The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-09-29
Heights Residents Deter
mined to Abate Hack
enSaCk Meadow
NuiSanCeS.
ACTION TO BE TAKEN AT ONCE.
Chancellor McGill Will Be Asked
10 Grant an Injunction and
to Make 1t Perpetual.

The residents of the Heights now have
a healthy, prosperous Citizens Associa-
tion, and one which promises to abats
without delay the nuisances on the mead
ows. The residents in the vicinity of the
Five Corners have for years sat with their
arms folded, allowing the vile odors
that come from the meadows to
cause sickness and drive law abid-
ing citizens from their homes.
Within the past two months the street
has been so bad that residents determined
to secure relief in some way. Last Mon
day committee of twelve reputable
citizens met and opened the at
tack upon the places from which the
stenches eminate. Eight Of these
gentlemen visited the hog abattoir
last Tuesday morning and were
sickened by the smell they encountered.
There was no mistaking the source In
this case. The result of this investt-
cation was the determination that the
matter should at once be brought before
the Chancellor and an application
made for permanent injunction re-
straining the abattoir people from
rendering dead animals or allowing de-
cayipg offal to remain there. and to stop
mittee met again and formed q perma-
nent organization by eleeting the follow
ing officers and committees:-Ex-M
Van Reipen, President; G. c. Jewell, Sec
retary and Treasurer. Executive Com
mittee-Messrs. John M. Jones, M. Un-
derwood and H. w. Carr. Finance Com
mittee-R. w. Williams, A. J. Post and
G. H. Bowly.
A BOILING NUISANCE.
The committee in making an inyestiga-
ton as to the origin of the stencil prepar :
atory to bringing the matter into court
found the great evil to exist mainly in the
boiling department. Those portions OF
hogs which cannot De put TO any use e. are e
boiled. Dead sheep and other animals
are brought from the. abottoir, foot Of
Sixth street, and are also boiled.
In the boiling department. there are q
number of immense watts that have an
opening on the upper floor. Dead and
decayed animals and the entrails are
dumped into these vats. steam IS then
cess continues. The steam and smell
that arise are supposed to pass
pipes and through pipes filled
with disinfectants, thus deodorizing g
the vapor that arise. The process is
either defective or inadequate or the men
in charge do not do their work properly.
The citizens go so far as to say that disin-
fectants are sparely used. The abattoir Is
the main point OF attack.
INFORMATION FOR DIR. CRAVEN,
DR., Craven, the abattoir inspector, was
present, and denied that dead animals
from the Sixth street abattoir were boiled
in the meadow shops.
The moment he made this assertion
President Van Reipen and Committeeman
Williams, Foster. Pendergrast, Jewell
and Banks were on their fete
inasmueh as they had seen sew
eral cart loads of dead
sheep from Sixth street, dumped into the
watts. The doctor attempted to straighten
out the matter by stating that II such a
thing was being done, 1t was against the
orders of Superintendent Sher m an and
without the knowledge of the abattoir
officials. The doctor promised to inves-
tigate the matter at once, and II Sixth
street abattoir dead animals were being
boiled on the meadows he would cause
the men implicated in the work to be dis
missed at once.
The executive committee was instructed
to confer with counsel and bring suit
against the proprietors of the abattoir on
the meadows.
Counsellor Record was present and in
formed the committee, that 1T would be
advisable to bring suit against one con-
Germ at time.
President Van Reipen will appoint a
committee of five with power to bring
suit against the abattoir people. The
new association is determined to have
the nuisance abated, and backed by every
stantial fund with which to carry on their