The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-17
FOUL DOORS At
C0NEY ISLAND.
Garbage and Ofial from
Brooklyn Being Dumped
in the Meadows.
DEAD ANIMALS IN THE CREEK,
Adjoining Residents Have Vainly
Complained to Police and to
the Health Board.
HAS THE CONTRACTOR A PULL ?
Ego!fs Permit 10 for Filling In with
Ashes, but All Sorts Of Ref.
use Is Used.

PEOPLE who live at the west end of
| Coney Island are complaining bitterly
of nuisance which Is being inflicted
| upon them and from which. apparently.
| they are unable to obtain relief, al
though they have appealed to the au.
! thorities both of Brooklyn and Graves
| end.
What they complain about are the in
| tolerable stenches that arise from
putrid mass Of garbage from Brooklyn
that is being dumped on the meadows
along the edge of Coney Island Creek,
| just opposite the big ice-house which
| was built on the shore of the inlet down
| near Norton's Point.
The scows, loaded with sweepings and
the refuse of ash barrels. are towed
| down to Gravesend Bay and anchored
near the mouth of the creek. Then
they are taken up the inlet one at a
time and unloaded.
| 1t takes two or three days to unload
each scow, the contents being carted of
| along the meadow and used for the foun-
dalton of road or driveway which Is
being built by Contractor Egolf, of Ia tn
Beach, from New Utrecht to Coney Isl
and, especially to make connections with
the improved portion of the island near
| Norton's Point.
This material when spread ont In the
hot sun along the meadows. emits a
most intolerable stencil. which. when the
wind is favorable, is blown over the set
Element on Coney Island across the
creek. and life is rendered a burden to
the residents.
Dead Bodies of Cats and Dogs.
This refuse contains not only the dead
bodies of dogs, cats and other animals,
but large quantities of decaying vege-
| table matter, offal and swill. and with
the combined odor OF all these ingre-
dents the people of Coney Island are
nearly driven crazy.
This has now been going on about fve
weeks, and the smells have been get
| ting worse and worse all the time. II Is
the land breezes from the west and
north that bring the odors across the
island. At first, though the complaints
were very general nothing was done TO
nut a stop TO the nuisance. Then hi
ward Larbey, proprietor of the Stella, a
little fishing resort on the Coney Island
Creek about half a mile above this
dumping ground, complained to the
Coney Island police: r., T..
He represented all the people living In
that vicinity when he made his protest.
| The police investigated the matter,
found that the complaints were fuzzy
justified, and Sergt Hughes sent mar
over to the dumping ground to order the
work stopped
Permit from the Board of Health.
The foreman Of the gang OF Italians
which is at work unloading the sGoWs
showed him permit IRON t him s tn Snmn
factory ashes" on the meadows. to be
used as filler for the roadbed. 49,
But these are not ashes, SAD SAID, !ne
policeman. 1T Is garbage and sWill'
oh, YES, they are" replied the fore
man: besides we've got our permit
from the Board OF Health, and you have
no right to Interfere with US Us ,o,,o. rs-
| This settled the matter, the police re-
tired and the work went right on. re-
gardless of the feelings or the rights OF
the Coney Islanders.
dogs and cats began to be seen floating
around in Coney Island Creek. and one
day the putrid carcass Of a 300-pound
pig went fioating up the stream with the
Some men at the drawbridge got the
body ashore and buried 1t, but 1t made
two of them sick for several days after
iii up with old rags, masses Of news
papers pieces of worn out carpeting.
dirty old bedding and mattresses and
innumeraDle tomato cans anu oiu 'ihs
OF all sorts.
Death Blow to Fishing.
Excursionists and lovers OF sport who
usei to find lots of good fishing In the
creek complained that they did not
get any more bites, and that ash were
becoming very scarce, and that II was
al due to the garbage that was spilled
into the creek when the scows were I'M
loaded.
his men to throw any dead animals
they found In the mass of rubbish into
the creek, when they were allowed e
float and tester in the sun. The swill
and other refuse, decayed groceries.
Sc. were spread out on the nat meadows
So the fishermen from Brooklyn and
New York who had been accustome j
10 20 down to the creek for a Sundays
outing were not only deprived OF their
sport, but were nearly choked with
stenches as well.
Complaint was fina,y made 10 the
Brooklyn Board of Health. when 1t was
found that the police would do nothing.
~ went up to Brooklyn and called a,
the Board OF Health two weeks ago, y
said Mr.. Larbey to an Evening World
reporter to-day. and several others went
with me. They were friends and neigh
bors Of mine, who had been nearly
driven from their homes by the disgust
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