FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TLIOB, A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Year S 1 50 Six Months 75 Four Months Two Months 25 Subscribers who allow themselves to fail in arrears will be called upon or notified twice, aud, if payment does not follow within one month thereafter, collection will be made in the inuuncr provided by law. FRF.ELAND, I'A., JUNE 22, 1893. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, I). C., June 20. President Cleveland is deeply inter ested in the efforts that are being made to ascertain if the carelessness of any person was responsible for the horrible tragedy in Ford's old theatre, although he has wisely refrained from taking any action that might be considered as inter fering witli the properly-constituted au thorities now engaged in that task. Great pressure is being brought to hear on him to suspend or remove Col. Ains worth, the army officer who is at the head of the office, and upon whom a great many people are disposed to place the blame, but Mr. Cleveland's idea of fair play is such that it is not probable that he will take any action until there is more tangible evidence of Col. A ins worth's guilt than public clamor for making him a scapegoat. If he he guilty surely that fact can hardly escape the coroner's jury now investigating and the army court of inquiry which will take the matter up at the close of the inquest The improvement in the financial sit uation has been very marked during the last few days, and treasury officials and others who keep close watch on financial affairs believe that the turn lias come in the itow of gold abroad and that the sit uation will continue to improve. It is certain that the gold in the treasury is again increasing at a gratifying rate and that there is at present no demand for gold for shipment abroad. Secretary Morton expresses the opinion that from now on our cereals will take ttie place of the gold which we have been shipping to Europe, and the fact that the large amount of gold which the Rothschilds contracted to furnish Austria lias all been delivered is also thought to have been a factor in causing a cessation in the European demand for gold. Among tho consular appointments made Iftst week was that of IScnnington R. liedle, of New Jersey, to be consul at Sheffield, England, in place of Benjamin Folsom, resigned. Mr. Fol som, who has held the position since his appointment early in the first Cleveland administration, is a cousin of Mrs. Cleve land's and as "Cousin Ben" he figured in all the Republican papers as proof that President Cleveland was not in earnest when he declared himself opposed to nepotism. Wonder what those same fellows will say now that Mr. Folsom has voluntarily resigned? The chances are that they will ignore it entirely and say nothing. The government has lost in actual cash, according to Secretary Carlisle's figures, in carrying out the provisions of the Sherman law, nearly $11,000,000 representing the difference between the amount paid for the silver now stored in the treasury vaults and its present selling price. If it really had to be sold at once the loss would probably be much greater because of the further depreciation in price that would follow such a large quantity of silver on the market. Democratic congressmen, after a bard and stubborn fight, have succeeded in convincing Postmaster General Bissell that his rule against the removal of Re publican fourth-class postmasters who liaye served four years or more, unless charges are filed against them, is a bad one, and it will be recalled and all Re publicans who have been in office four years or more will be replaced by Demo crats just as fast as they can be got at in Mr. Maxwell's office. A letter received by Mr. Cleveland last week furnishes conclusive proof, if proof were needed, of the wisdom of the establishment in the pension bureau of a board of revision, the sole duty of which is to go over all the pensions that have been granted under the law of 1890 and determine whether they were granted in accordance with a proper construction of that law. Tho writer of this letter, J. M. Burnett, is ex-employe of the office, who voluntarily resigned during tho last administration because he could not conscientiously take part in carrying out Raum's methods. He tells the presi dent of a large number of pensions illegally granted, and gives names, dates, and the numbers of the applica tions, BO that his statements may be easily verified. He says that thousands of pensions have been illegally granted, and that tney are not confined to cases in which the law was wrongfully con strued, but include an enormous number granted in direct violation of law. Mr. Burnett concludes by expressing the belief that at leaßt $50,000,000 a year can be saved by a thorough and rigid purging #.nd revision of the pension rolls. S. THE AMERICAN UNION THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF RAIL WAY EMPLOYEES. • A Talk With Eugene V. llebs Ueveals Smno of the Olueetions Which Are Made to the ForniH of the Brotherhood —What the Now Union's Projectom Propose. I had a long talk the other day with Eugene V. Debs about the American Railway union, the new organization of railway employees recently started as the result of a conference of representa tive railroaders held in Chicago. Air. Debs, as one of the originators of the new movement and president of the temporary organization, is fully qualified to speak concerning it. 1 was impressed by the earnest manner of Air. Debs and have not tlie slightest doubt but that ho thoroughly understands the three essen tial points in the problem whose solu tion he has undertaken. The problem is the unification of all the railway em ployees of the country for the uplifting and improvement of all, and the three points are: Weakness of past and pres ent forms of organization, lines upon which the new organization must he constructed, and what may and must be accomplished by such an organization. It doesn't require much knowledge of labor affairs to understand that organi zations which