The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-06-30
WARNED The MAYORl
Citizens Leave a Message with
Regard to the Dump Nuisance. ,
Say 1t Must Be Abolished or They
Will Go to the Grand jur,.
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 no
before the Grand Jury, to have the
reet-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 depository Of the
city's ashes and garbage.
AS already related in 1.-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 not at his office to-
day. In his absence Private Secretary
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.
THE Commissioner of Street-Clean-
Ing has put u disinfecting plant in opera
ton. and you will. no doubt, have no
more cause for complaint hereafter"
| said MIR Holly,
well ali I've got to say then is that
the disintectant stinks worse than the
home and found my wife in room
with the thermometer at ITO degrees.
, She had to close every. window, pre-
ferring to be suffocated by heat rather
| than breathe teh foul atmosphere out
side"
THE most dangerous pesthole is not
disinfeeted rS at AL, ,ns added died., Commit
nova; The smell from there is equally
Mr.. Holly said that no material had
been dumped at Casanova since juno
80 much the worse" was the an:
swer. "rhe stun that was dumped
there before that date is fostering and
t spreading disease
1.-THE dumps are menace to health.
| We will not stand them added ex-
Judge Hall in conclusion.
The Committee impressed Mr.. Holly
f, as being thoroughly in earnest, and he
made arrangements with them to meet
the Mayor on Monday morning before
| they 70 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
| We're collected on Riker's Island ana
kept piled up there for days and then
sold for 81 a barrel. That, II true, ii
not only a danger to health. bnt a vio-
lation of the law by which somebody
Is profiting pecuniarily.
The authorities of College Point
Flushing Astoria and Sands Point, have
decided 10 take radical steps to see II
something cannot be done to stop the
dumping of CITY garbage off Riker's ISL
and. The Bourd OF Health has been no
titled that some action will be taken,
and the Health Commissioners have de-
clded to look moro fully into the matter.
Sanitary Superintendent Roberts and
Chemist Martin yesterday made spe-
cial trip of investigation to Riker'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 ia
81 oner Andrews under the Three Coun-
ties act, which covers Kings, Queens and
New York counties. 1t is said that the
cor dition of Rikers Island at present,
" " the foul od1rs that arise from the
carthage s q disgrace to Ciyilizat ton