| Show NOT AN EXCELLENT ELLENT WAY A resolution of an astounding and malodorous character was introduced in the city council on tuesday april esth by mr W F james worst of all it was adopted adopted so that the whole body was tainted with its effluvium it was to the effect that the city should advertise for bids from railroad companies to haul baul away the dirt and dispose of its garbage with the understanding that the party assuming the contract should be responsible for all damages accruing through injury to persons aggrieved by the dumping of the refuse such bach a proposition is unfair and improper on its face as it opens the way for a powerful corporation noted for having no conscience to impose on the personal rights of people they might select for victims A struggling granger who might object to having his bis farm laid under six feet deep of a miscellaneous mass of refuse could readily be smashed under the weight of a railroad company but perhaps it might be claimed that the contractors would dump the horrible mixture on the open prairie be that as it may there should be no haphazard method of disposing of it it is the duty odthe of the city to provide an adequate dumping place pla e for its rubbish and retain the responsibility associated with its disposal however we presume that it will not require more than six policemen to keep back the crowd of railroad rail read managers superintendents and agents who will rush around to the city hall and clamor for the first chance to put in bids the company to whom the contract shall be awarded would probably have to change the name of its line and if so would this be appropriate the intermountain inter mountain responsible garbage railroad we suggest by way of advice that excursionists be not taken on the same trains as the rubbish for obvious reasons it will probably be unnecessary for the approach of the garbage trains to any inhabited point to be heralded by the bass ban whistle of the american locomotive as there are other mediums besides by which the proximity of certain classes of objects can be ascertained the city should take some other more consistent and more generous methods of disposing of its surface filth than the one proposed by the resolution which is neither liberal nor ingenious |
