FREELAND TRIB UNE.
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FREELAND. PA., JUNE 19, 1893.
Ex Senator Saunders, of Nebra ka,
who is the father-in-law of that high
flying young inan, once known to the
metropolis as "Prince Harrison," now
plain Russell Harrison, in compliance
with a request, has resigned his mem
bership on the Utah commission, and
H. C. Lett, who was a prominent can
didate for governor of tho territory,
has been appointed in his place.
This makes the commission stand
three Democrats and two Republi
cans, and, in view of the expectation
that the territory will bo admitted to
statehood at tho coming "session of
congress, it is not expected that any
further changes will be made.
Ever since the organization of tho
national banking system, one of its
important laws has been construed in
favor of the stockholders, but bore
after this law will be construed in
favor of the depositors and other
creditors of these banks. Tho law in
question is that which provides for
the levying of an assessment, up to
100 per cent of the faco of stock held,
on the stockholders of banks, to make
good any losses. It has been cus
tomary to wait until all the other
assets of a broken bank had been
realized on before making this assess
ment; hereafter it will lie rnado as
soon after a bank closes its doors as
possible.
While President Cleveland and
Secretary Carlisle believe that the
Sherman silver law is responsible for
tho present unsettled financial status
nnd that its repeal is absolutely
necessary for the welfare and pros
pority of the country, and that the
failure of the extra session of congress,
to be held in September, to repeal it
promptly will precipitate a general
financial panic, they are not doing the
slightest thing to force any senator or
representative to vote for its repeal
against his honest opinion, nor will
they; but they do ask that every mau,
congressman and privato individual,
shall study this question anew, not
from the point of view of last year or
the year before, but from the point of
view of today, with all the attendant
circumstances in the industrial, busi
ness and financial world, believing
that such intelligent study of the
question cannot fail to result in a
practically unanimous vote for its
repeal. The practical operation of
tho Sherman law has shown it to be
a bad-law.
It is evident to even the most caro
less observer that President Cleveland
is a much better politician now than
he was eight years ago. There is no
denying tho fact that Democrats wore
a little nervous over the distribu'ion
of the New York federal officers,
owing to tho threatening altitude
which Tammany and auti Tamany
Democrats have occupied toward
each other. It was feared that any
positive recognition of either side by
the administration would precipitate
a faction fight in New York that
that would endanger, if it did not
actually lose, the state. There is no
longer any such fear. President
Cleveland has proven by his recent
selection of a postmaster for New
York city that he knows how to select
men who will be equally acceptable
nnd satisfactory to Tammany nnd
nnti-Tammanyites. President Clove
land has been invited to speak at the
Fourth of July colebration by Tarn
many Hall, which shows how little
truth there is in the newspaper talk
about Tammany's not liking tho presi
dent.
The pension laws are to be admin
istered wilh strictness. No patriot
can object to this. Subordinate offi
cials who administer tho law nre sub
ject to human imperfections and
errors. On one side there is a class
of red tapists who are very apt to
strain a gnat and swallow a camel.
On the other hand the good natured,
largo minded, (generous with the
public money) souls who practically
believe in giving every claimant a
pension err. Recent exposures in
Virginia and in the far west of the
criminal practices of the thievish for
gers strengthens suspicions that the
treasury is being plundered. One
good preventive would be the publi
cation in every neighborhood of the
names of pension claimants and also
pensioners. The pension roll is an
lienor to the name justly found upon
it, but every bounty jumper, hospital
bummer, and lying cheat whose
name has been wrongfully put upon
it detracts from its glory and throat
ens its future lustre. Veterans
should not be put in a false position
but should heartily support every
reasonable proposition to defeat
fraud. — Naitiicoke Nws.
l-lnil of the Fifth Year.
With this issue the TRIBUNE ends its
fifth year, and the publisher is pleased
to state that at no time since the paper
was started lias it been in a better condi
tion to continue its work than at present.
The aim of the TRIBUNE lias been to give
all the local news truthfully and without
color, to express its honest convictions
openly upon all public questions, and to
aid Freeland in its onward march in
every possible manner.
That our efforts to do this were appre
ciated is proven by the success and en
couragement so far received, and the
people of this community can rest as
sured that in the future, as in the past,
the TRIBUNE will be found their friend
at all times and will endeavor, before
the end of the present volume, to give
them a still better paper.
To tlioso who assisted us by their
support and patronage we offer our
sincere tlianks, and also feel grateful to
our exchanges who have so kindly noted
every improvement and advance made
by the TRIBUNE.
Walter L. Main's Clrciis.
The Walter L. Main's circus showed
to a full house last evening, the mam
moth tent being packed with people.
We do not exaggerate when we say the
show was equal to that of any circus
performance ever given hero and a great |
deal better than the majority of them.
Every feature introduced was of that
character which stamps it as first-class
upon first appearance. The perform
ance was given in three rings and at
times there were other features going on
outside of them. Tho aerial feats were
daring and skillfully performed as were
many other acts of daring.
The Roman hippodrome part of the
entertainment was not only interesting
but exciting. It consisted of chariot
races, barrel and obstacle races, Roman
standing races, cowboy and pony races,
lady riders and many other features too
numerous to mention. There were plen
ty of horses and no show can have finer
ones, while the menagerie was a splen
did exhibit of the animal kingdom.
It was also a noticeable feature that
there Were no fukes nor robbing schemes
permitted on the grounds, wtiile the en
tire show was clear cut and of a high
standard throughout. Everything going
to make up the show is entirely new,
while the performers were selected from
the upper ranks of professional people
and thoy stand second to none. To do
still bigger business this show only needs
to play return dates.— Evening Slur, Steu
benvitte, 0.
Will exhibit at Freoland June 22.
