The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15

Crescent Beach, July 15.-Nothing in recent years has aroused greater sS- dignatfon among the old inhabitants and the summer cottagers than the at tempt on the part of the Bridgeport Refining and Rendering Company to establish a fish bone factory and garbage reducing plant at Giants Neck. The refining company about a year ago bought a little over 200 acres of land at this point which is admir- ably situated within a stones throw of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford road and also has harbor facilities well adapted for ScOWS, bargeS and small vessels. The company is said to have paid about s17.OO0 for the pror erty, but at one time. on account of objections to their presence, were will ing to sell out for S19, 900.
 Property owners at Crescent Beach, Black Point and Lyme, realizing the probable damage to their property from the disagreeable odors that the fish factory produced and the still garbage plant now near Bridgeport should be located here, were willing to pay the cost price of the property. but could not be persuaded to put up the extra s2,OOO Feeling between the company and the cottages grew as the smells became a reality. Never theless, the company applied to the town for permit to operate and was unanimously voted down. The Refining Company has only a year longer to operate in Bridgeport. Consequently it is doubly anxious to locate at Giants Neck where it will still have a ready access to the garbage and other cast off products from our great coast East Lyme and Waterford are as anx- ious to keep them out, their motto be- ing: What Bridgeport won't have we don't want" Both parties have talk en the matter to the legislature and have asked it to settle the difficulty. The Refining Company seeks the priv 1ege to carry on their lawful business at Giants Neck in spite of the towns refusal. The towns in the vicinity have retaliated by introducing a bill forbidding any fish-bone factory or any garbage reducing plant from be- ing operated in the towns of Lyme East Lyme or Waterford.
 In view of the intense feeling on either, side some of the members of the Legislature thought it advisable to look over the field and obtain first hand information. Monday no less than half dozen of the law makers from the state capitol arrived on the ground, prepared to see for themselves the effect of the presently operated fish factory upon the neighb boring beaches. The party consisted. for the most part. of members of the committee on pub lie health and sanitation. They visit ed the plant at Giants Neck and were entertained by MT. Livingstone of the refining company. Then they visited Hatchett's Point. Black Point and Crescent Beach where they interview ed more than one citizen about the effect of the fish factory upon the sum- mer resident.
 At Crawley's ice cream parlor quite an indignation meeting was held. Messrs. Crittenden. Horniss. Samuels, Hedges and P. M. Gates from Crescent and Messrs. Scoville and Mott from Black Point expressed the sentiment of the cottagers. while First Selectman F. A. Beckwith and Dr. John Dart the health officer. represented the 1p- terests of the townspeople. It was pointed out that the entire coast of Lyme was a summer resort where people went to breathe pure, fresh air and that the present fish factory made all the neighboring beaches peculiarly subject to a nauseating odor whenever the wind blew in. the right direction.
 MT Crowley said that more than once during the last season people had left their ice cream because they thought theres was something unsan1- tary about the place. Mr. Peabody said people who entered his meat shop often left in disgust thinking that his high class meat was tainted.