The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-02
PROTEST TO GlLROY.
Committee of Fifty Complains Of
the Riker's Island Nuisance.
To Consider the Question Of a New
Dumping Ground.
MIR. Blacks Strong Letter to Gov.
Flower.

Mayor Gilroy received to-day the Com
mlttee of FIFTY who demand the aboli-
ton of the Riker's Island dumping
nuisance on behalf of the citizens Of
the Annexed District.
The Committee told the Mayor that
the disinfectant had not improved the
condition of affairs. The stencil aris-
ing from the decayed garbage was as
bad as ever.
The Mayor said he was anxious to
have the nuisance abated, and would
do all in his power to have II stopped.
The city had been shut out from dump
ing scows IA tsca by the United States
Government. The Street Cleaning Com
missioner had to have some place to
deposite refuse material and Riker's
Island had been designated for that
purpose.
The Committee insisted that the city
must secure some other place. Rikers
Island was menace to the public
health.
The Mayor suggested that the Com
mittee select n subcommittee to confer
with him, Commissioner Andrews and
Lieut.. Delehanty, the United States
Harbor Master. The conference will be
held in the Mayors office tomorrow and
the question Of selecting another dump
ing ground will be considered then. The
subcommittee appointed by the Com
mittee of Fifty consists of Arthur c.
X. Alderman and Theodore Macy.
Pending the outcome OF to-morrow's
meeting. the Committee will defer going
before the Grand Jury to have Andrews
The Committee has also appealed to
Gov. Flower. The local Board Of Health
having failed to discover any smells or
evil effects from the Rikers Island
~ hS Nf.gnNr tan al Il
to compel 1t to perform Its duty. The
Committee makes public correspondence
on the subject. carried on through
George A. Black, with Gov, Flower.
| says:
AS you will see by the letter Of the Board OF
| power to act, and also refers to the prior com
plants sent by II to the Department of Street
Cleaning. and the assurance that Thorough dis
| This has not been done.
| Permit me to state that one OF the natural
| rights of the people OF the State Of New York
| is the right to breathe pure air In their homes.
| The rich can buy pure water imported from un-
| discovered for feeding the lungs on imported air.
That N necessity exists for disinfocting the cor
rupt material deposited by public department
| vile emanations can poison the air we have to
breathe establishes the crime OF that depart
mitted to 81 injure his neighbors. and the
| teeblcness OF the Board OF Health in not pro-
tecting the people against such a gross outrage
| IL dshonor to them, the laws they act
| under We protect ourselves from the terror
of outside infections. while the Board OF Health
supinely permits worse source OF disease In
our midst.
low many lives s must be sa s how much
sleepy servants wake up to do their dutyi
What influences are at work In the Street
Cleaning Department which induces 1t know
| ingly and silently to suffer such u wrong7 When
the cholera scare was In full swing. suggestions
for destroying garbage were under consideration,
| and the necessity for such disposition recog-
nized, and its dangerous unsuitableness for dump.
| ing on land admitted. and what was true ther
| In this respect is equally true to-day.
| win you need n catalogue OF deaths and suffer.
Ing to set In motion the protective aEencie.
| whose action you controlf