The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23

installation of the water system along
RoSabel street, and since then we have
not mad as many cases in a year In
that district as we had then in a week.
My duties as a city official are to
look after the health of the citizens. 1
have sometimes been criticised for my
actions, but l tell you when health is
at stake I cannot take the dollar into
consideration. If some ones property
Is going to bring about sickness, it
must be destroyed or removed immedf-
ately, no matter whom the loss falls
upon.
The funds of my department are
very limited, but by great economizing
ana hard and faithful work by my as
slstants we manage to get through.
We find about the city now and
then unsanitary houses owned by peo-
pie outside of the city, who refuse to
repair them. We Immediately place a
sign upon the house, marking them as
unsanitary and do not permit any one
TO live there until the necessary repairs
are made. Such actions generally
brings results Immediately, for when
you touch mans pocketbook, he is
generally willing to come to terms. and
1t is better to get him to do this than
to bring him into the municipal court,
where they generally beat US.
-NPioiiS SiICCC SIGdnInQs
I'm regard to street cleaning" said
DR.. Ohage, there is a peculiar condf-
ton of affairs in this city. due to an
error or the charter commission. The
allowance for street cleaning, as in all
other departments of the city. should
be made on the percentage plan, in
stead of placing stated limit upon it
Ii the fund was created that way it
would be more elastic and there would
be enough to carry on the work. At
present the appropriation for street
cleaning is just the same as it was
ter years ago, while the city has grown
80 per cent larger.
I'VE have two kinds of street
sWeepers; paid and volunteer. The
paid men are the White Wings and the
volunteers are the women with the
long trailing skirts. We have also had
another kind of a volunteer lately to
which L object most strenuousIy. 1t is
wrong to let some actress come along
and muddle up half block of one of
our streets and besmirch the fair name
OF our city all over the land, just to
give her a little advertising"
Cut Out Politics in City Affairs.
DR.. Ohage declared that there were
men in TIE city council who must he
Weeded out. People who have been
reading the papers know who they are
ana VIII attend to them at the next
election. There should be less partf-
sanlsm in city politics. 1 am neither a
republican nor a Democrat, but I vote
for the best man every time. We should
endeavor to get good business men into
our council and then stand behind
them and enforce their endeavors to Sc
cure good government"
All the people 1 have compelled to
put in smoke consumers are now nv
best friends" said Dr. Ohage in dis
cussing the smoke problem. '"They find
that by buying better fuel and using
the consumers, they save 80 or 40 per
cent in their coal bills. For instance,
there is the Aberdeen hotel. 1t resist
ed me at first, but the proprietors now
gladly tell me that they are saving
~ per cent by buying better fuel and
using smoke consumers.
When 1 was told to enforce this or
d1nance l only did it after a confer
ence with engineers and firemen. who
told me that it could be done without
harm to anyone"