St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-03
ALL GUESS WORK.
Another Day of Figuring on the
Garbage Question.

Garbage Question.
Another struggle with the garbage
question, another overruling of Aid.
Schwartz's desires, and, in prospect,
another long debate in the city council.
Yesterday afternoon the committee
on health and hospitals, with the addi-
ton Of one alderman from each ward,
discussed the report made by the health
and hospitals committee last Thursday
night. l.. Heberle placed before the
committee modification of his bid for
the removal of the garbage. In his first
bid his offer was to carry out
side the city limits all the waste
matter of the city for $40
per carload, provided he should be sup
Piled with an average of ten carloads
day. Yesterday he cut down the mini
mum to six cars during the summer
months, and two carloads day during
the six months of winter. The health
and hospitals committee has been fig
urlng on this problem ON the basis of
ten cars per day. The majority of the
members of the committee think that it
will average that. Figuring it on that
basis, the bid of James MacMuIlen, who
200 year and maintain his own dumps,
charging for the privilege of using the
dumps, is much the lower. But
Aid. Schwartz is one of those
who maintain that the average
will fall far below ten cars
day. 1t is possible that the amount of
garbage to bee hauled might be so little
that Heberle's bid would be much the
cheapet. But there is that element of
uncertainty, and that is why the alder
men have practically declined to con-
slider Heberle's bid further. Under the
MacMullen contract the producer of the
garbage must pay 40 cents for the priv
ilege of depositing a two-horse load at
the dump, and 20 cents for one-horse
load. Aid. 1ngenhutt and Aid. Nc
Guire of the committee yesterday
joined Aid. Schwartz in calling these
charges too high. Aid. Brazie tried to
argue that this dumpage charge would
come out of the man who hauled the
garbage, not out of the householder
or producer. but this sort of
reasoning, like the protectionists' argu-
ment that the foreign exporter pays the
tariff, would not be swallowed. When
the other aldermen argued that these
dumpage charges were too high. Aid.
BraZie urged that the making eff this
charge would induce many people to
burn their kitchen garbage and send
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SO that it would entail no extra hardship
upon them. He temporarily lost sight
of the fact that he was making an argu-
ment for the Heberle bid then by show
ing how the amount of waste to be
hauled away would be small.
AS a matter of fact, good deal of
these figuring on these bids is guess
work on the part of both the partisans
of MacMullen and his opponents. Moth
ing will demonstrate how costly this
plan of disposing of the garbage will be
but actual experiment. The plan is
practicable and is admitted to be good
one. MacMullen's bid will probably
be accepted at the next meeting of the
council, las. the committee Yesterday de-
cided to recommend such action. To
carry out the contract the city must pay
him an average. for five years, of $l8,-
200, and $1,000 a year additional for car
ing for the dead animals. 1t is estim-
ated that MacMullen will collect from
the users of the dump, from the people
of Minneapolis whO1 create garbage