| Show DONT BE TOO RIGOROUS THE mu municipal health commissioner is gerv serving ng notices on resident property owners in the sewer districts requiring thern them to make connection with the street sewer pipes this has according to the ordinance on the subject to be done within ten days after the service gervice of the notification by the com missioner mies ioner if not the person refusing or failing is liable to the pains and penalties of the law for misdemeanor some alarm has been occasioned among those who have received the notices because they understand that connection with the street sewer has to be made every twenty five feet we hardly think that such can be the intent of the ordinance in its relation to residence property because it would where the buildings are set well back from the street incur an expense almost approaching pro aching ching to the value of the property such a provision might perhaps apply on main street where the property is almost exclusively used for business purposes but not outside of the trade centre of the city we do not apprehend that such a sweeping and unnecessary measure will be enforced in the residence portions of the sewer districts neither do we believe that the ten day clause will be unqualifiedly pushed because of the hardship that would in many instances be entailed it is a brief space in which to do the work the individual required to have it done may at the time be unprepared from a variety of causes and may even be totally unable to secure the services of plum plunders plu moers Ders within such a brief space governments are made to preserve and develop and not to crush or injure any of the people under their protection and we do not apprehend that the health commission or the city council will press the laying of the connections with undue rigor we must have sanitation the work of preparing for it ta to fully operate in the prescribed districts has gone forward with a fair degree of progress the citizens residing in the districts should not be too tho hard pressed neither do we believe they will be as expect expectancy aucy should be based on the hypothesis that men as a rule eire are reasonable |