Wliut the Twentieth Century Will Bring.
With the single exception of the cru
cifixion of Christ, the event commemo
rated by the opening of the World's
fair is the most important in history.
It is impossible to do more than vaguely
suspect its meaning, so great lias been
its influence on the human race and so
vast are the possibilities of its influence
in the future. Eighty-six years hence,
in 1979, the world will celebrate the cen
tennial of an infinitely greater event
than that of the landing of Columbus on
the shores of the new world. The
world will celebrate the publication of
the immortal work "Progress and Pov
erty," the book that will never die.
Long before that time the truth which
it enunciates will be universally ac
cepted and applied. The worldwide ap
plication of the single tax will have a
greater and more beneficial effect on the
human race than if a score of Christo
pher Columbuses had discovered a score
of new worlds.
For what would we gain even though
this planet was ten times its present
size so long as a few may own the land
upon which all must live? Under those
conditions there must be injustic, in
equality, misery, poverty, pestilence and
sin. •
With the year 1979 begins the Geor
gian epoch. The man who evolved the
idea and gaye it to the world of applying
economic rent to public purposes by the
simple plan of single tax on the value of
land will divide honors with those of
our nameless primitive ancestors who
first put sounds together to form words
and rubbed sticks togother or struck
flints to make fire, lie will be the cen
tral figure of all history.
Even though this ever-changing sphere
should last for four million years the
name Henry George will never die. It
is a name that will go thundering down
the corridors of time, resounding through
the ages. No man will dispute with
him his foremost place in history until a
greater than Brown Sequard shall have
discovered the real elixir of life.
The time will como, thanks to this
book, "Progress and Poverty," when
the fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of man will be so universally
recognized that it will be difficult for
people to conceive of a time when their
tacestors competed desperately for a pre
carious existence as they have done up to
the present, when the history of the
world up to our time will cease to be
generally taught and the merciful man
tle of oblivion will be tbnrwn around
tire miserable, unnatural and bloody
period preceding the twentieth century.
| —St. Lou in Republic.
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AFRA^^^P^PWrTON.
The Louitfville Convention of the ii. O. I*.
Wan Silent on the Tariff.
Wliile Governor McKinley is being
nominated for president in 1890 by the
Homo Market club of Boston, and while
he is holding aloft the banner of "Pro
tection and Reciprocity" nud telling the
rich manufacturers at the banquet that
"the Republican party requires neither
apology nor eulogy. It follows its prin
ciples 110 more in victory than in defeat.
The defeat of 1892 has not mndo those
principles less true or less enduring, nor
our faith in their ultimate triumph less
firm," the most representative gathering
that ever met on republican soil—as the
New York Press calls the meeting of tho
Republican national committee and oth
er Republican organizations at Louis
ville in conjunction with that of tho Re
publican National league—wis prepar
ing to make one of tho greatest Hank
movements ever made by any party anx
ious to get away from the principles
which had caused its defeat.
The truth is that a majority of those
present at Louisville recognized what
will be more apparent to the great tin
plato prophet, Major McKinley, before
the end of this century, the fact that
"protection" is doomed and with it any
party that will again dare to advocate
the McKinley brand of "protection." It
has been six months since the November
election, and the wide awake young Re
publicans who have had their ears to the
ground have heard ominous rumblings
that have not reached the ears of some of
the mossbacks, partially deafened by
prejudice in favor of a policy "deeply
imbedded in tho hearts of the party and
interwoven with its spirit, its history and
its life," as McKinley puts it.
Hence the great representative body
of Republicans who shouted "protection
and reciprocity" louder last fall than
any other words never whispered the
words at Louisville. They made a plat
form which neither mentions these
words nor tho words "silver" or "force
bill." Instead it discusses woman suf
frage, Hawaii, the Pinkerton system and
"a general law for tho safety of life and
limb of railway employees." These were
weak sticks out of which to make a plat
form, but any kind of timber was con
sidered better than that in the old plat
form, upon which it was not safe to
stand another day.
Of course such a conspicuous omission,
evasion, shifting and substitution is dis
pleasing to those who are Republicans
and protectionists for business reasons
or on moral grounds, and who are not in
politics mainly for party spoils. It is
somo of this class of Republicans who
aro strewing thorns along the new route
laid out by the Louisville convention of
Republican clubs. The New York Com
mercial Advertiser thinks the conven
tion "went too far;" that it wasnoi."nu
thorized to frame a platform;" that "it
mistook its function and wasted its
time," and that "thu Republican cam
paign of 1890 should not bo inaugurated
by stupid blunders."
Tho "G. O. P." of "protection and rec
iprocity" is sinking rapidly. The rats
have deserted it. Those who remain on
board do so at tho peril of their lives.
"Blip's" Hot Shot.
Let labor compel tho capitalists to
prove their profession of friendship to
American labor by having laws passed
restricting immigration. No "protec
tionist" would agree to this, however.
They all want protection for themselves,
and it gives them still further protection
to liavo free trade in labor.
If the people of this country knew how
much tariff they pay, and the profits
they pay the middleman on that tariff,
and the higher prices paid on articles of
homo manufacture by reason of protec
tion, there would he another "tea party,"
and on a much larger scale than the one
in Boston harbor, in mighty short order.
Foreign pauper labor ponies in duty
free, and yet thero uro iteuple who pro
fess to believe that a high tariff on
manufactured goods protects American
labor. Capitalists encourage foreign
pauper labor to como to this country—
holding out the inducement of high
wages and steady employment. Thesu
laborers come to this country at the rate
of 500,000 a year, overcrowding the labor
mnrket and running down wages.