embrace less than one fifth of the workers in an industry oan not exercise potent and lasting influence upon that industry. There are about 800,000 railway employees in the United States. Of these about 150,000_are mem bers of the brotherhoods aud orders of the different branches of the service, and there is next to nothing in the way of federation or co-operation between theso dozen or more class brotherhoods. Attempts at federation have failed— sometimes after trials limited as to tho number of organizations co-operating aud while yet very young—and all such attempts must fail while the present varied and conflicting forms of organiza tion prevail in tho same service. Lead ers are only human and may for one reason or another prefer exclusiveness as officials while manifesting friendship for each other as individuals similarly situated. There ia not supposed to be any rea son why the engineers and the switch men may not as men and citizens meet on a common plane, but as members of different brotherhoods, over whose por tals is written, "We attend to our own affairs," they are as far apart as tho poles, and, us a matter of fact, tho at*, mosphcre of the lodgeroom clings to them when they meet in the discharge of their duties or in a social way. This dej)lorablu condition is duo to wrong teaching—to lack of an understanding of the great principles of justice. Until justice triumphs thero can never bo safe ty and peace. Until all workiugmen learn to be just to each other injustice will rule. When the selfishness of rail road men is educated to understand that the welfare of tho conductor depends upon tho trackman's untrammeled exer cise of his rights, then there will be se curity and bearable conditions in rail road employment. This education is the chief aim of the American Railway union, Mr. Debs says. Ono of tho many radical changes pro posed by tho new organization is a cheap ening in the cost of membership. In some of tho brotherhoods it 'costs from $lO to $25 per annum to maintain good standing, and frequently twice as much is demanded to support a hopeless strike. To these high dues and assessments mors than to anything else is chargeable tho comparatively small membership of the present organizations. Tens of thou sands of men are today on the lists of "scabs" simply because they fell so far behind, from one cause or another, in their financial obligations that they either withdrew or were expelled. Hun dreds of thousands have been deterred from becoming members because they could not or would not take upon them selves the financial obligations required of them. I know there are many good union men who are earnest and honest advocates of high fees and dues, but cir cumstances alter cases. If tho tariff is so high as to be prohibitive, it certainly defeats tho first great aim of organiza tion, which is organization. Mr. Debs says fees and dues in the rail way organizations are high because the expenses of conducting affairs under jiresent forms aro enormous. Salaries to "grand officers" are out of all propor tions to tho service required and to the circumstances of the rank and file. Men who could not earn $1,500 per year in any other calling aro drawing from $2,000 to $6,000 and expenses as "grand chief" or "grand" something else. Besides, each of the local lodges has several officers who are paid—in many cases no more than is fair for tho actual time required under their wasteful system of organiza tion. The general conventions, nearly all of which are held yearly, cost from $30,000 to $75,000 each. In a word, tho expense of maintaining the several or ganizations with an aggregnto inembor shipof 150,000 men is, roundly stated,sl,- 000,000 annually. Has the game so far paid for such a costly candle? I believo it is tho duty of every union man to pay his full share of the expenses of his organization, even if ho 1188 to practico self denial to a considerable ex tent, but it is also his duty to endeavor to keep those expenses down to tho low est point compatible with efficient serv ico, and if a change in the form of organ ization will lessen materially the sum, and by cheai>ening tho cost of member ship increase the numerical strength and potency of tho organization, then that chango should bo made and made as soon as possible. Under the plans offered by tho new union Mr. Debs says tho cost to each memberneed not exceed 15 cents a month, and thus an organization man aging the trade affairs of 800, 000 met could be carried on at an expense less than is now required to bo met by 100,- 000. Tho two great leaks to bo stopped are those from which flow tho salaries of a small army of "grand officers" and the expenses of forty times as many gen eral conventions as are needed. Tho plan of tho new organization is not yet completed. Many of tho details are still to bo agreed upon. The main scheme, as explained to me by Air. Debs, is to bring all the employees of tho rail way system, all branches of train service, Station men, shopmen and trackmen, into one organization—"all under one roof." Each branch of the service is to form a division or section, and while each divi sion will have charge of its own affairs it will be entitled to and will receive tho support of the wliolo union when needed. Red tape is to be abolished and tedious routine reduced to a minimum. Aleet ings will be held regularly for education al purposes, instead of for tiresome twad dle and wrangling. Of course, when im portant business necessitates a meeting ing of the division concerned, ono will be held. Aleu qualified to discuss eco nomic and kindled subjects will he kept in tho field constantly employed in filling regularly appointed engagements as lec turers and teachers, and a system of In terchanging will provide variety for both , speakers and listeners. The country is to be carefully divided into districts, and a competent man will be placed in charge of each district. These district directors will jointly com pose the international board of directors, and regulated by a standard of fitness the aim will be to give proportional rep