El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-05
TWENTY HOMES
ARE DECLARED
UNSANITARY
The City Health Department
Seeks Abolition; Claim
for Damages Filed.

! SJfQyeC, ana the owners VIII be notified
to show cause why this action should
not be taken. The places are tenanted
by Mexican families in Ocampo and
Juarez alleys in the vicinity of Ninth
street.
Following the adjudication of the suit
of Mrs. Lena Hawkins, who secured a
! judgment for $1450 against the city, a
, similar request for damages has been
| filed by w. F. Payne. The Hawkins suit
was settled without cost to the city
as the CITY holds an indemnity bond
from the railroads protecting the com.
monwealth.
Payne asks for $4,000 damages on
| property rendered for taxation at $4,000
and known as lots to Is, block IS
Franklin Heights addition at the north
east corner of Missouri and Austin
streets.
He, like Mrs. Hawkins, alleges that the
property was damaged by the eonstrue-
ton of the Austin street viaduct. Payne's
petition was referred to city attorney
". NJ. Coldwell
Pneumonia Claims Five.
DIR. w. II. Anderson, city health off
! Ger, reported 29 deaths and Is births as
occurring the past week OF the deaths,
eight were caused by tuberculosis. But
one patient had lived in Ell Paso seven
years. Residence of the others is given
as two months, one day, 20 days, and
three months. Pneumonia claimed five
vietmis
Contagious diseases in the city are Civ
en- in the report as smallpox, 6; scarlet
fever, 8; chickenpox, 8; typhoid fever, 4
cases of tuberculosis reported, 10.
Inspections the past week include
meat markets, 209; meat condemned. IL
pounds; dairies, 100; slaughter houses
20; milk and meat wagons, SO; cattle,
128; hogs, 48; sheep, S4; fruit and
vegetable wagons, S18.
Many Houses Condemned.
The crusade of the city health depart
ment is to continue against houses al
legged to be unsanitarv and in the report
submitted Thursday. the destruction of
houses at the following addresses IS
recommended:
No. Ocampo alley, 1908 IL and zoos
Juarez alley: 1907. 1908. 1011, 1913
and 1015 Juarez alley;two houses at
Juarez alley and Ninth street; zoos
1914 and 1016 Juarez alley; 1925 Ninth
street; 1015 and 1921 Broadway; 1927
Ninth street; 1901 and 1908 Broadway
Owners of al the houses will be mott
fled to appear before the council and
show cause why the houses should not be
destroyed.
City attorney Coldwell reported that
the suit of Mrs. Lena W Hawkins
against the G.. r. and Southwestern
railways sand the city had been settled
without cost to the city. Mrs. Hawkins
obtained judgment in the 41st district
court for s1450, claimin~ damaGe to her
property by the construction of the
Austin viaduct. The city holds an in
7or11,1 ~ hon h. sIxr-,x
companies.
The rendered and surrendered tax rolls
of city property as prepared by city
assessor Behr were approved by the
council and signed by mayor Kelly.
Water Service Extended.
". Z. Race, superintendent of the
water plant, reported the laying of 1914
feet of 6=inch pipe on North Campbell
street, between Rio Grande and Califor-
MIA streets, also connections; excavating
on East and West Missouri street. and
the lowering of water mains on Lee
street, Boulevard to Wyoming. Con-
strlIction work at the mesa pumping
plant is being pushed, the report also
reeites.
S. B. Haggart, buildino inspector, re-
ported 81 building permits issued dur
ing December, and the collection of
SAO.OO III 1CCc-
City assessor and collector L. E. Behr
reported receipts of s765016 for Septem-
Der,
Rio Grande Sewer Finished.
J. W. Hadlock, sewer commissioner
reported the completion of the Rio
GraIiie street sewer, also the work in
block 65, East FL Paso.
Many Petitions.
A petition of Highland Park residents
asking for an officer at night was re-
ferred to the police and sanitary COM
mittee
The petition of Kansas and Second
street merchants protesting against
street peddlers selling alfalfa was re-
ferred to the police and sanitary COM
mittee.
A petition asking sewer extensions to
block 102. East FL PasO, was referred
to the police and sanitary committee.
The petition of residents of MUndy
avenue between West Boulevard and
Hillside street asking for curbing and
grading of the street was denied.
An ordinance accepting the paving on
Crosby and Davis streets was accepted, !
and the final estimate of SS55.40 was
ordered paid
The application of ]. H. Nichols to
move his pop corn stand to the plaza |
side of Mills street, on Oregon, was re-
ferred to the street and grade commit /
tee.
Street Grades Established.
Grades were accepted by the council |
for Brown street, Nevada to River; Ma |
Coffin avenue, Cotton avenue to Laurel |
street; Oklahoma avenue, Laurel street |
to Alameda street. Grades were also |
accepted as follows: South Oregon, |
Broadway, South Stanton, South Kansas, |
South Campbell, South Florence, South |
Ochoa all from Seventh to Eleventh !
streets; Alameda avenue, Piedras street |
to Hammett boulevard; North FL Paso, |
through block II, Mills map; Bassett |
avenue, Cotton avenue to Piedras street; !!
Montana street, Cotton avenue to Thur |
low streets
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