New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-27
HUNTERS POINT NUISANCES.

INoIURY OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
srATruFNTs FROM NUMBER OF PERSONS WIN
HAVE SUFFERED FROM VILE DOORS CARRIED
ACROSS THE EAST RIvER-Poss1BILlTY OF END
ING THE TROUBLE BY PROPER MANAGEMENT AMI
MACHINERY
Tho Committee of the State Board OF Health on
Eluvum Nuisanees met agah and Dr. Elisha
Harris we're present and the former presided IN tne
absence of the chairman Dr. j. savage nela. AN
Hhnrles F. Wingate of the Sanitary Reform 30
cetv. Letters were read from pTs /. D. b mas
Charles Milne, William H. Hall MaI1er a. ntTan
Gndrew II. Smith, Andrew H. Buck Gharl IL
Fl. Michaelis, and from James po,i Wv: SnySeo1 Nc
Worms william F. BE E'iI Ponce 'O'S''H 'i
Donala anu them stated that the committee wonld
no Glad to hear from any gentleman plesgI' .n;c
might T isdud 10 say GEORGE NJ Pe, of No 43s
Mfh.ave., said that Murray Hill labored unoo 81
many disadvantages, as, 1or instance To ;nhaIi
tants however. could endure all these things Il tae
disagreeable odors were done away VIII, otroted
SMELLS a wS10 could not be removed. Mr. Pe then
read letter from his family physician, Dr LOUIS
Warner wto said that he had known persons "
~ a,ykened at night by these doors, ana tncS
10 nroduced severe cases of sickness anu
| nausea. 60, ,o u,.os NJ No 40 Milton
| o. Rrooklyn thought that hunters foiht Was
ST., ;ti, more Sins than il ought to be The
tnncb was not confined to that neighborhood but
it extended mile ana na up '0 number OF
manufactores which prOduccd uhpleaSant s nf.
The cream of tartar works, however; az
| and West-sts GreenpOnt, were the worst nu,Hthce
o. or them ali. The prOprictors had been lndictcd
| however. 40 r+ ,rhirtr.ftthst said
| that there was one particular smell iwnch caillt
from the eastl. which annoyed him greatly, oltel
| waking him from his sleep lie supposed that II
| came from Hunters Point. ,..,,.ou,. Lunar
intendcnt, said that in going to BackweTs isiail.
he often noticed the smells coming lfoii lluBtel
Point He thought the smell O1 ang that it hat
heen superseded by q smell OF petroleum. ! ~ ~
odor however, was OF complex natuIe, "n martS
would not undertake to give its conponenV; put 10
The smell of sludge" acid was pungent ana Ili.t
jnr TO the throat The sick persons on s ~
Island often complained 70 @ W vi CAUSED drect
nv them although they had an injurious ellooI ~
directly. as they caused people 10 shu' 'ne'n'0'''
IN C she,l Tracy of No. 1913 East seventsenth-
conid not accurately describe the odor wilcn WI
waited into his honse. 1t was very pumputt; az
nmse5 cnokinQ AS a lawyer be was sonctlme
canseu c ~ th Cont House in Long Island City
which is about three-duartcrs Oh iliit1 IRON q
IerrS, GU were awful to remember. When comm
! from Manhattan Beach by the Long island hai
road he had sometimes detecteu tua $50 niles ~
tont n was sometimes 30 strong that the passe'
A GERS would close all the winows OF the cars eve
| On the hottest summer days -, =,
| Dr. Harris-Could you dehne the smelisi
| Mr. Tracy-1 think not. ,
Mr. Brooks-l suppose they are what you wonl
: | call congregation of pestllental smells.
MIR TIacy-They are all OF that.
s Mr.. Tracy also said that three or four times
y | week there was very offensive smell from u
IS limited States Assay Office in Wa-st. lie suppose
9 that It was caused by some OF the chemicals u.s.
In john ohm A. w eekes. of NJ a East Twentieth-s
cold that ne often went the cars along the NeN
; town Crock which was lined with stIongsmellll
:. factories. He believed that there was snlpnu
cited hydrogen gd Sad BEEN dscoore
10 q single night when the windows were lett open.
70 Insnector Samuel A. Goldschmidt OF the Board
Health @a aons the Sewown Gre
in 1878, when the map was made. Since tne Il
tilizing factories have changed theiT processes
and eR sms use from on the oil works
|. Goldschmdt said that III January, 1884, there We
Is the following places or manufacturers Which "a
forth offensive smells in the nelghDornoou OF
Ia Newtown Creek: 13 oil refneres lubricatinR
n factory, yarnsh factories, fertilizer fact0ri
fatfoiling factories. chemical factories; z u
"a factories sugar refneries lone OF when Is ne
W remOvell glass factory, COW stable. yeast II
IN tory and distillery, gas WORKS, extensive mani
lr dumps. and garbage dumps. Some OF the woI
m were NOT 80 offensive others, although none We
O. tree from offensive smells. Good managema
ea | conld reduce the disaueeable effects of the
Sc greatly. The sludge" acid is sometimes allow
To run over the tanks in which It is confined, q
when il ia combined with water it produces We
dsagreeabe odor. Pungent black smoke v
often allowed to escape through careies s;n
u Careful stoklng would do away with THIS entiIe
D. and if the engineers who were responsible TOT
l, were fined 80 occasionally, it would soon
y stopped. The oiensiveness OF many manniac.Gsr
u. In New-York had been done away almost entir
by the use of proper machinery.
Professor Charles Il. Chandler, president OF
Board of Health, said that the offensive YES, sms
X which came from Hunters Point were about
4 was not necessary to close any Of the factor