The San Francisco call., 1908-03-05
WOMEN MAY SHOOT
TOWNS SCAVFNGERS
West Berkeley Residents Talk
of Resort to Shotguns to
Ward Off Garbage
Appeal to Trustees if Unheeded
Will Result in Bloodshed,
They Threaten

BERKELEY, March 4.-Indignant
that the trustees should have dumped
garbage near their homes, the women
of the west end living in the neigh
borhood of the foot of Gilman street
will resort to shotguns IL the dumping
ground of Berkeley's scavengers is not
changed. The women, headed by Mrs.
r. Ehret of 1916 Fifth street, Mrs.
Ellen de Veau of Harrison and Fourth
streets and others, will ask the trustees
to change the dumping place In pc
tftion which will be presented to the
board. If the board refuses to grant
their petition Mrs. Ehret says that
shotguns will be used by the residents
along the county line to keep the
scavengers away.
Although the new dumping ground
at the foot of Gilman street on the
! bay shore has been used but three days,
the, residents of the neighborhood de-
clare that they will not permit the
same conditions as last summer, when
the garbage was dumped there for a
few days in the face of their indignant
protest.
The attitude of the women OF the
west end has resulted in the trustees
facing crisis more serious than when
the powder company. February 2s, or
dered the scavengers away from the
old dumping grounds near the county
line back of McKeevers hill The town
board is unable to solve the problem,
as they say that there is no available
location in this city for a dumping
ground.
NO LAND AVAILABLE
The offer of Trustee Schmidt OF the
tide lands at the foot of Gilman street
has been met with threats of shot
gun law. while Fred Foss' property at
the foot of Harrison street is un-
available because tide waters now
cover the land. At the meeting of the
board 1ast night Foss declared that 1t
would take at least two weeks to bulk
head the property to make IL Mt for
a dumping place, otherwise the gar
bage would be carried out into the
bay.
The West Berkeley women are highly
indignant at the action of Trustee
Schmidt in offering his land for a
dumping ground. He gave the property
over for this use last summer during
the warm weather, much TO the in
convenience of the people In the vi
cinity whose homes were rendered un-
inhabitable by the stencil from the
refuse.
They insist that If the petition which
they will present to the town board
is turned down they will take the law
in their own hands and. by force OF
arms, keep the scavengers from dump
ing along the water front.
STENCIL is FRIGHTFUL
Mrs. Frank Connor. wife of a prop
erty owner living at the corner OF
Third and Gilman streets. lives, nearest
to the new dumping ground chosen by
the trustees of this city. She said:
Last summer dumping was done on
the land in front of my home and the
stencil which arose was obnoxious. II
the residents of this vicinity had not
put an end to it we would have had to
move away. Our health was endan-
gered.
Sand has been taken from the dump
ing ground which is now used with the
result that when the tide is high the
garbage is carried up against our front
yard fence. The conditions are intoi-
erable and we will not stand for them
Mrs. r. Ehret of 1916 Fifth street
said that the whole neighborhood had
been aroused by the action of the town
trustees. She said:
I'VE people of the west end have
our rights and we do not intend to have
garbage dumped in our vicinity. We
deserve some consideration from the
town board and we insist on our rights.
If we must. we will take the law in
our own hands and secure Justice"
Those who are securing signatures
to the petition which will be presented
to the board of town trustees include:
Mrs. Frank Green of 643 Gilman street
Frank Conner of Third and Gilman
James "A Couzin of 1920 Fourth, r.
MerkIe of Fourth near Harrison, Mrs
F. Stanton of 1114 Fourth. Mrs. Nellie
Maxfield of 1920 Fifth. Mrs. r. Dowling
of Third and Harrison and many others.