The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-01
FACTS ABOUT THE CLEANUP.


FACTS ABOUT THE CLEANUP.
Having violated the state laws on SAM
tat1on and made themselves liable to arrest,
fine and imprisonment, the city commits
sloners now attempt to cover their ofense
by deliberate fabrication, if the following
statement, accredited to Mayor Hinrichs,
is to be believed:
ENot only do we want citizens of the city to
see these plants now, but we urge them to visit
them at any time We only wish the people had
FeRF n tSqSh 6uT T the PAST MEEK WITH
HANDLED. We encountered many obstacles
due to the storm and rains, but they were over
effort, we secured some fat pine, the problem had
been solved and before the end of the week ALL
OF THE GARBAGE that had accumulated had
been destroyed"
Mark Twain once said: Never tell lie
when the truth will do just as we'll Had
Hinrichs confined himself to saying that
conditions are greatly improved, he would
be making statement that rebounds to the
credit of Pensacola fact reported in The
journal the day before the Hinrichs utter
ance. Had he said that he is pleased with
the way garbage is now being handled at
the former pest hole of Alcaniz street, he
would be voicing the honest opinion OF
every man in Pensacola.
But he must go further He must say
that he-is pleased with the previous work
The garbage exposure was printed
in Saturdays Journal, but Hinrichs, with
an effrontery seldom paralleled, attempted
to brazen it out with the people of Pensa-
cola by saying that burning was commenced
four days before the unmasking of his and
his henchmens inefficiency. He even adds
that before the end of the week e. e. Satur-
day, the day of the expose) ALL of the
garbage that had accumulated had been
destroyed"
Not only was no garbage burned at the
Alcaniz street incinerator until after the
publication of the Peoples Case VS.. the
City Officials, but ALL of the accumulated
garbage has not yet been DESTROYED. Nor
could it be. An acre of filth, in which
horses wallow knee deep, is not dug up and
burned in two days time The fact that
garbage IS not being dumped at A1caniz
street now, IS victory enough; the people
don't expect the impossible. The fact that
the city officials are trying to do portion
OF their duty now is the important thing
1t is impossible to undo the past.
1t the commissioners are erati6ed over
the way the garbage was handled before
they were forced to cease dumping it. thew
are no doubt gratifed at the way puddles
OF water are allowed to stand in our thor
ougfares, in violation of Section 3O5 (19O8)
of the city ordinances.
They are no doubt gratifed at the wav
the surface closet regulations are being dis
regarded lord. No. 80, Year Book 1915. D.
92l. ?
They are no doubt gratifed at the wav
weeds are allowed to remain, masking no
telling what filth and stagnant water. in
violation of ordinance $50, 1908 Code.
They are no doubt gratihed at the way
the screening ordinance is being violated
(Ord. No. 80, OBJ, p 94).
And by the same line of reasoning. if
there had been no exposure. and the gar
bage heap had been allowed to grow and
grow until the whole pululating, fetid mass
bred contagion of infantile paralysis to
strike little children down in the JOYOUS
bloom of health and love, they would be
gratifed