The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-07
STENCIL OF BOILED HOG.
How Lafayette Abated a
Nuisance That Affects
Bergen.

ent at last nights meeting in Fairmount
Hail. There was conspicuous absence
of the chairmen of the various commit
tees who were expected to report on
several important subjects
1t looked very much in the early part
of the meeting as though the meeting
would adjourn without transacting any
of Importance, beyond accepting
the resignation of Secretary Charles Lee
Meyers, forced by the pressure of other
business affairs, substituting Mr.. Hugh
Hartshorne in his stead, and appointing
Mr.. Garwood Ferris Chairman of the
Grievance Committee in the place of
Smith w. Haynes, deceased. DR.. B. A.
Watson was appointed to the executive
committee.
Later on, however, several important
subjects were touched upon.
ABBATToIR FLAvoRs.
After President w. w. Coffin had
called for reports from the Gr1eVance,
the Railroad Nuisance and other COM
mittees which failed to respond, and
Acting Secretary George w. Haywood
had Introduced and succeeded in offering
q resolution to the effect that members
hereafter be personally notified by postal
card as to the date of meetings to be
held, instead of by advertisement in the
Euening Journal as heretofore, Mr..
Gustave Blau brought up the subject OF
the horrible stencn arising from the
abbatoir over near the Hackensack
bridge.
He thought the nuisance committee
should inquire into the matter and see If
something could not be done to abate the
nuisance. He did not know how strong
ly the abbatoir fiends We're intrenched in
power, but he believed that such body
tI,or af 40 Irfnr ar rQT1lH
have them indicted by the Grand Jury.
Mr.. Peter Henderson did not think le-
gal fights could be carried on without
money.
"Ten years ago. said he, "a number
of gentlemen in this neighborhood organ
lied an anti-nuisance association Each
member was assessed two per cent. OF his
assessed property valuation. We raised
e., 500.
zone of the nuisanees we abated was
that inflicted upon us by the Standard
Oil Company. We must have money.
Now" he continued, there is still in my
hands $500 of that fund. Mr. Francis
Emmons and several other gentlemen
prominently identified with the detunct
association thought it possible that we
might come into possession of this sum,
which will form a hrst-rate nucleus of
such fund"
Mr.. Blau moved that the nuisance com
mittee take immediate steps toward
abating the nuisance.
The stencil, he said, was caused mainly
by the boiling of hogs which die natural
death They were thrown into great
tanks and boiled up for the fat. The same
nuisance had been abated in Lafayette.
HOW LAFAYETTE FOUGHT A NUISANCE.
Commissioner Van keuren said he
knew all about a1ating the Lafayette
abbatoir nuisance. No relief could at
first be obtained from the courts, so with
a party ne went down TO the abbatoir one
night, and, catching the employees in the
acts which had been denied them in the
courts, cut the belts and dumped some of
the hog boiling paraphernaiia into the
river. The proprietors brought suit
case was thrown out of the court, as it
was subsequently ascertained that the
proprietors had been violating one of the
oldest statutes on the books.
PAssAIC CITY SEWERS.
Mr.. William Oliphant then arose and
said that the abatement of the abbatoir
nuisance was a trl1lng matter in compar1-
son with one he desired to mention.
''It is mere matter of smell against
one of tasten continued MIR. OliDhant,
''The city of Passaic is about to empty its
sewers into the Passaic River, whence we
derive our drinking water supply. New
ark alone is lighting against it. We ought
10 IOlil Ill Will hltC l1OoAG OL w VI hos esIt,
if the members of that body do not do
their duty, we can at least do ours"
Mr.. John NJ. Jones thought the matter
ought to be placed in the hands of
special committee.
Commissioner Van Keuren said the
matter was already in the hands of Chan
cellOr McGill.
Mr.. Oliphant said he would present at
the next meeting analyses of water taken
at the intake in comparison with that
above the falls.
On motion of Mr.. Oliphant the chair
appointed Messrs. Ohphant, Blair, Van
Keuren, DR.. B. Watson, Garrett Van
Horn and N. Anderson a committee to
'join with the organization to protect
our interests as citizens in regard to the
pollution OF Passaic water"
WEST SIDE DRAINAGE.
Mr.. Jones informed the association that
the Board of Finance would probably
take action on the west side sewer this
afternoon.
In this connection Mr.. j, F. Ward sub
mitted couple of large photographs,
showing the miserable condition OF West
Side avenue when oyerflowed with surface
water from the Hill drainage. The gentle
man owns very pretty piece of property
that he can neither live in himself nor
rent on account of the overtiowed condi-
tion of the thoroughfare on which it is
located, and claims that often times boats
are necessary to reach the grounds; and
many residents suffer from the same in
convenience.
Mr.. Jones wanted the secretary to
notify the various chairmen of commit
tees to prepare their reports for the next
meeting. His motion was carried.
Mr.. G. H. Dixon wanted the president
empowered to appoint someone else inthe
stead OF all chairmen of committees who
failed to respond; but this could not be
done eonstitutionally
Before aajourning, President Coffin said
that il the committees We're not more
punctual in attendance there would be
rapid thinning out of members. There
was work to do, and it should be done
speedily.
The association will meet again next
Friday night week.
A Pretty Healthy Dying Man.
William E. McCann, aged twenty
eight years, of No 167 Thirteenth street,
was some time ago sent to the asylum,
and after he had been there several
weeks he became ILL., Fearing that he
was about to die, the authorities consented
TO his return home. He failed to DO this,
however, and was this morning before
Judge Lippencott, charged with having
beaten James Mcdonald. The court
committed him to the County Jail, ana
when he was taken from the van it re
quired half dozen men to get him. He
fought like a demon and looked like 8
pretty healthy dying man.
The Child Isn't Dead.