The record-union., 1899-03-30
ANOTHER DANGER.

| Trustee Paine said he did not think
that the sewer pump at S and Front
streets was being properly managed.
| The engineers and all concerned are
trying to save all they can from the
wreck The motor has been taken out.
The Mayor and Street Committee have
been in consultation with Engineer
Robinson of the railroad company, and
i it has been decided to drive several feet
in width of piles inside the levee to
keep out the sipage water from the
river.
Trustee Tebbets said he had called at
tention to the matter last Monday
night, but no one paid any attention.
The people of that part of the city do
not realize the danger of inundation.
Now more expense is contemplated, no
one knows how much. He moved that
in this case of emergency the Mayor be
authorized and empowered to expend
any sum- that may be necessary to pro-
| tect the city. Carried.
THE CREMATORY.
| j. w. Northrup, representative of the
lCrematory Company that is asking for
a franchise in this city made very in
teresting address on the subject. He
went back to the early ages and de-
picted the miseries under which man
kind labored, the history of great epi-
denies and the great advances made
in late years by sanitary science, which
he said must be of necessity a blessing
| to the race He stated that the dumps
| of New York City have been on fire for
| fifty years, and in Lowell fire had been
| found at a depth of twenty feet under
the dumps. From all these dumps are
continually emanating noxious gases,
that destroy life. They breed bacteria
and cause zymotic diseases like diph-
| iberia, scarlet fever and others. Re-
duction works have been tried in many
cities and have been abandoned
He presented a map of this city, on
which were marked in colors the locali-
ties where the diseases spoken of had
prevailed. He showed that in those To-
calities garbage dumps had prevailed
He described the process of disintegra-
tion of organic matter of various kinds,
following it through it's various steps
and said that the diseases caused by it
were preventable, as has been demon
strated by sanitary science. 1t was no
more murder that Mrs. Botkin had
been declared guilty of than is being
done in this and other cities by the
practice of dumping garbage. The ques-
ton now is how is it to be stopped
and prevented.
San Francisco had been forced to
abandon it's garbage dumps and found
that. reduction plants were too expen-
sive. 1t therefore granted a franchise
to the Crematory Company and a Gre
matory of 70O-ton capacity was put
up and has been running for a year and
half
Copies of the proposed ordinance were
distributed among the members of the
beard 1t is very long and embraces
the plans according to which bids must
be asked for.
Mr. Northrup assured the board that
his company, if it should erect a Gre
matory here, would operate it with a
view to the public good and the public
health. Even the smoke will be Gre
mated, and there will be no cause for
complaint.
Mr. Northrup was then granted per-
mission to read the proposed ordinance,
together with his company's original
application for a franchise. It was
nearly half-past 10 o'clock when he
commenced to read the document
There was some informal discussion
of its points, but no action was taken
by the board.