The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-08

tue clly cuuhcll oruefed yesterday th'
new fire station In the Bowery dis
trict will be established and an ad
ditional hose company will be or
ganized to have direct charge of tn,
new station, The matter of pur,
chase for the fire department caused
little discussion yesterday but a
number of other subjects brough;
up lots OF talk.
TO Construct Septic Tanks.
Yesterday Street COMMISSIONS.
Warren again reported the need for
the construction OF septic tanks at
the sewer disposal plant and the san
itary committee led by Alderman
shaughnessy strongly advised the
construction OF such improvements.
Al present, the plant Is provided
with only one small tank and nee
essarily most OF the work OF disposal
must be done by open earth beds.
This is an imperfect way and has
during the hot months and increased
use Of the sewers, become very Of
fensiye. ]. B. Hawley the engineer
OF the plant in the first place, as
Alderman Shaughnessy recalled yes.
terday. told the council that in time
1t would be necessary for the city to
construct additional tanks. At that
time of course, the engineer did not
foresee the rapid growth mat now
makes such enormously increased de-
mands on the sewer. So the need
for tanks at the present time is in
accordance with the advice of the
engineer. Street Commissioner War
rem reported that he could take
charge OF the construction OF the
tanks and that he was confident that
the disposal plant could be made per-
fectly satisfactory by the improve
ments.
To Send Committee 10 Sherman.
Street Commissioner Warren fur
Their suggested that in his opinion It
would be well to send a man to Sher-
man to study the plant at that place
before going ahead with important
additions 10 the plant here. The
system at Sherman is the same as
that here but is more extensive.
Acting on this suggestion Alderman
Shaughnessy moved that Street
Commissioner Warren be sent To In
vestigate other plants. w. l.. Thomp-
son suggested that, inasmuch as one
of the steam road machine companies
had offered to pay the expenses of
committee Of aldermen to Dallas to
see a demonstration of the work OF
their machine, that the council &C.
cept the invitation and send Cap
tain Warren and Alderman Shaugh- |
messy. This suggestion was adopted
as a motion and the committee will
visit Dallas, Sherman and perhaps
other points in connection with mu-
nicipal improvements. The council
is not obliged to buy the roller OF
the company that will conduct the
demonstration but in case the city
does not buy the machine, it will not
ask for expenses from the company.
Abuse of Scavenger Ground.
Abuse Of the city scavenger ground
gave Felix Franklin a very just
cause for grievance which he pre-
sented before the council. The city,
It will be remembered has a tract
of twenty acres west OF town which
is used as a city dumping ground.
Several times this has been under
Amusement and recently the sanitary
committee looked into the matter
and yesterday Alderman shaughnessy
advised that the tract be continued
In use for the present at least.
But there isn't any limit" object
ed Mr.. Franklin, Ito where they put
that stuff. they begin scattering
garbage from the Choctaw dump
west and have It all the way out to
my place There's string of dead
cows out there COW on the city
ground and I'll buy Captain Warren
a suit Of clothes II you can't small
hem two miles when the winds
right. A good many people drive out
along that road to the creek and the
lump ground is offensive to every
me that passes on that road"
After a thorough discussion OF the
question, Street Commissioner War
'en assured the council that he could
get the dumping ground in much
more satisfactory condition within
en- days and asked for that time be-
ore any further action was taken
IN the subject. Captain Warren was
accordingly given full authority to