If a man tells you that protection in
creases wages, ask him to explain why it
is that old England pays higher wages
today than during the days of her pro
tective policy. Ask him why it is that
she puys higher wages than any of tho
other old countries which havo protec
tion. Ask him why it is that right here
in this country, where tho tariff is tho
same in every part, wages are higher in
the west than in the east, and higher in
the north than in tho south.—Chicago
Free Trader.
Cheaper Coal For New Filmland.
The professors of McKinleyism in New
England who have persistently declared
that tho coal of Nova Scotia was of poor
quality and would not find a market in
this country even if the duty should bo
removed must be surprised by the con
tinued manifestations of a desire on tho
part of New England capitalists to put
'their money into Nova Scotia mines and
unworked coal areas. Tho Dominion
Coal company was the first of tho largo
corporations by which New England
capital was invested in the mines of
Cape Breton island, and now there are
four more American syndicates seeking
charters like that which this company
obtained.
Tho most formidable of tlieso is a
group of capitalists who are interested
in manufactures in New Bedford, Fall
River, Pawtueket, Providence and Bos
ton, and these gentlemen have obtained
control of coalfields on the western side
of Capo Breton in which there arc suid
to be 290,000,000 tons. Theso fields have
not been worked because harbor and
railway facilities were lacking. The
mines and undoveloi>ed deposits of the
Dominion company are on tho eastern
side of the island. The removal of the
duty on bituminous coal will doubtless
be followed by large importation from
this region for tho use of New England
manufacturers.—New York Times.
OUTRAGEOUS AND DAMNABLE.
Such Immigrant Inspector Conkling De
clares tlie Padrone System to fte.
Immigrant Inspector Conkling, in an
official report made to the treasury de
partment as to the violation of tho alien
30ntract labor law, among other strong
Btatemonts says:
"The padrone system is tho most
damnable, outrageous and injurious to
American workingnien of any system
that was ever practiced in the United
Btates, and there is no denying the fact
that it exists in almost every city of this
country where there is an Italian col
ony." The report details how Italian
laborers are brought into this country,
coached and instructed on tho jouruey
over, so that when they arrive by false
swearing they evade tho inspectors.
"They have no conscientious scruples
about perjuring themselves and will
swear to anything necessary to accom
plish their discharge in case they are de
tained," says tho report.
Mr. Conkling says that the railroad
contractor need not he so closely watched
in future in regard to tho violation of tho
alien contract labor law as the Italian
bankqr and padrone. Tho former, in
partnership with tho padrone, furnishes
tho money, and newly arrived Italians
are supplied in hundreds to work on
American railroads to tho exclusion of
American workmen. The padrone usu
ally makes a contract with the railroad
contractor to food the hands. A shanty
costs him SIOO or so, and ho clears his
original investment from the first
mouth's receipts, tho balance for many
months being nearly all profit. The bank
er thus gets the money ho had advanced
to the padrone.
"These aliens,'' Inspector Conkling
sayß, "are of the very worst element—
vicious and hard to control, dangerous
to tho community in which they ree&de —
and are semibrutish in their manners
and habits." They work for small wages,
live in a manner that American laborers
regard as barbarous, and as a conse
quence Mr. Conkling finds they aro driv
ing out laborers of other nationalities in
railroad building. Tho report was called
forth by instructions issued by Assistant
Secretary Spaulding last March to look
into tho illegal landing of 10 Italian la
borers at Ellis island. As a result of two
months' labor Inspector Conkling has
arrested Fillippo Catone, a padrone, on
whoso perjured affidavit tho 10 Italians
were landed. Tho case is an important
one and will be tried in the New York
state courts.
Tho Law Not Enforced.
Last February the council, influenced
by complaints which had been made of
tho insanitary condition of most of the
littlo workshops in this city where ready
made clothing is manufactured, passed
an ordinance for the licensing of all
houses or rooms in which wearing
apparel is manufactured, altered or re
paired. No person can run such a
workshop unless ho takes out May 1
of each year a license costing him sl.
When an application is made, it is to he
handed over to the commissioner of
health to see that the premises are in san
itary condition. It is made his duty also
to close any workshop "which is not kept
in a cleanly condition and free from
vermin and every matter of an infectious
or contagious nature." The violation of
any of the provisions of tho ordinance is
punishable by a fine of from $lO to SIOO
dollars for each offense.
Thus far only one person out of the
500 who are affected by the ordinance
has taken out a license. It is not likely
that many others will do so unless they
are driven to it. The license feo is nom
inal, and no one can say that it is a hard
ship for him to pay it. The object is to
havo tho whereabouts of all these places
known, so that tho health department
can keep a closer watch on them, and so
that by the threat of tho revocation of a
license and tho consequent stoppago of
business tho commissioner can force the
proprietor of a shop to keep his premises
in decent condition.
It is for the city authorities to decide
whether tho ordinance shall bo enforced
or allowed to dio because there is no
longer any stir made about sweaters and
their shops. It is their duty to notify the
proprietors of these workshops, through
the police, to appear and be licensed. If
they fail to obey at once, then the law de
partment should begin suits against
them.
There is no doubt that many of the
places where ready made clothing is
manufactured are in a bad sanitary con
dition, that clothing is handled some
times in rooms occupied by persons sick
with scarlet fever and similar diseases,
and it is natural that such diseases
should under the circumstances bo dis
tributed widely.—Chicago Tribune.
Compulsory Arbitration.
Tho objectors to compulsory arbitra
tion havo sometimes said that it would
result in slavery for tho workingman.
Tho advocates make light of this, but
really and seriously is it not slavery when
a man who wants if J per day for his labor
can bo compelled at the point of the bay
onet to work for SI.BO per day? There
would bo no fear, it seems to ino, of capi
tal going out of the state cr out of th
country under the regime of compulsory
arbitration in industrial affairs, for it
would gladly seize upon tho results of
such a regime to compel a riso in prices
to secure a combination which the law
insisted upon.—Carroll D. Wright in
Forum.
