St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-12
"vIVE lie GARBAGE. J"
Alderman Rand'S Dump Now
Encounters Some New
Difficulties.
Alderman Gray Cuts Loose On
Some Of His Council AS
sociates.
Close OF the Convention of
Universities of Mime
sofa.
Jews Celebrate the LaWgiv-
ing--Opera Singers With
out Supper.

| The health department is the most
| fruitful news center in Minneapolis,
and when the health department cannot
furnish some sort of quarrel, or a
| proposition, or scheme, the mercury is
way down out OF sight, and for at least
week the at mosphere in the vicinity
of the health Office has been calm. 1t
has been aroused again now. The new
est development in health department
circles is calculated to make the major
ltY of the board smile. No. the garbage
! question is not settled. 1t is no nearer
settled now than it was month, a
year, two, five years ago. That is why
members OF the council committee on
health and hospitals smile. They have
! been doing their best 10 settle the gar
| bage question ever since they entered
| the council, with Indifferent success.
| The opponents recently announced
| with a flourish of trumpetS that the
| dump question had been settled. 1t
! hasn't been.
Some two months ago, on recon-
mendatiOn of the committee on health
and hospitals, the council ordered the
erection of dump on the old steam
boat landing. Plans were prepared,
some of the lumber was on the ground,
work was all but begun. The steam
boat landing dump was knocked out.
Aids. Rand, Hunter and Kiiehli were
instrumented in defeating it. Rand
and Hanter objected to the location of
the dump in the Sixth ward. Kiiehli
opposed the steamboat landing site, no
one knows why. Then Rand, Hunter
and Kiichli were appointed committee
to find site for dump. At the coun-
Gil meeting following their appointment
they reported on site, the report was
adopted, and the city engineer was
ordered to go ahead and build the
dump. That was done two weeks ago.
I'VE have settled the garbage ques-
ton at last" Aid. Rand announced that
night. What these other fellows have
been trying to do for six years we did in
six minutes. That committee recon-
mended Twenty-fourth street and
Riverside avenue as the site for the
dump. But the dump won't be oper-
ated there-not just yet at least. Judge
Isaac Atwater objects to it, and the
Judge is determined fighter.
Objections to the Site.
The site of this proposed dump is in
the midst of one of the most beautiful
groves in the city of Minneapolis. Judge
Atwater OWNS the property around
there, and he will fight the location of
the dump at that point. The proposed
site is long way from the current of
the river-3,00 600 feet one man says. but
he probably oyerestimated it. There is
no sewer there into which night soil
could be dumped, as on the old steam
boat landing. Instead of sewer a
chute must be built out into the river.
Then water main must be laid down
| there to flush the chute. In addition to
1ninn n IL tl-iS If ic aSccrtQd fhat CT
must be opened in order to let teams
down to that dump. To do ali this work
| there is no money, it is asserted. A sum
was appropriated for the steamboat
| landing, but 1t isn't enough to build this
other dump and pay for a chute to the
river, water main, etc.
There is another objection. Night
soil from a dump at Twenty-fOurth
street and Riverside would enter the
river little above Meeker's island.
| Those who claim TO have studied the
| problem say that the night soil will
lodge on Meeker's island and the little
| island just above it. There it will "fes-
ter in the sun" and become a nuisance,
| especially when the river is low. 1t will
not be in the water long enough before
reaching the island to become broken
up and partially liquifed, but will reach
land in almost solid state.
That is what is causing one breeze in
| the health department. Aid. Schwartz
and his manifeStoS have stirred up an
other.
"Schwartz ought to be ashamed of
| himself for talking as he did in the
journal the other evening"" said Aid. j.
S. Gray yesterday. HE ought to know
better than to talk about part of the
board holding secret meetings to which
| he wasn't invited. There's nothing in
it. All the foundation there is for it is
| this: Sunpose one of us walks into the
health ffice when the registrar wants
some aCvi:e about matter that has
just cone up. We look into it. We do
it because we take an interest in the
work of the department. There's no
secrecy about it. | don't know what's
the matter with Schwartz. He's good
fellow, and used to take an interest in
health department matters, but great
change has come over him of late"
Roasted His Brethren.
Then Gray went on to talk about the
the scheme for hauling garbage to
Brooklyn Center. AS he spoke of how
certain aldermen were working to
thwart the enterprise, he grew warm.
why, do you know what some of
those fellows did?' he inquired excit-
edly. "They went out here to Golden
VALLEY, held a meeting in the school
house and told those farmers.a pack of
lies. Here's one thing they said:
If this Minneapolis health depart
ment succeeds in getting the garbage
hauled out to Brooklyn Center over the
street railway lines. you Golden Valley
farmers can't get load of manure from
Minneapolis unless you go to Tom
Lowry and buy it, Did you ever here
of the like?
"It it is sent to Brooklyn Gen.
ter over the street car lines, that won't
prevent farmers from hauling all they
want to haul from the city,
"Schwartz used to be with the rest of
us on this question, bat he isn't now.
talked over this street railway scheme
with Schwartz long before there was
anything said of it in the papers. and
he was in favor of it. That was when
his men were in the employ of the
board. His man made fool of himself
and was fired. Since Schwartz failed to
get another man on in his place he has
been kicking"
Schwartz and the other aldermen
could probably tell different story.
Anyhow, this proposition to send the
clty's garbage to Brooklyn Center over
the street railway lines will furnish a
bitter fight in the council. There are
several aldermen who are determined
that the street railway company shall
get. no contract from the city.
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