The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-06

Fire In the trash pile or tne city or Montgomery caused Montgomerians to hate themselves for several hours iast night
 A combination of circumstances made Montgomery, to use an inelegant ex- pression. to smell" like a return trip from Pickett Springs. when the wind is from the direction of the Union Slaughter House
 Aeolus God of the Winds. also had 1t in for Montgomery. Montgomery has had no packing house scandal and when the fire started in the trash pile. Aeolus saw his opportunity. He turned his blast on the trash pile and sent tho unmentionab1s in the direction of the residence district
 When Aeolus performed this scurvy trick. all Montgomery was mad. Not only was the scent which was waited from the banks of the Alabama onen- sive to the olfactory organ but the aroma became decidedly disasreeabie to the throat.
 Babies sneezed and men coughed and sought relief on front porches. The residence district of Montgomery pre- sented an unusual sight. Occupants or houses sat on porchss or worked on the teIephone to find the casus worri. The women said "horrid" to each other and if the United States postal laws did not prevent, we would perhaps say something about what the men artlc- ulated, but The Advertiser has to be mailed.
 No. less than thirty-five or forty calls were made at The Advertiser for an exclamation of the inconvenient odor. More than thirty calls were made at police station. while the telephone gtrls hardly had time to answer lines busy'' on account of the constant de- nnands on their fund of information for exclamation of the trouble.
 Finally 1t was explained. A learned man in The Advertiser ofiice, who has an editorial title longer than he is, cried tT have it.
 He had read a story to the effect that Sanitary Inspector Jake Hindcrer had been conducting experiments along the line of finding out the disastrous effects manufacture of fertilizer, on mosqui- toes.
 Inspector Hinderer has found out that kainit and it, fumes are absolute death 10 certain forms of vegetable and min sral life. Inspector Hinderer has con templated conducting his experiment. farther by using kainlt in stagnant ponds on the suburbs and thus get ting rid of mosquitoes.
 Kainit Is all right personally. No- body had ever found kainit guilty or grand larceny. carrying concealed pls- tol. crap shooting or going to Birm- ingham on the Fourth of July, But the most sincere friends of kainit would have never accused 1t of smelling in manner that would appear to pah room.
 The learned man reasoned thus: Jake r5inderer has put that internal stun in the ponds and while the kainit stayed there. the smell didn't. It's now pes terinE the people. It may be all the goods when 1t comes to killing mos 0uitos. but on that other line 1t has nolecat backed off the board"
 when he answered the telephone calls he offered this as a possible explana- lion. Chief Clerk John Farley of the Sanitary Department, was seen. He said that no kainit had as yet been used.
 in the meantime Police Captain Miles Smith got busy and sent out two gleuths to ascertain the cause of the inconvenience. They reported that the trash pile Located on the river bank about 300 yards from the foot of Com merce Street had been on fire and the fumes from the assorted collection or things people don't want went straight to the residence district.
 The noxious fumes were first mo- ticed on Hull Street at the corner Of Alabama ana in the little depression on High Street at the corEer of Union anc Decatur Streets about 10 o'clock last night
 Major R. E. Steiner was the first to telephone The Advertiser office to know what the fumes were and the cause Major Steiner eaid that the people in his neighborhood, corner of Adams and Hull, could not sleep on account of the fumes; that they were coughing and sneezing like hay-fever patients. A reporter of The Advertiser went to tie
 T=n.. .N.... Ss~T TsxI afterward went to Major Steiner's res- idece and found the report true. All the people in the vicinity were out on their front porches complaining that they could not sleep
 Mai steiner, Maj. E. B. Winters and others were standing on the corner hnIdine an indignation meeting S'If these fumes will kill all the mosqui- toes in the city, guess we can stand these sieepless nights for a night or ao" said one of the members of the irdixnation party. "Wnat's the cause of all this anyhow" asked another gem tIeu1an q noticed the fumes early in the evening when they were not so strong as they are now. l tried to sleep, but gave 1t up as hopeless, l am getting used to 1t now, though, and naybe can get little sleep now"
 Alter the first message about the fumes fEsra Maj Steiner, The Advertis- CT recelvC1 number of calls from diYerent parts of the city asking questions about the fumes and report ing the same story of not being able to sleep on account of them, L. L. SsiIhert. secretary of the Commercial SIub. complained of the fumes and teienhoned The Advertiser to learn inc cause and asking if the fumes were as bad down town as they were n his vicinity.
 The telephone exchange has been bothered answering questions and making connections for annoyed citi- vens. The street car motormen and conductors on all the street car lines were complaining of their throats and said that the fumes were particularly bad at the bottom of a hill and on the SSooLa that xArs heavily shadad hv