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PAI^RECORD-UyiON
ISSUED BY THE
SACRAMENTO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Office. Third Street, between J and K.
- Weather Forecast.
OfficW forecast for the twenty-four hours
endiog at midnight March 7th: North
ern California—Fair weather, followed by rain
ria the extreme northern portion; slightly
warmer; light to fresh winds, generally south
to west.
THE CASE OF THE CITY HEALTH
OFFICER.
[The following expression was pre
pared and placed in type prior to the
action of the Trustees last night in passing
the Health Officer salary ordinance. That
official action only serves to emphasize
the protest here made and to suggest that
the Trustees retrace their steps at their
next meeting, and repeal an ordinance
Which is as unreasonable as it is danger
ous and inimical to the sanitary interests
of the city.]
No intelligence will be quicker to pro
mote economy in municipal administra
tion than the Recokd-Uxion; but as to
what is true economy 1b first to be deter
mined. To reduce the salary of the
Health Officer, as proposed by the Board
of Trustees, we submit will be waste and
not economy, and hence we believe that
the Mayor's veto of the reduction ordi
nance ought to be sustained.
The new charter combined the offices
of City Physician and Health Officer and
made him also Secretary of the Board of
Health, and imposed upon him besides
duties relative to burials and removal of
bodies heretofore not related to the office.
Formerly we had three officials doing
these duties, now one must be respon
sible for them.
He cannot, therefore, be expected to
properly perform these duties unaided.
Indeed, Section 174 of the charter con
templates, by direct refeience to his
"deputy," that he shall have assistance,
and for that very reason, among others,
the charter makers, sincere, cautious
men, placed the salary at $2,000, because
the incumbent must pay his deputy out
of his salary. We very much doubt if
one man and a deputy can fully fill the
bill. We pay Justices of the Peace $2,000
a year, who have but one duty to per
form, and have leisure time hanging
heavy on their hands at that.
But here it is required that a skilled,
learned, scientific man shall, first, see
that all the health laws and ordinances
are enforced. Second—That any additional
regulations of the Board of Health are car
ried out. Third—Keep a record of all the
proceedings of the Board of Health, and
a statistical record of the mortality in
the city, and report these monthly to the
State Board of Health. Fourth—lssue all
permits for burials and removals of
bodies, and thereby pass upon the cor
rectness and reliability of every certifi
cate of death presented for his inspection.
Fifth—Once a year make "an extended
report to the Board of Health of all affairs
pertaining to his office with full mortuary
statistics,'' including recommendation*
relative to the sanitary condition of the
city. Sixth—This implies that he must
personally and constantly by inspection
keep himself posted as to physical condi
tions of drainage, cleanliness and nui
sances. He is to receive "every day a
report from the Sanitary Inspector, and
if he is a conscientious man he must ex
amine and pass upon it, as the same law
requires him to issue all orders to the
Inspector.
Seventh—He is required (Section 175) to
serve all the indigent sick or wounded in
the city. Eighth—Have charge of the
Receiving Hospital and dispensary for j
the dispensation of medicines to the poor.
Ninth —Once each quarter "he must in
spect every public building and school
house," as to drainage, ventilation, light
ing, heating and general sanitary condi
tion. Tenth—He must report at any
moment the name and residence of every
person sick with contagious disease, and
notify the School Superintendent, and
issue certificates for readmission of schol
ars excluded from school because of con
ditions of contagion.
Eleventh—He must visit every house
reported as having contagious disease in
it and after inspection "nag" the house
as a quarantine warning, and may cause
removal of certain cases to the pesthouse.
Twelfth—He must vaccinate free of
charge all persons who apply to him.
He is to have the aid of a Sanitary and
Building Inspector who will do under
him much of the work of examining
drains, cesspools, nuisances, etc., but he
is to direct this man and issue to him all
bis orders. But how he is to perform
all the duties laid down for him specific
ally, and discharge them faithfully, dili
gently and satisfactorily, night and day,
without the aid of a skilled deputy,
passes comprehension.
