The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-19
EAST SIDE TO
KEEP ODORS
YET A TIME
After Years of Fighting Winter
Coming and Situation
Members OF Health Board Very
Dubious That Nuisance
viii Soon Be Abat0d

The impression is growing through
out the East Side that the garbage
stencil is to remain with them.
Winter is at hand, the stencil usually
ceases to be uncomfortable during the
cold months, and the authorities say
viii have to have evidence of present
nuisance.
Thus the East Stders are in the same
position which they have occupied dur
ing many years. During the summer
months the authorities go through all
the motions of getting ready to relieve
the East Side of the odors. and during
the winter months all effort is aband-
soned.
A member Of the Board of Health
said to a reporter of The Farmer, this
morning:
The health board has been as a
unit upon the question of abating these
frfghtful odors which have existed and
which we know still continue to exist.
We took cognizance of the complaints
which Were received by US and it was
our intention to do something which
would eliminate future complaints even
If we had to bury the garbage collect
ed, but our actions seem to have been
c1everly checkmated by the clever law
yers employed by Fischer.
''We ordered the nuisance abated and
when such an order was not complied
with put the matter in the hands of
the County Health Officer. There was
a hearing at which many citizens com
planned, but on the other hand Fischer
had present an equal number who tes-
titled that there was no nuisance to
the plant.
SIN my opinion the contractor may
now sit back and laugh at the city's
attempt to prevent him from operat-
ing the plant as with the approach of
the winter. season there will be colder
weather and Consequently less odor
from the plant. Efforts on the part of
the public to prove this a nuisance
will be harder and another years re-
spite will probably result.
Il want to say that every member
of the Board of Health has acted hon
estly towards a complaining public in
this matter. We are upon record as
wishing the nuisance abated and 1t is
now up to the County Health Oficer
and the public
County Health Omcer George E. Hill
when seen in his office by a reporter
yesterday outlined his part in the pro-
ceedings. He said:
THE matter came before me in an
order of abatement from the health
officer, which am privileged to con-
firm, modify or vacate My action was
to ratify the order of the Board of
Health, condemning the plant as a
nuisance, but modified the original
order by extending the time of abate-
ment until September TO- This was
done, as it was said Improvements
were being made in the plant which
would stop the ernanation of any odors.
My order to Charles c. Fischer reads,
You are hereby notified that the plant
for the reduction of garbage offa1, and
animal and vegetable waste and the
manufacture of by-products upon the
premises owned by you or under your
charge on Asylum street in the city
1f Ri G nd in
furious. to public health; and, it is
hereby ordered that said nuisance be
abated on or before the 10th day of
September, 1913.
This order was issued after a pro-
1onged hearing held before me upon
the Fischer appeal from the original
abat atement order. At that time. a num-
Der of witnesses were heard. The F'is-
cher interests were represented by At
torney David S. Day while the city
was represented by City Attorney
John S. Pullman and Judge VIM. H.
Comley. The hearings extended from
June 27 to July II. And I ratified the
order of the local health board after
these hearings.
f'This order has apparently been ig-
nored, as I am still receiving COM
plants by mail and telephone, and as
I suppose the matter is now really up
to me, my next step will be to ask the
courts for an injunction restraining
the plant from continuing such null
sance. In order to do this, however, Z
must secure sufficient number of wit
nesses not only to prove that it has
been nuisance prior to September 10,
but is a nuisance and detrirnent to
health at the present time.
ct may say that I now have certain
irons in the fire an dam in hopes of
soon being able to proceed shall.
however. be very glad to hear from
any citizens who have bona f1de COM
plants to make of present nuisances
I shall ask for an injunction just as
soon as I have sufficient evidence to
present to a court.
The East Side has spent hundreds of
dollars seeking to be rid of garbage