The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
SOME REMONsTRANTS HEARD
Against the Granting of the Soap Fac
 tory License

Against the Granting of the Soap Fac
 tory License.
 The aldermanic committee on licenses
 last night again listened to a discussion
 of smells which was at times highly amusing, the occasion being another session of the hearing of Lederer & Co. for a license for the soap factory and rendering establishment on Derby ave nue. As at previous sessions, the com mittee room at city hall was crowded last night. Those favorlng the grant | ing of the license had already been heard, and last nights session was giv- en up to hearing ren1onstrances. Not all were heard last night and conse quently at least one more session will be held, and possibly more
 | At the previous hearing one of the persons who appeared in favor of the petitioners made the assertion that AL derman Bronson, of the committee, had intimidated a Mr.sT Dunham and thus prevented him from appearing at the hearing and speaking in favor of grant ing the license. Alderman Bronson was not present last night, but just before adjournment Attorney B. J. Lynch who appears as a remonstrant, presented document bearing upon the matter The document contained sworn statement by F.. Lincoln Goodale, of 395 Edgewood avenue, to the effect that in his pres
 ence Alderman Bronson had questioned MT. Durham in regard to the alleged intimidat ton and that MT. Durham had said that he had never been intimidat- ed or otherwise hindered or prevented from attending the hearing, and that he had not attended the hearing simply because he did not care to. At the pre- vious session of the hearing an agent of Lederer & Co. testified that he had en- deavored to induce MT. Dunham to ap- pear and speak in behalf of the peti- tioners, but that he had refused to do so. An attempt was then made to ac- count for his non-appearance by stat ing that MT. Durham had been intimi- dated MT. Goodales statement of MT Dunhams denial of this allegation was sworn to before Leonard W. Cogswell | a commissioner of the superior court.
 Those heard last night in opposition to the granting of the license were ex- Alderman Felix Chillingworth, William Trueman, J. H. Matthews, E. Lincoln Goodale, MT. Clements, Mrs. William | Trueman, Mrs. Obelhouser and Miss Katie Obehouser. These all spoke of the nauseous smells which they said | emanated from the soap factory, but | Mir Chillingworth and Mir Clements | spoke especially of the pollution of | West river which they said resulted | from allowing refuse from the factory ! to pour into the river. Mir Clements, in the course of his remarks, said that | he was chemist and had at one time been employed by the United States government to make examinations of the waters of the Mississippi river and | some of it's continents. He said that he believed that West river was greatly | polluted by the soap factory and also by the cemeteries which are along the l river. He said that he believed that | this pollution had been responsible for l the deaths of a great many children. | He said that children play about the | river and skate there in winter. He | had seen them, when skating, cut holes | through the ice and drink the water of :, the river which, he said, was foul.
 In the course of the session Alderman Miller, of the committee, and Attorney LyHcU, Wllo IS oDJtcllI6 as PloPcieS holder in the section of the city affect ed, had an interesting passage of words. k In response to a remark by MT. Miller, ! MT. Lynch said that he was not paid to appear there, as some were.
 Do you mean to say that I am paid?' asked MT. Miller.
 MT. Lynch-'I say I am not paid, as some here are"
 MT. Miller-"Do you say that l am l paid?"
 MT. Lynch-"No, I do not say that l you are paid, but I will say that I have 1 heard that you were paid.''