Any physician nt for the office who will
undertake the clerical, dispensary, su
pervisory, hospital inspection and free
and "report" work of the city for sglOu a
month, is going to cheat the city, though
he may not think he is doing so, for it is
•Imply impossible for any one man to
doit.
As City Physician he may be called
upon at any moment day or night to at
tend at the Receiving Hospital. He must
make out the supply list for that hospital,
must administer medicines, perform
surgery and direct the hospital attend
ants. Certain hours he must give to the
dispensing of medicines to the poor, and
that he cannot do without examination of
their cases if he has conscience alive
within him. If he is honest he must post
himself by personal observation as the
sanitary condition of the city and its
needs in that direction.
He is to be on hand to vaccinate people
free at any hour when called upon and
within reach at any moment to respond
to call from the Receiving Hospital. In
•hort, he is, it he must do all this work
alone, to spread his butter over so much
bread that it will not be discernible.
It was, therefore, contemplated by the
charter makers, whose work the people
Indorsed at the polls, that he should have
SACRA^tEXTO DAILY RECORD-UNION, WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 7, 1894.—51 X PAGES.
the assistance of a steward, or a student
of medicine, or of another physician. For
the irood of the city he must have such
help. Whoever undertakes to do alone
all the law and his oath requires of him
in this respect is going to let some irons
born. He cannot help it, but if the Trus
tees force it the city is going to save the
| magnificent sum of §800 a year by cutting
his salary down to §1,200.
It is hinted, nay it is openly said, that
the reason lor the proposed cut is that
whoever is chosen is going to pay some
young physician half the salary to do the
work, therefore the city had just as well
' save that half. But the sensible reply is,
| What of it? Is it not right? If the
| Health officer is a competent, active, vig
| orous, conscientious man, should he not
ido just that thing? It is precisely what
he ought to do: nay, just what he should
be required to do, namely, appoint a
competent deputy to divide the labor
that it may be decently done, as Section
174 contemplates.
There is a saving at the spiggot and
losing at the bunghole; an economy in
: front door fastening while leaving the
! back door open; retrenchment in cheap-
I ening wages, and dead loss in the kind of
service secured thereby.
It cannot be that the Trustees would
! seek to prevent the Health Officer nam
ing a deputy; it is impossible to conceive
of their wishing to cripple an important
arm of the public service. It must,
therefore, be that they have not seriously
contemplated the duties devolving upon
the Health Officer; they have not suffi
ciently weighed the importance of the
office and its responsibilities, and how
closely its proper administration lies to
municipal prosperity and the public
health.
We assume that the Trustees want to
do right; let them, therefore, turn a deaf
ear to all chatter about certain men being
willing to do all the work for §100 a
month. We tell them plainly, from long
years of observation and iroin close in
quiry, that no Health Officer can prop
erly do what the new charter requires of
him alone, no matter what hia salary.
There is a limit to human capacity, and
it is speedily found in a case of this kind.
Let the salary remain, gentlemen,
where the charter makers placed it. I'ut
your Health Officer into a position that
will enable him to give us the best he has
in the shop, because of his liuancial abil
ity to employ assistance. Let us not put
in peril a single human life, run the risks
of epidemic, sutler the reproach of neg
lected sanitary conditions or have many
duties half done and cheaply to save the
sum oi'tiiiOO.
Let us say that the educated physician,
the competent practitioner, the man lit
for the place, is worth as much to" the
city at least as the Justices of the Peace,
who with but a single duty to perform,
and that one of ease ami leisure, receive
ij.,000 a year and office rent besides, aud
need no assistance whatever.
