El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-02
DREAM Of FREE
GARBAGE ENDED.
FEES ARE FINEO
Ordinance Defining Duties
of "Householders" Is on
First Reading.

lows was placed on Its first readiner
by the city council Thursday morning
The ordinance also defines certain dII
ties of "hOuSehOlders."
The acquisition of a metal receptacIe
not to exceed so gallons capacity. is
required. The receptacle filled Wiz
refuse, is to be kept in an access TFIf
place, so that the sanitary commits
Sloner's department can haul away the
garbage Dead fowls, dogs and cats
must go into the receptacle. The
| householder must collect the animals
l The sanitary department officer must
visit the residence every day.
VIII Cost 30 Cents for Residences.
For the removal of garbage from A
private residence without a COW or
horse, the price is so cents a month
ana % cents load extra. For pro
duce and commission houses 81 a
month each; restaurants, 81 a month:
saloons serving hot lunches, butcher
shops and office buildings, 81 a month
e2ch; saloons minus the hot lunches
81: factories IS; grocery stores and
DakerleS 81; confectionery stores and
soda water stands, $3.50 a month.
Drug stores, barber shops, tailor
sE0ps, cigar stores, jewelry stores.
second hand stores, and all other stores
/ ana shops must pay 81 a month EACH
stores, 81 to 81; millinery stores, 81
10 "a; hotels with restaurants or din
ing rooms, 50 to $40; without dining
room, 81 to $40
are Tree. Hospitals are SO; boarding
/ ana lodging houses, 81 to 81; banks,
| doctors, lawyers, railroad and other
O1IIceS, 81; tenement houses, 81.
FOR stables the price is IS cents a
load. Dead horses, cows, mules or oxen.
VIII be hauled away at $3.50 a head.
me price on dogs and cats is 25 cents
each Fowls will go for 10 cents each.
Cess pools will be cleaned at Is cents
a cubic foot.
The ordinance makes it unlawful for
any person other than the sanitary de-
partment to haul garbage or dead ami
mails along any street or alley. The
maximum fine is S25. If any person
hauling a business, the fine for him
is from $25 to 500.
Some Exceptions.
LlVerymen may haul manure from
( the stable yards, and contractors can
haul away refuse building material.
/ Where manure is to be used for fer
tilizing it may be hauled. If hogs are
to be fed swill and garbage it can be
/ hauled away from hotels by any per-
| son other than the sanitary depart
ment. The hours of hauling must be
from a. m. to .. m.
Every householder must clean his
yard twice a month. If he fails to keep
it clean and in a sanitary condition, he
may be fined IS or 500.
Others who disregard the ordinance
may be fined not more than $50. For
( fine ranges from $40 to 800
Reaper Leads by Seven.
Seven more persons died than were
born during the week ending April
>, as shown by the health report The
total number of deaths was SO, and
Z that of births 50.
Scarlet fever patients number Is.
| There are still three cases of small
PoX. Other contaglous diseases are;
Chicken poX, eight cases; typhoid
fever, five; diphtheria, six; measles,
two. Eleven measles patients were dis
missed during the week. Condemna-
ton included 127 pounds of meat.
!. W. HadlOck reported that for the
week ending April /, work done in
clUded coo feet of pipe laid at WASH
ingtOn park.
David F. Sullivan, tax collector. re
ported that collections from March II
to 81. amounted to $17S,7S615.
twenty-five leaky meters were dis
covered by inspector Ed White during
March. March collections of the en-
cheering department amounted to
SS33.5O. For February the collections
of the department of weights and
measures totaled $3.50.
Petitions Granted.
Petitions granted were: Hotel Taxi
cab company, to install gasoline tank;
Mrs. f. J. Dingman, for refund and re-
dUctiOn of taxes: V. Z. Ware to exca-
vate under sidewalk at 103 San An
tonic street; Thomas !. Prichard, to
move switch tracks to alley in block
43, Franklin heights. Ines Aguirre
was given hawker's permit.
Referred 10 City Attorney.
The petition of Joseph lehman for
a quit claim deed to property in block
IS, CampbelIs addition, was referred
to the city attorney. As was the sim
liar petition of H. Z. Cornwall for
property in block 6, Satterthwaite's
addition.
The city attorney received the pc
titiOn of T. J. Cassidy for a quit claim
deed to property in block As, Magoffin
addition.
The application of Refugia AIichero.
administrative of the estate of Peter
Michero, deceased, for a quit claim
deed to lot l3, block 116, CampbelIs
addition, was approved.
The petition of Williams and Hig-
nett to build an Overhanging balcony
at POO Myrtle avenue, was referred to
the streets ana grades committee.
Arizona Paving Accepted.
By ordinance, the paving on Arizona
street from Golden Hill terrace to Hut
ton street was accepted. The main
tenance bond of $716.34 of the South
western PaVlng company was ap-
proved The bond is for a period of
five years.
a resolution was adopted ordering
y, II; smith TO construct sidewalk on
West Rio Grande street
AutO Service Station Ordinance.
an ordnance locating districts for
d a.lI service stations was placed
DA4 hLo iilSl TedOlu2.
Service stations or substatfons or
gasoline service stations are to be To-
cared on Texas street, between Camp
pen ana stanton; on Myrtle avenue,
DetWeen the same streets. Also i'm that
pofuon OF the city south Of San Fran
cisco street and west of Santa Fe
except on west San Antonio street.
Automobiles cannot be filled with
sasoHne on the public streets, except |
IN lhe districts specified In an emer-
Sthcy case as where the engine dies
OF stops running as a result of the
7asoIihe becoming exhausted, the tank Z
may be filled. The fine for a viola /
500. -'O1 "
Hauling Ordinance Adopted.
Inc ordinance requiring transfer 1
men or others engaged in hauling /
nousGhold effects to report the re-
iIuoVaI TO the police chief. became a /
NV thursday morning. Under the ]
PROVISIONS of the ordinance adopted, !
iAe eXpressman must make a report I
IT. writing to the police chief within !
II II hours after the goods are removed (
me report must contain the name of /
me person for whom the goods were I
hauled and the addresses of the places (
from and WheretO the haul was made /
Goods that are shipped into FL PasO |
over any line of railway and then
hauIed to their destination are eX-
cepted. While the transfer men filed !
protests AGAINST 10