The Detroit times., 1914-12-09

Honorable Body for consideration, the
petition Is also herewith sent the
! report shows that much attention has
been paid to this complaint by the
Smoke Inspector, resulting In almost
complete elimination or the smoke
nuisance complained OF.
Respectfully submitted,
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
BY John II. McKinlay,
Secretary,
John +. McKinlay,
Secy. Board OF Health,
Detroit Mich.
Dear Sir--I herewith submit re-
port on the complaint OF Zoha Who's.
eek. residing at ITO Cedar street; said
complaint having been made on July
18th last. to the Common Council,
against the smoke nuisance caused by
the Wabash round house. the wabash
power house and the Wabash engines
/ when stationary on the ash pit in the
above said company's yards.
Upon receipt OF this complaint on
an investigation and found the stack
on the Wabash power house emitting
considerable black smoke and the cu-
pola stacks on the round house cree
ating a smoke nuisance and also the
said company's locomotives while OPP
Grating In the yards We're violating the
dT'e took the matter up with w. G.
~ vley general foreman OF the Wa
bash round house. Mr.. Heating ac-
companied me at the time and we
he would have to keep the Jets In
stalled on the boilers ia the round
house In good order. on the same day
we warned as many of the engineers
and firemen as we could get hold or,
working for the said company, that at
all times II was compulsory for them
to see that the blowers on the loco
motive boilers were working and that
they must eliminate the black and gray
smoke. Mr.. Bewley also promised TO
warn his engineers and hremen that
all Al
comply with the smoke ordinance on
July 29th we again Investigated the
said companys round house, power
house and locomotives working In the
yards and found that an Improvement
had been made In reference TO the
smoke nuisance. again warned Mr..
, Bewley. the foreman, that l expected
I far greater Improvement in eliminat-
Ing the smoke nuisance He promised
to cooperate with us and to do all
in his power to eliminate the said NUS
ance August 18th. ! made another i'm
vestiRation and found a big improve
ment in the smoke nuisance from the
the locomotives. At this time ! told
Mr.. Bewley that an Improvement would
have TO be made on the smoke emit-
! ting from the cupolas on the round
house. ON August goth. ] again visited
said company's round house and took
thirty minute reading OF the stack
on the power house and the said read
| Ing showing thirty minutes OF obJec-
| tionable smoke. When | entered the
engine room on this day found the
engineer had his blower closed and ]
the. boiler and found that the Jets were
working properly. ! warned him that
IL he did not keep the blower on the
boiler working at all times and II
mediately bring him into Court.
October 10th. served a ten day no
tlce on VIM. II. Ragen, the engineer
| In said company's power house and
also on Bewley. the foreman to repair
! Jets and clean up. October 22nd. took
an hour reading of the stack and the
| Objectionable smoke. I again took this
matter up with the foreman and at
that time they had a new engineer on
the job and / WARNED him. November
| 10th, / took an hour reading of the
| stack on the power house and that
reading showed twenty minutes OF OBJ
tectionable smoke. The foreman, Mr..
Bewley, asked me TO give him one
more chance as he intended to dis
charge the engineer and overhaul Jets
on boilers. No November 30th, I. to-
| gether with Mr.. Heating, made another
Investigation and took thirty minute
, reading OF the stack on the power
house. said reading showed two min
utes OF Objectionable smoke The
smoke issuing from cupola stacks OK
the round house was not an objection
able smoke. The locomotives, as far
as the smoke nuisance was concerned,
were very much improved and very
| seldom emitted Objectionable smoke.
! Had an interview with Mr.. Bewley
/ gave him 10 understand that in refer
/ ence to the smoke nuisance the condi-
| ton OF same being satisfactory TO us
we shall expect that he continue to
see that the said conditions are con-
| tinued. otherwise that at any time we
again find that they are not comply
\ ing with the smoke ordinance we will
make complaint against them I'm the
| Recorders Court. We also told him
TO post notices In his round house and
/ on the engineers board warning the
engineers and hremen to comply strict
! ly with the smoke ordinance
| Mr.. Bewley has from the first shown
a disposition to cooperate with US.
| From July nth up TO this time he has
changed his engineers In the power
house four times discharging them
chiefly because they would not oper-
/ ate the blower devise on the boilers.
At the present time the engineer that
he has employed is apparently a very
good man and he promises TO coop
crate with us and entirely eliminate
| the smoke nuisance not only in the
power house but in the round house
/ We then called on Zofia WlosZek the
| complainant, and she informed us,
| through her sor as Interpreter, that a
| great Improvement has been made. We
| told her that at any time the smoke
nuisance was bad TO Immediately no.
| tify our office.
| Yours truly,
w. q. HOGAN
Smoke Inspector
| Accepted and referred to Committee
on Health and City Hospitals.