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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
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