It is said upon the street that plenty ol
men can be had to take the office for JIOO
because of its "advertising value" to
them. We will not insult the intelligence
and manliness of any Trustee by assum
ing that any one of them will receive
such an argument without indignant re
pudiation. If city offices involving scien
tific knowledge, experience and very
broad capacity are to be farmed out to
the lowest bidders, then give notice and
let the lowest bidder have them; we will
lind men in plenty who will take such
offices at half §100. But let the people
be not deceived, in every such case the >
city will pay dearly for its whistle.
What a fanciful dream the whole
world must have indulged in, to be sure,
for a Jacksonville jury has, under oath,
decided that Corbett and Mitchell fought
uo prize-fight In Florida.
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&.^ for exhausted, nervous,
*n£ overworked women,
/s*~£ nothing can do as much
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£: Sroyj Prescription. It regu-
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MmSm Ypft natural functions, never
\\\\ conflicts with them, and
\nj it strengthens and builds
f& il 8 up the female system in
H KB II- ■ a way of its own.
\\o H Nursing mothers and
yfr- L-—1—fl women approaching eon-
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iSHKS? » • exactly fitted to th<>ir
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spring and promotes an abundant secretion
of nourishment on the part of the mother.
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic, a
soothing and strengthening nervine, and
the only guaranteed remedy for woman's
chronic ills and ailniente. If it doesn't bene
fit or cure, in tke case of every tired or af
flicted woman, sho'll have her money back.
On these terms, can anything else be "just
as good " for you to buy f
You're offered |500, or a cure of Catarrh,
by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Remedy.
£Uw ©o-pttß.
~~aTnEW ENGLAND DINNER
AT THE CONGREGATION'A.L CHURCH
TODAY, iroin 11:30 a. m. to 2 o'cloctt
p. M., for 25 couts. It
GRAM PARTY AT CODBTUND,
MARCH 17th (ST. PATRICK'S DAY).
Giw-n i>y the Courtland Social and
Dauclnt: Club. It*
CARPETS] CARPETS I
AUCTION SALE
TO-DAY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1594,
AT 10 O'CLOCK A. ML, AT THE AUCTION
House ol Bell & Ox, 323 J strett, we will
sell ten truck loads ot
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
*g- Sale positive. Terms cash.
It BELL & CO., Auctioneers.
Notice of Street Work, h. 207.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Trustees of the City ol
Sacramento, on the 26th day of February,
1894. adoj ted a resolution of Us intention to
order the' following street work to be done,
viz:
That Eighteenth street, from the south line
of C street to the north line of P street, be
(where not already gravtied and curbed) im
proved by grading and macadamizing to the
official grades. Constructing redwood curbing
with round corners, and tilling in behind the
same. Constructing brick cutch basins, and
laying Iron culverts and stone crosswalks at >
street and altey intersections.
For further particulars reference is hereby
made to said resolution on file.
Sacnuneuto, March 3, l>-94.
GEORGE MURRAY,
inr7-6t Superintendent or Btreeta.
The Delicious Fragrance
Refreshing coolness and soft beauty im- ]
parted to the skin by Pozzoni's Powdeb,
: commends it to all ladies.
—AT— •
GREATLY REDUCED RATES.
We have in WHITE AND GOLt) and WHITE
AND SILVER several small lots of desirable patterns;
also some patterns of Moldings which have not found
prompt sale at regular rates. These have been looked
over and all prices cut —in most eases to ONE-HALF
FORMER RATES. We have never before been able to
offer such inducements to buyers of this line. NOW IS
THE TIME TO FRAME YOUR PICTURES.
— — •
W. P. FULLER & CO.,
1016 AND 1018 SECOND STREET.
MARCH WINDS! APRIL SHOWERS! MAY FLOWERS!
Wo are preparing for a largo Invoice of Spring and Summer Goois, and that we may have
ample room to display the stock, we have OUT PRICD3 to the very lowest notch on the line
line of Clothing, Famishing t foods, etc., now In oar store. It will be to your advantage to call.
