, 1873-01-12
Tho Fertilizing Company a Success
ful SuppHant in Court.
What Horrors Hight Befal! Chicago if
ths Company Stops Using
the Refuse.
Hyde Park Gives Timely Warning Of
It's Intentions Towards Rail-
roads and Others.

terlay, petilioncd The Circuit Court to restrain
the village Of Hyde Park interfering in it's buEi-
pens md yesterday evening the prayer Of the
bill was complied with and temporary injunction
granted.
The bill afli11ng that the Company Was incor-
pcratel by act of the Legislature on the 8th Of
March, 1867, for term OF fifty years, with
power to hold real estate sufficient for the pur-
poses Of it's existonce, and to make all proper
bylaws for it's Soyernance; itH capital being
100000. with power to increase it. to S250, 000s
aud it's business to establish and
maintain chemical works, and to MAN.
ufacture and convert dead animal matter into
81, agricultural fertilizer and other chemical
products by mems Of chemical, mechanical, and
oihor processes. Tho act provided, as to the
situation OF the works, that they should be III
Cook County. ut any point south Of tho dividing
Nno between Townships 81 md s8. It WIS fur
tl,or provided by the net, that the Company
might establish and maintain dopots in Chicago
to receive and carry off ofral, dead animals and
other animal matter which they might own, or
which they might buy Of tho city authorities
and others. The bill then relates that the
$50 GOO stock Vas fully subscribed, and
the act went into operation Immediately
after it's passage, the capital being subsequently
increased to the full extent allowed, namely
$3.50, 900. The Company bought a tract Of land
at Answorth, a station On the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne l. Chicago Railroad, point within tho
meaning OF the net, distant fourteen miles from
the central part Of Chicago, and from the popu-
lous part Of the Village Of Hyde Park six miles,
said land being at tho timo Of its purchase in
c.uded in tho Town OF Calumet, aud the limits Of
Hyde Park being afterwards extended go IS to
include it. On this land the Company at once
proceeded to put up the necessary buildings
fitted with expensive machinery suitable for tho
object for which the works were established,
and thereafter commenced doing bufiness, the
total preparatory expenditure being in tho
nciglborhood of $500 o,o00 in addition to money
laid out for tho construction Of side track
leading from tho main track Of the Pittsburgh,
For. Wayne d Chicago nailroad to the works,
go as to enable The Company to bring its mate
rial direct from the city to the place of manu-
fec;ure; foE the purchase Of box-cars and other
1aeans Of transportation for establishing and
maintaining depots in the city; besides the sum
Of about 15 600, for the purchase Of land in tbs
depot thereon For tho purpose Of pro-.
curing sufficient supplies of animal md
o.lier matter for their purposes, the
Company made contracts with various packera
Tor QenTe11DE 10 til8 HoPotS lHc H&2ole u L0o
refuse Of their slaughtoring or packing ostab-
la.lments, amounting III the aggregate to ut
least 100 tons per diem, all Of which are priv
ilegea expressly conceded by the Company'a act
os Incorporation; and the Town Of Lake con-
offal, g., in their depot there, on the condition
OF its prompt removal soon afterreceived, which
condition uao Company has until recently been
atla to comfy with, but which permission may
at any time b. revoked should tho Company bo
intertercd With r hinderod as to the means Of
carryiug on H. business. It is pointed
CIT that the uty Of Chicago passed
m ordinance requ1rs,g the packers to remove
tie refuse Of tho establa lahrnents daily to some
point outside tho city. L1uita, such establish
mcnts to be closed in defaat thereof: and that
tho dc3ot in the Town Of Ito is the only place
nov provided by which said fuse can BE- re-
ny ana hdn onT e By tho
said conditions. The bill next reresents that
tle accumulation OF dead animals IN ,dicago ais
inn1eueo," that the health Of the ci. requires
bevond e:sx tho city as rapidly and thoroS aly as
nossibc. that tho mode adopted by the CoI;a
If taking its tank stuff out Of
tho city is the only, one hlthk2
provided and in operation that IN the a oaaIneh e.
aPPFobao6 The company has q the fa Heati ii
Officers OF the city, that such removal has beo1
effected daily by q sufficient number OF box-car8
that the etuH 80 removed has been immediatel,
rendered into manufactured matters referred to
md shipped to all parts Of the United states,-
hsving earned, as The petitioners say with par
into general use, from which business tb'
Company has derived large profits. The bill
next afiirms that the Company has received ani
transported oil their material 80 as to give a.
Little offence ea pessible to the people near tht
limo. Of transportation, and te
avoid deleterious influences; manufactured
it in such mannor as to give as elight nnnoy'