New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25
Staten Island to loot and
! Screech Until Mayor
Grants Hearing.
MECHANICAL CHORUS
FOR EACH EVENING
Campaign of Noise to End with
Parade to City Hall If Mitchell
Acts Favorably.

Staten Island las. evening lifted up
It's metallic voice and whistled, rang
and clangored across the harbor pro
test TO Manhattan. The protest con-
tnued an hour and awakened echoes
that could be heard In Broadway and
across the harbor into Brooklyn.
The island will lift its voice IN q
similar wall Of protest tonight and TO-
morrow night and every other nigh,
until Mayor Mitchell informs It's repre-
sentatiycs OF the day and hour that he
will hear their side Of the garbage re-
duction plant question. Residents Of
the island admit that the hour-long
blare of whistles, bells and mechanical
noisemakers is hard 70 bear, but they
add that the conversion of their island
into a dumping place for the city's gar
bage would be still more difficult to
stand.
The campaign OF noise Is the idea
Of Frank Verdon. chairman OF the VIZ
lance Committee, that has written
letter to Mayor Mitchell announcing
that .hs island will not submit to the
erection Of the incinerating plant
there. Twenty-seven big factories,
every shin In the harbor and practi-
cally every industrial institution on the
island that possessed a means of max
ing noise joined in the din that began
at last night and continued until Z
o'clock.
Many homegoing Staten islanders,
had no idea what the significance OF
the noise might be, and hurried 70 the
ferryboats in fear OF fire or some other
catastrophe. In the evening slides
we're thrown upon the screens in Gil
the motion picture houses, explaining
the nature of the alarm and adding
that II might be expected each even
ing until Mayor Mitchell had set a time
for hearing the demands OF It's citi-
zens.
This morning committee Of five men
will call upon the Mayor and deliver
the islands letter Of protest against
the proposed garbage plant, in when
1t sets forth its determination not TO
submit to the erection Of the struct-
ure. Also. another demand is made for
hearing of Staten Islands side OF the
question by the Mayor.
Whenever the hearing il held-and
il was suggested last night that ii
would be profitable for the Mayor to
set the date in the near future-it is
planned 10 march a body of 10000 in
dignant men and women up Broadway
to the City Hall to prove 10 Mayor
Mitchell that the protest is not MADE
by a handful of real estate men, A
band has been hired to head the pa
rade and contribute its choicest funeral
dirge. Just whose funeral will be thus
commemorated has not been explained.
planned.
A peaceable solution Of the garbage
situation was suggested during the day
by Rodger p. Doyle. OF 200 Broadway,
who has just purchased tract OF land
on Staten Island extending on the
waterfront from Pralls Island to the
Arthur Kill bridge, from the Symes es-
tate. This is the property that the
Gaffney, Gehagen g. Van Etten Com
pany contemplated using for their re-
duction plant.
William p. Langevin, attorney for
Mr.. Doyle, announced that he was pre-
pairing incorporation papers for the
companies that are to construct build
ings on this tract, and that they would
include clauses that woud preyeit any
nuisance such as the proposed garbagt
plant. He said that he had investigsr-
ed the law on the point, and that the
purchasers of the plot would flight any
effort to construct a garbage plant al
any place on the island.