New Britain herald., 1922-11-16
4 COMMON COUNCIL SCENE

There was attempted comedy
 there was completed tragedy at the
 session of the common council last
 evening. Seventeen members of the
 council set their opinions above the
 opinion of the Federal authority who
 made an investigation here. the state
 health authorities and the decided conviction of the local superintendent of health. And there was much hilari- ty while they were doing it.
 It had been. clearly shown to the common council that there was dan, ger of disease and death, possibly in the form of an epidemic, coming to this city if ice is cut from Shuttle Meadow lake. A federal expert had so reported; the state health authority had so reported. and Superintendent of Health Lee had told of at least two instances where contaminated ice had been shown to bring serious ill., ness. And yet IT members of the council decided that either they would run the risk of that danger to all the people of the city, or that they knew more about the matter than the health authorities, or, that because some s25,o00 has been invested in icea cutting and preserving paraphernalia out at that point, the risk must be taken. The IT daring members of the council who will feel some remorse, perhaps, If terrible sickness comes to this city because of ccomtaminated ice from Shuttle Meadow lake, are AL dermen Wells, Gill, Pajewski and Con- lon; Councilmen Rice. Nair, Falk, F. A. Johnson, Eichstaedt, Caldwell, He'll berg, Hjerpe, Ringrose, Smith, King, Dunn and Schmarr.
 These worthy gentlemen were moved also by the fear that, if ice were not cut at Shuttle Meadow lake, others bringing ice into the city would have monopoly on the ice suppy and the poor babies" of the city might not have any ice--a fear vehemently voiced by Councilman Nair. There was also present the moving inducement that as ice had been cut out there for so many years 1xo 1,i Such is the argument of those who in sist that what was good enough for my father and my grandfather is good enough for me" Then of course there | were those who believed that because we get other ice which may be con itaminated we might just as well get more contaminated ice; it, probably, | isn't contaminated any more than the other ice.
 But there were members of the | common council who believed that the l health authorities advice should not l be disregarded; who believed some l SOOou uuS SOlliS liOHl lllN pio6l CooiNS | care which is being taken of the pub- lie health; who believe that protec- | tion from sickness to the whole com munity is worth more than an invest ment in ice cutting and keeping para phernalia which is fast falling into a sad state of repair; who believed, with | Councilman Hart, that because pos sibly some ice that might be eontam- mated did come into the city that was no reason for allowing moro ice which | might be contaminated to be sold here. | These nine members of the council | who did all they could to keep sick ness from the city are Alderman J. c. Johnson; Councilman Howard s. Hart, Arthur c. Crusberg, Maxwell S. Por- ter, Howard A. Timbrell, Frank o. Carlson, C. Adrian Carlson. George A. Molander and Herbert P. Knowles.
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