Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-29
operating the kiln is certified to be very

operating the kiln is certified to be very
low.
w. G. Foster, writing in the Sdnitarian of
crematory of his invention, places fuel at
81 ton, interest on cost of plant 6 per
cent, and depreciation 20 per cent, and
then finds that to burn a cubic yard of
very bad night soil costs twenty-five cents.
To cremate ordinary house garbage and
vegetable matter will cost greatly less.
By the cremation system all noxious
gases from decaying matter are eliminated
from the sanitation of the city, SO far as
removable garbage is concerned. The soil
is not poisoned, nor breeding holes for
disease created, as under our present
system. Carriage is reduced half the dis
lance by cremation, and thus the capacity
of the scavengers to remove filth is aug
mented by nearly half. The one great
gain in garbage cremation is cleanliness,
of course. 1t completely removes all dan
ger of disease from decaying vegetable and
animal matter, and it disposes of filth by
the most powerful and effective means
known, fire.
In all cities where cremation has taken
the place of dumping, the new method has
proved economical and SO beneficial to
public health and convenience, that in no
instance could the people be prevailed
upon to return to the old system. If Gre
nation of garbage should be adopted here,
it would not be long before earth closets
would take the place of filth pits, and the
night soil would be removed and cremated
at frequent intervals. The result would
be to eliminate a soil-contaminating ele-
ment from the economy of the city and
place us, in case of assault by epidemic
pest, in the very best possible condition for
resistance and defiance Were we to pre-
sent the local statistics here of the present
flth-disposal method, the public would be
amazed and astounded at the magnitude of
the evil of our present system. 1t ought
not to be necessary, however, to go into
such matters in print. We should use the
money now expended in removing and
dumping garbage in the most rational
manner known to sanitarians of the age,
and that is, to effect the disposal of house
and street filth by fire. Since so small a
sum as S11 900 only is needed to put Gre
nation into operation, Sacramento should
not hesitate to adopt it, and thus abandon
dangerous and filthy system of garbage
disposal.
THE story that is telegraphed from
Hamburg about the quarrel of Carver, the
sharp-shooter, and Buffalo Bill, the show
man, is very amusing. Hamburg is terri
bly, excited, we are told, and the citizens
actually fear to go out upon the streets
after dark, such is the terror with which
the Indians and cowboys of the rival
Wide West shows have inspired the peace
full people of the city. 1t appears that
DIR. Carver has been following Buffalo Bill
about Europe with rival show, and ac-
cording to ali accounts better one. In
many cases the two American shows were
billed for the same town on the same date.
Ill feeling, charges and counter-charges,
flaming "poster lies" aud all the usual
buster of the showmen's rivalry, charac-
terized the competition. In Hamburg the
tents of the two exhibitions are pitched
side by side Carver drew 10000 people
the first night, and Cody but 1000. AS
result, the two troupes have declared war
against each other, and go bowling about
the city threatening to raise each others
scalps and cut one another's Threats. But
each of the proprietors knows very well
that this fuss and froth will serve to ad-
vertise the concerns they run. The Euro
peans do not appear to have thought of
the rivalry in that connection, and seem
to believe that the performers really mean
to engage in bloody fray 1t is all very
absurd; there is no fight in the cowboy
when off of his heath; the Wide West
savages are as harmless as doves when in
the streets of civilization. Both Carver
and Cody are, of course, laughing in their
sleeves at the alarm of the Hamburgers,
and while their business rivalry is gen.
uine and they probably hate each other
cordially, they do not propose TO bring the
authorities about their ears, and destroy
their business prospects as result. 1t is
only ludicrous example of an American
device to raise the wind, and differs from
Others of like character with which we
are familiar in this country, only by rea-
son of the activities being just now located
in Europe. But it is embarrassing, even
humiliating, to think of the false impress
sions concerning America and Americans
that must be made upon the minds of
Europeans by these Wild West perform
ances, and sham wrangles, and threats of
blood, between rival saw-dust showmen0
MECHANICAL skill and vigorous enter
prise in California have achieved nota-
bic triumph in the performance of the
new cruiser San Francisco on her trial
trip. The Philadelphia, vessel of the
same class, was prior to this trial the fleet
est of the navy and esteemed one of the
fastest in the world. Certainly she was
the swiftest war ship of her tonnage that