Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-08
Hundreds Sent to Health Of
flee These Days.
TROUBLES OF ALL KINDS
Letters Tell of Dead Rats and Melon
Kinds Thrown in Yards.
WOES OF THE PORCH SITTER
Candy and Ice Cream Makers
Place Found to Be Breeding
Place of Mosquitoes.

When you go to the health Office these
days to complain that the neighbor
across the way is throwing watermelon
rinds into your yard in the dead of night.
thereby depriving you of air the joy of
living. besides destroying your peace, de-
preciatng the value of real estate or
your block and acting under Grudge.
etc. etc. don't imagine that you are the
only man in the city who is making a
complaint.
Because YOU are not.
They are coming in by droves. the COM
plants. Many a resident has a grudge
against his neighbor these hot days. Ell
Their the heat or the humidity is to blame.
because it happens every hot spell. The
hotter the more of them. Telephone calls,
post cards, letters and personal visits
bring in complaint upon complaint-and
every one seems to think that he or she
has the right of eminent domain and de-
mands prompt action, basing the request
on the supposition that If the complaint
is not investigated that very minute the
health, moral and physical. of the entire
District of Columbia will 60 by the
board.
Gum Shoe Air About Letters.
written while the complainant is wearing
gum shoes. There is hush-hush air
about the letters which reminds one of
the time when men met together in dead
of night, with fingers on lips, demanding
the password and signing their names In
blood Anonymous letters are In the
great ma jority, but because they make a
specific complaint against public nuisances
or private nuisances the inspectors 30
out and investigate the facts.
MY neighbor is piling rats against
his fence: not only rats, but dead cats.
1 can't sit on the back porch when the
wind is from the rats is a sample.
Sitting on back porches is responsible
for many and many a complaint. The
seeker after comfort dons his summer
clothes and, fan in hand, goes out on
the back porch after dinner to imbibe
something cool through straw He sits
down in a large porch chair and every
thing seems to be fine Every prospect
pleases and only the neighbours back
yard is vile. Especially the latter. IL
takes away all the pleasure of living to
see the neighbor with heap of rubbish.
ill-smelling and bad-looking, right with
in few feet of the back porch.
So he gets his daughter to write a
letter to DR.. Woodward. One of them
wrote that the neighbor hadn't had his
back yard cleaned ''since dear knows
iSThen.' An inspector went out. and
The date of dear knows when wasn't
accurately placed, but several wagon
loads of truck were eventually cleared
out of the offending yard.
Rooster Still Offending.
The old plant against the rooster still
comes in. One man wrote recently:
please send competent man to in
vestigate how many bedrooms the rooster
at No. blank Blank street can penetrate
in the morning when he crows. l am a
nervous man and cannot sleep for the
noise of twelve hens and one rooster
This man signed himself yours for a
sane Fourth and 364 other days.P
A candy and ice cream manufacturer
was jerked up short yesterday because of
the plant of a shirt-sleeved man on a
back porch. The man complained that
the candy mans kitchen and cellar were
so unclean that they were an offense to
heaven and earth. Inspectors found that
the place was terribly unfit, and that
ice cream was manufactured in the most
filthy conditions. The yard was full OF
garbage, and a pool of stagnant water
was breeding mosquitoes at great
rate.
Another man on the back porch COM
planned that a certain barber had spoiled
things for the neighbors by throwing all
the cut hair out in the back yard. An in
pector went up and found that what the
neighbors had mistaken for hair was a
fine crop of weeds.