MEN'S OVERCOATS, cut from $O 75 to $4 FSO
MEN'S SUITS, eut from SB to 2 9T
MEN'S PANTS, eut from 85 cents to 5O
MEN'S SHOES (congress), eut from $1 S3 to 73
MEN'S HATS, eut from Op cents to 25
And other goods in proportion. J-J^Call aud examine our enormous stock.
THE MECHANICAL CLOTHING STORE
W*. AND 41S K STREET.
H. MARKS. ----- Proprietor.
WOOD, GRAY & CO.
(Incorporated). Successors to W. H. Wood & Co.,
COMMISSION ]VLEK.CSai.A.KrTS
Aid Wholesale Dealers m California, Nevada and Oregon Finns anil Produce, Butter, Eggs, Ciieese, Etc.,
117 TO I*s J STItEET.
JAMES O. DAVIS, 411 and 413 K STREET.
THE BEST PLACE TO BUY
FURNITURE, CARPETS AND WALL PAPER.
SEND KOF* RRICE L.IST.
3Unuoeme»tt»»
CI/UNIE OPERA HOUSE.
TODD A WARD Managers.
Week Commencing; Monday. March st!>,
And Saturday Matinee.
Mr, D, K, Higgins and Miss Georgia Waidron
KIDNAPED!
PUKES, IP, 2O AM) :\O fKXTS.
METROPOLITAN THEATER.
J. H. Todd Manager
MGfiT!! WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th
fVI. B, LEAVITT'S
Magnificent Spectacular Production,
Spider and Fly!
SO— F»EOF»I_E—SO
.50 - EUROPKAN CKI.EBKITIKS —30
The New Production Thl« Season
Crowded with Novelties.
s TRICES-Dnss Circle and Orchestra, re
erved, il; Balcony. ;"jOe. Box sheet now
o pen at C.unie Optra-house. nirs-3t
HIIF DD(W TO "Splendor arises with every spring, UW fi RRft^! fO
AIiJJ DilUu. VL \JU. Nature awakens nm life in j flilJjEj OllUu. Vii IJU.
The spirit of youth which comes with spring is putting more than usual life thro' the store.
The tide of life that flows about the counters would indicate that all the local world knows out
story as told by the merchandise. Not so, however. There is daily news items to be told that
makes these columns good reading —very good —too good for you to miss.
TliHkiil Stock of New Spriug Embroideries. AUCTION * JniRCHASE {Stvlisll Footwear.
There's a thickening of buyers around the V
Embroidery counters — forethoughtful people IT I fnJ-nlnn iitfot r^niAvTrnD cddtvp
who know the luxury of picking while there's Hllip QOD I, |PTQ ]\]\ LAILM FASHIONS FOR SPRLMt.
plentv of elbow room. Come mornings. I lllv Li It Uv vUI lltlllu#
" Ladies' Best Tan Color Goat Oxfords,
MOW HM heart-shape vamp, verv sharp pointed
SKE SHOW TLrllS[]DO'\XrS. NUW UiX *e, tip, flexible sole, neat concave heel;
. The price favors are DOt lost widths > narrow, medium and wide,
White Nainsook Embroidery Edges in Embroidered Half FIOUnW Upon VOU. As We write a hun- sizes, 2^ to 7. Pnce a pair.
gfeat variety at following prices: Per ™MH»™ HdU riUUIHUIgiU {q A qulte simdar style to above in tan
yard, 10c, 12-Sc, 15c, 20c, 25c to 75c. In Hemstitched Lawn. Per yard, 20c, £ urta j n bargains and tO-daV the ! C B°a^8 °a^ U s°'
■ w bit e Ca^ ,usH» »«, **£*£* C^bric Per yart , HUjntoot tayers will doubl, »«£. -r'-* «* —■ • %
Ed?es in an endless variety of designs. . J^=» 1 hirtV - eight thousand ' ,_. _„ .... A _. t
re r vard. 5 c «h 7 H *ic, Mto s oc. lilSMt Per yard _ pairs of Curtains sold by order
White Swiss Embroidery Edges. Per 85c, ft, $1 25 and $1 50/ Of their makers, the Columbia I pateat leather tips, sp'ring heels, all
yard, sc, &}£c, 10c to 25c la Scolloped Lawn. Per yard, 25c, Manufacturing Company, Colum- widths: sizes, 11 to 2, $2 a pair.
