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Show Good Morning, Mr. King. Good morning, Mr. Health Commissioner King. When did you come out of it? We congratulate the municipality that we have at last heard your stentorian tones again, raised in behalf of pest house sufferers. To be very candid, wo were afraid that you were taking a Rip Van Winkle siesta, and that it would take a hypodermic insertion in-sertion of oxygenor to bring you out of it. Having Hav-ing read your belated recommendation to the Council, copied from the assertions made in this journal regarding the pest house atrocities, we heave an expansive sigh of relief and salute you as of yore. Mr. King was at the City Council committee t) meeting last Wednesday night. As it was the first time his smiling morning visabe had been seen there for several months, everyone was glad to meet him and renew old acquaintance. Mr. W. J. Barnett, who was recently released from the pest house inferno, was also present, and presented pre-sented the sanitary and finance committees with a vigorous and graphic picture of the city pest house monstrosities. Mr. Barnett's narative waa ; . a verification of the stories of pest house depra vity exclusively published in this paper during the past three weeks. The health commissioner blandly confessed that he had not personally visited vis-ited the pest house for several months, but admitted ad-mitted the verity of Mr. Barnett's statements regarding re-garding the absence of nurses at the pest house, the inadequacy and dilapidation of the building and the unspeakable insufficiency of the sanitary arrangements. The committees took prompt action in the matter; decided to recommend the immediate ! appropriation of $500 for the erection of tents and' for the construction of separate w,ards for the sick and convalescing patients and selected a committee of two to report to the Council relative to a suitable site for a new pest house. This was chiefly due to the efforts of Councilmen Daveler, Black and A. J. Davis, and over the opposition of one, E. J. Eardly, the proud possesor of a stupendous stu-pendous municipal intellect, hidden within a thirty-cent, curl-bestrewn cupola. While Mr. Eardley is chairman of the sanitation committee and partially par-tially responsible for the pest house criminality, he is the petty, ward statesman ecclesiastic who raised his hands in pious horror when it was suggested by a fellow councilman that the sanitary committee investigate the horrors portrayed in Goodwin's Weekly. Back to tne ward store and the carrots with this pictorial diplomat. At all events, the efforts of this journal have been successful in waking the lithargic council-manic council-manic mentality, and the tolerance of a patient public will now probably be rewarded by the early elimination of this most overt and glaring of municipal scandals. |