The age-herald., 1898-09-24
MAYOR AFTER THE
 GARBAGE FORGE City Must be Thoroughly Cleaned Of
 Trash. KICKS LONG, LOUD, LUSTY Registered on the Sanitary Inspectors
 Book.
TRASH NOT MOVED FOR 3 WEEKS
Four Additional Garbage Wagons Plac- ed on Duty by the City-Water Case Will Probably Be
 Heard Next Week.

| ing the past few days regarding the trash | and filth that is allowed to accumulate and | remain in the streets and alleys for weeks l without being removed have been loud, long | and lusty.
 | Sanitary Inspector Thomas keeps a
 memorandum book open at the city hall at | all hours. When there is complaint all one has to do is to walk in, pick up the pencil that Is kept near by attached to a l string, and write it out in as strong lan- l guage as can be commanded. During the past few weks the pages have l been filling Up rather rapidly, as the follow | ing record will show: Some of the Complaints Clean alley in rear of 93O south Twen- l tieth street.
 Remove trnah at 2OoS Sixth avenue and 1 also next door.
 | Remove garbage at Fourteenth avenue | and Thirteenth street. Has not been re- | moved in two weeks. Polceman's report. Remove garbage at 1901 Fourteenth aye
 nue. Mail carrier.
 | At 7OS Twentieth street garbage has not | been removed in two weeks. Remove garbage at Fourteenth avenue l between Nlneleenln ana 1Wenlleln SlfeetS' l No wagon or cart has been here in two weeks.
 Bethea's house, Sixteenth street and Eff | teenth avenue. No sanitary work has been attended to in four weeks. | Move trash from Thirteenth street and l Fourth avenue. Has not been moved in | three weeks Eight barrels of trash there, | so the man said
 Wagon load of trash at one place in Fifth alley between Twenty-third and Twenty | fourth streets.
 | Remove trash and garbage at 1920 Twen- tieth street Not moved in two weeks. Please remove garbage from 2525 Fourth | avenue.
 Please remove garbage from 2612 Avenue E. between Twenty-sixth and Twenty seventh streets. Remove garbage on Park avenue between
 Twentieth and Twenty-first streets.
 Trash wagon has not been in the alley opposite 1916 FtArth avenue in amonth
 Great deal of trash that needs to be
 hauled off.
 Remove trash at MT. A Bells, at 113l North Twentieth street and clean closets Not been cleaned in two weeks.
 People on Morris avenue are complaining of garbage being left over night and not being moved in the morning.
 Send for trash at 2000 Sixth avenue.
 Remove trash and garbage Fourteenth street and Avenue D. The place is in very bad condition. Dr. Luckie.
 This is the third time that it has b2en reported to move garbage in alley between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. The trash has not been taken up Tor three weeks at S15 North Twentieth street, and it is that way all the time. The last time they took it up 1 had to call them and make them do it.
 Numerous notices of dead dogs, cows and other animals interspersed among these. The city force has it's troubles as well as others
 Inspector on His Mettle
 These numerous complaints put Inspector Thomas on his mettle and he, with the aio of Mayor Evans, has been stirring things up. There was a general upheaVal In the sanitary department yesterday and the mayor was in close consultation With diI- ferent parties connected with this end or the work nearly al the aftern oon. Four garbage wagons additional to those furn- ished by Dunn & Lelande Bros, the regu- lar contractors have been put on These will be kept at work for the present.
 The question has arisen as to whether the city will pay for these additional Wag- ons or the regular garbage contractors. The contract reads that any additional wagons can be put on by the city II found necessary. The expense under this section would be charged to the contractors. The monthly allowance for this work to the firm of Dunn & Lelande Bros. is $526.
 The four additional wagons alone cost sig per day This is about half the entire amount paid to the garbage contractors and it is not probable that they will be made to bear the cost although the matter will be discussed by the proper committee and reported to the board of aldermen
 Mayor Evans says that he intends having the city cleaned up and placed in proper sanitary condition.
 The garbage contractors say that in a great many instances the complaints are exaggerated. In other cases they are true, but are always corrected as soon as pos sible.
 ''We have to haul dead trees and every thing of the kind,' said MT Lallande in explaining the situation to Mayor Evans" If we don't do it there is a great fuss raised. A great many people are educated to kick and they will kick. Now, on Nor ris avenue we were in the habit of taking up the trash before Il o'clock in the morn- ing The law says that nothing shall be | thrown out after O clock. But after com plaint was made we began taking up the | trash later in the day. The fact was that | trash was thrown out in the afternoon and | the kick was made because it was allowed | to stay over night. In other Instances peo- ] ole expect us to clean up the trash or1nefn \ and the law ooes not say so." |
 This has bepn one cOmplaint made l5y |