, 1876-07-30

louder than any Worus Ut c1l'' c' 1,' =,
for its immediate suppression. Ihe uitcl1es 1 II
the ncghborhood arc tho rceeptacles lor oHau s:pa
matter 81 all kinds. Offal and other stun yes
rntt;nc 1,niicr the uoonday sun, conl2Dlina!lh99
tie atmosphere and surrounding tue nelshpo1s-
hood with sort OF dui!. ill:.s suuu' oa+1,
seams to curry disease with itinlts every breath.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE NUISANCE.
Rsc1 Of the Stock-Yards is ditch. 1t Is
meant for canal which some nay "4i eon'.eee
the South Branch with South Chicago. 1t was
T1,ln1,sE reporter found it, it is curse and an
eye-sore,-a very plaguc-spot, bordering the
rjty. The intention Of its planner WIS goou,
but instead Of being now canal, 1t is 0ut q
drainage ditch, having no outlets, ana 1nto
which the deposits Of the surrounding country
flow. In Its midst are green, slime-covcrcd
sIums. O1Tal and putrid matter appear every
where, and the seeds Of disease are there,
ready to be carried over the city. This ditch is
q pest-hole of corruption. Better close it ut
once than have 1t as it is now, communicating
with stink and disease an entire community.
This place should be attended to at on:e and
rcmcdied, and Health Commissioner McVickar
has here fine field in which to commence his
labors.
DEAD ANIMALS.
With all Of these luatlsoEac features sur
rounding our city, not nearly onc-half nor the
worst has been told Every word stated here is
plain truth, and but shows the necessity OF
some decided action by our health authorities,
cspeciallv at this time, when tho season for
acute aud epidemic diarrhnal dicascs is SO near
at hand.
travelled he found dead dogs, cats, rats, ctc-,
all of which aid in sending corruption into the
atmosphere On Wentworth avenue, Mathcr
street, Desplaincs, Archer avenue, Halstcd
street, Park avenue, and on nearly every "esL
Side thoroughfarc, might be seen tho carcsscs
Of dead animals in various stages Of putretisa-
tion. These animals are mostly poisoned Dy the
uolicc There WAS 4 time when they We're
promptly removed, but now they are allowed to
liz in the strerts and rot. But this should not
be- True, the city is hard up, but there ccrtali-
IL can be an arrangement made to remove these
animals and thus protect the public health.
The packing-house of
Ed. CHAPLIN CO.,
near the Stotk-i Yards, III the Town Of Lalss, aka,
izcrs made ut this establishment, and the otlal
and blood are carried away daily. About 800
hogs arc disposed Of in the forenoon Of each
day.
In the vicinity arc also the pacldng-houscs of
Cory l. Co., Armour IL Co., Culbertson, Blaine
ufacture fertilizers, and their places cannot be
called uoxious. Boyd l. Duntaln are running;
they are located near Chaplin q Co.'s, but, IS
they do not manufacture any fertilizers, their
pllcc is not offensive.
S. 4. Kicker has a large ,raeking-house imme-
diately north of Chaplin & Co.'S. They have
large capacity, and manufacture fertilizers.
There is some smell about their place, but not
nearly SO much as at othcrs,-at least not the
day that TIE TRIBUNE reporter was making the
examinations
Then there come the firms Of Davis, Atkinson
& Co. and E. Il. Meyers s. Co. They do no
rendering, and sell their otfal and other otfen-
sive stuff to Obendorf u Co., who cart it away
to their fertilzing 1nanutactory-
THE GREATEST sANE OF ALL.
We cor3,I. n0w to the wtliteWaShrd shlnties of
the Northwestern Fertilizlng Company. The
place is easily discovered BY the stink which sur.
rounds it, and which permeates every nook and
creyice in the neighbortood. This place fears
representative was not admitted. Entering the
dingy office, which stunk worse than
any hog-pun IN the Stock-Yarls, the
reporter was informed that he could
not go through without certain preliminaries
KS this would give the concern at least tlay's
time to prepare for the visit, the reporter Lc
cliued. Il Is evident that If the reporter
had gone to Jackson street office to get the pass,
within was deemed SO essential for ad,nittance.
the place would have been i'll manner deodor~
lied, aud one-half it's bidcousness ut least hid
den. Everywhere the stencil from this hell-hole
was too apparent. On the outside OF the fence
is j horribly filthy ditch. Filled as it is with 4
pool OF stagnant water, the two combined do
their fair share to aid in killing infants and
spreading diseases Of the stomach aud bowels,
and
ASSISTING TO TIE GRAVE
those who are consainptiye1y inclined. To add
to this moss Of filth, there arc number Of old
hog-pens in the neighborhool They, too,
send up a stencil, filthy and rotten,
rotten boards which have never been
cleaned. Onc-half the horrors Of this p1are
could not be told III dozen newspaper articles
They are evils which cry aloud for ob}itera-
tion. It is in the power OF our Health Commits
-;e %h.x3,.
stcr and crush it to the earth. The matter Of
stinks can be controlled Us easily as amy other
evil which annoys our city. The fact that Tobey
j. Booth manufacture fertilizers in the heart Of
can be done outside OF the city il the same way,
if the places will only put in the improved ma
ch1nery. 1t would be wiser, however, to
REMOVE THEM
from this locality altogether, and put them
somewhere near the Union Rendering Company,
which was claimed to be so offensive some years
ago whereas it was not as bad as the places
which surround the Stock-iarus now.
Leaving this locality aud going further west,
nc find the peckingy-houscs Of Libby, Mcneil d
nerly run by Davis Brothers). These places
only kill in tall and winter to any great extent,
and they manufacture no fertilizers. All Of the
packing houses rcnler lard, but this is not Of
1cnsive, the only objection. being to the nlapu-
facturc of quits into lard-oil and fertilizers.
In the vicinity just mentioned are the
slauehter-houses OF Ronlp IL Co. and William
Moore. These places are comparatively clean,
aud, located US they arc, there is little in Them
to complain Of. The otfal and blood from these
houses are carted to the 11eighhoriny stink
factories, where they arc converted into tirst-
class manure.
OTHER sTINE-FACToRlEs.
Of these factories there arc in the ncighbor
hood Joseph Shcrwin's, Thompson s. Ed
wards, Seannou d Co., and Obcndorfcr,
Shepherd & Co.; they, with the North
western Fertilizing Company, furnish the
greatest portion Of our municipal stink. Sher-
win has but recently moved his place to the
prairie They all appear more or less clean1y,
but, Us a Bridgeporttr remarked to THE TRiB-
CNE reporter: 1'Thcy liz like -. These
places run nights, and tiat's the way they dodge
The surveillance Of the public"
These concerns all pretend to control their
stinks and condcnsc them. They run pipes
through Watcr-tauks aud under their boilers,
and III this way they pretend to burn their
gases Aud right here is where they get the
advantage Of the public. These factories a1l
have tall c]linlncys, perhaps l00 to 1s0 feet in
height. Up these chimncys
THE STINk-PIpES
are led, and, instead of the noxious gas being
burned, it goes up into the air through the
stacks, and the wind carries it over the city.
Being heavier than air, the stinks come down
and enter sich-cha1nber and plrior or dining
room alike At times, and very often, they
come down so heavily On the South and West
&j1ns that be r,nft,t ff,9nynfIe5 tn r1nsn