St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-07
GARBAGE PUZZLE.
The Special Council Committee
Wrestles Earnestly With Ii,
Without Solution.
subcommittee Named to Consider
the Matter of Changing the
Place ofLoading.

The special garbage committee, after
vacation of four months, gathered
yesterday afternoon. The meeting was
called to consider The complaint MADE
by residents of the First and Ninth
wards regarding the alleged nuisance
caused by the manner In which garbage
was handled atthe foot of jerks treet.
w. r. Johnson. chairman of the COM
mittee, said when the complaint was
first made the board of aldermen re-
fused to concur in the reference of the
garbage committee as recommend ed by
the assembly. The report said loads of
dead animals were carried in open
wagons by the garbage company and
left at the railway tracks. Garbage was
dumped OH the platform, and the stencil
was such as 10 cause people in the Vlcln-
ity to move. Real estate values, so the
report said, were depreciating.
Mr.. Keigher said the contractors had
the same wagons used by the old sanl-
tation company. Never had any dead
horses been allowed to remain longer
than one night. and that was only III one
instance. when the thirteen horses from
a burned stable were left there.
Aid Jensen said this was incorrect, as
the horses had lain there four or five
days. He had visited the place where
the garbage was handled, and had seen
himself the garbage dumped on the plat
form.
Mr.. Keigher said during the winter
months garbage had been dumped on
the platform, but from the first of the
present year it was impossible to have
any stencil from such garbage. The
records of the railroad company would
show when the dead animals were
shipped, and the garbage company
records would show when they were
collected. He was certain Aid Jensen
had been misinformed.
Mr.. Keigher said the company was
willing to move the platform where it
would be convenient, if that would suit
tie people.
ASsemblyman Johnson thought a fore
man at the shipping point to look after
things would do away with much OF the
complaint.
Growing Interesting.
Mr.. Keigher said there had been CON-
plant made before any garbage had
been put on the cars at that point.
Aid. Copeland said he knew the gar
bage had been dumped at the point.
He had been on the Mississippi street
bridge last October and noticed the
stencil from the place.
Mr.. Keigher denied this, and said no
garbage had been dumped at the place
until after January, 1898, and then only
because it could not be taken from the
barrels and handled in any other way.
A subcommittee. consisting of AS
Semblyman ReardOn and Copeland, was
appointed to investigate as to the lOca-
ton of the shipping point elsewhere.
The report of the health commissioner
regarding the failure of the garbage
contractors to collect garbage was then
read. DR.. Hoyt said all the complaints
made since Nov. IL had been deducted
from the monthly bills.
Patrick Keigher, representing the
garbage contractors. said, on Feb. 2, A.
n. Barringer, residing on Sherburne
avenue, reported 100 failures to collect
garbage. Barringer, so Mr.. Keigher
said, had made complaints for his own
house and 1--WE other houses owned by
him. MIR. Keigher presented affidavltS
from the occupants of the houses stat
ing that they had
No Complaint to Make,
and did not authorize the complaints
made. He asked that the 100 complaints
be not deducted from his bill for Febru-
airy, as it made the bill S25 less than it
ought to be.
DR.. Hoyt said there should be a man
who would visit each house where COM
plants had been made and investigate.
lie had no man in his Office who could
attend to this matter. The committee
were of the opinion that such person
should be employed to look up each
complaint.
= Mr.. Keigher said the Barringer COM
plants should not be deducted from his
bill, as it looked like malicious persecu-
ton.
Aid. Conley suggested the mayor be
allowed to appoint man TO look after
the complaints. Assemblyman Johnson
thought the suggestion good one. As
semblyman Reardon said the 100 COM
plants or failures should not be de-
Quoted from the bills. He thought an
inspector should be appointed TO inves-
tigate the complaints. DIR. Hoyt said
two or three men would be kept busy as
soon as the weather became warmer.
Aid. Copeland Endorsed Aid. Conley's
ideas into a resolution which he offered
empowering the health officer to employ
| an inspector TO investigate complaints
for failure to collect garbage at a salary
not to exceed S65 per month. There was
some doubt expressed as to whether the
council would pass the resolution, but
| il was decided to recommend it. The
matter of not deducting the S25 from the
contractors bill for February on ac-
count of the complaints made by Bar
ringer was considered, but the commit
| tee decided it was not within its prov
| ince so to do. A resolution will be in
troduced in the board of aldermen to-
night canceling the deduction.