Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-24
INJUNCTION TO BE USED
IN CASE ORDINANCE
, PROVES FUTILE
INDIGNATION RIFE
CITIZENS UP IN ARMS AND AN
NOUNCE THEMSELVES READY
TO GO TO ANY EXTREMES TO
PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY
AGAINST FUMES THROWN OFF
BY CHlMNEYS OF TWO PLANTS.

Threats of Circuit Court writ to
restrain the National FireFrouiing and
Public Service companies from coH-
thinning a smoke nuisance last night
we're flung at officers Of the two in.
dustries when representatives OF ~
indigant signers of lengthy petition
aired their complaints before the citF
council. following the expose Of con
ditions termed "intolerable' with a
demand for an ordinance foreV"rnoTe
abating the gaseous fumes responsible
for their Indignation.
The attendance upon the council of
n dozen or more delegates sent aS
emiesaries for the 225 signerS came
as the climax of n five years iight
against the smoke and gasSes poured
upon Center and Wes. Ottawa BY
chimneys of the two companies, when
have their plants south OF the
hydraulic basin on the outskirts of a
very large fcSlutHtldi 9tN'i'" va '"
city
The trouble. which becomes para.
mount in hot weather, has long been
an issue in the city's political and
administrative life. For years, al in
termittent periods. residents OF the
naighborhood infected by the tunes
form the two factories have been uf
in arms. ready to 20 to any length tc
bring about change in conditions
which, they say. make living in IN.
smoke and SCOT zone lnbearahlc. whit
possibilities Of growing vcge'aiio'
in anv form are remote aud imprac
ticable until such time as the noiSan"
IL mjnimi2ed TO the point where pl1n
life will exist in their neighhorhooGS
At the present, however, it is elaine;
nothing will grow Ravagcd gard'n
were referred to as startling exam
njes OF this assertion, while, TO maxi
tended that every home within rang
of the fumes is forced to be closed u
tioht while their owners seek relic
from the polluted atmosphere for II
les reason than to get an occasioni
breath of sizzling though untainto
ozone
Assuming an attitude that decd
and not words count most nov
spokesmen for the petitioners let
be plainly understood they were n
rived at the day when actions we,
pojnr to be forced even if it heCan
neces sary to resort TO measures
court to win their point. An iniun
tion was danglcd before the counc
men as the one means of relief VI
open to the complainants should {
ordinance be refused,
Spokesmcn who led the atta'
against the two companies were A
coin and Lester Horan, Bert TIilliar
Frederick T.ederich and Manae
Fred BEEN of 'he United TelephO1
Company. Attorneys Glenn and Ii
coin indicted the comnanies in
sparing terms while Lester Hor
subjected tne WdnagcFS 10 cTOSS"t
animation, during which he attempt
TO wiring from Manager MacPhers
of the Public Service Company
statement that the obnoxious FUN
fom his plant were not smoke, but I
harnessed casses which escap
through the stack and poured {
over the homes and lawns in its pa
Manager MACPHERSON partially
mitted this TO be true, but laid t
responsibility to a condition not
nor the company were able to contr
Prepare Own Ordinance.
The ordinance proposed as {
means Of rectifying the difficulty
be drawn and presented 20 the co
ell by representatives of the petit
ers. Attorney Gleim announced s,
law was now being framed {
would be ready for presentation
the commissioners at their next m'
ing. The ordinance Will embody |
a