The record-union., 1898-03-08
THOSE WHO HAVE THE DUMPS
THEY ASK THE TRUSTEES TO
REMOVE THEM.
Milk Inspector Ordinance Will be
Amended and Tried
Again.


-egular weekly session last night
Trustees Mckay, Tebbets, Douglas,
Paine, Dolan, Brown, Devine and Kent
being present.
The following messages from the
Mayor were read:
To the Board of Trustees: l respect
fully report that, in company with ID.
Mckay, President of your board, ana
A. A. De Ligne, City Attorney counted
the money placed before me by the
City Treasurer, and found in his posses
sion money as follows: Gold, aof-,-
4S2 30.
The above amount agrees with the
books of the City Auditor and CITY
Treasurer. Respectfully submitted,
VIM. LAND. Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: L herewith
transmit to your honorable board COM
munication received from Henry Guth-
rie. Chief Engineer Of the Fire Depart
ment, charging James Woods, hoseman
of Engine Company, No. ), with being
intoxicated on the night of the ..4th of
October. 1897, and also on November .,
1897. while at a fire on Seventeenth
street, between j and X streets in this
city.
TeCOHlfleflu llldl lIlillleuleilc dclloi4 pc
taken in this matter and that the same
be thoroughly investigated by your
beard. Very respectfully,
WM. LAND. Mayor.
To the Board of Trustees: BY and
with your consent. | hereby nominate
and appoint Augustine A. Baker TO fill
the position of Clerk to the Superinten-
dent of Streets. Respectfully submitted,
JAMES TOUHEY.
Superintendent of Streets.
There We're also read the messages
approving the prohibition of keno play
ing and that relating to fireworks, as
Well as that vetoing the MIX lnspec-
tor ordinance, heretofore published
Trustee Devine said he thought the
charges We're very remote, and that
the board would spend some time in
discussing them to no purpose. Wood
was rot the only one in the city's en-
ploy that drinks and had been in trou-
BILE on other charges, but had been
declared not guilty. He moved that
the charges be dismissed, and Kent
seconded the motion.
Paine moved that the matter be re-
ferred to the Fire Department Com
mittee.
Trustee Devine moved that the veto
be upheld.
Trustee Tebbets said he was very
sorry tc see the Mayor Of this city, who
had stood on the platform and indorsed
the sanitary plank, and promised to up
hold it. He was astonished to hear
this veto. There are more children and
older persons dying in this city from
impure milk and food than from defec-
tive sewers. The Mayor vetoes the
ordinance and says that he does so
because there is no money in the fund
while at the same time he has signed
an ordinance that creates the office
of Clerk to the Street Superintendent
at salary of $500 a year
This ordinance is in the interest of
the poor man. The rich man uses
cream. while the poor man uses the
milk that is often half water, and it
is the poor that have TO suffer. The
citizens have been for years begging for
the creation OF this office in self-pro-
lection. This officer would be a Food
Inspector as we'll as a Milk Inspector,
and is badly needed. If any people
wish to eat rotten meat and wilted
vegetables they can do so, but he
wanted none of it. He himself had re
Gently left a restaurant to get away
from the smell of a rotten steak that
was brought on the table. 1t is a
matter of protection 10 life of old and
young. San Francisco has an inspec-
tor, and it has resulted in great saw
ing OF infant life.
If this ordinance is passed over. the
Mayors veto. the milk wagons will be
overhauled in short order and great
good will be done He would let ten
months of his salary lie. If necessary.
TO see the ordinance passed and The
people protected. The ordinance does
give the inspector q great deal of
power, and IL. is necessary to do so.
If proper. he would move to withdraw
the ordinance and insert the bond and
one-year provisions. although the San
itary Inspector is not under bonds.
Give the thing a trial and let the peo-
Pile be protected. Warm weather is
coming on, when it is difficult TO keep
milk and meat fresh and good.
Trustee Dolan said the member from
the First exactly expressed his feel
ings regarding an inspector. If the
Mayor would examine the expendi-
lures, he would find that last year
about $4,000 was expended on a pump
and 5000 for an election that win not
have 10 be paid out this year The
people demanded Milk and Food In
spector TO protect them from the adul-
terations practiced on them. He had
been IA the grocery business for many
years and knew how Il was. He be-
lev2d the board should have a right TO
amend the ordinance and not let it
drop because one or two members OPP
pose il on account Of the money. The
people demand a Milk and Food In
spec,or.
Trustee Devne said he had talked
with number of people. and they all
opposed TO the inspector. some going so
far as to say that members who favor
1t should be removed from office. and