Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-02
WOULD STAMP
ALL MEATS

WOULD STAMP
ALL MEATS.
Another measure to give the health de
partment more power was introduced in
/ the form of an ordinance prohibiting the
( sale or holding with intent to sell or
/ otherwise disposing Of for human food.
Of meat unless It has been examined and
stamped approved either by the Govern
ment or the board Of public health. c. w.
SedWick, OF the indianapolis StOckyards
Company, spoke in favor Of the measure.
declaring that it viii enable the health
department TO eliminate the sale of dis
eased meat, which sometimes gets into the
city's meat markets when INSCRIPTIONS
men cut up and sell to retailers cattle
which have died instead Of being slaugh-
tered in the usual manner. 4 tine Of not
more than $500 or six months in Jail or
both is the penalty attached. The anti
dumping ordinance carries a penalty OF
not more than a 500 fine.
The discussion Of insanitary conditions
opened when Councilman Schmidt
brought forth a copy of an afternoon
newspaper and read therefrom a para
graph asserting that a hole in which
sewage had been falling and collecting
out Of the mouth Of a sewer near Capitol
avenue and Fail Greek had been filled up
with crushed rock recently. The board
of public works announced yesterday
that it intended to build concrete apron
over the hole so the sewage would flow
out into the stream and away with it.
4 just want to say that that's a ma
licious falsehood OF a damned lie and
[ don't want the public to be informed
that anything has been done to curb the
fault there" said Mr. Smith.
HOLE STILL THERE,
ALSO STENCIL.
He said that it was at least six years
ago that the hole was filled with scraps
Of old asphalt pavement and that through
the present administration it has been
left gouged out and as insanitary as
ever
After reading this, this evening I
opened my back gate and walked the
fifty feet from my door to where that
hole lies and there l found the same old
hole and the same old stink that has
been there for fifteen years"
Mr.. Schmidt then suggested that Mr..
SedWick be called upon to express his
views upon the meat inspection ordinance,
but before Councilman Jacob 2. Brown,
sitting as president pro TEN. in the alb
sence of President Russell Wilson, who
IS on his vacation, could call on the
{
who attended his first meeting for sew
eral months, interposed a statement to
the effect that a Chicago man with whom
he drove past the courthouse yard few
days ago wanted to know if it was gar
bage plant because of the refuse left by
market stand holders.
That's a holy fright. It's insanitary
and unsightly," said Dr. Pettijohn.
| Mr.. Sedwick spoke and Councilman
Brown called on President Miller of the
! board of public works. Mr. Miller an
swered Mr.. Schmidt by saying that the
| board had not intended to convey the
/ idea that rock had been placed in the
/ hole recently but that for the reason that
| it had been put there and washed out
| two or three times the concrete apron
/ was necessary.
I'VE could have had relief there long
/ ago as we did under the previous admin
/ istratiOn if your board had cleaned out
/ the channel to the stream bed which they
+ dug" replied Mr.. Schmidt
Mr.. Miller protested that his board
was the only body which has attempted
/ to really solve the problem and Mr..
/ Schmidt asked:
when may we hope for this?"
Just as soon as we can do it,"
Does that mean within the next five
months or that we'll have to wait until
next administration comes in?"
Some time this summer promised
/ Mr. Miller.
] After the meeting had adjourned the
{ two officials fingered to argue fifteen
minutes longer over the offensive out
let. Mr. Schmidt declaring that he had
put up with nuisance at his back door
would think he was grand standing"
but that he was so aroused now that he
cared not what anybody thought so long
as he got rid Of it.
Mr.. Dynes praised the council for its
prompt action in putting machinery in
motion for the cleaning up of the South
Side streams, and commenting upon the