The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-31
REMINGTON 60.
 WANTS GARBAGE
 NUISANCE ENDED
Otherwise it Must Suspend Plans For Erection of Sev-
 eral Hundred Homes.

The Pennington Arms & Ammuni- ton Company complains of the nui- sance created by the reduction of gar bage on the East Side, and its com plaint is likely to be needed. The company declares it will not tolerate that it's 16,OOO workers should be poi soned by odors from the garbage plant, and says that unless the plant is made sanitary, or removed it must suspend the /construction of several hundred houses, which it had intend ed erecting for it's workers.
 This reduction plant is owned and operated by Chas. s. Fischer, under a contract with the city, which will shortly expire. It is small and too inefacient to meet the requirements of this rapidly growing city.
 The Remington Company owns a large tract of land to the east of the plant, and it proposes to erect several hundred houses upon the property for use of its employees. But the com pany fears to undertake this work in view of the present danger to the health of the community caused by the poisonous stench arising from the mass of decayed matter at the reduc- ton plant.
 They have appealed to the Depart, ment of Health and also, directly, to Mayor Wilson. He realized that something should be done and done promptly to obviate the present evil. The trouble, he said, was largely a financial one. However, the Mayor assured the Remington Company that he would do his best.
 Letters written by the company to pr. Stevens, president of the Board of Health, brought the following sig nificant reply:
 "From-Frank W. Stevens, M. D.. president of the Board of Health.
 tss foJd ager of the Remington Arms Co.
 .Subject-Odors from the Gar bage Reduction Plant.
 s.1. The dtsa greeable odors com plained of July 21st. were investigat- ed and remedied the day your letter was received.
 ''2. The disagreeab1e odor with which you were assailed August 1T, was due to spontaneous combustion at the plant. This was investigated and remedied before the receipt of your letter.
 "3. Two years ago the Board of Health asked for an appropriation for bage disposal plant. This was refus- ed by the board of apportionment This year the matter was presented as a bond issue which was voted down by the citizens of Bridgeport. Those living in the districts interested and from whom we received the com plaints taking no interest in the vot- ing.
 A. The Board of Health is and has been for some time investigating the best methods of garbage disposal. This fall the Board of Health will present to the voters of Bridgeport another request for an appropriation to be used for this purpose.
 "5. We hope that all disagreeable features pertaining to garbage dis posa1 will be abolished when the board of apportfonment and the vot- CTS of Bridgeport give Us the neces- sary amount, ~$20O,00O to erect a suitable garbage plant. Until then, people living in your vicinity will at times. be unavoidab1y annoyed by dis agreeable odors.
 1HThe Health Department gives con stant supervision to this work and all complaints are immediately investi- gated and remedied as far as we are able.
 FRANK w. STEVENS. M. D. President of the Board of Health ''