The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-01

haze nuisance had its first meeting, yesterday. The members of the com ! mittee assembled in the office of the
 mayor, and later took automobiles to Berkshire pond. at the bridge, ana 1 afterward visited the garbage plant. ! The meeting opened with a discus sion of the best means of proceeding The three members of the committee representing the East Side, suggest ed that procedure should be by call ing in persons who could testify 10 the nuisance, for the purpose or estao- ! fishing it upon evidence
 Mayor Buckingham thought that the 1 inyestfgatior-. should begin by vlslt I to the garage plant and the Berk- I shire pond, and the mayors view was | adopted. It was high tide at the pond, and the visit was prohtless i from the standpoint of making an ac- lquaintance with the stench that ex- ists there when the water is low But + the committee did meet number or l citizens of the neighborhood, by whom they were assured that a double nul- sance exists, one the deposit from the 1 sewers and the other and most ob- jectionable, caused by the deposits I flowing from the garbage plant. w. \ K Abercrombie, who resides in the kneighborhood. told the committee that he has recently erected dwellings,. which he would never have put up had he known that the garbage nuf- l~sance would be created.
 Rev. James Scoville displayed a bottle of the garbage fluids which | flow through the sewer and which, | deposited upon the flats are the 2larg- | CT part of the cause of the, nuisance | at this point Other citizens explain ed that there is no difficulty in dis tinguishing between the sewer odors and the garbage odors.
 | All, however, expressed the belief 1 that berkshire pond ought to be clean I ed up and the river below the dam dredged out.
 | From the pond the committee vis- | ited the garbage plant. It had ap- f parentiy been thoroughly cleaned up. There was no garbage in the bins and the process was only partly in op- | eration.
 ] At the last moment a load of gar- { bage arrived, and was put into di- | gester. There was little difficulty in 1 perceiving the cause of the overland odors. Every part of the process cre- ates some smell. The process is ac- companied with odOrs from the mo- ment the raw garbage arrives until the fertilizer is separated and stored. These odors arise toward the top of ] the building, which acts as chim- ney and are distributed through open F WlnQOW8 ana OLneT openings dC lQ6 ! top by the air currents.
 Members of the committee familiar with the garbage smells had no diff ficulty in recognizing the odors as those which constitute the garbage nui3ance though in a less aggravated f form than when the nuisance is at it's height.
 The means of receiving garbage and { for conveying 1t to the digesters were | found to be most unsanitary in the respect that the receptacle is not tight, X that the conveyor belt Is exposed, and that the building at the top, the point to which all odor bearing gases arise, is open to the outside.
 [ A notable fact was that all mem bers of the committee who live on the East Side expressed convictions that the garbage nuisance is an &C., tuality- Alderman Stewart told the other members of the committee that
 While working on a building in the neighborhood of the garbage plant ' several men had been so overcome by | the smell that they could hardly con- tinue.
 MT. Fischer described the reduction I process, treated the committee with \ great courtesy and facilitated the in- vestfgation as much as he could. | The members of the committee in the party included Mayor Bucking- 6ham. Commissioners Osborn, and Lund of the Health Board, the members of the Aldermanic committee in sewers and the members of the East Side committee. with M. A. Kenny. direc- [ tor of public works and Maurice F. McKenna. city engineer.
 A member of the mayors commit i tee who is also member of the East Side committee made the following statement today:
 The East Side committee appreciates kthe consideration shown to the people kof the Ninth and Twelfth wards by E the Mayor, in creating a committee to see what can be done to suppress the ! garbage nuisance It is especially on the committee to the representa- tives of those who suffer from the nuisance
 Yesterdays investigation was not profitable except to the extent that it kfamilfarized the members of the com . mittee with the territory which sus- tains the nuisance and with the loca-
 tion of the sources of the nuisance. Hereafter the committee in ascer-
 faining the facts should proceed upon | fevidence. The presence of any condi- { tion can only be established by the testimony of those who know the con- dition. The bearing of this latter Estatement has especial reference to some of those who have not, it seems, Ebeen in a position where they have personally suffered the nuisance , Nevertheless there live in the Ninth
 and Twelfth districts hundreds who have suffered from the garbage odors Pfn a very definite way. These are the people who know of the nuisance, who should be heard regarding it.
 They are able to establish the fact that 1t exists by testimony. In one respect the members of the Health board and the East Side are Tn agreement. Berkshire pond in it's present state is nuisance, quite in dependent of the garbage nuisance. FBut the nuisance created by the sew craze into the pond is tolerable, al- though barely, while the garbage nui- eance is intolerable
 This garbage nuisance consists of two parts. One nuisance is created at the mouth of the private sewer
 leading from the garbage plant. This [ discharges over the flats the fluids from garbage reduction, which ex- posed to the sun and other conditions