The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-18
SANTIAGO OF MORRISTONN.
Editor of Chronicle:


Next to the morals of community
there is nothing so Important as It'll
sanitation. When Emerson declared
that the first wealth is health hi
sounded watchword which viii en-
dure rs long as time. 4ea
Health is never valued till sickness
comes and by timely mending we save
much spending. s ...s
That neglect marks the condition Of
many of our streets is indisputable
and to see one street in particular
converted into one vast bed of gar.
bage is more than my optic nerves
can stand, not to mention the olfac-
tory centers.
Last Sunday afternoon, whilst as.
sisting in gospel wagon work OF
Flagler street, the subscriber had oc-
casion to remain for some time in the
above locality aase
The day was warm, the stanch from
the decaying vegetable matter ter
rife, and glance at the sidewalks
and street found it honeycombed with
all kinds of debris from which emf
mated an odor worse than Sulphur
cited Hydrogen.
The gospel workers were soon cog
INFANT of the filthy surroundings and
believe that it is like taking ones life
in their hands to remain long under
such conditions. To avoid merely
giving superficial or birds eye view
of this menace, went through the
street Monday afternoon and took a
careful inventory of those things
which cause such noxious miasma.
When Gen. Morgan retucned from
Santiago and described to a Morris
town audience how carcasses were al
lowed to putrefy in the streets of
Santiago, prior to American rule, we
all shuddered; but to hear of such a
thing at their very doors will no
doubt shock many more.
However, the i'll credulous may see
for themselves.
Going from the foot of the hill up
ward, on the left side of the street,
the following were seen in hooks, fur
rows and crannies, viz is corn shusks,
6 corn cobs, banana skin, 80 apples,
25 tomatoes, lemon, bones, hats,
caps and human excreta Slew
On the left side of the hilI;. going
down, the following were noticed,
viz. 81 apples in all stages of ,decom-
position, 6 tomatoes, watermelon, 2
corn cobs, and broken glass in no
small quantity. Opposite grocery
store at No. 25, is big garbage and
ash heap, which all the italian resi-
dents use in common In. front of
Mrs. Kelly's property is a big pile of
corn husks and miscellaneous articles.
Wedged in between Rodler's barn
and some out buildingsSis located the
dump for Shelly's Row. Oneepeep at
its contents is enough to satisfy the
most skeptical that it is inimical to
health.
Surely, Mr.. Editor, this place is the
hot bed of disease and there are
sufficient colonies of pathogenic or
ganisms swarming to supply all the
psychological laboratories in the
universe and still have enough re-
to start Bombay. plague.
Around it gathers all kinds of
it is the forces at work
helping to turn the whole city into a
contagious hospital.
o, for one day of Wood or one
hour of the ghost of a Waring to
clean out this Augean Stable.-
To permit it to remain, means to
open the food-gates of disease and
invite the monster plague" to sit
down and argue it out-a rash expert
ment.
If any citizen should start a glue
factory or slaughter house near our
property we would appeal to the
courts and have it stopped.
Cannot something be done to stop
this nuisance?
Let all who love their city, their
homes and their fellow men unite in
an effort to remove this blot from our
community.
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