U *1 CJ 40c, 50c and 75c bia, Pa., at public auction, Janu- Ladies' Midwinter Fair Congress,
LOlOred hnibrOUiery LOgCS. In Scolloped Cambria Per yard, 50c, arv ,yth, in New York City. We made of the finest goat stock, neat tan
, U-. 75ct0^ 25- hn'ncrht hpavilv These OUT shade, five large buttons to imitate a
Red or navy blue work on white In Scolloped NainsooL p er y ard , 5 o C) S f nr f- O o of them shoe, silk elastic to top, making
ground. Per yard, 7 ic to 20c. 65c, 5i 25 and 5. 50. PrlCeS tOr L'^? 0 1 PalF?u Ol u ' a perfect fitting shoe on the foot; all
Light blue work on white ground. „ „ |F^ , are somewhat less than whole- wi p dths and si2es< $4 50 , pair .
per yard, 12^, i s c and 20c. bmbroidered Full Houncings, sale prices: Men , s Kussian Calf Blucher Dre99
a p,r In Hemstit-hed Lawn Per vard 2« NOTTINGHAM LACE CURfAIXS, three Shoe handwelted, very narrow square
Pink work on white ground. Per In Hemstit-ned Lawn. Per yard, 2 3 c, yafds loag taped edge; . Qeat floral
yard, B^c to *oc 4«j 9* to M des i ga . Value, 9 oc. Our price; 50c gto 10 . p ricC( u5O a pair .
„ In Hemstitched Cambric. Per yard, npr n _ ir ' D F OI
White work on red or navy blue - d . Per Pair- Men's Russian Grain Shoes, neat tan
ground. Per yard, s c, 7+c, 10c to 20c '5T %.' t J\ «, Jii(MMllr p Ar . arH NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, three color hook and i ace fastenings, stylish
In c Hef tltched Xaiosook- Per >ard> yards long, taped edges, new im- uare tOCi tip: sizes , oto 10, | 3 a pair.
An immense variety of Insertings to 75C 85c, |i to m 50. ported desigas . Valne> $h Ourprice) ? .^ mY m
correspond with above edgings. In Scolloped Edge Lawn. Per yard, 70C per pair. verv sh inted toe< new ' tip> hand .
r , „ i,r 65C< 75 ° t0 5L NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, three sewed weUs; sizes sto 10, a pair.
LIPFOIQerV AllOVerS. . In Scolloped Edge Cambric. Per yard, ao( i a half yards long, taped edges,
50c, 60c, 65c to Ji. handsome floral designs. Value, X^* Ask to See OUT new
Swiss. Fer yard, 50c, 7 5C Ji. In Scolloped Edge Nainsook. Per li 25. Our price, 7M c per pair. shades in Ladies Oxfords
Cambric. Per yard, 3 5C s oc, 75 c to yard, 75 c U25 to^ NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, three d%• f £
Si 25. v „, , T1 n n . a nd a half yards long, 52 inches ri JM,, . /
XainsooL Per yard, Ji 25, Ji 50 aad MVelte Ul tttll MOMing. «id e . new Brussels effects. Worth Partj,'Wear. Notningtobe
„ 75 . Piok and Nile Foll F i oaodng . Wlth s. 75. Our price. >. per pair. had like them m the eity.
We have a Choice varie.y of *• P.<"» -»'■ *« J--, S , !iO a Y d^ GH h t^ Jg "2S*S?CS I !
Matched Sets i. fi., grade Embroideries J^««««« W «-""i- P" "'e ,erf fife LsS^WcpaH fl' {..J- „ v|/ f-^ m
• » 1 -n j -. price, *i ck per pair. r^
ing outfits. lavender edge. Per yard, >i. snTTiYriiui iicp rri?Tiiv« ♦!,«.
