The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22
pHEW! CURB BROKERS SAY.
vARkET All but UPSET by THE
ORE REDUCTION STENCIL.
Edison building Plant Makes More Trouble
Now That It's on the Top Floor, but
It's Manager Insists That the City
Authorities Have d. KID Him.

lis Manager Insists That the City
Authorities Have o. KID Him.
The curb brokers gathered for business
yesterday with their noses in the air. A
sewer is being built near Broad street,
and most of them laid the smell to that.
Only the knowing ones knew better, but
their knowledge didn't help them any
and trading on the curb continued under
difficulties
The tenants OF the Edison Building, at
"A BROAD street, knew all about the smell,
and the brokers' gain was their loss. Any
one who happens to look at the top floor
Of the Edison Building can see sort OF
funnel from which the odors are driven.
The International Ore Treating Company
occupies the top floor and the second floor
front. and the smells which are waited
from their rooms have, say some OF the
other tenants, been known to kill cactus
plants in New Mexico.
The International Ore Treating Com
pany, according to its manager, reduces
ore by purely mechanical process and
ASSAYS ore That such work should be
done anywhere but on the Hackensack
Meadows is an outrage, the tenants say
The work which gave rise to the smell
that worried the curb brokers was formerly
done on the second floor and the tenants
got the full benefit. They kicked so vigor-
ousy that the smell and its causes were
removed to the top floor, whence it settles
down on the curb
According to the tenants, the smell first
made itself smelt about three months ago.
Two brokers' Offices adjoin the rooms of
the ore concern and the brokers were the
first TO complain. At last the smell reached
the Offices OF Dow, Jones & Co. in the base
ment,
Soon the tenants protested to the agents
of the building, the McVickar Gaillard
Realty Company and the owners, the Edison
Company. The owners and agents said
that they would do what they could, but the
smell still fingered. Then several tenants
wrote to the Health Department and one
even appealed to the Mayor. Among the
firms who took exception to the free per-
fume we're Dow, Jones d Co., and three
firms of brokers, Bunnen d Buchanan,
O'Loughlin d Rudell and Rodgers & Ran
doph.
More than all. the smell caused lot OF
sickness said several of the tenants yester-
day. It's enough to make anybody sick,
said one broker yesterday. The fumes
were composed of sulphuric acid and car
bon dioXide. / had a physician here to
attend one Of my clerks who WE suddenly
taken sick and he shifted around awhile
and said the smell was probably the cause.
out West the same sort OF fumes kill
vegetation and down in North Carolina
several persons have sued and got dam
ages because of injury from these fumes.
situation was a story circulated about A.
Schwartz. the manager Of the international
Ore Treatpent Company. Clerks, who
passed his door said that he stood inside
with two revolvers stuck in formidabl BILE
cartridge belt about his waist. The rumor
almost az terrifying as the reyolvers:
When a SUN reporter saw Mr.. Schwartz
yesterday he wore silk hat. No weapons
adorned him. He admitted having worn a
cartridge belt, but said it was one that he
had got into the habit Of wearing in Mexico
and was innocent Of cartridges and revolt
vers. Mr.. Schwartz also denied having
any explosives on the premises.
Il don't see what my neighbors are kick
ing about" said Mr.. Schwartz last night.
sonnet hing of smell for while, but we
took that work to the top floor, where it
bothers nobody. We have been inspected
by the Health Department and they found
nothing to complain Of. The Fire Depart
ment,. Building Department and all other
We come have also inspected the place and
found no fault with us.
Mr. Schwartz was asked II he had any
thing to say about the sickness alleged to
be due to the fumes. He pointed to q
stenographer, q pretty girl, whose health
seemed to be excellent.
There's a lady that has worked here in
these rooms right along: II she can stand
1t and grow pretty and healthy guess no
one who works in an office with several
partitions between can lay their troubles
to us
Mr.. Schwartz's two laboratories on the
second floor front seem harmless enough,
although filed with large machinery. He
has another room across the hall where the
on central court. All about the court
are offices where brokers and their stenog
raphers and bookkeepers work
The reducing room contains large
machine in which the ore is ground. In one
corner Of the room are, perhaps, a score
Of sacks filed with ore. Some Of the pieces
are almost as large as a mans fist. Mr..
Just to show how 1t works. 1t made noise
Ike boiler shop, although there wasn't
any ore in the hopper.
Immediately windows all about the court
flew open and clerks and stenographers
stuck their heads out. Mr.. Schwartz ex-
planned that the reducing machine is never
run except early In the morning or late at
night, so as not to disturb the tenants.
But neither man nor the devil could stop
me from running this machine in the day
time IL want to-" declared Mr.. Schwartz
The city authorities have inspected this
place and given me permission to run the
machine, and no tenant in this building
can stop me"
SOJ-CHT PyNCS IN Sr0u