The age-herald., 1899-08-20
IS HE WAS TRIED WITHOUT 4 HEARING Board of Aldermen Violated First PFinCl-
 pies of Justice. 1 IClTY IS TWICE AS CLEAN | As When He First Went Into Office as
 Inspector. TWO BODIES WILL MEET Committee from the City Council and the Board of Health Will Investi- a gate Charges That Were | Made Friday Night

*% 'I have been condemned by the city 4 council without a hearing. The first principle of justice was violated in the diatribes delivered against the sanitary inspectors at last nights meeting, ,"-Dr. Cotton, one of the sanitary inspectors. "The inspectors no longer make their reports to the board as was once their custom, but to the mayor of the city, who Is more conveniently sit uated to receive them. Neither the mayor nor any other of the city off1- cials have ever made any official com- plaint of the inspectors neglecting their duty and under the present con- ditons the board of health cannot be supposed to know that anything IS wrong until it is reported to them. The mayor relieves them of that re- sponsibility. ."-President Sholl of the board of health.
 ** The police and sanitation committee of the city council, with Mayor Drennen add ed, will meet with the board of health one day this week to decide the fate of the sanitary inspectors. The date has not yet been fixed.
  in the city council chamber Friday night hit the board of health and the sanitary inspectors yesterday morning. The disturb ance was noticeable early in the morning. but simmered down as the day waned.
 The board of health claims that it is blameless on the ground that the inspect ors do not report to that body, but are under the direct supervision of the city. The board appointed the inspectors under authority vested in them by a state law. Dr. Sholl, president of the board, said last ficially made by the city that the inspect ors were neglecting their duties.
 Dr. Cotton, one of the inspectors, said that the city is twice as clean as when ha went into office, and that the board of aldermen violated the first principle of justice in trying him without a hearing.
 General Thomas, the other inspector, made no statement for publication. Dr. Cottons statement follows:
 Violated First Principles of Justice
 'sI have been condemned by the city council without a hearing. The first principle of justice was violated in the
 tiiatribes delivered against the sanitary
 inspectors at last nights meeting. ''I am charged with hanging around the city hall That is not true. I make
 several visits to the city hall every day to look over the books and see what complaints have been made, etc. I re- main there a short while on each visit. I have not been in the city hall half
 hour at a tune since I have been sani-
 tary inspector and have not even a
 desk there.
 ''As to being much on Second avenue
 and vicinity, I answer that by stating
 that my business compels me to be
 there. A large majority of the cases
 where sewers are stopped up or broken,
 or where there is bad plumbing, call
 for visit to the land agent to ascertain
 whether it is the duty of the landlord
 or tenant to have the repair work done.
 These agents are all in the vicinity of
 First and Second avenues and between
 Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. This accounts for my being there so much.
 'As to the garbage contract, the work is being done well. The city Is twice
 as clean as when I took hold. The trouble is that many persons believe the garbage wagon is required to make daily visits. That is not so, except within the narrow area from Fourth avenue to Morris avenue and between Seventeenth and Twenty-third streets. The garbage man is required to visit other localities but once week.
 '"Then again, many complaints are made to other persons besides the san- ftary inspectors, who are not informed of the evil to be corrected, and are con- sequently unable to have 1t remedied. An alderman asked me the other day why I did not have dry goods boxes removed from an alley. That is not within the sanitation departments du- ty It is a matter of police regulation. have been asked to see that weeds and grass are removed from sidewalks. That is also not matter of sanitation, the grass and weeds on sidewalks not being unhealthy except where they hide filth thrown in it. When this is the case I have the evil remedied. ''There Is a telephone at my house. l Why the city council did not summon ] me to hear the charges against me last niol,t I cannot see. It was a case Of