I HOITINGHAM LALE LLKIAIAS, three riTnYlTITnr nATICII
~~~~~~^^^^ and a half yards lo°g' °° inches IULIoU^
1010T TTn OT^TTII Attention is called to this latest nuv- U wide' extra ,fine (J ualit>'< beautifully |
SKI I " S Kl' elty—something new for children. A L patterned. A regular 5 3 value. Our |Is just the thing for spring cleaning.
► \JLYLL Ullll . merrj . makiog toy Hkc a j umpi0 g rope< ° price, $2 per pair. . The best polisher on the market
0 but with greater advantages, as it only reauires one hand to work it ° —: — Price > 25C a bottle.
O| Price, 10c. NOTION DEPARTMENT. O j SEE SHOW WINDOWS, j NOTIOX DEPARTMENT.
HALE BROS. & CO., - - 825 to 835 K Street
Cheap Homes.
rpHR CROCKER ESTATE WILL SKLL !
i X first-class agricultural and orchard land,
1 second to none In fertility, with an indefeuslbli
I water right und the free use of t'le water ion
j ever, at Merced, Cal., for
$6O AIM ACRE.
Terms ot" payment, Interest only 7 per cent
I per annum, payable annuall .■ In advance foi
live, six or seven years, at the option of lh«
purchaser.
Perfect Tltlo.
First Q,ua:ity of Soil.
Perfect System of Irrigation and Drainage
Onsurpamed Climate.
All Guaranteed.
Sales only to those who agree to cultivate.
For lurther particulars address or apply to
WM. IT. MILLS.
Land Department C. P. R. R. Co., Cor. Fourtl
and Towuseod streets. San Francisco. 2p
Big Reduction in Wall Paper.
ROOM WANTED FOR SPRING GOODS.
SEE OUR PRICES.
C. H, KREBS k CO,. 626 J.
t#ltec«Utmeau»*
STILL-GOING ON!
OXJK.
BONA -FIDE CLOSING IT SALE!
Pav no attention to the remarks
of jealous competitors, but CALL
ON US and convince yourselves that
our goods are not only new but that
our PRICES are the LOWEST in
the city.
Our assortment will be kept com
plete until everything is sold.
Close every evening at 6 o'clock
except Saturday.
518 tJ STREET.
H. S. CROCKER COMPANY
iUiuiiuiUUiiUUlUlUiUUiliMU
\A/MO
DOES VOUR Printing?
WHY
Can't \A/E DO IT?
With our Superior Facilities. Prompt Atten
tion, Fair Prices and Honest Work.
- 208-210 J STREET. —
UUiUUUUUIUiUUUiIUIiUUiiii
ATKINSON'S
Practical -:- Incubator.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY /m* &
10J!» J »tn.'et. n. F. PIKE *3| A
maaufaiturpr, M. L. WISE, mana' l^jy
g«r. Bend for oatalogue. J_Jy|T^
"GOOD AS GOLD,"
The Best oc CIGAR in the State,
R H. PETTIT. 225 K.
LISTER & McCRAKEN,
t Tailoring Parlors,
51334 J STREET,
Sacramento, Cal.
SUIT CLUBS always
open for subscribers.
Perfect fit guaranteed.
We do not sell by
Banipif, for \ve carry a
:. most complete andse
. lect stock of goods.
k Suits awarded March
V, 6th: Club 1-Capt. T.
fj B. Hall of Hall, Luhrs
" A Co., SI. Club 2-D.
LACE CURTAINS.
OPRING TIME HAS ARRIVED, AND
' Ij housf-cleaninar is under way. Send your
1 Lac* Curtains to the
AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY,
j Nineteenth and I Streets.
CiEND THE WEEKLY UNION TO YOUR
(O friends in the East. It leads them all.