San Francisco Call, Volume 74, Number 59, 29 July 1893 — A REAL NUISANCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A REAL NUISANCE

Salomon's Stockyard a*t the Mission. ITS INDEFINABLE STENCHES. The Owner Arrested Three Times for Violating a Provision of the Board of Health.

The Board of Health is determined to check the nuisance in the Western Mission known as Salomon's stockyard. The proprietor has been arrested three times on the charge ol menacing the health of the neighborhood, but still tie foul-smell-in<* place spreads its noxious odors itbout, and offends the nostrils of resident 5 . The stockyara in question is situated on Mission street, and runs back along Fair avenue to California avenue. It Ims a frontage of. about 200 feet on Mission 6treet, and presents an unbroken line on Fair avenue.

The large space is divided into corrals, and partially occupied by rickety sheds, while forlorn cows and distressed-looking horses wauder about the little spaces. Goats scramble over the fences and join in the genera) search for something to eat. There are great piles of manure in the inclosures, and the contracted stalls are

damp and odorous. In one of the .Small stables there were four cows crowded, while others ambled about the lot. The horses were confined in the lot that corners on Fair and California avenues, but the cows are directly on the Mission street front, nearly opposite the turn-table of the Valencia-street cable road. In spite of the unhealthful surroundings Mr. Salomon denies that the place is a nuisance, though he" confesses that he has been arrested on such a charge. '"It is all spitework," he said, "and is caused by this man Scrulovich, who lives right next my cow siablas." An indirection o[ the premises of Mr. S*culovich showed that the rear end of Salomon's cow stables was within * few feet of his kitchen door, and the stench of the offal was almost unendurable. Seculovich has a comfortable though unpretentious home, and his yard is filled with flowers and fruit trees. lie says that the odor from the lining cowsheds has caused him no end of annoyance and that he proposes to mist upon the abatement of the nuisance. Dr. Kseney, the nominal head of the Board of Health, said that Salomon was arrested the last time on the 2tit'i inst., the charge being that he maintained a nuisance. "This 13 the third time Salomon has been arrested," continued Dr. Keeney, "and we propose to continue our tnetics, as defined by the health laws and the Board of Supervisors. The law very plainly prescribes that no person is permitted to maintain more than two rows within the city limits. There are exceptions to this law, inasmuch as the prohibitory district is not carefully denned. Its Inner limits are far beyond the corner of Mission street and Fair avenue, and it is upon this definition of the law that we propose to make Mr. Salomon abate the nuisance created by his stockyard. "The first time Salomon was arrested he' was fined $100 by.Fudire Low. He appealed from this decision and the case was carried to the Superior Court, but it has not vet, been placed upon the calendar. Pending the appeal Salomon was again arrested, lie was ; to have been tried on the 4th prox., but there was some question as to the legality of the complaint, and, upon the advice of our attorney, the case was dismissed. However, another complaint was properly drawn and he was arrested on the 4th inst !vice of our attorney, case premises ssed. However, another complaint was ->perly drawn and he was arrested on the 'I have personally visited the premises and I am convinced of the justice of the complaints made against the plane. The Precita Valley Improvement Club has also entered a protect against the nuisance, and wo have received numerous complaints from individuals other than Mr. Seculovich. "The slone of Salomon's stockyard is a particularly bad -feature. It drains directly into Mission street and befouls the cellars and yards on the lower side of the street. On damp, foggy days the stench of the stockyards clings closely to the ground, and the breez'-s carry if directly into houses, to say nothing of offending the nostrils of every person within a radius of a mile or more. The place is a counterpart- of the Seventh-street dumps, though there is no occasion for its existence. The enfor ement of the local health j laws is all that is necessary to cause Salo- ! mon to seek other quarters, nnd we proI pose 10 compel him to vacate." 1. L. Salomon, the son of the proprietor, said: "We only keep cows here occasionally. We buy ana sell and the stock is never here more than a day or two at a tlme.'.'-JSBBBmM

- "But then ; you get fresh stock in its place, don't you?',' ; "Oli. yes; that's our business. We buy and sell and use this yard as a place of inspection for purchasers. r Our:place is no worse than lots of others, and 1 am going 10 fight the law in the Superior Court." " Kalin & Levy, another .":■ frru of stockdealers, have a large yard mi the corner of Mission street and Corlland avenue, about three blocks above j»S.i|onmuV place. Sit lja« precisely. the same-^looe of drainnee and: sends its tilth and «lime down to the resilience portion of the Western Addition. Yesterday the yards wfre fairly filled with hor«es and cows, In plain violation of the sanithry i la ws.'-A^ sicken lne stench pervaded thn atmosphere, itod the animals in" the corrals tramped about with a hungry air. BKaSßßjeMsy---:;-. - ■ -:■ •-'•--.■ : ,.i

'Dr. Keeney was asked about trie Kahn & L«vy place, and tie replied: "The ownere have decided ; to lenve there, 5 and in about two weeks the stuck and buildings

will all be removed. This course will practically a bit* the nuisance. T'>at pi»r- --! ti'in of t.li*-' Mission is not very thickly popuaied, and consequently the complaints aeainst this particular yard were not very numerous. However, we took prompt ae- | lion when the tir»t notice wu* served, and ! the itwnors at once concluded that it was to their interest to remove from the neighborhood. We will compel this man Salomon to rejch the same conclusion." "Is there any special law against the I maintenance of stockyards in the city?" j was asked Dr. K^eney. "No, not aside from the ordinance which I says that no person shall maintain mor* ; than two cows within certain limits. Re*i- ! dents at the Mission have been long enough annoyed by infractions of this law, and we propose io arrest and fine every person who continue* such a course after a warning has ben- served. There are no exceptions inside the limits, and nny person having a grievance In this re-oect should at once notify the Health Office." The bearing of the third charge against I. L. Salomon will be set this morning in I Judge Low's department of the Police j Couri.

SALOMON'S STOCKYARD AT THE MISSION.