The Washington times., 1905-01-17
SEEKS to MODIFY
TIE SMOKE LAW
Board OF Trade Adopis Two
Resolutions
STACKS IMMUNE 2 MINUTES
Total Limit for Daylight Hours Sixty
Minutes-General Harries PLEADS
fer Human Law"
STACKS IMMUNE 2 MINUTES


Besides eating a buffet lunch at the
New Willard last night. the board of
trade members listened for TWO hours
t" arguments on the proposed smoke
law amendments and finally adopted a
resolution favoring the enactment of a
provision allowing the emission of smoke
from chimneys for periods OF two
minutes and limiting the total emission
or smoke during daylight to sixty
minutes
No inspector is so gifted rs 10 be able
10 see smoke at night, anyway, was
Cen. George H. Iarries' reply &c a eiues- I
ton concerning the daylight" clause
Harries Storm Center
General Harries was the storm center
last night. 1t was he who read the res
olution of the directors. urging the
board of trade u adopt a resolution
favoring legislation permitting emission
Of smoke for three minutes. He did this
IL his capacity rs secretary OF the
board
Il was lie who presented . s!s;llful
argument in favor OF the PROPOSE
ton and who finally overcame al
but a small opposition ana seeur-
ed The adoption OF his resolution
with an amendment reducing the time
limit TO two minutes
Pleads for Human Law
While pleading fer what he called a
human law, General Harries was pelt-
ed with questions and buried beneath
bundles Of expert eTidenee on the smoke
question but he always came up srnii-
ing. All one time, upon motion of Capt.
r. w Tyler 10 lay the whole matter
en- tie table. General Harries followers
barely held the ascendancy. for the mo-
tion was lost by u standing vote of
about >, to 50, though the figures were
not announced. The two-mInute amend
rnenI TO the resolution was suggested
by s. w. Curriden. and accepted by
General Harries, whereupon the resolu-
tion was adopted by a vote of y TO is.
showing the effect of the long argument
A motion TO limit the total emission
Of smoke during daylight TO thirty min
utes instestd of sixty was made by Al
Mr Read Opponent
Mr.. Read was the leading onDonent of
the resolution. and as chairman of a
special committee appointed TWO years
ago 10 investigate the smoke-law tangle
lie made o report which heartily sup
ported the present law, told OF the pre-
gention of soInke in other cities, and urg-
ed the use Of anthracite coal in WASH
General f4arries said his company had
no tears TO shed He admitted being one
Of the chief offenders against the law
III The District His companies repre-
sented an Investment OF S50.o39, 009 the
largest single corporate interest in the
District. over so, coo had been spent in
efeTt TO eo-Gpit with the law By use
Of deHiees-9-ud experts. All the present
charges for light and street car fare,
he said. had been figured on soft coal
basis and anthracite coal was prohibi-
tfye. II woild take big plant to Sc
efire sa Immediate increase in pressure
from the use of hard coal we are
talking business now, not theory
Cook Water Cut of Stock
AS this point Mr. Read interrupted to
remark setto voice that if General Ear-
ries would use anthracite coal 10 expeI
some OF the water out of his stock be
would make the business pay well
enough
General H:rries resented the insinua-
ton that the business men Of Wash
iaeton would be lawbreakers If they had
The chance
He referred TO the locomotives and the
public Dulidiags, which he called the
fr,ost vicious offenders against the law
and which are exempt from its action
DR. Woodward. District Health Officer.
Interrupted 10 ask Mr.. Harries what the
result had been OF the employment OF
the expert VINO has supervised the com
Iany's plant at Fourteenth and =
Streets for the last two weeks.
Fit Only Once
General Harries admitted that the eX-'
pert 8 work had been vcry successful,
and. IN fact since the first OF the month
s,aoEe had issued from this plant bit
a4zce and then Only fer 4 minute and Il
Eelf. The company was prosecuted that
time He TEought this prosecution un-
fair n The light Of the cOInpany's re-
Beated efforts 10 comply with the law.
washington has d reputation abroad
now through no fault of her own, "a
be spread abroad thai yc are a smoky
city for M2shiacco1, except for the 10
co---ottye smoke. ts 4 remarkably clean
CITY said General H2rries
u p1;J on 4 clean pair of cuffs in the
sncrrE SAID Captain Tyler and by
roCn theY are 50 dirty from the SCOT that
hatc 70 change them
Attitude of Steam Makers.
lie aIso suggested that apparently
every steam maker present WAS opposed
T. = smoke Ia y, and w2s net with the
s;ete1ent that The steam makers OF
Washington count for more IN dollars
and cents than any other interests in the
Cfty-
Air. ctn-rideil Was attacked rs 4 real
estate mar who didn L own any real es-
-t:1te and some Cf The steam makers
PRESENT showed & willingness TO compare
bank accounts with any Of these gen
1leIien faVOFiag TIE present smoke law.