Helping the Unemployed.
The Salvation Army, through its San
Francisco agency, known as the "Life
boat," has obtained employment during
the past four months for between OOf
and 000 men who were unable to secure
an l- ikind of work in the city. These
yro sent out of the city to work on
r; _os and farms. In every case the
Army provided the means to pay railroad
fares and other necessary expenses, and
in no ease was a fee to be deducted from
subsequent earnings. Say what you will
about tho peculiar mothods employed by
the Army in propagating its religious
views, it is undoubtedly a friond of the
poor.
ORDINANCE OFTHE HOARD OK 11EALTH |
of the of Fn-cluiul, l*n , for tin*
lu ltor prcHiTvutiou of the publU; health,and to
nivventthe .spread of eoiiiniuiiieable
In virtue of the powers conferred by the act of i
assembly of April JJ, IHfil, section I, I*. L of
the laws of the eoimiioiiwoiilth of Pennsylva
nia, be it ordained b.\ the bnrifessand borough
council of the borough -.1 I-Veelaiul, Pa., and it
is hereby ordained by the authority ol the
same.
See. 1. That whatever is dangerous to hu
man life or health, whatever renders the air or
food or water or other drink unwholesome,
and whatever building, erection, or part or
cellar thereof, is overcrowded, or not provided
with adequate means of ingress and egress, or
is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewer
ed, drained, cleaned or lighted, are declared to
be nuisances, and to be illegal; and every per
son having aided In creating or contributing to
the same, or who may support, continue or re
tain any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a
violation of this ordinance, and also be liable
for the expense of the abatement and remedy
therefor.
Sec. 2. No house-refuse, offal, garbage, dead
animals, decaying vegetable matter, or or
ganic waste substance of any kind, shall be
thrown on any street, road, ditch, gutter or
public place within the limits of this borough,
ami no putrid or decaying animal or vegetable
matter shall be kept in any house, cellar or ad
joining outbuilding or grounds for more than
twenty-four hours.
See. 3. No person or persons, without the
consent of the board of health (or borough
council), shall bui d or use any slaughter house
within the limits of this borough, and the keep
ing and slaughtering of all cattle, sheep and
swine, and the preparation and keeping of all
meat, fish, birds or other animal food, shall be
in the mariner best adapted to secure and con
tinue their wholesomeness as food; and every
butcher or other person owning, leasing or oc
cupying any place, room or building wherein
any cattle, sheep or swine have been, or are
killed or dressed, and every person being the
owner, lessee or occupant of any room or
stable wherein any animals are kept, or of any
marl et, public or private,shall cause such place,
room or building, stable or market, to be thor
oughly cleansed and purilkcd, and all olfal,
blood, tat, garhugc, refuse and unwholesome
and offensive matter to be removed therefrom
at least once In every twenty-four hours, after
the use thereof for any of the purposes herein
referred to, and shall also at all times keep all
woodwork, save floors and counters, in any
building, plaee or premises aforesaid thor
oughly painted or whitewashed; and the floors
of any such building, place or premises shall IK*
so constructed as to prevent blood or foul
liquids or washings from settling in the earth
beneath.
See. 4. No blood-pit, dung-nit, offal-pit or
privy-well shall remain or be constructed
within any slaughter house. Any one offend
ing against this rule shall be guilty of creating
and maintaining a nuisance prejudicial to
public health, and shall be required to remove
the nuisance within ten days from the date of
notice.
Sec. 5. The owners, agents, or occupiers of
all slaughter-houses are required, during the
months of June, July, August and September to
twice distribute in each week not less than twen
ty live pounds of chloride of lime about their
premises, and also to remove the contents of
any manure-pit or inunure-piie on the prom
ises, once in each week, the said premises and
contents of manure-pits being hereby declared
to be nuisances prejudicial to public health,
unless subjected to frequent disinfection and
cleaning as herein indicated. No pigs or hogs
shall be kept in the same enclosure with a
s aughtor-house; nor shall they be fed, there or
elsewhere, upon the offal of slaughtered ani
mals.
Sec. 0. No person or company shall erect or
maintain within the limits of this borough any
manufactory or place of business dangerous to
life or detrimental to health, or where unwhole
some, offensive or deleterious odors, gas,
smoke, deposit or exhalations are generated,
sucli as tanneries, refineries, manulactones of
starch, glue, leather, chemicals, fertilizers, gas,
etc.. etc., without the permit of the board of
health (or borough council), and all such es
tablishments shall be kept clean and whole
some so as not to bo offensive or prejudicial to
public health; nor shall any offensive or dele
terious waste substance, refuse or injurious
matter be allowed to accumulate upon the
premises, or be thrown or allowed to run Into
any public waters, stream, water-course, street,
road or public place. And every person or
compuny conducting such manufacture or
business shall use the best approved and u!I
reasonable means to prevent the escape of
sinol e, gases and odors, and to protect the
health and safety of u'l operatives employed
therein.
See. 7. The business of bono and hom -boii
ing shall not bo allowed, unless conducted under
cover, the building to be provided with smoke
consumers, and a duo regard be had to cleanli
ness in the disposition of the offal. No bone
hoi iug establishment or depository of dead
unimasshall be kept or erected in any part of
this borough without a permit from the bourd
of health (or borough council.)
See. 8. No permit shall be granted to any
person or persons to carry on the business of
boiling bones and dead animals until after a
careful inspection of the locality, buildings and
apparatus, and of the plans for conducting the
business, by an accredited inspector or the
board of health (or borough council).
