New-York tribune., 1907-06-26
BERATE JERSEY SMOKE.
RIVERSIDE COMPLAINTS.
Their Health, Homes and FIOzcerS
Ruined, Cry Drirc Residents.

The residents in Riverside Drive. from 72d to
i40th street. excited about the soft smoke
which comes over they say, from the large FAC
tories on the jersey shore opposite their homes
gets into their and meraces their health.
Many complaints have been sent 10 the AMI
Smoke League, which has successfully combated
the smoke nuisance in the city. More than dozen
factories. power houses and other manufacturing
concerns bordering the Jersey shore the Complain
snts say. arc burning soft coal and these, to-
Eether with the tugboais and otner craft whlch
beich forth black clouds they ply up ana down
the North River, make the atmosphere ABOUT thelr
homes times unDear2ble.
Among the complaints was ore from Mrs. r X
AFagee. Of 18th street and Riverside Drive, who
said that tugboats every day we're pouring out
thick black smoke. which the wind blew into her
house. Others who live between 10ith and lo5th
streets say thai there five factories directly
opposite their homes whose smoke settles over the
Hudson River In a pail which the wind spreads in
sheir direction.
A young woman. who refused TO give her name
Etood Al ssfh street and Riverside Drive yester-
day looking through a pair OF field glasses: She
said that she trying 10 count the stacks on
che Jersey shore which were pouring out smoke
snd 10 get the names OF the offenders that they
might be reported 10 the league
1T isn't only the smoke" said the young wom-
IN, but gases and offensive odors, which are
much worse, from these factories. The
sugboats are not half bad, they are moving
bur the smoke from those factories pours out all
day long Even flower garden is covered with
SCOT. Some OF the flowers are streaked with black
Il IS getting he intolerable."
number Of the manufacturing concerns with fac
tories at this point the Jersey shore. All Of
fhem. having large smokestacks. can easily be
seen from the New York side. The league officials
say that not all Of them burning soft coal and
that they trying to find the offenders.
John B. Coleman, attorney for the league. said
yesterday that these factories Of the
jurisdiction Of the courts in New York. Although
over uine-tenths of the concerns are Incorporated
fn New York It question. he said, whether
the league could compel them 10 comply with the
smoke ordnapce.
Among the factories having from three TO four
snokestacks each Of which the league has record
are those belonging TO the General Chemical Com
ipany, the Barrett Manufacturing Company, the New
York Glucose Company, the Nalvolne OH Com
parry and James X Pyle Sons the pearne firm.
Al the offices of all of these companies yesterday
1.-THE burning Of soft coal was denied. Their stacks
never smoked, they said, except early in the morn
lsng when the fires made up.
Mr.. Magee said that the power house Of the
North Hudson Railroad Company at Fort Lee
was the chief offender The companys officials
have no regard for peoples health" said Mr.. Ma
see yesterday. They the worst offenders
know OF. They always burning soft coal. Even
their ferryboats which run from West 1SOth street
70 Fort Lee let this thick. poisonous smoke
continually day and night. And when an east
wind blows the smoke comes right into our rooms.
: Take the New York Central Railroad freight
yards. The engines there, too are burning soft
coal. With TIE smoke that comes from Jersey
from the freight engines. the ferryboats and this
power house, Riverside Drive Is sometimes almost
3n darkness
ITO add 10 this. our neighbors are just as bad
The Cromwell apartments. which take up a square
block. bounded by Broadway, Riverside Drive.
5ssh and 18th streets. burn soft coal. They have
4 3 large steam plant and can sit by my window
Rnd see the smoke myself
DR.. Bensel. sanitary superintendent of the Health
Department. has received number of complaints
against the smoke nuisance. II is said that over
fifty PEOPLE In the neghborhood suffering with
lung trouble due to the poisonous smoke. Some
complain 10 the league that the smoke and gases
sre discooring the granite and stone Of their
homes. The white stone houses, according 10 Mr..
Coleman turn yellow. the smoke which settles
around them having chemical effect.