The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-02
East Siders Demand That Mayor
Immediately Terminate Fischer
Contract For Garbage Reduction
Complain Bitterly Of Vile Stencil And
Demand That Contractor Fischer Be
Held Accountable Stern Justice
For His Own Wron Doing

Declaring that the vile stencil
from the garbage reduction plant has
become unendurable William H com
ley. Jrs and a large nlnaber Of other
residents of East Bridgeport filed a
petition with Mayor Wilson this af-
ternoon demanding that the contract
with Charles c. Fischer for the res
duction of garbage be annuIled. These
citizens also demanded that Mr.. FIs-
cher be held accountable Ito stern JUS
tice for his own wrong DOING
The petition which was filed with
the mayor reads as follows:
To the Honorable Clifford B. Wilson,
Mayor of the City of Bridgeport:
On the first day of December, 1870
one Charles c. Fischer entered into a
contract with the City of Bridgeport
for the reduction of the citys gar
bage.
It is unnecessary to refer to the his
tory of garbage reduction prior to the
execution of that contract. You will
doubtless recall, however, that a de-
termined effort was made to put an
end to the shameful abuses that had
long prevailed and that it was then
believed that, as a result of the terms
of Fischer's contract, it lay within the
power of the city by summary action
to prevent any offensive result from
the proposed plan of reduction.
What has been the history of the
Fischer regime? In the spring of 1911
so offensive were conditions at the
plant that the Board of Health inter
vened and he was only permitted to
resume under promise of complete re-
form A year elapsed during which
conditions in East Bridgeport were
weIl-nigh unbearable. Again the Board
of Health investigated and again, in
the summer of 1912, Fischer testified
that he was just about to install new
4I1Sv io11 aIiv iF7o all
trouble. He was given more time, but
so unspealzab1y vile were conditions in
October and November, 1912, that the
City Health Ofdcer declared the plant
a nuisance and. ordered it abated. From
this order Fischer appealed to the
County Health Officer and at his own
request proceedings wers suspended
until he should have an opportunity
to make further changes in his plant.
But it soon developed that no change
for the better could reason ably sbe ex-
pected, and throughout the winter,
spring and early summer conditions
were worse than ever.
Finally in July the matter came on
before the County Health Officer, and
so Overwhelming was the testimony
as to repeated obnoxious odors that
the operation was declared to be
nuisance injurious to the public
health. Incredible as it may seem
Fischer again announced that he was
just about to install a new apparatus
which would eliminate the odors; and
by the order of the County Health
Officer he was given until Sept. 10th
to a'bate the nuisance.
That time has now passed. and SO
far are we from getting relief, that
we so1emnly affirm that conditions
are intolerab1e. We have submitted
the testimony of business men, of
housewives, of school teachers and
now of the superintendent of Bridge
ports great hospital, that the condi-
tions can no longer be endured by
prospecting community.
1t is not a problem worthy of a
determined and courageous effort at
solution? Are not the problems of