The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-04-20
CRUDE OIL FOR.
TWELFTH STREET
HORSE HOSPITAL is UNDER FIRE
Commercial Club Booth 0bStructS First
Street Improvement and Must Go
To Enforce Hitching Ordinance.

The first business coming before the
City council Monday night was the
consideration of a petition of abutting
property owners along Twelfth street
on the Heights, asking that they be
allowed to coat the street from the
Sumner corner to the Taylor corner
with crude oil. The petition aroused a
great deal of discussion among the
members of the council and visitors
from the Heights Marshal Lewis
reported that before an application of
the oil should be made the street
should be narrowed and scraped. A.
G. Staten addressed the meeting, stat
ing that the citizens of the business
district of the Heights desired to oil
the street in order to prevent the
obnoxious dust that accumulated in the
summer. The citizens will furnish the
oil and desire to secure the city sprink-
Ter. After an investigation it has been
found that the oil must be heated to
have any effect toward preserving the
streets surface. Different methods of
heavting were proposed Councilman
Early, who thinks it will be advisable
for the city to oil State street from
Sixth to Ninth. suggested that the
heating be done in the tank cars, since,
he stated. these cars are equipped with
steam pipes and all that is necessary is
that they be attached to boiler. He
offered to the city the services of a
donkey engine belonging to the Mt.
Hood R. r. for purposes of furnishing
the heat. Mr.. Staten said that it
would be inexpensive to equip one of
the city water sprinklers with steam
coils and suggested that the heat could
be procured from the boiler of the city
steam roller, which could be used at
the same time to draw the sprinkler,
thus saving the expense of team for
this purpose. w. G. Aldred stated that
this plan would be feasible. The
tanks, he said, should be able to with
stand the pressure :; for the crude oil
would not have to be heated to any
great temperature to be effective. j.
T. Holman proposed that the sprinkler
owned by the county and used for the
purpose of sprinkling cold oil be Sc
cured and fitted with steam coils. The
petition was referred to the street
committee.
Citizens living in the neighborhood
Of the Horse Hospital at the corner of
May and Twelfth streets submitted to
the council protest against the main
tenance of the hospital there, stating
that it wa, nuisance. The presence
of diseased horses in thickly settled
portion of the city they said was
dangerous to the health Of the com
munity. They Furthermore declared
that disgusting operations performed
semi-publicly shocked the nerves of
those who resided near by and that the
language used by the employees
frightened their children. A horse
affected with lock jaw was shot near
the building Sunday. Mayor Hartwig
said that he thought a horse hospital
within the city limits as Just was much
nuisance as a slaughter house. The
mttee.
A communication was received from
Mrs. Chas. Castner, president of the
Woman's Club, asking that the health
comittee of the council meet with the
civic committee of the club in order to
formulate plans for general Spring
cleaning day for the city. On motion
from DR. f. c. Brosius the comunicai-
ton was adopted.
Notice Of the completion of block s
of Columbia street, in the Riverside
addition, by the W. G. Aldred Co. was
submitted. 1t was approved by the
city engineer and marshal and on
motion of Councilman Early an ordi-
nance was ordered drawn providing for
payment for the work.
Councilman Howe, of the judiciary
committee, reported that at a special
meeting of that committee it had been
decided to postpone the employment of
Consulting Engineer Kelsey.
The street committee recommended
that the Commercial Club booth, since
it was desired that the work Of First
street progress as fast as possible, be
removed at once. The recommenda-
tion was adopted.
| The sewer committee reported that
in going over district it was found
advisable to make changes in the ordi-
nance recently passed providing for the
installation of sewers in that district.
The ordinance covering district z will
also have to be amended in order to
include additional territory in the
district. In order that this may be
carried out it will be necessary to
secure new petition from the property
owners of the district. City Engineer
Morse was instructed to secure from
the Hood River Abstract Co. list of
the owners concerned, in order that a
petition might be prepared.
Marshal Lewis was instructed by
the council to enforce the ordinance
prohibiting horses being left unhitched
no the streets. Cards Of warning will
be placed in conspicuous places, the
marshal states, and hereafter any one
violating the ordinance will be fined
the limit.
Ordinance No. 282, providing for a
city health officer and a strict enforce
ment Of quarantine laws aad its final
passage. The health officer shall have
exclusive power to release persons
from quarantine. He will be compen-
sated by being paid the sum of S2 for
each visit made to release a patient
from quarantine and to conduct fumi-
cation of the infected quarters and
500 per annum, the later as a remun-
GRAFTON for clerical work. 1t will be
his duty to attend council meetings
when requested.
Ordinance No. 285, which authorizes
the drawing of warrants on the State
street improvement fund for the pur-
pose of paying W. G. Aldred for the
improvement of blocks 3 and 4 of that
street, was finally passed.
BY ordinance No. 287 which passed
first reading, citizens who allow Russ
ian, Canadian or Chinese thistles to
grow to seed on their property will be
fined not less than So for each offence.
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