Arizona republican., 1909-06-15
SLAUGHTER HOUSE GHOST. Was Laid Last Night by the
 City Council SEWER SYSTEM ENGINEER. Mayor Christy Is Listening For the Footfall of the Right Man-Water Demand ed by Irvine Addition. Other Detail Business.
SEWER SYSTEM ENGINEER

It was easy. The slaughter house rose up on it's elbow in the city council last night, looked around a minute and dropped back dead. with out even a groan. The usual assem-
 blaze of residents or the Irvine addi- tion was present with eyes and ears agog, expecting to witness a spectac- ular expiration, hoping they might gloat over the monster in the agony Of its dissolution and laugh at the misery of it's cOntortions in the dying hour.
 The recorder read the former com mittee report declaring it d nuisance and ordering it abated within ninety days. All eyes turned to Councilman Hackett, who was expected to file a protest All he did was to move the adoption of the report, it carried unanimously and the mayor called for the next order of business.
 The audience sat mute in the pres ence of the dead, while the mill of legislation ground on for perhaps ten or fifteen minutes, then realizing what had taken place, the people slipped away one by one. until only a few remained to sit with the corpse until the close of the session
 An effort was made to learn the meaning of the coup de Hackett, the cause of his change of heart, the reorganized plans of the butchers. but nothing authoritative could be found out. Mir. Hackett had nothing to say None of the other meat dealers pres ent affected to know anything. and the impression was fast gaining ground that Phoenix was to go on a strictly vegetable diet after ninety days, when some one volunteered the unauthoritative information that the meat company had decided to utilize the Hackett slaughter house site and there erect its new sanitary plant that will always be as sweet and clean as a perfumed bower and as attractive to the people as a public park. That is the kind of a place the meat dealers have said they would build when they build anything, and it is understood that once they set tie definitely on a site the council will pass an ordinance saying what a slaughter house shall not be within a certain distance of the city With the council saying what it shall not be and the owners saying what it shall be, everybody ought to be sat isfied and the eating of meat can again be ipdulged in without doing violence to ones conscience.
 A proposition to order a sidewalk on both sides of Seventh street be- tween the Santa Fe tracks and Wash ington street was prevented from passage only. by the fact that the assessor had not yet certified to the signatures on the petition represent ing the requisite number of property owners. This will be done at once. An ordinance extending the city grades and sidewalk and curb line re- strictions to all the recently incOr porated additions was referred to the ordinance committee as was an ordi nance committee as was an ordinance prohibiting the establishing of any garage, corral, feed lot or black smith shop in the area bounded by Van Buren and Jefferson streets and Fourth street and Fourth avenue
 Mir. Cisney said the sewer ques ton, which was raised some time ago will not down, and moved the mayor nominate a good sewer en- gineer and present his name to the council, the engineer when employed to prepare plans for such d sewer as the city needs. The motion car ried and the mayor said he would report at an early day.
 City Engineer Turney called at tention to the fact that the Home Tel ephone company is desirous of know ing where it can lay its conduits for lines and suggested that an ordinance should be passed defin- ing their rights and privileges in that respect His reason was that cer- tain of the alleys are now about full of pipes and conduits and especially the one between Second and Center and Washington and Adams streets. and he thought the new company should be prohibited from going under ground along that part of that alley. The reason is that when the city has a real sewer system it will want larger mains in some places and per haps larger man holes and will want the sewers in the centers of the all leys. The one in question will not | hold much more sewer to say nothing