The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-28
A FAT RENDERING GRIEVANCE.

ALLEGED NUISANCE ON WEST FORTY EIGHTH
sTREET-rwo SIDES OF TIE QUESTION
WHAT pocToR SAYS ON THE sUBJEcr.
The Inhabitants OF side, In the ncghborhood
Of Thirty-ourth street. have recurring grievance
which comes them IN noxious gases from the oil.
factory at Hunters Point. whenever the Is
erly Il Is a chance OF III have that factory
Stand the wind and anyoody's nobility, but
there has recently started up the side an
alleged public nuisance which, according 70 the
planning parties dcprec,ascs property In tho entire
vicinity s tho fruitful OF disease. is IN
nnitcly worse than tho long tolerated abomination
At Hunters Point
WHAT PEOPLE COMPLAIN
Since she beginning OF the present year tat
dcring establishment has been In operation West
Forty-etghth and Eleventh avenue the North
River. IL Is run BY corporation known The
Commercial Manufacturing Company, and. according
70 tho residents Of tho locality, who appear TO DO
unanimous In It's condemnation. Il Is the source
OF untold evil. Just a. tho people on the
side arc affected oy eastery winds. so
those on tho have Il seems. abundant occasion 10
dread those IRON the ringing between north
west aud southwest According to the statements madc
10 HERALD reporter by the complaining residents the
nuisance in this instance appears 10 DO intermt
tent than that at Hunters Point. but vastly worse
while u 10 In full blast On the other hand those who
tc enterprise Is perfectly innocuous plead the permit
Of the Board OF Health as warrant Tor lis EXISTENCE
and. you are properly accredited person. are viii
ing you through tho premises where Is car
Rcd on To understand the merits OF tho case II IS
well to remember that tho waste Of the factory, which
the conductors Of Il say is almost nothing. rs carried
into the public sewor running through West Forty
ninth street and discharged INTO the North River.
Now, the people who mako complaint say that foul
gases Of inc offensive and cning possible
are discharged through this scwcrj that when Tho
wind is from the directions already indicated, the
neir intOleruDlo
that gases also forced back through the sewer
and through the waste pipes into their dwellings
sFpEcr PUBLIC HEALTH
They say that, consequences locality which, be-
fore the establishment Of the factory had been per-
tecty satisfactory TO IT'S sanitary conditions, IS now
reduced To state that people cannot live IN It,
and that the tenants are leaving rapidly thus render
ing properly almost valueess Tho discharge OF gas,
,hey say is principally at night, and Is then simply
unbearabc
Mr. John Draddy, respectable resident OF West
Forty eighth street, SAID to the HERALD representative
that previous the starting Of the factory there had
been no offensive smells the ncghborhood, that
now when the gases and waste were being discharged
tho odors those OF charnei house. All his
family he said, had been taken sick consequence.
said Mr.. X, List, who followed the occupation OF
butcher, Eleventh avenue:-'l have worked In
slaughter houses for twenty years, and have never
known Of offensive smell as that which comes
from Tins factory. IL appears TO the Ms u decayed
animal matter were put into tank kept there until
II was perfectly putrid, and then that the tank
opened aud stirred up People have come into my
shop, and when they found the smell coming up
through tho sink have asked II had any bad meat
the house" On last Friday night. he added, the smell
was dreadfully offensive.
Mr. HILL who owns property In the locality, SAID
he had lived there eight years before the factory
started and had never enjoyed better health but
lately he had been subject to severe sickness. He
had already lost half hts tenants, and the others had
SAID that they would not remain.
THB OTHER QUESTION.
The reporter subsequently called on Mr.. Peck, the
super,nt endent OF the factory, and wac conducted
through II without hesitation, Mr. Peck regarding such
O course as the best answer 10 the complaints which
had been made There were then no disagrceabe
odors the processes clearly, and II things were
always so it would be difficult TO where complaint
could lie. The material used was perfectly good, not
DIAL fat He was subsequently, Drought 10 the Forty
street sewer through which The waste was dis
charged: but II there were any gases being set at
large they would be carried across tho river TO the Jer
scy side, the wind was from the east. Previously
the reporter had himself visited the spot, aud had de-
tected very dsagreeaoe odor that an eddy IN The wind
had carried toward him. His conductor also took him
TO the Forty eighth street sewer, which Is uncon
nected with tho factory, and he saw at It's mouth
large quantities aecayed trpe, which, he told,
had been discharged from tripo houses vicinity
The factory, he was informed had 10 bear the brun OF
these things as we'll
Being quest OF impartial testimony on the subject,
the reporter sought Dr. Nealis OF No. go West Thirty.
ninth street. who had attended the SICK family OF Mr.
Draddy Said Dr. Nealls-''The stencil Is SIMPLY IN
toerable; It Dad that OF any dlssecting room"
II did not come from the factory When the wind was
from tho northwest the odor, he sad, was most dsa
greeably felt even at Thiry-ninth street ana Seventh
avenue
The people OF the ncghb0rhood nave, at all events,
determined to take energetic action IN the matter.
They already pettionei the Board OF Aldermen
the subject and Monday evening they held an nfor-
NAL meeting for the purpose OF organizing with the
view OF protecting their interests and procuring an
abatement OF what they aego to DO an in,oerablo
nuisance.
THE ALDERMANlC ACTION
The Committee Police and Health Of tho Board OF
Aldermen yesterday reported relative to the at-ren-
dcrng establish At the loot OF Forty ninth street,
North River. They state that II Is zone oil those qucs
lions the determInatio of hch had been nominaly
fnnrp 10 f0KA
Council by the state Legislature In the passage OF the
law of 1866 creating the Board Of Health for this city
and investing Il with limited legislative powers
1t certainly all anomaly IN local
civil governments, but as highest courts
IN the State have upheld the State
Legislature In thus dividing and subdviding tho lcgs-
latiye powers OF the city government into small frag
mens, md investing Boards and Commissioners with
coordinate II not powers superior TO the Common
Council, remedy for the evil complained OF must be
sought from the Legislature II cannot be obtained
from creature, the Board OF Health" The commit
tee has discharged from further consideration OF
matter, ard the Board OF Health Is solicited to abae