Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
City officials Decide TO Enforce Garbage
Ordinance Provisions.
NO MORE DUMPING WITHIN CITY LIMITS
Mayor Koutsky Determined q Have
streets and Alleys CieRned and
city Kept in Better Sani-
tary Condition.

City officials say they will tolerate no
more nonsense in the handling OF garbage.
II appears that when property owners re-
ceive notice to clean up and they have
the refuse carted away. The dray-
man takes the refuse. which often includes
manure, and dumps 1t on vacant property
or in holes in the unpaved streets. While
a few places might be cleaned In this way
the nuisance was in no way abated.
BY the present city ordinance, which
provides for the hauling Of garbage upon
the securing Of a permit, a fine Of from
s. to $50 is imposed for a violation. No
attention has been paid to the restrictions
Of the ordinance by those who do the
hauling. One teamster had the audacity to
haul a load Of rubbish and dump 1t on
the vacant lot adjoining the city hall
building on the north. This was too much
for the inspectors and a vigorous cam
paign will be started at once.
Naturally garbage haulers object to the
long ride to the river and endeavor in
various ways to evade the law in hopes of
escaping detection. Commencing Monday
each police of1cer and the inspectors on
duty will be instructed to arrest any
garbage hauler found dumping refuse or
manure inside the limits prescribed by
ordinance. This order applies as well to
keepers Of livery stables as any others and
It is understood that the mayor proposes
to enforce II.
BY carrying out the plans laid down by
the mayor the city will soon be cleaned
up and in better sanitary condition than 1t
has been in a long time. There is some
talk Of making a radical change in the
handling of garbage here, but this matter
will hardly come up before the council
until that body gets a little better ac-
quainted with municipal affairs.
Mayer Koutsky stands Firm.
The four democratic members Of the
city council made a demand on Mayor
Koutsky yesterday that they be permitted
to name eight OF the appointees, that Is,
two for each of the democratic members.
While no answer was at first given to
the request 1t was proposed that a con-
ference be held later in the day. About
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the four
democrats met with the mayor at the lat
ter's ONCE and the request was again
made, this time in detail.
After hearing what the democrats had
to say the mayor replied that he had been
elected mayor Of South Omaha by the peo-
pie and that II they had not wanted him
he would not pave Deeu eleCt6Q' AS NC
had been chosen by a majority Of nearly
800 over his democratic competitor he
considered that II was the desire Of the
voters that a republican act as mayor. The
request of the democrats was then turned
down fatty. The mayor said that he
would not consider any proposition OF the
kind made and would not enter into any
tie-up. When the mayor had given his
decision the democrats departed, well
aware Of the fact that their attempt to
make a tie-up with the chief executive had
failed.
Telephone, telegraph and electric light
linemen were kept on the jump all day
yesterday repairing the damage done by the
storm Of Friday night. A force under City
Electrician Holland was also employed to
straighten out the tangled fire alarm wires
Last night the lights all over the city were
turned on as usual and telephone and tele-
graph service resumed. The fire alarm
wires are again In good shape, though it
took a lot of hustling on the part OF the
linemen to untangle the kinks in the wires.
Considering the violence of the storm lit
tie damage was done except to wires, signs
and windows. Street Commissioner Clark
reports only a few washouts, and these
will be filled the FIRST thing Monday marn-
ing. Some fences and sheds we're blown
down, but in no single instance was the
damage great.
Dog Tags Not on Hand Yet.
As Mayor Koutsky has not yet appointed
a dog catcher the city clerk has not deemed
II advisable to order tags for this year.
1t is expected that the mayor will take
this matter up on Monday and will desig-
nate a time for the commencement Of ope-
rafiona IL fa fh0u0hf nnW that the do0 /
catcher will not be able to commence be-
fore the middle of May. as 1t has been GUS
tomary for the authorities to give the peo-
pie a certain number Of days In which to
procure tags.
New Lecture Series.
Rev. d. X. Tindal of Omaha will deliver
the first OF a series Of lecture at the Y.
NJ. c. A. rooms here this afternoon. These
lectures. three In humber, will be Illus
trated. the topic for this afternoon being
From Joppa to Jerusalem" As the In
terest in these mems meetings has been
constantly on the increase. it is expected
that the attendance this afternoon will be
large.
II was understood yesterday that the
Board OF Education would hold a meeting
Monday night. At this meeting more than
likely the board will designate certain
banks as city repositories and as soon as
this lie done City Treasurer Howe will
come into possession of the school funds,
which still remain in the hands Of Frank
Koutsky. The board will meet formally
on May 6 to organize, but the election Of
teachers and ~jsnitors will not be taken
up until the FIRST meeting in June At
least that was the statement MADE by a
member yesterday.
school Teachers Meeting.
There was a we'll attended meeting OF
the teachers Of the public schools at the
high school building yesterday forenoon.
Two papers of considerable interest were
read. The first was by Miss Herman and
dealt with the question OF beautifying
school grounds. To this paper Miss Tur-
ner responded. Second on the program
was q paper by Miss Theresa o'Tooie en-
titled The Ideal School Room. This pa
per was responded to by Miss Chapman.
Following the reading OF these papers
and the discussions there was a meeting OF
eighth grade teachers. Matters Of general
interest to the teachers were discussed at
this meeting.
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