The evening world., 1894-06-30
WARNED The MAYOR.
Citizens Leave a Message with
Regard to the Dump Nuisance.
Say II Must Be Abolished or They
Will Go to the Grand Jury.
They Threaten to Have Commits
sioner Andrews Indicted.

THE Riker's Island dump nuisance
has got to be abolished. II we can't get
satisfaction from the Mayor, we will go
before the Grand Jury, to have the
Street Cleaning Commissioner indicted"
Thus spoke ex-Judge Ernest Hall in
the Mayors office to-day He and As
semblyman Arthur C. Butts and ex-As-
semblyman James l.. Wells headed the
Committee of Fifty appointed at last
nights mass meeting, which was held
to protest against the further use Of
Riker's Island as n depository of the
city's ashes and garbage.
| AS already related in THE Evening
| World" the dump Is a heap of decayed
garbage, from which a stencil arises
which makes living in the neighborhood
almost unbearable. The suffering resi-
dents of Port Morris. Melrose, college
Point and other places in the vicinity
have ceased to simply protest. They
have become exasperated beyond endur-
ance. and the Committee went to
the Mayors office this morning in full
force, not to complain, but to demand
that the nuisance be abated.
Mayor Gilroy was rot at his Office to-
willis Holly received the Committee.
After addressing Mr.. Holly as above
quoted ex-Judge Hall said that the Com
mittee was empowered by the meeting
to go before the Grand Jury on Mon
day, and that they would certainly do
so unless the city authorities gave relief
to the sufferers at once.
1.-The Commissioner OF Sreet-Clean-
ing has put n disinfecting plant In opera
ton, and you will. no doubt. have no
more cause for complaint hereafter
wei. ali I've got to say then is that
the disinfectant stinks worse than the
original stencil, Last night l went
with the thermometer at 10 degrees
She had to close every window, pre-
ferrng to be suffocated by heat rather
than breathe ten foul atmosphere out
The most dangerous a pssthole o is mo not
teeman. THAT is the dump at Casa
bad.''
MIR. Holly said that no material had
been dumped at Casanova since June
$50 much the worse. was the an IN
there before that date is fostering and
| spreading disease"
THE dumps are menace to health.
We Will not stand Them added eX-
Judge Hall in conclusion
The Committee impressed Mr.. Holly
as being thoroughly in earnest, and he
made arrangements with them to meet
| the Mayor on Monday morning before
| they go before the Grand Jury. The
people of the Annexed District have
never been so worked up over anything
before as this dump nuisance. They
say several cases OF sickness have re-
suited from the foul air the people must
breathe.
An important statement, worth investi-
cation, was made by "A committeeman
He said dead animals and old bones
| were collected on Riker's Island and
kept piled up there for days and then
sold for 81 barrel. That, If true, Is
| latlon Of the law by which somebody
| is profiting pecuniarily.
The authorities Of College Point,
| Flushing, Astoria and Sands Point, have
decided to take radical steps to see II
something cannot be- done TO stop the
| dumping of city garbage off Riker's ISL
and. The Board of Health has been no.
titled that some action Will be taken
and the Health Commissioners have de-
| cded to look more fully into the matter.
| Sanitary Superintendent Roberts and
| Chemist Martin yesterday made spe-
| cial trip OF investigation to Rikor's ISL
and. What their decision in the matter
| is has not yet been reported.
Mayor Pauly, OF College Point, will be
| the leader of those who believe the
| dumping is a nuisance. He threatens to
secure an Indictment against Commits
| sioncr Andrews under the Three Coun-
| ties act, which covers Kings, Queens and
| New York counties. 1t Is said that the
condition of Riker's Island at present,
| with the foul doors that arise from the
| garbage is a disgrace to civilization.
| s.