Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-19
NEW GARBAGE SCHEME
The Refuse of Pittsburg to Be Car
ried Down the Ohio River.
DUMP FLOATS ON THE ALLEGHENY.
No 0ffal TO Be Allowed to Remain Within
the City Limits.
COUNCILS TO MAKE A MOVE FOR HEALTH

A solution to question that has beel
bothering city officials for several years wa
presented to notice Yesterday afternoon a
a meeting of the Committee on Publi
Works in the shape of an ordinance author
izing the disposal of the garbage of tn,
city. As everybody knows, . small portion
of the city's waste matter has been burned
In garbage furnaces, maintained by tn,
city at considerable expense ant
small satisfaction. The balance has beer
dumped into the rivers and in vacan
lots or dumps within the city limits,
menace to health and public safety.
Every annual report for the past fv,
years from the Bureau of Health and tn,
officers having the disposition of garbage il
hand has contained a recommendation fol
some other system of taking care of tn,
city's health as affected by her garbage
The ordinance recommended yesterday
covers that point whatever may be its de
fects.
Floating Garbage Down the Ohio.
1t provides for the removal of all gar
bage, sweepings, ofal, dirt and refuse OF all
kinds by company composed of w. A
Hoeveller George Trautman and r. B.
Brown, by floats or dumpboats, In which il
will be conveyed to a point down the Ohio
river and disposed of without expense to
the city. The floats are to be 300 feet long
and "a feet wide, will be provided with
machinery for properly handling the stuff,
and located at convenient places all along
the city's river frontage.
On the Allegheny rlver the floats are to
l. II ron IL
tween the Exposition and Sixth street, near
the Ft Wayne bridge, between Twenty.
sixth and Twenty-eighth streets, between
Thirty second and Thirty-fifth streets, be-
tween Forty-frst and Forty-third streets,
near the Sharpsburg bridge and at Haight's
run. On the Monongahela river between
Grant and Smithfeld streets, near Brady
street, near the Four Mill run and at Hazel
wood; on the Southside near Sawmill run,
near South First street, between Ninth and
Thirteenth streets, at Nineteenth street,
and between Twenty-si1th and Thirtieth
streets
Location Of the Dump Floats.
The full complement. of floats will not be
provided at once The ordinance requires
that within six months after passage Of the
ordinance six floats shall be placed where
Chief Bigelow may direct, and it makes
it unlawful to dump garbage any
where in the city except on
of a s50-ine The charge of delivering
refuse is regulated as to the kinds, from
sweepings, etc, at 20 cents cubic yard, to
50 load and includes everything now
hauled to the city garbage furnace to night
soil and dead animals. The privilege of
loading and unloading material transported
by river is also given and a grant of ten
wears is named in consideration of taking
the refuse of the city streets at a reduced
rate not named.
The Pittsburg Sanitary Company had an
ordinance before Councils last year contain
ing practically the same provisions as this
one, but it died in committee. The same
gentlemen were named in the previous or
dinance as the company One of the COM
pany stated yesterday that they proposed
eventually to spend S175,OOO in plant for
carrying on the work if the city gave them
the privilege. Their intention is to flood
the garbage down to Brunot's Island in
which they are interested, where it will be
dumped, distributed and separated. The
sNeepings, street cleanings and dirt of that
character will be used to fill up the island,
place it above high water mark, and make
IL valuable as real estate.
Making Money Out Of Garbage.
The vegetable and waste matter will be
converted into fertilizer and schindery
will probably be erected in which the
carcasses of dead animals will be converted
into glue and the other products Of such
institutions. The expense saved to the
city will be an item of importance. The
garbage furnaces need no longer be sup
ported and the property occupied by them,
which is valued at S12, 600 or SIS, 900 can be
raalized np Tho labor opd fuel re-
quired for the garbage furnace on
the bluff amounts to $4,000 a
year, while the Southside and East End
furnaces would aggregate nearly as much,
outside of the repairs and maintenance,
which cost a total of S, 900 more. The
scheme seems to meet with the approval of
the city officials generally. 1t was affirma-
lively recommended to Councils by the
committee with a number of other ordl-
nances, which were as follows:
All These Were Recommended.
Resolution directing the Chief of he De-
parrment of Public Works to report the
number OF rented stalls at the market
houses and the amount Of revenue received
from them; opening Colombo street, Negley
to Black street; Pacific avenue, Penn avenue
to Breedshill street; Leopold street. Kearns
TO city line; Dauphiu street, Rebecca to Ma
thilda streets; Beatty street, Rural to Rippey
street; Evaline street, Penn to Breedsnifl
street; Msnton alley. Arlington to Maple
street; grading Copeland street, Walnut to
Howe street, grading, paving and curbing
Winebiddle avenue, Liberty to Cy-
press street; South Twenty ninth
street. East Carson to Sarah street;
Carnegie street, McCandless to Fifty-fourth
street: Flavel street. Station to Everett
street; Rebecca, near Friendship to Liberty
avenue: Harvard, Highland to Sheridan;
Robinson, Aliquippa to BERTRAND; broad.
Negley to Highland; Aiken, Center to Els
worth: grading and paving Coinrie
alley, Pearl to Cullen; Humber al.
ley, kirkpatrick to Soho; paving
and curbing HaZelwood, Second ave-
nue. to Shippen. For laying
Is and Is inch pipe sewers on BoQuet
and Joncaire streets from Fifth avenue to
st. Pierre street: BoQuet street from Atwood
street east: McDevitt Place, from Hamlet
to Forbes; Terrace and Darrah, Fifth ave.
nue. and Mckee Place, from Craws east
and west OF Darrah to Louisa street:
Bates street, Atwood to Meyram avenue:
Carran, Alder to Ravenna; Susquehanna,
Homewood to Albion; Finance and Dun.
fermline, Homewood to Susquehanna;
Tioga, city line to Albion; Mcdonald,
Meadow and Ormand, Venus alley to Dayton
alley and Race street; Walnut street, Ivy to
Bellefonte.
A Pointer.