resentation to each branch of the service in the selection of directors. Thero will be no princely salaries, but those who are chosen as directors will be remuner ated fairly in accordance with the serv ico rendered and in a sum not out of tho sight of their previous incomes and tho incomes of thoso who pay the salaries. The directors will bo elected at the quad rennial international convention. It is held liy the men of the new union that once in four years is often enough for a general meeting, and that two days is enough for an ordinary session. Atten tion is called to the great saving in ex pense this plan will effect. As an educational feature in addition to tho regular economic lectures already referred to a daily paper and a monthly magazine will bo established—probably in Chicago. These publications are to' be made as good as money and brains can produce and aro to be sold at cost. "No more, no less," Bays Mr. Debs. Tho daily is to be a thorough newspaper, and labor matters will get a fair show—some thing very much needed, in fact, "a long felt want." Tho new magazine is to contain articles upon industrial ques tions prepared by the ablest thinkers and writers upon such questions and ex pressed in language which the ordinary j mind can grasp. There is to be no hid i ing of the truth behind a lot of "liighfa { lutin lingo," which 110 one understands— not even tho writer himself after it gets cold. Economic truths may be expressed in plain, everyday English, and Debs says Tho Railway Union's magazine will prove it. There will be a meeting of the organ izers of the union in Chicago on Juno 20. At this meeting a programme for the summer's work will bo made, and 12 or more organizers will tako the field to ro main out until the first general conven tion, which will probably be held in October next. Mr. Debs suys the men who will tako tho field aro all as enthusi astic as he is himself over the new or ganization, and that during this summer thero will be carried on such a campaign of agitation, organization and education among the railway employees as this country never knew. It is claimed that a majority of the men in tho railway brotherhoods and orders aro ready for a chango which will offer them substau , tial relief, and while it is not desirable nor is it proposed to interfere with tho existing organizations these men aro ready to meet Mr. Debs and his associ ates half way. All seo the necessity of gathering into the field of unionism tho , 050,000 unorganized railway men. I confess to more than ordinary inter [ est in this new movement. With every other closo observer I have for more than two years known .that the present rail way organizations were inadequate; that they could not, as at present formed and managed, accomplish anything substan tial in behalf of tho great army of rail way men. I believe that the general plan of tho American Railway union is founded ujion correct principles, and I I have confidence in tho men who are nt the front in tho movement and believe they have tho ability, as I know they | havo the honesty, to carry out the idea in its necessary details. Eugene V. Debs I has made a record during 13 years as secretary of tho Brotherhood of Firemen lof which any man would be proud, and ho has today more friends among rail roud mon than any other man in the country. I have known him for several years, and I trust him implicitly. Let theso be accepted as my reasons fur giv ing so much space to tho American Rail way union. Jos. R. BUCHANAN. A Bud "Better Off." j 1 have listened to many ingennoua per \ sons who say wo are better off now than wo ever were before. Ido not know how | well off we were before, but Iknow posi ! tively that many deserving persons of my acquaintance havo great difficulty in I living under these improved circum stances. I simply cannot paint, nor j read, nor look at minerals, nor do any j thing else 1 like, and tho very light of j the morning sky has became hateful to } mo because of the misery that I kndw of and see signs of whore I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too I bitterly.—John Ruskin. Out of 600 definitions submitted in a i contest arranged by Tho Figaro of Paris, tho following received a reward of 100 francs for defining tho term of "social ism:" "Socialism is tho totality of uspi ratiens and theories which would estab lish between men, by various legislative | measures, the greatest equality of wealth 1 or poverty." THE PEOPLE TWICE ROBBED, tu the Matter of llut Triunuingn, Whu j Should Get the Jtefuiulud Hutit-s? IIONV tlio protective tariff works loss to tlio people in illustrated by the hat trim mings case finally decided. The law im posed a certain duty 011 hat trimmings, and the custom house officials appointed in the protectionist interest labored to bring them under a schedule that would greatly increase the duty. The import ers protested and went to tlio courts to get the excess of duty refunded to them. Meanwhile they sold the trimmings to the public at prices that covered the in crease of cost caused by the improper ruling of the custom house officials. The courts said the importers were right, and the excess of duty must be refunded by the government. The treasury department under Presi dent Harrison continued to look at the matter from the protected manufactur er's point of view and kept tho import ers waiting by prolonging legal pro ceedings. Some $2,000,000 has been re-" funded, but there remains $8,000,000 tc refund—ex-Secretary Foster says $25,- 000,000. Whatever sum is repaid to the complaining importers will of course come out of the pockets of the taxpaying consumers, who long ago paid this ex cess of duties when they bought their liuts. The in justice to the consumers is man ifest. It would have been avoided if it were the policy of tho customs officials to give tho consumer the benefit of the lower rate of duty whenever there is question as to which of two duties the law means to prescribe. Such has not been tho policy of the customs adminis tration, because tho tariff has been work ed in the interest