Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-28
SEVER TO SOLVE POND CASE
sy..sn Of Drainage will Be Extended Il
Forty-third and lizard.
COUNCIL WILL PASS ON ORDINANCE
Or. Mercer Declares Body of water
Lake Fed by spring and
Kept Fresh Year
Round.


As result Of the appearance OF DR.. s. d.
Mercer and Attorney J. +. Stout. represent
ing the Missouri Pacific Railroad company.
BEFORE the council committee Monday aft
e-noon to prove the body Of water at Forty
third and lizard streets Is not a nuisance,
Me city council was ordered to draw an or
iance to create sewer district in that
hghborhood for the purpose Of putting in
sewer 20 connect with the Saddle creek
|wer along lizard street.
While a number Of residents OF the neigh
orhood were before the committee to tes-
~ that a ccsspool was drained into the
4 ord and that e was receptacle for kit
y tns and puppies and dead chickens. and
4 al, tine smell from It reached. "a block
'S.Wsy, and though DIT. Ralph, city health
commissioner. said the pond. from sani-
tary standpoint YVES p nuisance, Dr.. Mercer
maintained that the water in the pond came
from spring which threw a stream as
Iarge as man's thigh: that Il was well
drained ana therefore not a menace to the
health Of the community. He admitted the
cesspool did empty into the pond but
agreed to remove the connection and thus
stop that lie maintained the pond was
created twelve years ago by the city and
that the city should drain II.
Twelve years ago?" interrupted Hoye.
why / ssated on that pond twenty years
ago. MY father and / caught minnows in
n here so long ago that Just can remember
H.. II has been twenty years since father
Hen through tho ice there"
you arc 'nistslken," answered the doc
Tor that ground was in corn less than
twenty years ago"
After q number OF such statements and
contradictions. DR.. Mercer added:
am sxvf1lfurr n do tbig will the
city permission TO drain the pond II the city
WIN pay the costs"
AS the best way out of the difficulty DR..
Mercer suggested that n sewer district be
created, and this suggestion was acted upon
by the council committee
N Mr. Stout assured the committee that the
y city had created the pond and should drain
It at its own expense. and his railroad would
X be glad to have It done.
~ Protest on Gas Tanks.
M Councilman Evans ordinance to repeal
4the ordinance which requires the gas COM
IDany. before erecting a gas tank to secure
fhe unanimous consent of residents within
n 200 feet OF the proposed site, brought out
:Jb bout twenty residents of the vicinity of
twentieth and Center streets. at which
d place the gas company proposes to erect
II Two more tanks. The professionals claimed
That an explosion occurred I'm the gas works
livery five minutes: that on one occasion
the officers I'm charge of the works
sked all the neighbors to put out their
tr1,res and lights to prevent a general ex-
81 loson or conhagration; that the entire
sighborhood was in danger of being burned
nd that gas tank was menace to The
pfety of the people. and consequently it
appreciated the value of their property.
Die committee voted to indefinitely post
Dne the repeating ordinance and no one
poke in its favor.
That New Her Hotel.
Peter Her came before the committee and
ked that some action be taken on the
ordinance to allow him TO run water and
Eat from his main system to his hotel and
her property. at the same time promising
have his new hotel in course of construc-
on in 1905. The city attorney was re-
ested to draw new ordinance granting
MR.. Her the privilege he asked.
tcVr he ordinance repeating the ordinance Gre
ling the office OF claim agent for the city
has recommended for passage. City At
sue rney Breen will prepare another ordi-
Ance creating the Office of second assistant
EIhty attorney, who shall attend to the duties
the claim agent. The resolution will
Have TO be advertised for three weeks be-
fore the ordinance can. be passed
The ordinance creating an alley between
Farnam and Douglas streets and Tween
Htieth ana Twenty fourth was reported fol-
indefinite postponement because the city
In has not the money to pay the appraised
beValue Of the land to be condemned.