The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-25
TWO BIG NUISANCES.
Health Board Hears Com
plants Of Asphalt and
Garbage.

| The Health Board held a very interest
| ing meeting last night Two nuisances
that affected a great many people in diff
ferent sections of the city were brought
up and after lengthy discussion practI-
cally ordered abated.
One of these is the insufferable nuisance
of the acid-laden smoke and showers of
fine sand or dust from the smokestacks of
the Uvalde Asphalt and Pavement Com
pany at the foot of Greene street. For
several months the residents of Cannon
town have stood a general nuisance, the
like of which no community would toler-
ate for any great length of time. They
recently filed a. issetitian with the Heal II
Board. The original petition, it nas
been claimed was stolen before it reached
its destination. But another bearing the
signatures of almost every resident of
that section was gotten up and presented
to the Health Board.
A committee of citizens waited upon
Robert Davis and asked his assistance in
having the nuisance abated. A number Of
tenants had been forced to leave the To-
cality. Grocers and small shopkeepers
had been obliged to keep their doors
shut even in this hot weather, or have
sand that comes in showers with the
smoke from the works when the wind
was blowing from the southeast. Even
the sidwalks are Uttered on such occd-
sions. The atmosphere is sombre and
yellow, and closed doors and windows and
vacant tenements give the scene the ap
pearance of devastation or desolation.
All this was eloquently pictured last
night by Police Justice James ]. Muir
ply and Heary ]. Melosh, as attorneys
for interested property owners. Justice
Murphy said the Health Inspector had ad-
mitted the nuisance and had said it ought
to be stoppad He said he had also heard
it was the duty of the Health Board to
protect the people.
The superintendent called attention to
the fact that the company was doing all
in it's power to abate the nuisance; that
it had already contracted with the Sturte-
want Manufacturing Company to con-
struct apparatus for condensing the
smoke and collecting the escaping dust.
The escape of the dust said the superin-
tendent, was dead loss to the company.
He said that the company was trying in
every way to benefit the community in
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ployed over 500 men and expended $1,000
daily in the payment of wages. The COM
pany, he said, had also spent money in ex-
perimenting upon apparatus to abate the
smoke and sand nuisance.
The engineer of the Sturtevant Manu-
featuring Company was willing to submit
plans and specifications for the apparatus
contracted for.
The Board allowed the company two
weeks in which to put in its apparatus
and abate the nuisance. otherwise the
plant will he closed down.
The other big nuisance complained of
was the filling for the 3,0OO-foot pier of
the Pennsylvania Railoard Company at
the foot of Danforth avenue. Counselor
Robert Carey represented the interested
residents and property owners. The
Health Department some time ago stop
ped the dumpage of New York garbage,
but it seems that the mud from the chan
mel which is being dredged is being used
for filling in the foundation for the pier
and at low tide it emits sickening
stencil or odor. The Board authorized
Health Inspector Benjamin and a deputy
inspector to investigate and abate the
nuisance.