The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-11
GLEN COVES GRIEVANCE.

THE MEssRs DURYEA DECLARE THAT THEIR
STARCH FACTORY IS NOT NUIsANcE-AR-
GUMENT ON THE OTHER SIDE.
The Board OF Health of the town Of Oyster Bay.
L. l.. met yesterday to try the complaint made by
Mr.. S. L. NJ. Barlow. Mr.. Appleby and other citizens
owning summer seats the shore OF the bay against
the starch works ut Glen Cove. alleging them to be
nuisance and detrimental to the public health. The
factory is principally owned by the Duryea Brothers.
seven in number. 1t manufactures 1000 900 pounds
of starch week and its payroll is $4,000 month.
The factory has been in existence about twenty
years. Among the complainants a number Of
business men OF the village. The duryea's run
great store. where their employees trade. and they
have also coal and lumber yard. grist mill and
MILL with sash and blind department. and fro
quently contract for the complete construction OF
building Of any kind. This wholesale competition
with the other business interests of the place. the
Duryea's alege, is ut the bottom Of the proceeding
against them, but Mr.. Barlow and the other leading
petitioners declare that they have luminosity
against the Duryea's on business grounds at all and
only protesting their interests and the pub
lie health by seeking to abate the foul odors which
arise from the waste material that is empted from
the factory into the creek. whence it is washed up
the fats and there rotted by the sun. When the
wind is south east tho smell is foul in the vi
cinity OF the residences OF the petitioners that
no matter how sultry the summer nights they have
to close the windows of their houses to exclude 1t.
On the other hand. there hundreds of people liv
ing in Glen Cove who declare that the smell is in
way offensive. Hhen, again, property owners along
the bay shore-whch the only desirable location
for summer houses-complain that in conseo uence
of the stencil they cannot dispose OF their real
tate.
In the proceedings yesterday Mr. Barlow appeared
for the petitioners aud John E. Parsons for the Dur
yeas. Mr.. Appleby was called a witness, but was
not permitted testify FULLY. counsel got into
argument over suggestion OF compromise charac-
ter from the president of the Board He wanted the
parties to make another attempt settle the matter
''before it got so hot that it would take . long
time to cool off," He could see that contest would
arouse bitter feeling, and 1t now the occasion OF
lively quarrel in the village between neighhors.
Mr.. John Duryea said that there was no ground for
the complaint. The smell, he said, arises from the
fats, only portion of which is owned by the fac
tory. He is willing to what he owns, SO that
the tide cannot wash the refuse up and leave it there
to dry. But he il not willing to cover the fats
owned by other people, and some smell might re-
main after he had done this costly work. He had
inquiry he found that it would cost $10OO What
he now proposes is to build = great dock.
Guiding The sum and dilninishms the Offensive a
of the refuse. Then he proposes to
construct sort OF canal into which the refuse will
be run, and every tide will carry it out into the
bay. The dock will require about 15. 900 piles and
10000 feet Of lumber. He had made an effort to
no one would guarantee their delivery before next
April. .
CONCILIATORY TACTICS
Mr.. Barlow said he would willingly contribute his
share to anything that would abate the nuisance and
suggested adjournment until April to give Mr..
Duryea chance. He said that matter what
action the Board might take the petitioners had a
remedy before the Grand Jury and in the courts
As it il now, he said. the nuisance amounts
to confscaton and depreciation of property for
three miles around. The present proceeding was
taken because it is less harsh. Mr.. Parsons said
that the business of the Board not to try pr-
vste nuisance. inquire into speculation in real
estate. Mr.. Duryea said that real estate had
been injurously affected by the factory. Sea Cliff
and all the surrounding property had been sold and
improved within few years. and commanded high,
wanted to have peace. Several times during Mr..
Duryea's remarks he referred to Mr.. Bovine,
keeper of store where the factory hands used to
trade, causing 1.-THE trouble" Mr.. Barlow said he
had desire to encourage fighting between
neighbors, and advised that o breathing spell DO
taken to what could be accomplished Tho
question was asked II the flats would not be more
valuable IT covered with earth. Mr.. Duryea said
they would be more valuable they are, for
ayear. The annual consumption of coal is rs. 600
tons. The Board desired to limit the time within
which Mr.. Duryea should complete his proposed
improvements. but the latter would not consent to
1t, Notwithstanding Mr.. Barlow assured him he
could put him in the way of securing the piles. It
will be midsummer Of next year before tho docking
can be completed. Mr.. Parsons would not ask for
an adjournment of the case, would he permit IL
to be understood that they offered to make the i'm
for the purpose of abaing the nuisance.
as they commended that they had never created .
dered an adjournment to the first Monday in March