Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-11

me Comnissionsrs aud the Health once
Confer Again.


DATA OBTAINED FBoN orRrR crrrrs-Eow rrx
GARBAGE 10 COLLECTED AND TAKEN FROM rrr
crrrxs-raE COST OF TIE sEKvrcK-rxrosnA-
TON or Use IN THIS CITY.
Ihe Commissioners talked garbage for over
IN hour this morning at the early board meet
ing and compiled specifications for the con-
tract which is shortly to be advertised. for the
removal OF garbage and dead animals the re-
mainder Of the fiscal year.
neaitn ofncer Hammett was present and pre-
sented the following compilation Of reports
upon the garbage question which he had col
iecsed from the several cities:
BOSTON.
The report from Boston says that the popuis-
ton is AGO GOO, about 5000 Of which are hotel
patrons and 100000 have their dinners
IN the city. The annual appropriation for
the removal of garbage is s24 600 and
from xo0 TO $50 tons are removed daily
earbage IL removed from hotels re-taurants
markets and large boarding houses daily and
rom oweiiing houses three times a week in the
summer months and twice week in the winter
In reply to the question as to the disposition
OF areage the report says that il is delivered
at depot and sold to farmers from adjoining
towns The garbage is kept in wooden and
galvanized iron tubs. The method of collect
Ing garbage, the report SAYS is, in case the re-
ceptacle is large, TO bring il out and empty
and then return, and if small TO collect it In
puekets- In the summer months from sixty
nVe TO eighty wagons are employed. each pro-
'ioeo with Two men. The city owns the wagons
and the collectors are paid 81 per day
Inc report from Pittsburg is very incom-
piete Ii simply states that the population is
z4fVVo and the garbage is removed bya private
company and disposed of by means Of gar
bage furnace.
PHILADELPHIA.
fhiiaoelphia sends in a first-class report
The garbage collection. ashes and street clean
ing are all under one contract The price for
1871 IL $50, s9s. The quantity removed
during 1880 was Ga. 9S3 tons. Garbage is
removed daily for six months and three
uines each week for the remaining SIX months
anu is disposed OF by feeding to hogs In the
rural sections. There is no Law governing the
KIND OF vessel to be used by residents for the
reception of garbage and il is removed in
wster-tight box wagons and carts. upwards of
Eoo peing employed daily during the summer
months All work lie done by contract relet
each year.
Chicago appropriates annually sSS5. 900 to be
applied to the removal of garbage and the
maintenance of the first ward plant. There
u.
from public streets and alleys. Ii l.
carried out OF the city by rail and by team.
poruon OF II being used TO nil CLAY holes in the
outlying wards. Garbage and refuse is kent in
covered receptacles. 1hlrty-three out OF the
.nirtyiour wards in the city cleaned by
contract, the contractors giving bond for
tri-weekly service and to employ such
number OF teams as will accomplish the work.
In the business part of the city first ward the
work is performed by the city, who own their
own teams and wagons. The report states that
several crematories have been tested with a
view OF establishing a system that would dis
pose OF the garbage satisfactorily, but as vet no
definite results have been arrived at.
NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans sends in a first-class report.
which shows conclusively that il experiences
little trouble with the question. In the first
place the city does the work under an an
nual appropriation of $4,000, removing daily
5V,0OO tons OF garbage. The disposal of the
garbage Is identical with ours. Ii is dumped
into garbage boats from carts and thence into
the river below the city. One hundred wagons
are az o ednpioyed to do the work for population
OF 250, 600 people.
The city also takes care of the removal of
garbage in Buffalo, MY, subject to an annual
appropriation Of $4,000. The garbage is re-
moved daily in business portions of the city,
three times week in the central section and
once week in the outlying districts. twenty
carts being used to perform the service. remov-
ing about fifty tons of garbage daily IL is
taken care Of by the Merz system. Buffalo las
population Of 256, 900.
ST. LOUIS.
This is the system in vogue in St. Louis: The
removal Of garbage is done by contract. SOS. 900
per year being paid for the service 1t is re-
moved in fifty water-tight carts three times per
week In summer and twice week
during the winter. The disposal of
the garbage is novel, to say the least.
After each driver has made a
round OF his district he drives at once to the
banks OF the Mississippi river and dumps it in.
This method of disposal will be changed. how
ever, within the next eight or ten months. as
the city couple Of months ago awarded the
contract FOR the removal of garbage and dead
animals to the st. Louis Reduction Company-
which will use the Merz process and reduce il
to fertilizer.