2010.010

Maier, Robert

Gift

Gift of Robert Maier.

1894 - 1894

Date(s) Created: 1894 Date(s): 1894-1894

Good

Notes: 2010.010.0076 ==== Office of the Board of Health and Vital Statistics, of Hudson County, N.J. adjoining the court house Wm. W. Varick, M.D. President. Chas. B. Converse, M.D. County Physician. Jersey City, April 3rd, 1894 C. Holmes McNeil, M.D. H.W. Winfield, Counsel. C.J. Rooney, Jr., Clerk. To the Honorable The Mayor & Counci of Hoboken Gentlemen At a meeting of this Board held on April 2 1894, the following petition was presented, and the clerk directed to send a copy of it to the Honorable the Mayor and Council of Hoboken, and to the Honorable the Board of Street and Water Commissioners of Jersey City. Petition To the Honorable the Board of Health Of Hudson Co. N.J. Your petitioners respectfully show, that they are a corporation under the firm name of 'Weber Cooperage Company' and are engaged in the manufacture of barrels, kegs etc and that their factory or shop is situated on Ravine Road [or] New York Ave adjacent to the N.J.J. [New Jersey Junction] R.R. tracks. That owing to the broken condition of the sewer known as the 'Ravine Road Sewer' in close proximity to this shop, the health of their mechanics and themselves is greatly endangered owing to the gas and stench emanating therefrom. As warm weather is now approaching we are more or less obliged to keep windows open exposing the men all the more besides the stench becomes worse in warmer weather. During a heavy rain storm when the sewer is taxed to its full capacity the gases driven out by the pressure of rain water are very nauseous and loathsome. As the sewer is broken and partially filled up the Ravine Road and surrounding land is soon flooded therefrom and when the water subsides it leaves the road and land strewn with excrement decomposed carcasses of dogs, cats etc and other offensive matter which finds its way into the sewer. Wherefore your petitioners pray that your Honorable Board will take such action as to abate said nuisance. And your petitioners will ever pray etc. Dated, Jersey City, Mar. 19.1894. (signed) Weber Cooperage Company George Weber, Secretary Petitioners Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2010-04-05