Sec. No bouo-hoiling establishments or
depositories of dead animals shall be kept, or
erected in or near t,o a thickly inhubitcd
neighborhood.
Sec. 10. The floors of all bone-boiling estab
lishments and depositories of dead animals shall
be paved with asphalt or with brick or stone,
well laid in cement, or with some other imper
vious material, and shall be well drained; and
a I such establishments shall have such an
adequate water supply as will enable thorough
cleanliness to be maintained.
See. 11. The boiling of bones and dead ani
mals, etc., shall bo conducted in steam tight
kettles, boilers or caldrons, from which the
foul vapors shall be lirst conducted through
scrubbers or condensers, and then Into the
back part of the ash-pit of the furnace fire, to
be consumed, or by other apparatus equally
efficient in preventing or counteracting the of
fensive effluvia.
Sec. 12. When bones ore being: dried after
boiling-, they ahull be placed in a close chamber,
through which shall be paused by means of
pipes, largo volumes of fresh air, the outlet
pipe terminating in the lire-pit.
See, 13, All proprietors of bone-boiling es
tablishments not having on theflrstday of .Inly
1803 permits to carry on the business, and vio
lating these ordinances, shall bclindd for every
such otfense, and for each month's continuance
of the same, after notice, and also be liuble to
an indictment at common law for creating and
maintaining a nuisance.
Sec. 14. The permit clerk of the board of
health (or borough council) shall have provided
a book in which to enter the names of all per
sons engaged in the business of boi.ing bones
and having depositories of dead animals; also,
the location of works and appliances us report
ed by the inspector; whether licensed or not;
the number and date of permit; and remarks.
Sec. 15. The keeper or keepers of a livery or
other stable shall keep his or their stable and
stable-yard clean, and shall not permit, between
the 15th day of May and the Ist day of Novem
ber, more than two wagon loads of manure to
acciunulatc> in or near the same at uny one j
time, except by express permission of the
board of health (or borough council), nor
shall any manure be removed between the
dates aforesaid, except between twelve o'clock
at night and two hours after sunrise, without a
written permit from the board of health (or
borough council); nor shall any manure be
removed except in a tight vehicle, so protected
that the manure, in nrocess of removal, may
not be dropped or left in any street, road, lane
or way of the borough.
Sec. 10. No pig pen shall be built or maintain
ed within the limits of this borough without a i
permit, from the board of health (or borough
council), or within one hundred feet of any well 1
or spring of water used for drinking purposes,
or within thirty feet of any street or of any In
habited house, or unless constructed in the
following manner, viz: so that the floor or Poors
of the same shall be not less than two feet from '
the ground, in order t hat the tilth accumulating j
under the same may bo easily removed; and j
such 11 Itli accumulating in, about and under
the same shall be removed at least once a week |
and oftonor if so ordered, and on the failure of i
any owner or occupier of such premises so to j
do, then the same shall be done by the board of
health.
Sec. 17. No privy-vault, coss-pool or reser
voir into which a privy, water-closet, cess-pool,
stable or sink is drained, unless it is water-tight
shall be constructed, dug or permitted to remain
within one hundred and lifty feet of any well,
spring or other source of water used for drink
ing or culinary purposes; unless the surface of j
such vault, cess-pool or reservoir is at a lower
level than the bottom of such well. Earth
privies and earth closets, with no vault, pit or 1
depression below the surface of the ground,
shall be excepted from this regulation, but !
sufficient dry earth or coal ashes must he used
daily to absorb all the Htiid part of the deposit, j
and the contents must be completely removed i
at least once every month.
See. 18. All privy vaults, cess-pools or reser- |
voirs as above named, shall be cleaned out at
least twice a year, once In the spring not later
than the 15th of May, and once in the
autumn not earlier than the 15th of October, i
From the the 15th of Muv to the 15th ol October !
of each year, they shall bo thoroughly disin- j
fected by adding to their contents, once every j
week, from one to four gallons of a disinfectant t
solution, according to the size of the said vault,
cess-pool or reservoir.
See. 10. All sewer-drains shall be water-tight
within the limits of this borough.
Sec. 20. No seweivdrain shall empty into
any lake, nond or other source of water used ' .
for drinking purposes, or into any standing
water, within the jurisdiction of this borough.
Sec. 21. The sewage from each building on
every street provided with a common sewer,
shall be conducted into said sewer.
See :£i. That, portion of the house drain
which is outside ol the building arid more than
four feet from the foundation walls, shall be
constructed of iron pipe or virtrifled drain-pipe.
See. 23. That portion of the druin-pi|c out
side or under the building, and within four feet
of the foundation walls, together with the soil
pipe, shall be constructed of east iron wit h leiraP
joints, or of wrought iron pipe with screwed
joints, and in either ease protected from rust.
The waste-pipe connected with the conductors
from the roofs, and other pipes inside the build
ing, or outside und within four feet of the
foundation walls, shall likewise be constructed
of east, iron with leaded joints, or of wrought
iron with screwed joints.
bee. 24. The house drain and other pipes for
the conveyance of sewage shall be laid with
uniform grade and with a fall of not less than
one inch in lour feet, except in those eases
where the bourd of health (or borough council)
may permit otherwise.
See. 25. All pipes eonneoting a water-closet
with a soil-pipe shall be trapped, each sepa
rately. All waste pipes shall bo trapped, eaeli
separately, and close to the connections witli
each bath, sink, bowl or other fixture, unless
adequate provision is made for downward ven
tilation through said waste-pipes,in which ease
one trap may serve for several fixtures.
See. 26. All soil-pipes shall be carried at
their full size through the roof and left open.
A provision sliitll also be made lor admitting
air to the house-drain side of the main trap, il
such trap exists.
