St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-19
Now the Garbage Committee
Is Diekering for Another
Patent Crematory.
Another Eastern Ambassador
Looking for Convention.
Accommodations.
Sad Story Of a Wife About
Treatment Of Herself
and Child.
Humane Society Work for a
Year--General News Of
the City.

a special meeting of the committee
on health and hospitals was held yes
terday afternoon for the purpose re-
ceivng proposition from the Rider
Garbage Furnace Company of Pitts
burg. w. L. Wallace, of that firm, ar
rived in the city yesterday prepared to
talk business. and although Mayor
Winston was absent from the city and
Aid. Schwartz was also unable to be
present, the balance of the committee as
sembled to hear what he had to say, as
other engagements rendered it impossi-
bic for him to wait for full meeting of
the committee.
Mr.. Wallace had with him small
wooden model of the Rider furnace,
which he set up on desk and proceed
ed to explain its working to the COM
mittee. The Rider furnace is, in gen.
eral plan. similar to the others recently
presented for the consideration of the
committee, and destroys the objectiona-
bic features of The garbage by crema-
ton. But it differs in many respects
from the others in internal construction
and in some of Il e particulars of its op-
Grafton.
Mr.. Wallace. after briefly explaining
the furnace by means OF the model,
to build for the city of Minneapolis
furnace guaranteed 10 consume thirty
tons of garbage in twenty-four hours
for the sum OF $4,000, the furnace to be
complete i'll every respect when turned
over to the city.
In reply to questions he stated that he
believed the furnace with proper hand
ling and careful competent men in
charge, could il necessary be made to
consume much more than thirty tons of
garbage, perhaps sixty tons. but thirty
tons was all they claimed for 1t. He
stated that there were two furnac eS
Identical with the one contemplated III
his proposition in operation in the Unit
ed States.
One of these at Pittsburg, Pa, had
been in operation five years and had
given entire satisfaction, and the other
had been worked with equal success at
Allegheny City, Pa.
In reply to questions from Aid. BraZie,
he explained that the actual cost of con-
Structing the furnace represented about
two-thrds of the contract price, and the
royalties on patents used the other one
third. The cost of construction would
be increased in building a furnace in
Minneapolis by the freight to be paid on
certain materials which it would be
hNNNoooty " ollI IIOLi tiiO lag
Mr.. Wallace submitted second offer,
under which his company proposes to
construct furnace entirely at its own
expense OH ground furnished by
the city, to maintain the same
at its own expense and con-
sumo garbage in quantities of thirty
Or more tons per day at 81 per ton, the
city to deliver the garbage at the ere
matory, providing the city will enter
into contract for five years, with the
privilege Of five years more.
The committee, after some informal
talk rs to the cost and relative merits
of the various kinds of fuel. took the
proposals under advisement and adj
jOurned.
The committee now has before it for
consideration proposals from three fur
mace companies, that of the Engle COM
pany to erect crematOry for $3.50;
that of the Brownlee Furnace company,
OF Detroit, whose crematory is practi-
cally the same, but whose price is only
$1,000. and that of the Rider company as
detailed above. No action will be
taken until a full meeting of the COM
mittee can be obtained and the MEM
beers are non-committal as to their pre-
ferenceS.