of protected manufac turers, and for the latter a high rato fix ed by executive order is as good as a like rate made by congress. Protectionists in the customs service, or officials in that service appointed at the instance of pro tectionists, are hardly safe custodians of tho public interests as respects rates of duty—that is to say, the interests of the consuming masses of tho people. It may be asked whether tho millions of dollars of tariff tax to be refunded un- dor the court's decision ought to go to the importer or to the foreigner who sold him the hat trimmings. If, as our Re publican friends think, the foreigner pays the tariff tax, the money ought clearly to go to the foreigner. It is money paid by him improperly into our treasury, and the American importer lias no title to it. The Republican idea is that the foreigner knocks the amount of the tax off his wholesale price, so that foreign goods are sold hero as low as abroad. This being the case, it is hard to see where the protection comes in or why the manufacturer wants a tariff. But tho fact, everybody knows, is the other way. Tho tariff is to put prices up, and it does it, and when the importer gets the excess of duties on hat trimmings refunded to him there is nothing said of his f mding the cash over to Europe.— Baltimore Sun. The Immigration Question. When tho repeal of tho protective laws shall liavo freed tho workingman from tho thraldom of combined capital, liberated our industries from the tyranny of trusts and monopolies, allowed mines and mineral deposits to be worked, now ami unthought of industries to cover tho land, more of tho country's products will not only go to the workers, but there will neither be underbidding "nor usurp ing of places," because the country's cap ital will be so productively invested, work will bo so plentiful, commerce so lively, that every new arrival will be gladly welcomed by employees as well as employers. If immigration should be stopped and the destructive laws not re pealed, tho strugglo for place would re main as at present, and the condition of the workman now living in the country would in nowise bo improved. Canada furnishes an eloquent illustration of this statement. The beneficiaries of "protection for plutocracy only" and their ullies in the press know that as soon as a sweeping reform shall liavo been entered upon their excessivo profits as well as their al most absolute power over their working men will be gone. Consequently they do all they can to direct the attention of the workingmen away from the evil, and to call up other issues liko tho immigra tion question, thus hoping to bo able to prolong the life of a system by which they enrich themselves at tho expenso of the workingmen, tho consumers and the great bulk of the country's unprotected industries.—Dinginan Versteeg in Amer ican Industries. Twice l'aid Duties. Tho excessive duties on hat trimmings arc not tho only duties which the gov ernment must now refund to tho iin portorswho were compelled to pay them. A decision of tho circuit court of ap peals requires tho government to pay hack from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 that was improperly collected as duties on leaf tobacco under the old tariff, and the treasury department has asked tho col lector of this port to submit a statement as to tho claims and the sum involved. The decision of tho same court concern ing the double duties upon carpet wool that wore exacted under the McKinley tariff iw olwdieneo to the demands of ex- Comptroller Lawrence of Ohio has been | accepted by the department as final, and \ tho sums paid in excess of the lawful duties will now be refunded. In these . 1 cases, as in the ease of the duties on hat tnmmings, the blunders or intentional errors of officers whose devotion to the • doctrines of McKiuleyism was intense , have had the effect of compelling the ; | people of this country to pay the duties twice. As the sum to he refunded to the | importers of hut trimmings alono is at least $8,000,000 and, in tho opinion of ex j Secretary Foster, may ho $25,000,000, the i I decisions call for a very considerable ad , ; dition to the expenditures of the next ) fiscal year.—New York Times. The St. Louis Globo-Democrat thinks McKinley a little "off" on the tariff ques tion. By an extraordinary majority the voters have decided that he is far "off" on that question. lib 1 NANCE OF TH E M) AKD OF H EAI/TII V t of tlic borough of Frechttid, l'n , for the bt'llcr preservation of the public health, and to iirevent tin- .spread of communicable diseases. In virtue of tlu* powers conferred by tile net of Hsseinl.l} of April 11, IHSI, section I, I'. 1.. JfcJO, of the laws of the commonwealth of lVmtsylvu nia, lie it ordained by the burgess and borough council of tin- borough of Kreelann, I'a., and it is hereby ordained by the authority ol the same. Bec. 1. That whatever is dangerous to hu- i man life or health, whatever renders tin- air or | food or water or other drink unwholesome, and whatever building, erection, or part or i cellar thereof, is overcrowded, or not provided | witli adequate means of ingress and egress, or \ is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewer- j 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 j the same, or who may support, continue or re tain any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance, and ulso lie liable tor the excuse 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 ol' this borough, and 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 hoard of health (or b-rough council), shall bui d or use any slaughter house within the limits of tills borough, and the keep ing and slaughtering of ull cattle, sheep and swine, and the preparation and keeping of all meat, llsli, birds or other animal food, shall lie in the manner 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 market, public or private,shall cause such place, room or building, stable or market, to lie thor oughly cleansed and puvilled, and all offal, blood, fat, garbage, refuse and unwholesome and offensive mutter 