The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29
THE CREMAToRY 4 FAILURE.
The Garbage Furnace Won't Work
What Alderman Harris Says.

The Garbage Furnace Won't Work
What Alderman Harris Says.
Engineer Swallow, Of the United States
Gas and Fuel Company Of Philadelphia,
who was sent on here by President Hughes
to try what virtue there might be in
blower to make the garbage erematory
work according to contract. finding that
the crematOry was in the hands Of the
courts for attaching creditors, has returned
north, and it is understood that he admitted
the furnace will not do what the contract
calls for.
There Is not draught enough, and the
dimensions Of the pit are not in harmony
with the rest Of the structure, so that the
furnace, instead of cleaning itself OF the
reSlduum after incarceration, fouls OF chOkes
up, and interferes with tins successful
operation of the crematory.
Mr.. Swallow, after putting in the blower,
made several tests, the highest number of
cart loads burned in one day being only
nineteen, End some days much less than
that. Ia fact when the council committee
on health and cemetery was on the eve Of
visiting the crematOry to witness a test, the
attaching officer swOOpe1 down upon it and
left Mr.. Swallow nothing TO test, but he
gave one of the committee II understand
that the test would not have shown the
crematory TO be what it was stipulated to
be under the contract.
A MORNING NEWS reporter saw Alder
man Harris last night and asked him what
steps the United States Gas and Fuel Com
pany will now take in the matter. DR..
Harris expressed his regret that the crema-
tory has not come up to the expectations of
Its builder, upon whose judgment and
promises, he said, he had implicitly re-
led, and especially so, as the plan as origi-
nallY outlined of tue hot air currents in
the Hughes furnace seemed to him to be
practical, and by comparison, an improve
ment over the Engle furnace. But Dr.
harris said the construction of the furnace
has not been carried out in conformity with
the original explanations made 10 the com
mittee and the council.
DR.. Harris said that he did not want to
do President Hughes the Injustice to say
that he would not come back to Savannah
and remodel or rebuild the furnace so that
1t would meet the requirements Of the con-
tract. When Mr. Hughes left the city be
left IL huFriedly and unexpectedly TO Dr.
darrls, VINO received note from him the
evening of the day upon which he sailed for
the north saying he would send an engineer
down to Savannah TO attach blower to the
crematory. Slnce then he has received two
letters from Mr.. Hughes in one of which he
wrote that the engineer would make the
test for the committee when the blower had
been attached.
The city, DIR. Harris said, is smoothing out, as
1t was to pay no part of the money until the
crematory had stood a test under care
July drawn contract and had been ac-
cepted by the city. DR.. Harris thinks.
however, that the company cannot afford
to abandon the crematory in its present
shape, as in that way it would be a sur
render OF the southern territory to rival
crematories He understands that a $780,
600 crematory on the Hughes plan has re-
Gently been put up in Chicago which an
swers the purposes for which it was CON
structed
1t is understood that Mr. Hughes ex-
pended over $4,000 on the crenatory here
before he went north, about four weeks
ago, and Mr.. Swallow has been here since
Mr.. Hughes left, putting in the blower aud
experimenting.