The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
CANS FOR ALL.
These Are Not the Kind They
Rush Either.
Board of Health Issues Positive
Orders.
EVERY ONE MUST MIND
Garbage Will Be Collected From
Them.
Question Is Formally Acted Up
ON at Meeting.
EVERY ONE MUST MIND

Every resident householder. tenant,
hotel keeper, retail and Wholesale
dealer and all parties or persons occu-
plying dwellings within the city of To-
peka will have to provide themselves
with a garbage can constructed on
sanitary lines.
The board of health took decisive ac-
ton last evening to insure a more sani-
tary disposal and care of the garbage
of the city.
The sanitary sergeant will send out
notices shortly to the househo1ders,
hotel keepers and merchants of the
city instructing them to provide them
selves with the necessary garbage cans.
If due attention is not given the notice
and there is failure to comply with
the provisions laid down in the law
penalty will be inflicted.
The fine for violation of the law calls
for a fine of from IS to $50 for each
separate and distinct offense.
Furthermore this fine will be strict
ly imposed. Such is the edict issued
by the board. The board is tired of
making edicts and then not enforcing
them. So the members say.
An ordinance providing for the re-
moval of garbage and offal of the city
passed by the city council on May
1 9th, last. One of the sections of that
ordinance provides that. every house
holder in the city must provide a gar
bage can to be kept at or near the alley
line.
1--WE certainly do expect TO enforce
this ordinance" said DR.. Plummer,
president of the city board of health
THAT ordinance and especially that
section is of small effect unless that
is some attempt made to enforce by
resorting to the penalty which is pro-
vided. There is. no use in making an
order as we did unless we expect to
see that it is observed. Some action
like the resolution we adopted is inn
peratively necessary. The alleys of the
city are being ehoked up with garbage
and refuse and there is no other way
by which we can secure its removal
the way it should be unless we insist
that the people provide themselves
with garbage cans. OF course some OF
them have garbage cans already and
this does not apply to them but 1t does
take in those people who have neg
1ected to do so. We do not mean to
interfere with the hotels and other
parties who have arrangements made
with private persons for the removal
of their garbage but those who have
no such arrangements will have to see
that the refuse which accumulateS in
their garbage cans is taken away. l
don't know how much these cans will
cost. We expect to get figures from
various manufacturers l don't think
that the cost will exceed S1-oo per
can
1--WE have had a number of COM
plants regarding the way this gar
bage is dumped in the alleys, said Dr.
Van Horn, a member of the board.
Most of these complaints are lodged
against private parties
The Topeka Desiccating company
has canvassed the city for the re-
moval of the garbage and by district
ing the town they have gotten the
contract down to system which is APP
parently giving satisfaction. Several
new wagons have been constructed
and orders are IN for more. These
wagons are constructed so that ali
odor from garbage removed in them