, 1873-01-13

bribery and corruption.
THE HYDE PARK NUISANCE.
In considering the issue between the City Of
Chicago nnd the Town Of Hyde Park, the ques-
tion arises: What is the chiof end OF man? The
catechism says it is to glorify God and enjoy
Him forever. In an earthly sense, however, tho
chief end of man is to have comfortable homo-
It is not the chief end Of man to kill hogs aud
pack pork; still less to create and difuse ofTen-
sive odora which deprive us Of comfortable
homes. The City Of Chicago includes among it's
many branches OF trade the slaughtering and
packing Of beef and pork. In the management
OF its internal transportation business it employs
3 vast number Of nnimAls, OF which largo num-
bers die daily. The carcaBsee Of these dead ami
mails, and tho ofra1 from the slaughter houses,
at certnin SEASONS, amount to 100 tons daily.
Tho health OF the city and the comfort Of
its people demand that thjs immense mass
OF animal matter ehen be removed i'm
mediately. Some years ago Company
was chartered with authority to purchase
EhA 1EuUfc t4l6 EL4AS AlAA MILL huiAoA~
ity to erect buildings, provide machinery, and
generally carry on the business Of r1aunfactur-.
ing this animal matter into various articles Of
commerce. The Company, in 1861 long time
ago in the history OF Chicago.-erectcd their
works near Ainsworth, q station on the Pitts
burgh l. Fort Wayne Railway, and at tia. time
within the Town Of Calumet. From this station
they had their tracks laid to point south Of tho
city, in the Town OF Lake, to which point all the
dead animal matter OF the city WAS brought,
placed the cars, and huuled of to tho factory.
In tho meantime, Chicago had made rapid strides
southwark, The subu1 bln Town Of Hyde Park
had obtained an expansion Of its territorial lin
its by the addition Of large Blioe Of the Town Of
Calumet, including tho factory and grounds Of
this Northwestern Ferti1izing Company. How
ever remote this establishment may have been
from tho habita!ions OF man In 1867,
it is 30 no longer. Population has
spread out all over the once uncovered
prairie, and Mnsworth may now be said to be on
the very boundaries Of the city. A few weeks
ago, tho works Of the Northwestern Fettilizing
Company burned down. Under their contracts
with the city, they are compelled to haul array
the refuse animal matter evory day. and, having
no other placo to put it, they have unloadcd
their cars upon the prairie, depending upon the
frost and tho liberal use Of chemicala to keep
the immense mass harmless until such time as
they can restore their buildings and works. At
this point the people OF Hyde Park interpoae.
They ssy that this Company has no authority,
and novor had authority, to create nuisance
that the hauling of this stun, and einptying it
upon the fields at the rate of 100 tons day, is
rot only nuisance, but an intolerable one. The
authorities therefore, by special ordinance, made
it penal offence to transport or haul any onal,
dead animals, DC, into or through the village
Of Hyde Park, and they caused the arrest Of cer-
tain persons connected with the railway trains
and fined them $50 each. The Fe1tiIlzng Com
pany have obtained a temporary Injunction
against interference by the authorities of Hyde
Park, and thero the matter stands for tho pres
ent.
This question, however, must DO sott1ed at
some time, and may IS well bo settled now.
That the offal and dead animals are nuisance
to the city, that Gun only be prevented from Be-
coming pestuential by removal, is undoubted.
That tho establishment Of the Northwestern
Fcrtilzing Company, or Of any other company,
for the conversion OF this dead animal matter
into any other substance, is a nuisance, the
people OF this city, speaking from long expert
encc, will affirm as beyond controversy. The
fact that the City OF Chicago would not per-
nit the location OF such an establishment within
or near it's limits is conclusive as to what
Chicago thinks upon tho subject. It follows,
then, that the location Of such an establishment
in Hyde Park, or Evanston, or Riverside, or ut
any other place, must be equally nuisance to
the community living within the widespread
area infected with its fumes, and breathing the
air rendered sickening and atrocious by its ho1ri
ble odors. But it Is claimed that Chicago ia
great city, and large portion of its commerce
consists in the traffic in animals, md in the NEST
packed here by our alaughte1ing establishments,
and that We must choose between sacrificing this
AAlutAao oAe1ueoo AA0 0AalAta1lAuk tue Nlu-
eance and that it is particularly ungracious for
the people Of Hyde Park to object to this nuis-
ence when they arc SO much indebted to Chi !
cago for their profits. The tect that it is nui-
sance cannot be denied 30 long Us Chicago will |
not permit tho works to be located in the city On
any terms. So far as the choice is be-
tween. sacrificing the packing business |
and having these works in Chicago. the
matter hns already been determined. It |
is now whether. ne will insist on maintaining the
nuisance in Hyde Park. Hyde Park says We