The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-04
GARBAGE EATEN BY FIRE
EIGHTY CUBIC YARDS CREMATED
IN TEN HOURS.

The Ohacial Test of the New Fngel
Crematories @ Satisfactory One-The
Figures of the Test What the Gre
matories Are Capable of Doing-Some
Things Found in Garbage.
The subject Of garbage cremation is one
which has interested Savannah for two
years. Beginning first with the iuvestiga-
lions Of the comm ttee of the city council
carried on by the experiment with the
Hughes company Of Philadelphia last year.
which was q signal failure. and continued
by the contract with the Engel company,
and the building for the past two months
of the big furnaces which we're tested yes
terday, the question Of garbage disposal has
been one which has occupied no small share
OF the time of the city.
The construction of the two cremators has
been watched with good deal of Gu iosiy
by many people, and the result Of the trials
has settled the question as TO whether the
city can find better way of taking care OF
the waste aud refuse which has been 50
great q nuisance.
THE FURNACES FIRED UP.
AT 7:30 O'Clock yesterday morning the
furnaces were fred up At O'Clock the
first loads Of garbage arrived and were put
into the furnace. No night soil came until
10 O'Clock, and then eighteen barrels were
turned into the other furnace. Up
to IL o'clock the full complement
of eighty Gu ic yards required by the con-
tract we're delivered on the platforms, and
by o'clock more than one-half Of this had
been deposited IN one cremator and about
thirty barrels of nightsoil in the other. At
this time there had been about three-tourths
of cord Of lightwood and mixed pine
burned in both cremators.
The furnaces were at no time pushed to
their greatest capacity Of combustion, being
just completed and not thoroughly dried
out, and it was not thought best to use too
great heat About O'clock last night
the whole amount Of garbage had been con-
sumed and forty-two barrels of niRht-sol
destroyed. The amount of fuel used was
surpri ingly small, being not more than 20
cords Of wood.
QUEER THINGS IN GARBAGE.
The garbage contained a very large pro-
portion If ashes which made it difficult to
handle and slow 10 burn. There was left on
the platforms sifted out from the garbage a
great pile Of ashes and sand. The idea people
have OF garbage includes anything worth
less and useless. That taken to the crema-
tory yesterday contained useless and worn
out household and personal leavingS. There
was pillow, or cu!tivator, which some eco
nomical citizen persuaded the city scaven-
ger was garbage, and no end of bottles
cans, iron, wire, parts Of stoves and similar
trans.
The trial showed clearly that the garbage
cremator bur ed the eighty cubic yards re-
quired by the contract In less than twelve
hours, using not over q cord and ne-half Of
fuel, and requiring two men for its manage
Inent The nightsJil furnace burned about
half Of the amount required, but 1t did this
in less than one fourth Of the time shpu-
lated.
WITNESSES OF THE TEST.
Mayor Schwarz, City Engineer VIM and
majority of the aldermen we're present
during tie morning, and over a hundred
people visited the cremators during the
day and watched the process with great In
terest.
There will be some changes made by the
Engel company in the stack or chimney,
and additional braces and anchors used.
This will be done at once, and when oom-
pleted the cremators will be turned over to
to the city and put into use. The city NAV
be congratulated, through the efforts of the
council, upon securing the latest and
most improved means for the disposal of
garbage-a question which has given a
great deal Of trouble in the past and may
now be regarded as settled for the future.