The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-12
'HACIZlBBSACK SPHNCHBS
West Side Improvement League
Considers the Subject
Other Matters Dis
eussed.

REPRESENTATIVES of the West Side RepuD-
lican League attended the meeting OF the
West Side Improvement League, held In
Williams Hall last night, and asked for the
cooperation of the Improvement League in
their fight against the Hackensack stenches.
Messrs. Pier, Upson, Ridley and Hayes were
the delegates from the Republican League.
President Adams assured the delegates OF
the hearty support of the Improvement
League, and said that they would do all they
could to help them. Mr.. Ridley, as chairman
of the sStench' Committee reported, the re-
publicans came there. not as politicians, but
as private citizens, and that they came to
| confer with the Improvement League as
to the best way to rid residents OF West
Bergen Of the stenches caused by the car
loads of hogs at the Abattoir, n Shanley's
manure pile. He thought that it was adyis-
able to circulate a petition to the County
Board of Health among residents OF West
Bergen, getting their signatures to
the paper asking the Health Boar to
abate the nuisance. President Fer SAID
| he thought it a good plan to agltate the
question In the churches, and also to ask the
| Grand Jury to indict the people that main
| tain the nuisances. He said that the man
ure pile attracted millions of flies, and that
in summer the window screens of his house
at No. 316 Belyidere avenue. were black
with the obnoxious insects. Mrs. Hayes
! said the stenches made it impossible for MIN
to sell property in that vicinity.
PREVIOUS EFFORTS.
Mr.. Peter F. Campbell of the Improve
ment League then rose and Sald:-"IWo
years e a committee was appointed from
| this club to investigate this matter II they
complained to the Board Of Health about it.
One hundred and fifty dollars was appro-
priated to fee lawyers, who got a Judgment
against the abattoir. The owners said that
the stencil caused by trying out the fat OF
hogs, the most disagreeable n sickening
smell of all, would be entirely done
away with by a new patent pro
cess, which was to be Immediately
stencil was a little less. The COMMITTEES
could not get power to abolish the
pile.n Mr.. Campbell thought that the
manure pile should be removed to the
country where it would annoy nobody. and
he thought that the Legislature was the only
remedy and that a bill should be passed
making it q felony to have any large
manure heaps WITHIN Tour miles OF any Guy
of the first class.
bMr. Adams said that the stenches had been
Complained Of for many years. Three years
ago. he said, they were worse than they are
now. Although Shanley's manure pile
which covers over seven acres n Is more
than twenty feet high, is an undoubted
nuisance, the worst stsnches come from
the animal matter OF the abottoirs." He ad-
vised the Republican League to appoint a
committee of four or five members to &c
and make a personal INVESTIGATION of the
stencil, and said that the Improvement
League would aid them in fighting against
this nuisance to the bitter end.
SIP AVENUE M
Mr.. Pier then brought up the subject OF
the proposed tunnel under the railroad on
SIP avenue from Dales to West Newark ave-
nue.. He said that this railroad crossing now
was a source of great danger to life.
Mr.. Campbell Thought that il a petition
was sent to the officials of the Pennsylvania
Railroad they would dig the tunnel. He
said it would not cost more
than $1,000, and would ave Amany
lives. President Adams endorsed all that
Mr.. Campbell had said, and added that this
tunnel would allow the Traction Company''s
new line to run down Sip avenue. Unless 1t
was dug, the people Of Marion would nave
to walk to and from West Side avenue.
Mr.. Adams then spoke of the proposed
sewer on West Side avenue from Broadway
70 avenue, and said that he
thought work on it wsuld begin on Mon
day.
HARRISON AND KEARNY RESOLUTION.
The meeting closed by the unanimous
passing of this resolution, introduced by Mr.
Campbell
proyement League, are absolutely and un-
Ioualifedly opposed to the annexation OF
Kearny and Harrison to Essex, or in any
way Remembering fair Hudson County, and
that a copy of this resolution be sent to the
Mayor.