald. the inspect
or OF provisions to condemn ice mar
thereof. That on or about the Goth day
OF December 1896. said Greenewald came
to my ice pond, in Mil Creek and stated
that he was there to get a bottle OF
in charge to dip it full of water from the
pond; yhereuDon the said Greenewald
went around the ice pond about half a
mile from where the water was hrst
taken from the pond and there found a
place at q dam where the water had
driDDed from the bushes and where the
snow had accumulated and formed Il pud-
die. and from said puddle dipped up the
water into q bottle, which puddle, how
ever was not deep enough to fiil the bot
tie and stated that the said water was
taken for the purpose of making an anal
ysis. and that the party owning the pond
should go down and pay for the analysts
At said time the husband of the UNDER
signed went to the office of the said
GreeRewald and there refused 10 pay for
making an analysis of the water IN the
bottle presented to him at that time. as
ice pond. and that he did not know where
it was taken from; and thereafter. on the
S1st day of December. 1896. the said
Greenewald forwarded to the said Lars
Jensen the following letter:
From the inspection made of your
pond. and from refusal to have water
analysed, we have condemned your pond
as unfit to harvest ice for consumption in
the corporate limits of Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake county. Utah. for the year A
D. 1897 Please take due notice and gov
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After the receipt of which l saw the said
Greenewald. and requested of him the
privilege OF selling the ice sought TO be
Condemned to butchers for cooling pur.
poses. and said Greenewald then states
that the ice harvested by the undersigned
could not be sold within five miles of Salt
from the pond in question in February,
the undersigned made repeated efforts
and requests of the said Creenewald to
get him to so to the ice house and pro-
cure any piece of ice therein tor the yu-.
pose of analysis. and the said Greenewald
refused so 10 go: and that on the 10th day
of April of this year two disinterested
persons took piece of ice from INV ice
house and had an ANALYSIS made of the
same. which analysis showed that the ice
was in proper condition to be sold and
could be used without any deleteroius eff
feet and that a short time thereafter.
after another effort to get the said
Greenewald 10 so with me to procure
piece of ice from said icehouse for the
taken by a disinterested person from said
icehoGse for the purpose of analysis, and
upon analysis the said ice showed good
condition from a sanitary standpoint and
could be used without any deIeterious ef-
feet. That all OF the ice so taken from
said icehouse is of the same quality as
the ice analysed; and that the said
Greenewald has refused to make any ii-
vestigation of the nature or quality of the
ice. or 70 issue a permit therefor from the
presentation of the ANALYSIS or TO hear
the testimony of the witnesses who took
the said ice. That in the futherance of
said plan the said Greeaewald has made
repeated statements to parties. with the
intention and effect of preventing them
from purchasing ice from the undersigned,
and has stated that the ice could not be
sold whether Il was good or bad. and
other statements and circumstances
which I will not set forth at length in
this communication.
l therefore ask that an investigation
may be had of the conduct of the said
GreenewaId. and that the undersigned
may be permitted to present the evidence
herein referred to and other circum
stance from which it will appear that the
said Greenewald has acted in the matter
OF the attempted condemnation of said ice
unjustly and with malicious discrimina
ton.
MARY Z. JENSEN.