Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-09-20
THE LAUNDRY rsJusorloM.
Public Interest," in the Case Coming Vi
Before tho chancellor on Monday Next

Public Interest in tho Case Coming Up
Before tho chancellor on Monday Next.
There is already great deal of public
interest in regard to the case of tho
Manhattan Steam Laundry, Nos. S06.S
King street, which comes up before the
Chancellor Monday next, under petition
for preliminary injunction.
The story of the incident has already
been related. But in brief it is that
certain residents of the vicinity of the
laundry have petitioned the court OF
chancery for an injunction ordering the
closing Of the business place on the
grounds of its being, for certain reasons,
public nuisance. The reasons alleged
are that the SCOT from the chimney stack
of the laundry falls upon the premises
of the complainants to such an annoying
degree that they see relief from 1t in no
other direction than in the course they
have taken, namely, in application to
the Chancellor for the closing up Of the
business place.
A representative of The GAZETTE
called at the Manhattan Laundry yes
terday in order to obtain from the pro.
prietor, and through an investigation of
the premises, some substantial idea Of
the conditions as they exist there.
The proprietor, George Ii. Hollis, was
found there. lie Immediately took the
reporter out to see that source Of all the
annoyance, the smoke.stack. 1t is in
the rear of the establishment, erected on
the top of the rear factory floor. 1t
reaches up above or near the line of the
peak of the neighborng thrce-story
house. 1t is some 40 or so feet away
from it, and it may be added that the
residents of that house, which is on the
east side of the laundry, make no OBJ
lection to it, as do neither the residents
in the houses Immediately west of the
laundry on King street. 1t is under
stood that the petitioners for the in.
junction are the residents who occupy u
houses a considerable distance away,
near the Eighth street corner.
The smuke-stack is of the usual kind
| seen in the factories of this nature In
fact there are hundreds of them in vii.
mington. 1t is alleged that the closing
up of this one on the grounds asked by
the petitioners, ii granted, would neces-
| sarlly compel the closing up of hundreds
of others in the city for Identical reasons.
On August LIST last, Mr.. Hollis, in
order to accommodate these neighbors,
whose complaints were brought to his
attention, had his boiler tubes CLEANED
out by a new process which raised nc
SCOT II. all. Since that time he has fol.
lowed the new plan of cleaning the
boiler tubes.
Hitherto the plan of cleaning out the
boiler tubes here, as is done everywhere
else in the city where similar machinery
is used, was to blow them out with
steam. The masses of SCOT coming from
the smoke-stack under these condition:
is the cause OF all trouble. As stated
however, since August last Mr.. Hollis
has adopted another plan. 1t is to allow
the tubes to cool oil, and then to SWEEP
them with steel brushes, when the soot
falls back into the fire CRATE.
The case eXcites much interest, al
other establishments of this kind may
also be held to be Objectionable.