The Washington times., 1919-10-19
ALL TRINIDAD
AR0USED0VER
REFUSE EPLANT
J. 4. Hurley Chairman Of. Body
to Rid Section Of Evil, De-
nounCes Conditions.


Thoroughly aroused over what they
term menace q the community vel
fare, members Of the Trinidad Citi-
sens Association have launched q
| vigorous campaign against the main
tenqnce Of the refuse disposal plant
on NJ oliVot road and Nontello ave-
TO say that members Of the asso-
citation are ineensed % putting q
mildly. Several committees have been
named to formulate plans Tor the
campaign and the organization has
undertaken 20 rid itself of the plant
az any cost.
J. r. Hurley % Chairman Of one Of
/ the principal committees and Mr.
Hurley has undertaken % demon
strate to- members o. Congress and
| District officials the conditions aFis-
ing out of the location of the plant IN
Trinidad.
DoBFen1es BuIldlng.
/ Already the plant has caused
/ great depression in the building and
! real estate activities On the noighbor-
hood, and u Il ig maintained there al
I growth Of the community will be
I atopped Mr.. Hurley declares. Serving
I with Mr.. Hurley on this committee
are = ". Waldron, J. D. Ros1or, and
/ n. West
ne Trinidad CitissnS' Association
numbers $50 Members. 10 represents
more than 1000 hOuseholder8 in this
section and total of more than
1B,oo0 persons.
Tha Refuse Disposal pant was
opened On this district only about two
| months ego and Einca thea conditions
have been going from Bad 20 worse.
9Feaf quantities of cindorB and
burned paper are belchod from the
chimney during the day and carried
| BY the wind iu every direction, M.
/ Hurley declared. The stencil from
1 the plant and itn suFFOundiug
buildings % fivaIed onIy BY the Chi
eago stock yards. he said.
Olsg BIunEet1 gaetton.
'srhe stencil" NJ Hurley said, gid
| partiedlaEly Bad on days Whea
heaYy fog ha1gs over tie district.
The fog accentuateg the odora and
holds them nEo, q blanlsst oYer, .tli'
entire section"
Continuing, Mr.. hurley said:
The hrst glimpse one gets Of this
pegtilance breeding out1t a the
ruins Of q brick building standing
WindoWlo88 and dOoFle8s, diglntegrat-
ing fast, seemingly Indicative oR the
de8olation starting there and bound
% ultimately pervade the entire sec
on a8 q sequences of the Commits
BioneFs' acton IN locating On the
midst of this prosperous, thrifty com
munity Of house owners against
their vehement protest, the plant
which q supposed to dispose Of the
althy accumulations Of q big city.
Scattered over q section Of about
an acre are the squalid ram8haclzle /
sheds and shacts which 80 70 make !
up this modern (?)' sanitary disposal |
plant
AIR Il PoIluted.
"The air breathed BY its people, |
polluted with the foul stenches which /
necessarily arise Gs . consequences Of /
handling this stun.
"The major portion Of the wagon /
load which has nUE been lost and 4
scattered IN transit i8 dumped on q i
wide canvas belt which slowly carries 4
Il from the dumping platform to the
incineFating ovens
LINED up on both sides Of the belt 4
are cOloFsd women, who pick the
paper, bottles, brass and anything
worth salvaging; depositing their par
ticular articles IN piles along side
OF them from whence IL Is moved by
male help, the insaliabls rubbish go
ing into the FIRE. to be burnt theoreti-
cally, but IN reality 70 he drawn
through an enormous hue and blown
into the surrounding neigt borhoOd.
evidence OF this Is plainly seen
within 1000 feet Of the plant, the
ground being covered with litter
caused there by the wind after go
ing through the stack. piles OF dirty
sslvaged junk lay around, in some
Instances ten feet high, tons and tons
OF old broken bottles and tin cans
add their sorted mite to the aceumu-
lated debris and this all because the
Trinidad people respect the law and
suffer these indignities rather than
rising IN their wrath and applying
the torch to the whole blamed shoot
ing match, as the people OF Virginia
did when this plant was located
across the Long Bridge,
"Built Despite AuthOFitieu.5
"This subdivision on which has
fallen the curse OF official dlspleas-
ures is only twenty minutes by street
car from the United States Treasury.
II has been built up seemingly despite
the local authorities by a middle class
OF thrifty workers. There are ap-
proximately three thousand families
who are housed here, and have /
advisedly said the subdivision has
been built up despite the authorities /
as during the past ten years not $500
OF appropriated money has been spent
here by the Commissioners for either
improvements or repairs, and the cH- ,
max Of official neglect or displsasure
or worse still, the feeling by the |
that these people have
no rights which they are bound to /,
Fegpect Ia amply evidenced by plac- i
ing this plant amongst their homes, |
to ruin values, and prohibit further
which, as far as Il has
gone, has been without expense to
the District.
'It seems that q board Of commits
who fully realized what was
expected Of them and who measured
up In some degree to the responsi- I
bilities Of the position, could have {
arrived at some solution OF this dis J
pcsal question without blighting the ;
InteFaatg Of any particular naetfnn | 9