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 couiiturs, in any building, place or premises aforesaid thor oughly painted or whitewashed; and the Honrs of any such building, place or premises shall be so constructed as to prevent blood or foul liquids or wushings from settling in the earth beneath. Sec. 4. No blood-pit, dung-pit, offal-pit or privy-well shall remain or be constructed | within any slaughter house. Any one offend- j ing against this rule shall be guilty of creating ami maintaining a nuisance prejudicial to public health, and shall he required to remove the nuisance within ten days from t he date of notice. See. The owners, agents, or occupiers of all slaughter-houses are required, during the men t lis (if .1 ii in-, July, August and Sipt. ~IM i - i .. twice distribute in each week not less than twen ty five pounds of chloride of lime about their premises, and also to remove the contents of any manure-pit or manure-pile on the prom ises, once in each week, the said premises and contents of manure-pits being hereby dcelarr d to be nuisances prejudicial to public hculth, unless subjected to frequent disinfection and cleaning as herein indicated. No pigs or hogs shuil be kept in the same enclosure with a slaughter-house; nor shall they be fed, there or elsewhere, upon the offal of slaughtered ani mals. Sec. tl. 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 arc generated, such as tanneries, rcllucrics, manufactories c<f starch, glue, leather, chemicals, fertilizers, gas, etc.. etc., without the permit of the board of hculth (or borough council), and all such es tablishments shall be kept clean and whole some so as not to be offensive or prejudicial to public hculth; nor shall any offensive or dele terious waste substance, refuse or injurious matter be allowed to aecinnulate upon tin premises, or lie thrown or allowed to run into any public waters, stream, water-course, street, road or public place. And every person or company conducting such manufacture or business shall use the best approved and all reasonable means to prevent the escape of smol e, gases and odors, and to protect the health and safety of a l operatives employed therein. Sec. 7. Tho business of bone and horsc-boi'- ing shall not lie allowed, unless conducted under cover, the building to be provided with smoke consumers, and a due regard be had to c'oanll ncss in the disposition of the offal. No bone boi ing cstub'lslunont or depository of dead anima's shall bo kept or erected in any part of this borough without a permit from the board of health (or borough council.) See. 8. No permit shall lie granted to any person or persons to carry 011 the business of boiling hones and dead animals until after a careful inspection of the locality, lan dings and apparatus, and of the plans for conducting the business, by an accredited inspector of tiie board of health (or borough council). Sec. No bone-boiling establishments or depositories of dead anima's shall le kept or erected in or near to a thickly inhabited neighborhood. •Sec. 10. The floors of all bono-boi'mg 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 lie well drained; ami a l such establishments shall have such nil adoquute water supply as will enable thorough cleanliness to la- maintained. See. 11. The boiling of bones and dead ani mals, etc., slmll be conducted in steam tight kettles, boilers or caldrons, from which the foul vapors shall be first conducted through scrubbers or condensers, and then into fin back part of the ash-pit. of the furnace lire, to lie consumed, or by other apparatus equally efficient in preventing or counteracting the of fensive effluvia. See. hi. When bones are being dried after boiling, they shall be placed in a close chamber, through which shall be passed by means of pipes, large volumes of fresh air, the outlet pipe terminating In the lire-pit. See. 13. All proprietors of bone-boiling es tablishments not having on the first day of July 18951 permits to carry on the business, and vio lating these ordinances, shall be tlndd for every such offense, and for each month's continuance of the same, after notice, and also be liable to an indictment at common law for creating and maintaining a nuisance, Sec. 14. The penult 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, tin' location ot 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 15tli day of May and the Ist day of Novem ber, more than two wugon loads of manure to uccuinulutc In or near the same tit any one 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 light vehicle, so protected that the manure, In process of removal, may not be dropped or left in any street, road, lane or way of the borough. See. 10. No pig pen shall be built brnmintnin ed within the limits of this borough without a permit from the board of health (or borough council), or within one hundred feet of any well or spring of water used for drinking purposes, or within thirty feet of any street or of any in habited house, or unless constructed 111 the following manner, viz: so that the tloor or Hours of the same shall be not less than two feet from* the ground, in order that the tilth accumulating under the same may be easily removed; ami such filth accumulating in, about ami under the same shall be removed at least once a week and ofteucr if so ordered, and on the failure ol any owner or occupier of such premises so to do, then the same shall be done by the board of health. " Sec. 17. No privy-vault, cess-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 permit ted to remain within one hundred and tifty feet of any well, spring or oilier source of water used for drink ing or culinary purposes; unless the surface of such vault, ccss-pool or reservoir is at a lower level than the bottom ol such well, harth privies and earth closets, with no vault, pit or depression below the surface of the ground, shall be excepted from this regulation, but sufficient, dry earth or coal ashes must be used daily to absorb all the fluid part of tho deposit., and the contents must be completely removed at least once every month. Bee. 