The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
MORE TALES
OF SICKNESS
FROM GARBAGE
Mrs. WOhlken's Chill
dren Frustrated.
SMOKE THAT BREEDS FEVER
A sNoWsToRM OF HALF-CoN-
sUMED EXAMINERS.
SMOKE THAT BREEDS FEVER
A SNoWsTORM OF HALF-CON-
SUMED EXAMINERS.
Limburger Cheese a Bouquet of Vio-
lets Compared With the Varied
and Pungent odors From
Reduction Works.

Moore evidence was piled up Yesterday
in the case of the Sanitary Reduction
Works of San Francisco and others
against the California Reduction Company
and others to prove that the monopoly
was scattering the germs of disgust and
disease and other germs in the thickly
settled neighborhood to the northward of
the crematory.
One witness told of fall of ashes and
partly burned paper and rags that fell
in his neighborhood about five weeks ago
when the wind was blowing from the
southeast. 1t resembled a fall of snow he
said, only that it was not so clean or in
vigorating, although the odor was strong
enough to move a brick house.
Mrs Mary Wohlken of 52S Ninth street
told about the intolerable stencil arising
from the chimney of the crematory. One
of her daughters. between II and 70 years
OLD. was sick for a long time and an older
daughter was i'll all summer. The doc
tor whom she had called in told her that
the stencil and the foul gases from the
crematory smokestack were the causes of
the sickness of her children. One of the
girls was i'll all the time When the wind
was blowing from the south the witness
could not go out of the door or leave
door or window open because of the
stencil, which she described as suffocat-
ing.
1T sticks in the throat" she added,
''and you can't breathe"
Frank Kosmalski, property-owner re-
siding sat 4 McClea court, between Eighth
and Ninth, Harrison and Byrant streets,
corroborated the testimony of Mrs. Wohl-
ken as to the aSphyXiating, character of
the smoke from the crematory smoke
stack. He said also that real estate had
deprecated in value very much by rea-
son of the nuisance of burning garbage
in the neighborhood. This nuisance was
more apparent when the wind was south
east than when the wind blew from the
opposite quarter. He told about a snow
storm of ashes and bits of charred. pa
per about the size of 50-cent pieces
which appeared to be bits of the San
Francisco Examiner. This storm lasted
two days and a half last week and was
accompanied by an odor compared to
which Limburger cheese was bouquet of
Violets.
Joseph Andres was another propertv-
owner who complained of the nuisance
His property was at the corner of Eighth
and Minna streets, more than half a mile
use his own language, Il got all the stuff
/ want" This witness was a picturesoue
character with rugged flow of language
Its the meaneSt smell that ever
smole," he said 81 can't describe II.
there's no name for it. 1t stinks the house
through from cellar to garret and even
paralyZes the back yard. Wherever II
happens to strike a person it will KNOCK
him down. It's the biggest smell in the
city of San Francisco. On one occasio,1
l smelled 1t clear up to my own residence
corner of Laguna street and Rose ave,
nue.
When the court adjourned for the dav
and Judge Heaeock went out on the side
walk for q Whiff of fresh air