The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-06-04
BUY HIM A new nose.
Health Inspector Keilt Says
the Grand Street Dump
Does Not Smell.
HE 50 REPORTS TO THE BOARD.
Meanwhile the 0dor Continues to
be Strong Enough to Knock
q Man Down.

The Grand street dumping ground
nuisance has been dbuted.-Health Ia
spector Ketlt
About two months ago the Lehigh Val
ley Railway officials placed signs on the
corner of Pacific avenue and Grand
street, which announced that the svamps
which extend back to the Morris Canal
could be used as a public dumping
ground.
As result Contractor Byrnes and
every other contractor in the city fastened
to dump garbage of every description in
the lots. Every day hundreds of loads Of
rubbish were dumped, and the company
failing to properly cover the stuff an odor
arose from 1t that was warranted to seri-
ously distress every person residing with
in twenty blocks of the place.
MOST FOUL oDoR-
Complaint after complaint was made to
the Health Board, and the railway Off
ciais were directed to abate the nuisance,
which was rapidly becoming menace to
the public health. The officials paid no
attention to the orders OF the Health
Board, and as result dozens OF families
were driven from the vicinity. as IL was
creating an epidemic of typhoid fever.
The contractors continued to dump
garbage, and daily the stencil became
worse, until at the present time the vile
odor actually sickens persons who are
compelled to pass the place. The railway
officials have made but feeble attempts to
check the vile odor.
Since the day the work of filling the
lots In with rubbish and garbage COM
menced. not an ounce of disinfectant OF
any description has been scattered over
the soil; within the past few days the
railway officials have put three
or four Italians to work; have
scattered ashes over the rubbish and at
the present time layer of an inch of
ashes and street sweepinRs covers the
garbage, from which a stronger and more
foul odor arises the longer it lies exposed
to the rays of the sun.
NEVER MIND THE LAW.
The law requires that covering of at
least half foot of solid earth be scattered
over such filling. but for some reason the
law IN this case has not been enforced.
talked with a well known physician
o. Lafayette this morning.
Il have lived in this city for quarter
Of century," said he. II have gone
through the fertilizing works on the
Hackensack, and have encountered many
other smells, but in all my experience l
never found such an odor as arises from
the garbage that has been dumped on
those sunKen lots at Pacific avenue and
Grand street.
A SERIOUS MENACE.
"How people can live near ii / can not
npderstand. / know that families have
been compelled TO move away, and ]
further know that if that stencil is not
abated in a short time there will be an
epidemic of typhoid fever.
That stuff used to I'LL in those lots is a
cong Generation OF dead animals and de-
cayed garbage which daily grows worse,
aud which, If it Is not properly covered.
In a short time will result In the death of
hundreds OF people.
''That property is situated in the heart OF
the city and it is an outrage that the Of
fieials of the railway company have not
been arrested and indicted for maintain
ing nuisance"
Residents and property owners in the
vicinity of the dumping ground are CIR
culating a petition to have the proper
persons arrested il the garbage is not
properly covered at once. and already the
signatures of nearly hundred persons
have been secured. II the matter is
not attended to by the city officials, the
property owners intend bringing the mat
ter into the courts, as they are deter
mined noa to allow the Lehigh Valley
Railway Company TO drive them from
their homes