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 loth of May, and once in the autumn not earlier than the 15th of October. From the the 15th of May to the 15th of October of each year, they shull lie thoroughly disin fected by adding to their contents, once every wck, from one to four gallons ola disinfectant solution, according to the size of the said vault, cess-pool or reservoir. Bee. 19. All sewer-drains shall lie water-tight within the limits of this borough. See. 20. No sewer-drain shall empty into any lake, pond or other source of water used for drinking purposes, or into any standing water, within (he jurisitiction of this borough. ' See. 21. The sewage from eac# building on every street nrovided with a common sewer, shall be conducted into said sewer. Sec 22. That portion of the house drain I which is outside ul the building and more than four l'eet from the foundation walls, shall Ik constructed of iron pti>e or virt rilled drain-pipe. See 23. That portion of the drain-pipe out side or under the building, and wit inn four feet of the foundation walls, together with the soil pipe, shall deconstructed of cast iron with lead Joints, or of wrought iron pipe with screwed joints, anil In either ease protected from rust. Hie wusto-pine connected with the conductors from the roofs, and other pif>csingidcthe build ing, or outside and within four feet of the foundation walls, shall likewise be constructed of east iron with leaded joints, or of wrought iron with screwed joints. See. 21. The house drain anil other pipesl'or the conveyance of sewage shall lie laid \#ill i uniform grade and with a full of not less than one inch in four feet, except in those eases where the board of health (or borough council) may permit otherwise. See. 25. All pipes connecting a water-closet with a soil-pipe shall be trapped, each sepa rately. All waste pipes shall be trapped, each separately, and close to the connections with each bath, sink, bowl or other fixture, unless adequate provision is made for downward ven tilation through said waste-pipes, iu which ease one trap may serve for several fixtures. See. 23. All soil-pipes shall be carried at their lull size through tho roof and left open. A provision shall also be made for admitting air to the house-drain side of the main trap, it such trap exists. Sec 27. The joints in the vetrlflod pipe shall be carefully cemented under and around the pipe, and the joints in the east Iron pipe shitl be run and caked with lead. Sec. 2s. All changes in direction shall be made with curved pipes. All joints and pip s shall be made uir tight. The whole work shall be done by skilful mechanics, in a thorough and workmanlike manner, and satisfactorily to the board of hea th (or borough counci). Sec 23. Before proceeding to construct any portion of the drainage system of a hotel, tene ment, dwe! big-house op other building, the owner, lmi der or person constructing the same shall fi'e with the board of health (or borough counci.) a plan thereof, showing the whole drainage system, from its connection with the common sewer to its terminus iu the house, together with the location and size of ah branches, traps, ventilating pipes and fixtures Sec. 30. AH drains now built shall be recon structed whenever, in the opinion of tho board of health (or borough council), it may be ncces- See. 31. The following named diseases arc dec'n rod to be communicable ami dangerous to the pub ie hca'th, via: Small-pox, (variola, varioloid,) olio era, (Asiatic or epidemic,)scarlet lever, (searatina, scarlet rash,) meases, diph theria, (diphtheritic croup, diphtheritic sore throat,) typhoid lever, typhus lever, yel'ow lever, spotted fever, (eoreuro-spintil mening itis,) realising fever, epidemic dysentery, hy drophobia (rabies), g'anders (farcy), and leii rosy, and shall be understood to be included iti the following regulations, unless certain of them only are specified. Any physicians at tending any of the above cases snail report the same within live hours to the secretary of the board of health (or borough council). Sec. tti- Whenever any householder knows that any person within his family or household has a communicable disease, dangerous to tho public health, he shall immediately report the same to the hoard of health (or borough coun cil), giving the street and number, or locution, of the house. See. itt. Whenever any physician llnds thut any person whom he is called upon to visit lias a communicable disease, dangerous to the public health, lie or she shall immediately re port the same to the secretary of the hoard of health (or borough council), giving the street and number, or location, of the house, on the receipt of which report the secretary shall im mediately notify the 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 the family in which such disease exists, I'pon the receipt of a re port of a ease of communicable disease, dan gerous to the public health, the secretary of the hoard of health shall direct the health ollicer to place a colored cloth not loss than twelve (hi) inches square, to be fastened upon the front door or other conspicuous place on such house in which such sickness prevails, to be maintain ed there until such time as the board of health is satisfied that the said house is properly clean ed, disinfected, and purified; and no person shall remoV' said colored cloth, or cause such removal without authority of the board of health, and in ease such colored oloth is remov ed without permission from the board of health, the name of the person or head of tin* family occupying such house, together with the locali ty ol the fiouSe, and the fact that contagious disease exists therein, shall be published. No physician whd may, in good faith, in obedience to this ordinance, report a case as one of com municable disease which subsequently proves not to be such, shall be liable to u suit for damages for such error in reporting. It sliull be the duty of such physician and of all other attendants upon persons unvoted with such discuses to avoid exposure to the public of