St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-26
The Eternal Garbage Cues
ton Again Diseased by
Councilmen.
Contract System Preferred to
the Licensed Scavenger's
Scheme.
Assessor Smith Publishes His
Realty Assessment for
the County.
U. S. Circuit Appellate CouRt
Upholds the Trial.
Judges.

The special committee on garbage
held another meeting yesterday. There
were present: Assemblymen johnson,
Reardon and DAILY and Aid. Montgom-
cry. At the last meeting of the COM
mittee it was unanimously decided to
recommend the adoption of the contract
system for collecting and disposing. of
garbage. and a resolution was drawn di-
recting the city clerk to advertise for
bids under specifications which had
been prepared by the health commits
sloner and corporation attorney. at
the request of the committee The
first branch of the council to meet
after this decision was arrived at was
the assembly, and to a man the MEN,
berS OF the committee and others of the
assembly voted against the adoption of
the report. A resolution offered by AS
semblyman Lightner. ordering the gar
bage committee to report back an ordi-
nance for the collection of garbage by
the licensed scayenger system, was
adopted. This resolution passed the
board OF aldermen at their last meeting,
and, in consequence. the committee con-
vened yesterday as directed.
There was an Informal discussion be-
fore the meeting was, called to order
Mr.. Johnson said the city ought to do
the work. The best thing outside of
that was contract under specification
submitted to the assembly by the COM
mitJee.
Aid. Cullen, who was present. doubted
if five tons of garbage could be col
lected today in the city. Mr.. Grant,
representing the st. Paul Sanitation
company, said his company were COL
lecting from about $50 houses. HIS eX-
perenee had been that the garbage
cut very little figure. ashes, tin cans
and other refuse being the greater part
. of the stuff collected. He was OF the
opinion that nearly all the garbage was
burned by families. instead of being
removed by scayengers.
When the meeting was called to order
Mr.. Johnson explained that under
the instructions Of the council the COM
mittee had
@ No Other Alternative
but to report all ordinance providing
for the collection OF garbage by the
licensed scayenger system. The ordi-
nance which had been prepared and
submitted at a previous meeting. but
not adopted, was dug up and will go to
the assembly at the next meeting of
that body. Accompanying the ordi-
nance will also be series Of objec-
tons to the licensed scavenger system
passed by the committee yesterday.
The objections had been all prepared
by ASSemblyman johnson, and were as
follows:
Your committee on garbage desires to pro-
test against the adoption of the licensed
scavenger system. 1t was thoroughly tested
some years ago, and not more than one TWEEN
tieth OF the population awaited themselves of
this kind of service. The remaining nine
tfInp -fSynTtipfhc mood tbpir hp n I'd oil
vacant lots and neighbors' premises. accord
ing to the place most available. If il were
possible for the enforcement of the proposed
ordinance II would be far more expensive
than any proposed. The proposed ordinance
allows the scayeuger Is cents a call. Allow
ing 20.@J0 houses. the cost for one-quarter of
city daily service and the remaining three
quar- tiers every-Other-d day service, the cost
under the specifications will amount to
sou, 800. At IL cents CALL S375GO0; to
cents call. SiS7.500.7
Then If the ordinance is passed and en-
forced, what disposition can be made of the
material when collected? In cities of over
10000 inhabitants there is one cubic yard of
refuse per capita per annum. Estimating
The population at 10000. there are 1oG 600 tons
of garbage to be collected each year. so tons
each working day.
1t is impossible to provide in an ordinance
or system like the one the committee has
Geen asked to report any system OF disposal
land this is one of the most important points
i'll the whole garbage SYSTEM that will meet
the demands of lot of different Scayengers
each one independent of the other. 1t will
be difficult to locate the responsible party
when any complaint or trouble between scav-
engers anG patrons occur, which will be fire.
quent Under the license system. The present
force of the health department or even a
much larger one would be inadequate TO en-
force the provisions OF the proposed ordi
nance
For the above reasons the committee
recommend the ordinance be rejected.
and the city clerk Instructed to adver
tise at once fer bids for the collection,
removal and disposal OF refuse matter
according to the specifications submitted
by the health commissioner.
Is This Reform2
Aid. Montgomery was not favor of the
licensed system.
Assemblyman Van Slyke said the
present council was a reform BODY. or
at least it was supposed to be reform
one, and his idea of reform was to save
money. One of the SOfteSt snaps he
knew of was to secure a contract for
removing and diSpoSing OF garbage at
S25. 200 to $780, 900 per year. Under the
license system the people paid for just
what work they had done, and no more,
and for this reason he favored the
license system.
Mr.. Reardon said that Mr.. Van
the argument made by the board
of public works. When he went to that
office to inquire about the hiring of SO
many inspectors he was told the inspect
ors were not paid from any fund raised
by the tax levy, but by assessment. The
same thing was shown here. The peo-
pie might not pay any direct taxes for
the collection of garbage under the
scavenger system, out it would cost
money just the same, and he was in
favor of saving the peoples money.
Mr.. johnson said the poor people
would not avail themselves of
the privilege of having their
garbage removed by scavengers, but
would carry the refuse out in the
night and dump it in the streets. of
course the law could punish them, but
the difficulty would be in catching them
at it.
A bill for 1925 from the sanitation
company Tor services in removing dead
animals during the first three months
of the year was approved and ordered
to be paid. Mr.. Grant, of the company,
explained the contract with the city tor
this work had long since expired, but
they had been doing the work and
ought to be paid for it.
TAX UPON REALTY.