Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-08-31
A LETTER FROM THE :
CITY BY THE SEA.
The odoriferous warfarecon-
cerning the removal of
the City Garbage.
THE STATE BOARD OF HEHIH APPEALED 10.
THE CLOSE OF THE SEASON, AND GLANCE
AT ITS BUSINESS.

There is war to the knife, and knife
clear up to the butt of the handle, be-
tween the Board of Health and the
Sanitary Committee of Council, and all
on account of the garbage that is not
properly disposed Of. Meanwhile it
''smells to Heaven" as the late Billy
Shakespeare phrased it, and it ought to
be smelled in the, other place, too,
judging from the aggregated and
segregated stinks that greet the noses
of everybody that comes within mile
of it. What a splendid tribute it is to
the foresight and efficiency of the powers
that govern this boss-ridden town. All
the bosses from top to bottom are
fighting each other. and between them
all the people suffer and are beautifully
"heeced." These bosses that are eter-
nally pulling and hauling, like lot of
athletic boys in "tug of war;" remind
me of the rival schools of doctors. If
patient is sick an allopathic pill mixer
had rather see him die than to see him
cured by homeopath, and the home
opathic dispenser of sugar-coated
pellets would rather see him ''kick the
bucket" than to have him stood upon
his pins again by graduate of the old
school of Medicine. So in this garbage
and crematOry war. The Board of
Health would rather see the garbage a
mile deep than to have any of their pet
plans or theories upset, aud the Sanitary
Committee feel about the same way
toward the Board of Health. The war
fare became hot and was still heating,
and the garbage was piled up and still
stinking, when the State Board of
Health was called upon to act in the
interest of the City's health and DR..
Hunt, of the State Board, came here
last week. shifted up few shifts of the
different odors, and made arrangements
to have protocol of peace signed be-
tween the City Board of Health and the
that the bad condition of the Turnpike
bridge made it impracticable to haul off
the accumlated garbage, which leads me
to ask why there is any accumulated
garbage to haul. The City has purchas-
ed a lot for a new crematory, and the
has ordered one built with capacity to
burn all the garbage, every day, but
somebody, for some purpose best known
to themselves, have blocked every effort
made by the Sanitary Committee, and
so we stand just where we did year
ago-with the health OF the City menaced
and no one allowed to make any head
way toward better condition of affairs.
What is the cause and why is the game
always blocked Some say there is q
pile of old iron that stands in the way.
Some say that our reform" Mayor
impedes progress, and some say one
thing and some another. Between them
all nothing is done. But it will not al
ways be thus. The health of Atlantic
City is too important to be trif1ed With,
and there will be an uprising, sometime,
among the people who have large pro-
perty and business interests here that
will everlastingly clean out the tribe of
corrnpt, conscienceless, and trading
politicians that are plotting only to
further their own selfish schemes-and
replace them with solid men who can be
relied upon to do what is for the best
interest of the whole city. When that
great day comes hope to be still walk
ing around on this old revolving planet
and to see a reiuvenated and stinkless
"City-by-the-Sea."
The backbone of the season is broken
and thousands will 60 home this week
If the weather holds warm there will be
a couple more Sundays of big transient
travel but the majority Of our regular
visitors will eight out" about the first
week in September. There is no doubt
the war scare in the Spring hurt the
renting of cottages, but the number ofre-
gular and transient boarders was never
greater. All the first-class houses have
had q splendid season since the middle
of July, and phen0menally 80 during the
month of August. The railroad accom-
mOdations have been better than ever
before, and there has been no serious
accident to mar the record of summer
travel. ALI the railroad officials have
performed their duties faithfully and
that means much where SO many people
are dependent upon their watchfulness
skill and courtesy.
The Fire Department has had no
serious fires to contend with aud the
little blazes they have had were soon
put out. There is probably no city in
the country with the same amount of
infiammable property that has better
fire protection or fire department that
watches more vigilantly.
The Police Department has also made
good record for the season. There have
been no big robberies and no great
crimes committed to frighten away
timid and nervous people. The "crooks"
have not reaped much of a harvest,
owing to the vigilance of the police and
detectives-who have quietly notified
them that their presence would not be
tolerated. Of course there have been
some drunks, both plain and ornamen-
entail, but the majority of befuddied
visitors have not made much fuss. A
few have reached the front of the Recor-
der's desk and contributed their little
mite toward the expenses of the city,
but the most of them got back home
with only q muddled recollection of
how they got there. | suppose there
has been about the usual number Of
both sexes who forgot who their regu-
lar partners were, and jumped the
fence for awhile when sojourning at
the seashore but that always happens
everywhere, to greater or less extent,
and the police are not held responsible
for moral shortcomings. The most that
can be expected of them is tIat they
shall preserve the peace of the CITY, pre-
vent crime as far as possible, and ferret
out the crooks" who come here to prey
upon the innocent and unwary. This
believe has been done G1iSa as faithfully
as ever before as the general good order
and safety of the city will attest. There
are some things that the police are not
| expected to see. They are not expected
| to "see" the pslam-singing old hypo-
critics who put on long faces, and
| humble prayers, and make liberia
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