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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:40:32 EDT

Wednesday August 12,2009 TroyRecord Article 100 years ago Thursday, Aug.
12, 1909.
“A local brewer will use an alternate form of fuel from now on in response
to complaints that its smokestack was polluting Prospect Park, The Record
reports.The news comes after city parks superintendent William
H. Cahill issued a statement that “directed attention to the fact that the
soft coal smoke from the stack of a near-by business place not only
interfered with the pleasure of visitors to the park but ruined the clothes of
children and others,and that there seemed to exist no remedy for the cause of
complaint in city ordinance.”
Cahill never mentioned the offenders by name, but representatives of the
John Stanton Brewing Company step forward to accept responsibility for the
pollution.“The company says it admits the justness of the complaint,”our
reporter notes. The pollution resulted from Stanton’s use of soft coal, but “
to show that it has no desire to interfere with the pleasure of children
and others seeking recreation and diversion in Prospect Park, it has
discontinued the use of soft coal at its place of business.”Stanton’s
announcement is a
public-relations coup. “The prompt and public-spirited action of the
company deserves praise and wide
recognition,” says an unidentified Trojan, “If a like spirit were shown
by others interfering with public comfort and health there would be a much
better feeling toward them.”“That proper public spirit is shown by the John
Stanton Brewing company … is indicated by expressions heard today,” our
reporter editorializes.“In this connection it may be said that Prospect Park
not only steadily grows in beauty, but in the appreciation of the public.
It has become the city’s great recreation ground.“Only those who visit it
in the afternoon, when the children’s playground is thronged and the
shelter of the beautiful shade trees is sought by many of the
older people, and again at sunset and later in the evening, when thousands
seek its cool breeze and dream-like outlook,can know how great a blessing
it is and how generally enjoyed.”
NO PARADE FOR POLICE.
The annual Troy Police parade and inspection will be canceled this year as
the traditional march makes way for the big Hudson-Fulton Tricentennial
celebration, our paper reports.The city’s firemen, who usually march
alongside the police, will participate in the Hudson-Fulton parade in early
October. The police will be too busy to join in the march.“The service of the
bluecoats will be needed upon the street and in protecting property in the
outskirts of the city from invasion during the absence of residents viewing the
various
forms of entertainment,” our writer explains."
Photo of the day Troy Record Thursday July 18 2009 1952 Reilly boys
from South Troy,Walter ,Donald, Jack, Donald,Jim,Eddie

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