Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-06

Grief. Grief and more Grief
Mayor Mckee wore a worried look.
Alderman Hanley Grated and perspir-
ed. Alderman Wilkerson shed his
coat and the chief Of police sighed
sadly and sat in a window as he
famed himself.
II was the first of the month meet
ing of the city council. and City Clerk
Harry Lees little office was packed
with aldermen and citizens. citizens
IN solo work. citizens in duets, citi-
zens I'm chorus and every citizen vita
a life-sized kick.
Sounds like a meeting Of the Flu
neral Directors association" said AL
derman Sam Neustadt from his point
Of security behind the clerks desk.
More like a meeting of the board
Of health" said chief McMillin, as
another indignant citizen arose to ex-
press himself in pointed phrases about
The condition of his neighbor's cow
lot. II was an ensemble of protest,
blending into a symphony of trouble.
n the council bent its august head
and took it as best il could, referring
to committee with neatness and dis
patch all those matters that commit
tees could handle. and passing along
the rest to the city attorney. who quit
and went home in the middle of the
meeting. carrying with him enough
instructions To double the size of the
compiled ordinances.
one ~well-known citizen appeared to
protest against the maintenance OF a
cow-lot In his immediate n~eighbor-
hood. He told the council hat his
%neighbor, the COW owner, was as neat
and clean as a COW owner could be;
that he kept his lots clean and tina h"
appeared to be sorry for himself, but
that he just couldn't exterminate the
odor Of live, healthy COW; hat said
neighbor had six cows and kept them
all in the nice lean lot. all day long
and all night. and hat the result
was something fierce. He was dis
posed to go into details. but the coun-
ell saw him first. and referred IT to
Mr.. Hanley's committee.
Then came the indignant citizen,
whose neighbor was maintaining an
acequia i'm his front yard, said ace
quia overlooking into the yard of pc
titioner, and causing said latter yard
TO become q lake. Also said neighbor
had fenced up the street for the past
two n a half years. making IT neces-
sarv for petitioner to climb a barbed
wire fence when he tried to get into
his door at night; a difficulty which
made several members of the council
FA6 ~ III y ~ N''AA
Next came a well known merchant.
who protested against the mainte-
nance Of a hide warehouse In his i'm
mediate neighborhood. He said the
hide house gave forth a perfume OF
decaying goat that was like unto no
other smell mortal man is heir to.
He wanted il abated If such a smell
could ever be eradicated from the
premises. which ne doubted.
Then came a long petition in much
legal phraseology alleging that the
alley beteeen Second and FRS
streets, was above grade between
Gold and Central avenues, a11
tina storm water seeped into a build
ing and rotted out the foundations
and the matter looked serious until
the building inspector reported that
he had inspected the building and
had found that the supports for the
second story had been removed. al
lowing the roof to sag and hat the
foundation was all right.
Next came the annual petition for
the eradication Of that long standing
nuisance, tho Rarelas acequia. Petit
TONERS alleged that the acequia had
o~verflowed and that IL constituted
n constant. venOmous. dangerous.
alarming and excrueiating nuisance.
and demanded that II be abated at
once, Alderman Hanley moved that
the city attorney be instructed to
bring an injunction to close the ace