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Show Stop The Smoke Nuisance MR. WEY is reported to have testified in court recently that he found it impossible to find a smoke consumer to stop the volume of smoke which is poured out dally, from his works, over the city. No court has the right to rest on that evidence without an investigation. There is no smoke nuisance from the Dooly block; none from the Federal building, and a smelter near Garfield burns 240 tons of coal and slack daily and still does not pollute the air near it. The apparatus to produce perfect combustion costs a little money, but Mr. Dooly says he got the t full amount of the cost of his in six or eight months, in the saving in the cost of fuel consumed. con-sumed. And the smoke nuisance ought to be abated in this city for many reasons. It gives the city a bad name; it seriously damages thousands of dollars worth of furniture annually, and annually costs householders thousands to clean walls and the outside and inside of their houses, and the cost of stopping it is trifling. |