The Washington herald., 1911-08-08
RESIDENT OBJECTS
TO STABLES ODORS
Health, Comfort, and Peace
of Mind Impaired.
MORE FLIES NOW THAN EVER
Testifying Mt Hearing Against the
Erection OF Municipal Stables,
Property Owners Assert Homes
Are Sunfocnted with sickeninx
Smells.

The health. comfort. and peace OF mind.
Of the residents and property owners in
the neighborhOod of Z. G. Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets southeast have been
seriously impaired since the temporary
stables of the municipal street-cleaning
department have been located in that
locality. according TO testimony given last
night at the offices OF Wilson & Barks-
dale
These hearings are being held in the
case of Henry Jaeger and others against
the Commissioners in pursuance of a
court order. Attorney Andrew Wilson
represents the plaintiffs. and Attorney
Frank II. Stephens appears for the de-
PENDANTS.
The first witness called was Jesse s..
Petersen, OF 1861 f street southeast. Mr..
Petersen is a clerk in the Treasury De-
partment and has lived at his present ad-
dress for four years.
More Flies Than Ever.
He testified that when the wind comes
from the direction OF the stables. his
house is filled to suffocation with a sick
ening odor. Mr.. Petersen said there are
more flies now than ever before. He
said that another serious objection to the
stables was the presence of many drunk
en- persons, whites and blacks, lying
asleep in the vicinity.
ThorvaId +. Nelson. OF 1859 street
southeast, cOrrOborated Mr.. Petersen as
regards the odors. He also said that be-
fore the stables were located there they
were not afraid TO leave their houses
open: but that now with a lot of providers
around they felt they were not secure
10 leaN
locked.
Mrs Rosa Scott Smith, Of 1870 I street
southeast. suhstantiated the testimony
of the preceding witnesses.
Shut Down Windows.
John J. Campbell. of 557 Fourteenth
street southeast, a plate printer, testified
he had been obliged to get up at 2 or 3
o'clock in the morning and shut down
the windows on account of the sickening
odors. He also complained about the
loud talking of the stable hands.
Herman Williams. OF 1345 q street
southeast. said there were disagreeable
odOrs and plenty OF It, and that the
noise from ? to o'clock in the mornings
was something awful" that it awaken
cd him and his wife He said they never
woke up before before the stables
came, but that now 3 o'clock was the
hour when they We're aroused.
Miss Mary A. Gebhart, OF 1854 G. street
southeast. testified as to the ownership
by her mother of number of houses ad-
Joining the lot on which the temporary
stables have been erected. Miss Gebhart
said she had been made sick many times
by the sickening Odor arising from the
burning of horses hoofs fran the black
smith shop attached to the stables.
Mrs. Florence r. bowling, OF 1899 E
street southeast. who has lived in that
house for the last twenty-five years, cor
rOborated the other witnesses as regards
the "dOrs and noises, and created quite
u little amusement when asked on cross
examination by Attorney Stephens as to
whether they slept later than 8 o'clock
before the advent of the stables in their
You bet" said the wit
ness, you just bet We slept later than
o'clock: slept as long as we felt like"