any garments or clothing about their own persons that may have been subjected to the risk of infection. Sec. 34. No person Hliull, within the limits of this borough, unless by penult of tin- board ot health (or borough council), curry or remove from one building to another any patient, airccted with any cominunicable disease. dan gerous to the public health. Nor shall any person, by any exposure of any individual so nll'eoted, or of the body of such individual, or of any article capable of conveying contagion or infection, or l>y any negligent act connected with t tie care or custody thereof, or by a need less exposure of himself or herself, cause or contribute to the spread of disease from any such indi\ idual or (load body. Sec. 3T. There shall not be a public or church funeral of tiny person who has died of Asiatic cholera, small-pox, typhus fever, diph theria, yellow fever, scarlet lever or measles, and the family of the deceased shall in all such cases limit the attendance to as few as possible, and take all precautions possible to prevent the exposure of other ]>crßons to contagion or in fection; and the person authorizing tlie public notice of deatli of such person shall have the name of the disease which caused the death uppenr in such public notice. Sec. 30. No person sullcring fronvor having very recently recovered from, small-pox, scar let fever, diphtheria, yellow lever, or measles, shall exp se himself, nor shall anyone expose! any one under Ids eh a rue in a similar condition, in any conveyance, without having previously untitled the owner or ikmsoii in eh luge of sueh conveyance of the fact id' such condition as above stated. It shall be the duty of the board of health (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. Ann the owner or jierspn in charge of such conveyance must not, after the entry of any person so Infected into hisconvoy niice, allow any other person to enter it without having sufficiently disinfected it under the direction of the hoard of health (or borough council). Sec. iSL No person shall let or hire any house, or room in a house, in which a communicable disease, dungerous to the public health, lias recently existed, until the room or house and premises therewith connected have been disin fected to the satisfaction of the hoard of health (or borough council); and for the purposes of this section, the koepcr of a hotel, inn or other | house for the reception of lodgers, shall tie I deemed to let or hire part of a house to any person admitted as a guest into sueh hotel, inn ! or house. i See. :W. Members of any household In which small-pox, diptheria, scarlet fever or measles exists, shall abstain from attending places of ; public amusement, worship or education, and, ! an far jus possible, from visiting other private houses. I Sec. 39. The clothing, bed clothing and bed ding of persons who have been sick witli any i communicable disease, dangerous to the public , health, and the rooms which they have occupied during sueh sickness, together with their furni ture, shall he disinfected under the direction of ( the board of health (or borough council), j Hoc. 40. No animal affected with a com municable disease, dangerous to the public lu-jilt 11, shall be brought or kept within the ; limits of this borough except by permission of the board of health (or borough council), and the bodies of animals dead <>f sueh disease or I killed on account thereof shall not be buried within five hundred feet of any residence, nor .disposed of otherwise than as the said board, r council, or its health officer shall direct. Sec. 41. No milk which has been watered, adulterated, reduced or changed in'any res pect from its natural condition by the addition of any foreign substance, shall be brought | into, held, kept or olTered for sale at any place : in tiiis borough. i Sec. 42. No mout, fish, birds, fowls, fruit, vegetables, milk, and nothing for human food, ; not being then healthy, fresh, sound, whole some, tit and safe for sueh use, nor any animal I or llsh that died by disease, and no carcass of any calf, pig or lamb, which at the tune of its dealli was less than three weeks old, and no 1 meat therefrom shall be- brought within the limits of this borough or offered for sale as ! food anywhere in said borough, j Sec. 43. It shall be the duty of tho occupant I of every house within tho limits of this bor ough in the months of May and October in each and every year, to cleanse tho cellars thereof of all dirt, vegetable and other impure mntter calculated to iiogo' der disease, and to cause tlieni to 1M- thoroughly whitewashed with fresh lime. tec. 44. It sha'l be the duty of every adult and every parent, guardian or master of every mi or, residing; within Ihe limit* of this roron h who has i o nnd small pox,o been vaccinated HO >IH to h IVO ti ken CM-pox regularly, to he. if ai adult, vaccinated, or, in case of a minor, to cau-e such minor 10 e vaccinated within six months fri nt the date of the passage or-his ordinance, ttnhss unable to o o by rcas n ofpover y; and It shall he lawfu for ny regtila ly educat. d phy sician residing in this lorough in application of such resident adult, or parent, mast r or guardian of sucli resident minor, as are unable by reason of poverty to | ay Ihe vaccination fee, to vaccinate said adult or said minor, uud present his bill t' erofor, properly authenticated, f r an amount, not exceeding the fee u ually churgcd f r such servlc s. and to recover the same of and from ti.e corpoiution. Sec 45 No pupil sit 11 he all wed to atti nd the public school? n thi- borough w ho has i ot been vaccinated successfully within rev-n years. Sec. 4U No parent, guardian or master, in whose house or family there shall have been a <otniniiiiic:hle disease, da gerous t the puhllc health, slnll permit iny child residing in s Id house or family to at'end any public, i riv ite or Sunday school afier the cessation of said dis ease, within a period < f thirty day* after tho house shall hove been thoroughly di-infected and cleansed. And it shall he the duty ot the school l'ard to