The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-05-27
DeeIaredan IntOIerable Nuisance,
a Danger to Health and DAM
age to Adjacent Business.
A HANDICAP TO ASTORIA
The Oil Factory VIII Pave to Be
Moved or other establish
ments viii Leave.

'she factory for making Of! and guano
frQn salmon heads. tails and entraiis,
which are procured from the various
canueries along the river. which started
up In Astoria this spring. is proving TO
b, a most serious nuisance and damage
TO the city. As the run Of fish Increases
and this factory is enabled 20 run day
aEI night 80 that there will b. no ees
satlon IN the stream Of horrible odors
emanaging from Il, life in all the lower
part Of the city will be almost unbeara-
bic. During the cool weather now pre-
vaHlng the luckless people now residing
within the sphere Of influence" Of this
stink factory can close THAR doors and
windows and exclude a part at least OF
the foul odors. when the wind is blowing
1t their way. But when the warm wea-
ther OF summer sets in and It becomes
asoessary to comfort TO, keep The houses
open. then the nuisance will be doub,y
intensified. for to be in close, hot
room into which this sitting hsh odor
is permeating will be like being shut up
In an apartment OF hades Itself.
In copliance with the request of
many OF the leading citizens OF the
western part OF the city. the Astorian
has secured personal interviews from a
humber OF representative people resld-
ing in the afflicted district to show how
unanimous is the feeling against the
maintenance of the oil factory Within the
city limits.
F. W. Schmidt, OF Schmidt & Co, who
operate an extensive cold storage plant,
said: I'VE have grave fears as to the
effect the foul odors coming from the oil
factory will have upon the fresh fish,
meat. butter. etc, handled in our estab-
lishment. While we use every endeavor
durlng the hours when the wind Is in a
direction to keep the stencil away to
thoroughly ventilate our cooling rooms,
yet fresh salmon and the other products
we handle are so susceptible to foul odOrs
that they may become so permeated as
20 damage their SALE with the possibility
Of entire lots being thrown back on our
hands. We are also suffering a loss by
reason that our employees are hindered
and ottentimes incapacitated from their
work by being nauseated and frequently
made so sick as to be compelled to go to
their homes. Had We known that fish
oil factory was to be established here we
should have never moved our plant to
Astoria, but let 1t remain In Portland"
F. W. Sprauer. bookkeeper for Schmidt
& c.. said: THAT while believe I have
as strong a stomach as any man, yet
tHVIe are tiliiSS WIKI thc SlShCh iIOtH llAc
oil factory about does me up 1t gives
one deathly sickness like seasickness.
Man, of the other employees are also
made sick by the foul odor, Last Monday
one Of the men had to quit work and go
home. he was so overcome, and another
day boy had to quit work"
F. P. Kendall, manager OF the Pacific
Can Co, said: 81 have no personal feel
ings against the proprietors of the oil
factory, and wish them. as all other AS
toria industries. the best OF success. yet
the law of self preservation and the in
terests of my company compel me to
enter a protest against fish oil factory
being permitted to operate within the
city limits. Our help is largely girls and
boys, and so seriously does the odor from
the oil factory affect them that at times
We have had difficulty in keeping our can
and other machines in operation. Their
noon hour is too short to permit of their