The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13
THE CREMATORY A NUISANCE.
Residents of the Entire City Suffer
From Its Stenches.

The foul smell which caused such an
noyance to the residents Of practically all
the southern section of the city Thurs
day and Friday nights came from the
city crematory.
The Morning News has received
several complaints on this &C
count, and wherever inquiry was made the
same story was heard. As the Morning
News made the statement recently on the
word of the city officials that the Gre
matory was doing it's work in the most
satisfactory manner this state of af~
fairs was something of surprise.
Commissioner of Public Works Willink
is out of the city and Supt. Peck Of the
crematory was called upon. He admitted
that the erematory had proven
offensive and said that he had been Up
until midnight the night before endeav-
oring to get at the cause of this unpleas-
ant state of affairs, and put stop to it.
THE only explanation that l can offer, "
said he, is that it was due to the COM
bination of the heavy fog, which has pre-
vailed for the last two or three nights,
with the southwest wind. I watched the
smoke from the crematory chimney and
noticed that is went up only very little
way when 1t spread out and settled down
into the fog. The wind carried the fog
right into the city, and this, l suppose,
accounts for the foul smell which was SO
generally complained Of l know very
well how unpleasant it was because 1 live
on Barnard street, at the corner of Henry
street lane, and my family got the full
benefit of 1t. The stencil was not due to
the pulling out of the half-burned gar
bage from the furnaces, which was the
cause of the former complaint. / gave
particular attention to this, and allowed
no refuse to be taken from the furnaces
last night until midnight, when it was en-
tirely reduced to ashes. The furnaces
burned perfectly and the usual amount of
garbage was consumed. There was no
difficulty on that score"
Mr.. Peck predicted that if there were no
fog there would be no complaint on &C.
count of the stencil. The stencil was GER
tainly a severe infection on the people in
the southwestern part of the city, being
so bad that many people were unable TO
sleep on account of it. 1t was RESPONSE
BILE for some amusing mistakes. A lady
living in the southwestern part of the
city complained to DIR. Falligant yester-
day that the burning of weeds on his va
cant lots adjoining her house was max
ing all her family sick.
"In that case, madam" replied the doc
tor, at is very strange that the smell OF
those burning weeds should drive me out
of my bed, away down on South Broad
street, and, by the way, there have been
no weeds burned there for a day or two.
Chimney Contractor Basch of the west
ern district had a similar experience. He
was cleaning out chimney and remarked
to the lady of the house that the Chin
ney had burned out since he had cleaned
it last. He could tell this by the she'll
like pieces of SCOT that ratified from the
chimney.
We'll I'll declare, Mr.. Basch" ex-
claimed the lady, II was wondering all
last night what It was that made that
bad smell in the house, and just to thiak
it was the chimney"
"There was no mistake about the smell
madam" replied Mr.. Basch, but that
chimney burned out some time ago"
If it is the fog that is re-
sponsible for the foul smell from
| the crematory the people OF
the southern section of the city will ar
IDENTIFY pray for a change in the direction
of the wind. Everybody who lives in that
section will be glad when the crematory
has been moved to it's proper place, be.
yond the limits, instead of being within
a stones throw of the street car lines.
Last night the stencil was waited over
the entire city, and penetrated houses
until people were compelled to close theiI
windows in the effort to free their nos
tris of the foul odor. On Bay street the
stencil was as strong as it was in the res
| idence section of the city and people were
nauseated by it. If it continues there Is
no doubt of an appeal to the city authori-
ties to shut down the crematory and use
some other means of disposing of the
garbage. The claim that the crematory
is doing its work satisfactory is disproven
by the experience of those who have suf-
fered from its malodors from the last
few nights.