have this section printed o c irds, men tioning the names of di-tascs declared comtnu nica le and dangerous to tho public health iu this ordinance, and posted in every school room in this horongh; ana it shall be the duty of each teachtr to read the section to the school at least once a month and whenever < ny epidemic shall appear And it shall be the duty of the board of health (or I orongh council) to have this siction printed on cards and furnished to every privet* school, academy, seminary, kindergarten a d Sand y school In this borough and to request the person or per ons in charge of such private insti tutions to post si ch curds in c nsptcu ps places, and re d the section to the school at least once tnrnt h , and whenever anv ep demicshall Sec 47. Every undo lake or other may have charge of the funeral of any son. st nl procure a properly Illicit out of the death and its probable eanse, tn iciu in ance wllli the form prcsrrltg'd by the state boartfl of heallh; and shall preseie the same to the natedoittcct or member of Hie board of and obtain a bur.al or transit, permit at least twenty-four hours h fore the time poiuted for such fuuorsl; and he shall not any dead body until such burial or transit shall have been pro ured. V Sec 4*. tvery person who acts as a *• xton rB undertaker, or cemetery keeper, wit in thH limits of this borough, o lias charge or care any tomb, vault, or burying cro.iud or other pliitH for the receptio of the dead, or whe e the b diifl of u<>y human beings are depos te , sha 1 so coin duct his business uud so care fr any such p nc. l above named, as to av id detriment or danger lofl public health; and every person undertaking pr- J partitions for he bur u of a b dy d< ad from I mumcabh diseases as hereinbefore enumerate 'H i-hall adop such precautions as the hoard <1 h. a th (or bor- ugh comic 1) may prescribe o pr ■ vent the spread <f em h disea e No dead bo'fl shal be exhumed and r. m ved between t 1 ! months of May and October inclusive audiiifl body dead from smuli-pox • hull ever bo cxLutPgfl and rumo i'il. - v ec 4'.) Every person vlo'at'ng sections 8. M. y, 10, 11, 12, 13, B', 33, 34 3fi, 3d. 87, 89, 40. 12 of this ordii ance, shal l be llab'e, I r < such offense upon <ouvictlon before any justice or magistrat". to n line of not le s or more Ilia $25, at the discretion ofth.' ii g burgess, jusiico i r maulstra'c, besides c which the convict dig burgess, just ce or m:iH trate may iullict if lie see lit. Sec 50 Every i c son violating any other lion o provis •n of this oidinanc , shall bio, foi very such offense, upon fore am burgess, justice or magistrate, to of not less than $3 or more than $lO, at crctior. of con villi g burgess, magistra l' besides costs wh*cb the bur. ess, justice or wag strati; may inflict Sec s|. A 1 po'lec (dllrcrs, constables watchmen are enjoined, and all citizens n spectfuily desired, to plvu inf -rmati n b aril of heali h (or borough co incil) of t ion ofth se ordinances, so thai the providing for the eleanlines and health borough may ho fully executed, and all otT> pr. nip ly punished. See. 52. This ordinance shall take (5) days after its publication, us statute. Passed fltmlly in council Ootolmr 3, 18W. T. A. Buckley, Patrick l>^^H Secretary. Pns^H Approved October 4,1893. K. P. Gnlluglicr, WANTED.— Salesmen, to sell our choice and hardy nursery stock. Matty special varieties to offer both in fruits and ornament als, and controlled only by lis. We pay com mission or salary, give exclusive territory and pay weekly. Write us at once and secure choice of territory. May Brothers, Nursery men, Rochester, N. V. A PPLICATION for annexation to the bor -IJL oughoF Free land. Notice Is hereby given that an application will be made to t lie court of quarter sessions of Luzcrno county, on July! 1, A. I)., INO3, and to the grand jury of said county, which meets on September , I*o3. by a number of the owners and residents ot adjoin ing.-property for the annexation of ecniiin lots, outlots, etc., to tho borough of situated in the township of Foster. Ist. Ail tlint portion of the bounded by the alley east of Adams' tin' I'unl; tin' rid lit nf way <>r tlio ltailroad Company on the south; the of Ridge street, and part of the Centre street, on the west, and by boundary of tho liorougli of Prccki^^^^^H 2nd. All that tract of land Park," sitiuited east (if the boron 3rd. All that portion of burton's ed north by lunds of tho Aaron the borough of hinds of the Cross Creek Coal west by laud of Tench Coxe estate. John I), llnyes. Solid IMlmfilfsYiil LEHIGH VALLfIi M I Anthracite coal used ■ r si vidy, Insuring clcaulinctj^H AltH ANOfiMKNT OB' I'ASSI NUEIt Tl<A^^^| MAY' 14, IKU3. LEAVE FREE LAND. 605, 8 47, '.I 40. 10 41 a IU, U25, 1 :C.\ 4 55, 0 58, 7 12, 8 47 p m, for lb ifton, ber Vard, Stockton and lln/.loton. (i 115 a in, 1 <l2, 3 45, 4 55 p in. for Mauch Allcntowu, lUtlilehem, Pliila., Fas ton in a m for llethlcheir. I.aston and 7 30, 10 50 a m, 12 10, i d p m, J.raneh) forWhlte Haven, llnrre, Pittston and L. and B. Junctioir^^^^H SUNDAY HI A INS. 11 10 a m and J 45 p m b >r Drifton, lKr Vard and Haslpton. 845 u m for Delano. Maluinoy doah, New Vork and PliUadelphlu. ARRIVE AT FREELA^^^B 5 50. 7 00, 7 26. 0 If, 10 50 a in, 12 I :u, o 58 jual 8 37 p in, from Ilaxleton, Lumber Vard, Jcddo and Drifton. 7 20, 0 18. 10 50 a in. 2 18, 4 34, 0 58 Delano, Maluinoy city and New Hoston bran -h). I 15, 0 58 jual 8 if p m from New I Philadelphia, betldehem, A llentown aiu^^^H 0 IK and 10 50 n m, 1 15, 0 58 nnd 8 .'(7 p I Huston, Phila., ilcthlohcm and Mauch 0 is, 10 41 a in. 2 27, J 58 p m from White ; (ilpn Summit, Wilkes-1 tar re, Pittston and L. ; b. Junction (via Highland Branch). SUNDAY Til A INK. II 21 a m and 231 p m, from Hnzleton, ber Vard, Jeddn and Drifton. 11 31 u m from 1 lelono, lfnzleton, East on. 3 31 p in from Delano and Maluinoy For further information inquire Agents. <l. HANCOCK, Qen. Pass. Agt. A. W. NONNF.MACHEH, Ass't Q. P. South Itetlilel^^^^H - - - $1.50 - M "Will Bring tlxe Ber - - a - - "ST 1
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