See 27. The joints in the vctriflod pi l>e shall
be carefully cemented tinder und around the
pipe, and the joints in the cast iron pijie sha-1
bo run and ciPked with lead.
Bec. 2H. All changes iu direction shall be
made with curved pipes. All joints and pip s
•shall be made air tight. The whole work shufi
be done by skilful mechanics, in a thorough
and workmanlike manner, and satislaetori'y to
the board of hcu'tli (or borough council).
Sec 26. Before proceeding to construct any
portion of the drainage system of a hotel, tene
ment, dwelling-house or other building, the
owner, buialcr or person constructing the same
shall fie with the board of health (or borough
council) a plan thereof, showing the whole
drainage system, from its connection with the
common sewer to its terminus in the house,
together with tho location and size of al
branches, trans, ventilating pipes and fixtures
See. 30. All drains now built shall lie recon
structed whenever, in the opinion of the board
of health (or borough council), it may be neces
sary.
Sec. 31. The following named diseases are
dec urcd to be communicable and dangerous to
the public health, viz: Smuil-pox, (variola,
vario'oid,) olio era, (Asiatic or epidemic,) scarlet
fever, (soar atina, scarlet rash,) mcns'es, diph
theria, (diphtheritic croup, diphtheritic sore
throat,) typhoid fever, typhus lover, yellow
fever, spotted fever, (ecrebro-spinal mening
itis,) relapsing lever, epidemic dysentery, hy
drophobia (rabies), glanders (l'arcy), and lep
rosy, und shall lie understood to be included m
the following regulations, unless certain of
them only are s|>ccified. Any physicians at
tending any of the above eases snail report the
same within five hours to the secretary of the
board ol health (or borough council).
bee. 32. Whenever any householder knows
that any person within his family or household
lias a communicable disease, dangerous to the
public health, he shall immediately report the
same to tiie board of itcultli (or borough coun
cil), giving tho street and number, or location,
of the house.
bee. 33. Whenever any physician finds that
any person whom he is called upon to visit has
a communicable disease, dangerous to the
public health, lie or she shall immediately re- |
port the same to the secretary of the bourd of j
health (or borough council), giving the street
and number, or location, of the house, on t lie
receipt of which report the secretary shall im
mediately notify tlie teacher or principal of
every school, academy, seminary or kinder
garten in the borough, requesting said teachers
or principals to dispense with the attendance
of all pupils residing in tiie family in which
such disease exists, rpon the receipt of a re
port of a ease of coimmiuieable disease, dan
gerous to the public health, tliesecretary of the
board of health sliaU direct tiie health officer to
place a colored olotn not less than twelve (12)
inches square, to le fastened upon the front
door or other conspicuous place on such house
iu which such sickness prevails, to be maintain
ed there until such time as the board of health
is satisfied thai the said house is properly clean
ed, disinfected, and purified; and no person
shall remove suid C'dored cloth, or cause such
removal without authority of the board of
health, and in ease such colored cloth is remov
ed without permission from the board of health,
the name of tho person or head of tho family
occupying such house, together with tiie locali
ty ol the house, and the fact that contagious
disease exists therein, shall be published. No
physician who may, iu good faith, in obedience
to this ordinance, report a case as one of com
municable disease which subsequently proves
not to be such, ahull lie liable to a suit for
damages for stieh error in reporting. It shall
be the duty of sucli physician und of all other
attendants upon persons affected with such
diseases to avoid exposure to the public of any
garments or clothing nbout their own persons
that may have been subjected to the risk of
infection.
Sec. 34. No porson shall, within the limits of
this borough, unless by permit of the board of
health (or borough council , carry or remove
from one building to another any patient
affected with any communicable disease, dan
gerous to the public health. Nor shall any
person, by any exposure of any individual so
a treated, or of the body of such individual, or
of any article capable of convoying contagion
or infection, or by any negligent act connected
with the care or custody thereof, or by u need
less exposure of himself or herself, cause or
contribute to the spread of disease from any
such individual or dead body.
Sec. 35. There shall not bo a public or
church funeral of any person who lias died of
Asiatic cholera, squill-pox, typhus fever, diph
theria, yellow lever, scarlet lever or measles,
and the family of the deceased shall in all such
eases limit the attendance to as few as possible,
and take all precautions possible to prevent the
exposure of other persons to contagion or In
fection; and the person authorizing tho public
notice of death of such person shall have the
name of tho disease which caused the deatli
appear in such public notice.
Sec. 3d. No person su lie ring from, or having
very recently recovered from, small-pox, sear
let fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, or measles,
shall expose himself, nor shall any one expose
any one under his charge in a similar condition,
in any conveyance, without having previously
notified the owner or persou in charge of such
conveyance of the fact of such condition as
above stated. It shall be the duty of the bourd
of liealth (or borough council* to have this
section printed on a card, and to furnish the
owner of each public conveyance with u copy
thereof; and it. shall be the duty of the owner
of such conveyance to display such card in such
conveyance. Anu the owner or person in
charge of such conveyance must not, after the
entry of any person so infected Into his convey
ance, allow any ot her norson to enter it without
! having sufficiently disinfected it under the
direction of the board of health (or borough
council).
Sec. 37. No person shall let or hire any house,
or room in u house, in which a communicable
disease, dangerous to the public health, has
recently existed, until tlie room or house and
premises therewith connected have been disin
fected to tho satisfaction of the Imai-d of liealth
(or borough council); and for the purposes of
tliis section, tho keeper of a hotel, inn or other
house for the reception of lodgers, shall bo
deemed to let or hire part of a house to any
I person admitted us a guest into such hotel, inn
I or house.
