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Show THE REIGN0F FILTH. Ealt Lake's StreeU and Alleys Depicted in all the Glory of Their Neg-leoted Neg-leoted Condition. WORK OF THE BOARD 01 HEALTH The Germs of Pestilenoi, Disease and Death Nursed Carefully tn Their Bugged Infancy. Over the city scarcely a week ago , there fell a shroud of suow, pure and white aud beautiful. Then thu new homo which Bvighara founded forty years ago for the weary and oppressed of all nations which reflected re-flected back from it.s eneasemeut beneath be-neath the mountains the dazzling light of the costliest jewels. Yesterday the stench of Zion ascended ascend-ed to the heavens. The sun came out strong, and the treets were mud and the alleys were tilth. Last week Zion was a bride, robed for the alter but the veil and the vestment covered sin and squalor. i Cl linn mo imuu ,.njr luin, uvusi bo likened to the great Kansas statesmanfamous states-manfamous but sockless. Yesterday mud reigned, and the power behind tho throne, out of sight, In the alleys, in the back yards, was tilth. And these two ure waxing strouger and more insolent and more indecent every day the bright sun dhows Its countenauco. Salt Luke City has A Hoard of Health. lis members are Mayor Scott, Dr. I orin Hall, health commissioner; Dr. Meach-tin. Meach-tin. citv physician; Dr. Bichards, Mr. Clms. T. Brooks, Mr. Wm. Showell, aud a clerk, whose other name deponent depon-ent saith not. This board meets frequently twelve times a year and, according to Tiik Timks" informant, draws a small compensation, com-pensation, per member for each meeting. meet-ing. Kxcept Mr. Showell. That gontle-man gontle-man draws a salary of $125 a month, according to the same informant, bears the title of City Sanitary Inspector not City Garbage Master and has numerous num-erous duties to attend to, to more easily eas-ily facilitate the performance of which he has an olliee in the city hall, second floor, turn to your left. Far bo it from The Times to cast reflection re-flection uron this gentleman or upon any member of the board. No, no. It merely Dlterta lis Attention for a moment from the printing of the news when the latter is news, so to speak to the people and warn them. And It wants the warning to go homo to every property owner, every business busi-ness man and the' head of every family iu the city. Tho department of which Mr. Showell virtually has the entire charge lias tho following exhibit of its work since the new administration came iu, when the city sanitary inspector came into oflice. That gentleman was appointed by the ' mayor and the council. He holds his situation for life, or until removed. Ho has no especial occupation beyond that of looking after Tha Sanitary Condition of the city. He is instructed to pay particular attention to the condition of Last Main street and the block of which Commercial street is the backbone and essentially important feature. Since his inauguration he has sent out over 400 otlicial notices to property owners to make sewer connection. Two hundred hun-dred of them have obeyed the mandate. man-date. Tin.' others have not yet been officially jerked up, but will be shortly, It is not best to proceed too rapidly with a work which is so palpably a reform. Somebody might get excited. "So far as alleys are concerned," remarked The Timks informant, who is connected w ith the oflice, "there are but few of them to look after and they are iu excellent condition." So is a swill barrel. In case the allevs are bad. however, Tin; Tut is learns that Mr. Showell (starts nut to investigate. Then he noti-lics noti-lics verbally and then he sends the olli-rial olli-rial document. Thus far nobody has disobeyed the o. d., for no arrests have liecn made on that account. Since Mr. Showell came in the department de-partment has cost tho city $0011.31, exclusive ex-clusive of salaries to Mr. Showell and clerk. Since April 1st, thi record tdiows 1107 nuisances attended to. For this work Six Teams and Two farts wero employed. On December 1 a contract con-tract was made with the 1). & R. G. W. to haul all refuse to Mr. Showell' sranch near Bingham. Sixteen ears have been removed at a cost of $S per car for freight. The city dumping ground has been relegated. Mr. Showell's ranch produces alfalfa and hogs. From the o!lice of tho city sanitary inspector the reporter went casually about through the alleys of the block hounded by'. Main, First South, Second South aud Si ate streets, the one to which Mr. Showell pays particular attention. The sight to be seen then, with the thermometer ther-mometer slightly above the freezing jsiint, w as a nauseating one. What would it bo, and what would its destructive powers he, if the thermometer ther-mometer were to reach !0 today? Old boots, broken glass, ash piles, heaps of manure, potato peelings, slops, pools of reeking tilth, were in sight in tropical profusion. Heaven only Knows what was covered up. A certain restaurant res-taurant frontiug on Main street, open on Sundays, back way, alone has tilth enough behind it tii contaminate the atmosphere of a county. The man who will pass those slop barrels unscathed i - search of a Sunday dinner must be the happy possessor of a stomach of brass and copper. But maybe that stuff will bo removed before Sunday. It probably will. Again. The Times asserts that it has no especial desire, to cast, rellectiou upon the members of the board or The Sanitary limppctur. lint one thing is plain: That gentleman has too much to do or else lie hasn't time to do it all. The showing made by his department is a respectablo one but the allevs are tilihy. Iu the opinion of this paper their condition should be improved upon. I'nless it is with the. warm weather will set in a storm of infectious diseases.and over this magnilicent valley will hang a cloud of miasma as dense and as de-Ktruetive de-Ktruetive as the vapors of hell. The matter has been more than once called to tho attention of The Tmes. The Times has before now made slight mention of it. But this time there is war, aud the war is a crusade, and before be-fore t he warfare ceases the alleys of Salt Lake will be something better in appearance than swine wallows. The expenses of the department may amount to more than $fi.l14.Sl in the next twelve months, but the labors of tho department will become mofj effective. ef-fective. -'; V' V |