The record-union., 1899-03-28

exaggerated. They are two miles from
the suction pipes.
The matter of removal of Chinese
bodies was referred to the Street Com
mittee, to be reported on next week.
Contractor Sheehan, who hauls the
garbage. thought that a great ado had
been made about nothing. He had
taken dry cloths from undertaking es-
Establishments, but nothing else. No
dead animals, he said, are dumped
there
Kent moved that the city select a
suitable site for a. creunatory, but
changed his motion that the City Clerk
receive bids for suitable place not to
exceed five acres, outside the city linn
its, for garbage dumps.
Trustee Dolan moved as an amend
ment that the Street Committee be
empowered to change the location of
the dumps until Mr.. Kent introduces
the proper resolution. He said the
people want them removed immedl-
ately. He wished to have Kent and
Devine added to the committee.
Trustee Brown spoke for the amend
ment, and said all the board wished
was to find the best place for them. lie
wanted a crematory, if there was
money, and hoped the city would get
one
Trustee Tebbets said there had been
much trouble over the dumps. Mr..
Kent had wanted them in the Second
Ward, and he was willing that they
should go there if the citizens want
them.
Trustee Kent said he had not asked
for the dumps, nor had his people. Two
men had said if the city could find no
place they would take the garbage and
cover it up. If the city is not getting
the rags, it is getting the tea from
the dumps.
George Murray said Kent was telling
the truth, and he knew it.
A wordy war ensued between Trustee
Tebbets and Mr.. Murray, during which
the Chairman yainly raped for order.
When things became quiet Mr.. Murray
said he thought the present the worst
possible place. Mr.. Kreuzberger had
said that the city could put the garbage
in his pits, south of the Y-street levee,
but he hoped that it would not be done
He wanted the water supply kept pure.
The Board of Trustees is constantly
violating the ordinance against buryinS
dead animals, and ought really to be
arrested.
Dolans amendment was carried, and
Kent was added to the committee.
DIR. Fay addressed the board and said
he had been the unwilling cause OF
considerable comment. The object OF
his remarks to the papers had been to
benefit the city and guard its health.
He had inspected the dumps, and mad
been told by men who knew that when
the river went down the stuff would
run out and down to the suction pipe
He had investigated, and still believed
it. He advocated the fixing of the levee
before the water runs out, so that II
cannot run out He had made his state
ment to the Record Union as prl-
vate citizen. and the Board of Health
was not responsible for his statements.
If people read his sIaNc1ent caretully
they would see that he did not say the
water was now polluted, but would be.
Trustee Kent had said to him that a
barrel of waste a day was carted away
from one undertaker's rooms. He
thought the proper place for the waste
was on the dumps, but he had investi-
gated, and found out that the liquid
portion went into the sewers and the
rags to the dumps. He had made the
statement on the strength Of Kent's
portion of the intestines was removed
As far as possible the dumps are in
fected by the undertaker's waste. and
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the interview to the Record Union" as
a citizen, deeming it his duty when he
found that undertakers' garbage was
put on the dumps. That the liquid was
put in the sewer and the solid waste oD
the dumps did not alter matters. The
Board of Health had now appointed
him on a committee to ask the Board
of Trustees to take measures for get
ting a crematory as soon as. possible
He was willing to take the blame OF
any statements he had made, ana
would be glad to aid the Board in any
way that he could.
Trustee Tebbets said the board had
been for three weeks considering the
crematory question, and the Board or
Health was a little late.
DR.. Fay retorted that the Board Of
Health had been urging it for three
years. He had been corresponding with
various cities, and found that for Slo,-
900 the city could build it's own ere
matory, employ Sacramento citizens to
collect the garbage, and spend the
money at home. The main expense, ne
understood, would be the chimney.
a levee thirty to- forty feet long is built
at once, it will keep the water from
flowing from the dumps back into the
river He had been told it would not
cost over $50.
Trustee Brown moved that the Su-
perintendent of Streets be instructed to
build such levee, not to cost over ) lou.
SUPERINTENDENT of Streets Touhey said
he could build it for that amount.
Health officer Nichols said the posi-
ton of the Board Of Health was well
known. He had thought after the
dumps were located that possibly they
would do no harm, but when the water
came up it was slack, and although 1t
was now lowering he did not think any
Of the filth had yet run back into the
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