I Sec. 38. Members of any household in which
small-pox, diptheria, scarlet fever or measles
exists, shall abstain lroin attending places of
; public amusement, worship or education, and,
* as far as possible, lrom visiting other private
j See. 39. The clothing, bed clothing and bed
dtng of itersons who huvo been sick with any
communicable disease, dangerous to tho public
liealth, and the rooms which they have occupied
I during such sickness, together with their furui-
I I ure, shall bo disinfected under the direction of
! the board of health (or borough council),
i Sec. 40. No animal affect**}* with a cora
munieubo disease, dangerous to the public
lioaltn, shall be brought or kept within the
limits of this borough except by permission of
tho board of hculth (or borough council), and
: tile bodies of animuls dead of such diseusc or
j killed on account thereof shall not bo buried
within live hundred feet of any residence, nor
disposed of otherwise than as the suid board, or
council, or its liealth ollicer shall direct.
Sec. 41. No milk which lias been watered,
; adulterated, reduced or changed in any res
pect from its natural condition by the addition
of any foreign substance, shall be brought
I into, held, kept or offered for sale at any place
i in this borough.
| Sec. 12. No meat, fish, birds, fowls, fruit,
vegetables, milk, and nothing for human food,
not being then healthy, fresh, sound, whole
some. lit and safe for such use, nor any animal
or llsli t hat died by disease, ana no carcass of
i any calf, pig or lamb, which at the time of its
deatli was less than three weeks old, and no
meat therefrom shall be brought within the
limits of this borough or offered for sale as
food anywhere in said borough.
Sec. 43. it shall be the duty of the occupant
of every house within the limits of this bor
ough in the mouths of May and October in each
and every year, to cleanse the cellars thereof
of till dirt, vegetable and other Impure matter 1
calculated to enge-dor disease, and to cause 1
tlieia to be thoroughly whitewashed with fresh
lime.
.*oc. -I f It shii'l he the duty of every adult and
every purcnt, giiardbui or master of ev< ry ml or.
residing within tlie limits of this r-nron h who
has no had small pox, o been vaccinated HI us
to hive P-ken cw pox regularly, to bo. ir a.
a'Uilt. vaccinated, or, incase of a minor, to can o
snrh minor to e vaccina tod within fix months
fr. in the dute of the i assage of-his ordli ance,
Uiih ss unable to o ohy reus nofpover y; and it
'hall he lawfip for a >y icgula ly edncat d phy
sician residing in this borough • n appllcatio . of
such resident adult, or parent mast r or guar ia'■
of such resident minor, as ar • unable by re .son .f
poverty to pay .the vacciuatlou fee, to vaccinate
snid adult or said minor, and present his bill
therefor, proper y authenticated, f r an amount
not exceeding the fee u tially charged f r m< h
servic s. and to recover the same of and from t e
corporation.
Sec 45 Kb pupil ah .11 he all wed to att nd the
public schools n thi* borough who has i ot I ecu
vaccinated successfully within f>ev n years.
See. 4(1 No parent, guardian or master, in
whoso house or family there shall have been a
roinmiinicthlcdiHc.se da geroua to the puhlto J
health, sh-11 permh uny child resid.ng in sid
house or family to at'end any public, i riv tc or
Sunday school abcr the cessation of said dis
ease, within a period • f thirty after the
house shall huvo b. en tborougliiy di-infected and
cleansed And t shall be the duty of the school
board to have this section printed o cards, men
tioning the names of (lipases declared comm -
nica le and dangerous to the public health in
this ordinance, and posted in every school room
in tliis borough; nn<i it shall lie the duty of each
teacher to read the section to the school at least
OIK o a month and whenever ny epidemic shall
appear And it shall he the duty of tho board of
health (or loronghcouncil) to have this Miction
printed on cards and furnished to every privat*
school, academy, seminary, kindergarten a d
Snnd y school in this borough and to request the
p rsonor per ons in charge of such private insti
tutions to post S"ch c.irds in c nspicu us places,
and resd the section to ihc school at least once a
month, and whenever any ep demicslmll prevail.
Fee 47. fivery undeitukc or other person who
may have charge oft he funera'of any dead per
son. si al procure a pro) erl* llilou out. certificate
of the death and its probable cause, iu aceo d
anee with the form prescribed y the stale bourd .•
of health: and shall prcsen tho same totliedesig
natcd olll'er or member of tlto board of health, ;L
and obtain a burial or transit permit thereupon,
at least twenty-four hours b rore the time ap
pointed for such I'uueral: and he shall not remove
any dead body until snrh burial or transit pouilt
shall have been pro- urcd.
Sec 4s. Every p.-r-on who acts as as xton r
undertaker, or cemetery keeper, wit in the
limits of this borough, o has charge or care of
any tomb, vault, or burying rro.inaor other place
for the receptio of the dead, or wheic the b dies
of any human beings are depos te • , sba 1 so con
duct bir-husi" ess and so care f>r any such pace
above named, as to av.ld detriment or danger to
public health; and every person undertaking pre
parations for lie bur a- of ah dy d ad from c .m
--inim.cabl. diseases as ln reinbcfore enumerate ',
shall adop such precautions as the board of
In a th (or bor- ugh conned) inay prescribe o pre
vent the spread of such disea e No dead body
shal be exhumed and r. HI ved between the
months of .May and October inclusive and no
body dead from small-pox shall oyer be exhuincU
and removed.
