St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-25
THE GARBAGE CREMATORY.
An Evening Paper Tries to Get Up
Sensation.

AS was nOCeu III the GLOBE, the HTeS
were drawn at the garbage crematory
Thursday, to admit of certain altera-
lions being made. 1t had been discoy-
cred that there was such thing as the
cracking of walls from heat, and some
expansion of the outside shell had been
noticeable. At the same time it was
thought best to insert steel supports to
prevent expansion, and owing to mis-
calculation 1t was found necessary to
lower the furnace four inches, or to
shorten the tubes leading to the MAN.
holes that much. The former
course seemed the simpler and
easier, and was adopted. The
accidental falling of heavy telegraph
pole had cracked an exterior layer OF
brick, damage the building contractor
had agreed to repair, so it was deemed
best to make all the alterations and i'm
provementS at the same time. The
work of relaying the brick, so as to re-
duce the air space from four to two and
a half inches, thereby strengthening
the arch by increasing its thickness
from twelve to sixteen inches, was also
included. The repairs have furnished
an evening paper, the Star. an oppor-
tunity for ready-made sensation, and
in an an early edition yesterday it stated
that the furnace had tumbled in. This
was corrected in a later edition, III
which, however, the editor of the paper
undertakes to give some valuable in
formation upon the subject of crematOry
building in general. The attack upon
the manner in which the crematory has
been constructed appears to be based
upon statements of certain delegates OF
the Trades and Labor assembly. The
charge is also made in this connection
that the crematory could have been put
up for Sl,700 instead of $1,000. This is
q matter, of course, that will be easily
determined by the investigation which
the council committee appointed at the
last meeting will make i'll accordance
with its instructions.
The statement, however, that the
furnace has fallen in, or that the arch
has given away, was yesterday found to
be entirely false by a GLOBE reporter
who visited the crematOry, inspected the
Improvements that are being made, and
made inquiries of the WOrkmen concern
ing them. The work of making the repairs
or rather improvements mentioned, is
well under way, and Will be finished III
time to allow the crematory to resume
its work Monday. The relaying OF the
brick is practically finished, and iron
SlIuIC0 dlC W OC DloCOO 90 q pASN.
against the possibility of expansion by
heat. A spark arrester is also being
placed at the top of the smoke stack as
an additional protection against fire..
As the GLOBE reporter was making
his Investigations he met DR.. K. Martin,
the commissioner of health at MilWau-
kee, who was also inspecting the Gre
matOry. He explained that at Mil
waukee-the first city in the United
States, to burn its garbage, by the way
the Forrestal crematOry has been used.
This crematory does not consume
either smoke or gases, necessltates the
employment of five men in its opera
tons, and is much more expensive,
while its capacity is not so great. 1t is
owned by Il corporation and as a new
contract IS to be made. it has been
considered best that the destruction
of smoke should be included in the
requirements. This was the feature of
the Minneapolis crematory the doctor
had came especially to inspect i'll COM
pany with William Forrestal, the con-
tractor. Although he was disappointed
in not finding the crematory in opera
ton, the doctor said that he was fully
satisfied that its principle OF operation
is correct, and that he considered that
Minneapolis will have the best and larg-
est crematory in the country when it is
completed He intends to recommend
smoke and gas consuming, the features
of the Engle system. after which ii IS
patterned, in his recommendations upon
returning tO Milwaukee,