*ee 4*.. Every p rson vio'at'ng sections 3. fi, 7,
H 0, 10, 11, 12. 13, 3', 83, 34 35, 86. 87, 30, 40. 41 (r
IS of this ordi-unco, shall he liable, f r evety
such offense upon conviction beforenuy burgess,
justice or magistral •, to a fine of not le s tliun $"
or more tha $25) at the discretion of tin- convict
ii g burgess, j s ice • r nnivUtra'c. besides c sis,
which tlie convict ng burgess, just ce or mngls- *
trate may inflict if lie see fit. 1
Sec 60 Every • e son violating any other sec
tion or provis • n of this o.diuanc , shall be lia
ble, for very such offense, upon conviction be
fore anv burgess, justice or magistrate, to a tiie
of not less than $3 or more ihau stn, at the dis
cretion of the convi-ti-g burgess, justice or'
innglstra e bo-ides costs wh en tho convicting
bur, ess, justice or mag strate may inflict if bo
see fit
See 61. A I po ire officers, constables and
w itchmcn are enjoiued, and all citizens are re
spectfully desired, to j.lvo informali n to the
I) ard of heal li tor bo. , ugh co .ncll) of any v olu
tion of tli- se ordinances, so tha; the sanitary aws
providing fir the < lean Hues- und health of the
oorough may be fully executed, and all offend, r*
pr-.inp ly punished.
Sec, 52. This ordinance sluill take effc-ct live
(s).days alter its publication, as provided by
statute.
Passed filially in council October 3,1H02.
T. A. Buckley, Patrick Doorls,
Secretary. President.
Approved October 4, is:.2.
E. P. Gallagher, Burgess.
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L/M_)lt SALE.—House and lot on Centre street,
Freelund; house, IttxSSl; lot 125x26. For
further particulars apply at this office.
I pOU SALE.- Fine property on Centre
' next to Central hotel; storeroom una
dwelling; everything in good condition. Ap
ply at tills office.
rpOK SALE.—A well-built dwelling, with
J" stable and lot, on Washington street,
between South and Luzerne. Apply to John
Yantics, opera house Ituilding, Freeland.
ATTANTED.-Sulesmen, to sell our choice
VV and hardy nursery Block. -Many special
varieties to olTcr both in fruits ami ornaincnt
als, and controlled only by us. We nay com
mission or salary, givo exclusive territory and
pay weekly. Write us at once and secure
choice of territory. May Brothers, Nursery
men, Rochester, N. V.
APPLICATION for annexation to the bor
ough of Freclund Notice is hereby given
that un application will be made to the court
of quarter sessions of Luzerne oouuty, on July
1, A.!>., 18911, and to the grand Jury of said
county, which meets 011 September 9, iwtf, by a
number of the owners ami residents of ndjoin
ingTpropcrty for the annexation of certain lots,
outlots, etc., to the borough of Frccland, now
situated in the township of Foster, described
us follows:
Ist. All that portion of the Woodside addition
bounded by the alley east of Adams
the east; the right of way of tlie Lehigh \ JHLv
Railroad Company on the south; the
of Itidge street, and part, of tlie alley west of
Centre street, 011 the west, and by the southern
boundary of the borough of Frcclund 011 the
north.
2nd. All that tract of land known as "The
Park," situated east of the borough of Free
land.
3rd. All that portion of Burton's Hill bound-
I ed north by lands of the Aaron Ilowey estate;
east by the borough of Frccland; south by
lands of the Cross Creek Coal Company, and
west by laud of Tench Coxe estate.
John 1). llayes, Solicitor.
BMDIK6 BUD SySTEBr"
LEHIGII VALLEY
mi \£7 DIVISION.
1 I ' Anthracite coal used cxclu-
I if sivcly, insuring cleanliness and
|f comfort.
1 Ann ANUICMKNT OF PABBRNGF.II TRAINS.
MAY 14, 1803.
LEAVE FRKELAND.
, 0 05, 8 47, 9 40. 10 41 am, 12 25, 1 32, 2 27, 3 45,
4 55, (5 58, 7 12, H 47 p in, for Drifton, Jcddo. Lum
ber Yard, Stockton and Duzlcton. l
1 > 05 a in, I 32, 3 45, 455 p in, for Mauch Chunk, •
A lien town, Bethlehem, i'hilu., Easton and New .
. ! York. J ■
9 Id a m for Bethlehem, Boston and PhUn. fl
I 7 20, 10 50 a 111, 12 10,4 34 pm, (via H/£iAiiu' M
Branch) for White Haven, Glonßmnniit,W&es- M
Bane, lMttston and 1.. and 11. Junction. 9 fl
SUNDAY TRAINS. fl
11 40 a in and 3 45 p in for Drifton, Jeddo,
; ber Yard and Ma/.leton.
345 n in for Delano. Mahanoy City,
doah. New York and Philadelphia.
ARRIVE AT FREELANP. B
5 50. 7 09, 7 20, 9 18, 10 50 a in, 12 10, 1 15, tl
4 34, 0 58 and 837 p 111, from Ila/.loton,
1.11111 ber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
7 20, 9 18. 10 50 a 111, 2 13, 4 34, 0 58 p
Delano, Mnhauoy City and
! New Boston Branch).
I 15, 0 58 ami 8 37 p m from New York, jE?
! Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Allentown and A
Chunk. 4 t
9 18 and 10 50 a m, I 15, 0 58 and 8 37 p n
Easton, I'hila., Bethlehem and Mauch
9 18, 10 41 a 111, 2 27,0 58 p 1111 mm
(Jlen Summit, V/ilkcs-Burro, Pittston
B. Junction (via Highland Branch).
SUNDAY TRAINS. .
II 31 a in and 331 p in, from Hazleti- #
ber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
11 31 a m from Delano, lla/.leton, Phi'
and Easton.
3 31 p ni from Delnno and Mahanoy
For turther information inquire of
' C. G. HANCOCK, Qcn. Pass. A art.
I'h ladcl
! A. w. NONNEMACJIEU, Ass't G. P. A.
South lit tide)