New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-19
TO GET RID OF GARBAGE.
A QUESTION GIVING ANXIETY TO CITY
OFFICIALS.

pprs1DENr WILSON. OF THE HEALTH BOARD.
THINKS THE BEST WAY TO DISPOSE OF 1T
is TO BURN 1.-THE RIKER's ISLAND
pIsINFEcTING PLANT
How to get rid of the citys garbage IS ques,'o"
which city officials anxously seeking 10 soVe'
President Wilson, of the Board OF Health sa'u yes
.erday that the true method OF disposing OF 1t was
undoubtedly TO burn it, The eec;rozone plant when
is TO be erected at Rer's Island at cost OF >'''V'
the money for which has been Appropriated "'' ~
be placed in solid ground instead OF operating "
upon a scow as at present
President Barker OF the Department OF IaNcS anu
Assessments who has given much time ana STUDY
10 the DISPOSITION OF street material. said yesterday
that he hal strong hopes that the permanent u'S'-
feeling plant at Rikers Island would prove S"'
cess The plant 20 be established there wou'" NV
100 times the d.snfecing power when 'he tci'i''''
affair there possessed The execution or the Ies""-
lions nassed hy the Board Of Estimate Ia" breh
placed in the hands OF the Health Board an" "'
inspectors would personally see that '"os "''' ga
r,ed ont to the letter The Health Board was Ncs'ei
with ample power TO deal summary WIN any 'o"
tractor who violated or dsregarded uii'c'oi''
SEPARATION OF GARBAGE FROM ASHES
In relation 70 the Health Departments requirement
that every householder shall separate 'ho "S''H
from the garbage II was suggested that the enforce
ment OF this rue would result IN hite sood 80 'o"7
as the Street Cleaning Department continued 10 use
the same care for removing both KINDS OF reiuse'
The garbage and ashes Of the city Is estimated al
1890 10 1000 cubic yards each day the aSheS 'o''-
stint, about nve-sxths of tie The CT ma ION o.
the whole has been regarded as impTactcdD'e nue.
these circumstances President Wilson pclle'eS 'l''
the wsest course is 10 disiAfect the dumps WIN
electrozone until the city ready 10 make use ol INC
latest scientific methods discovered for the lihal u
position of refuse Much might be iearh'd III inns
matter from the way garbage and street material are
handled in other cities. Montreal. Tor instance '''
been able to cremate all its street collections
Controller Fitch has been deuged with plans l'r
building crematores ever since he announced Il
few days ago that he was in favor OF purhliib ''e
garbage The lowest estimated cost OF designs
shown to him. he said yesterday. varied rom 81
for pocket crematory to $500 600 for conple'TSE
appointed plant When the Controller taxes ms
Vacation this wear he will so 10 Europe ana stuu!
the operation of cremat cries FOR dlsposihs VI S"''
collections In European cltles'
COMPLAINTS OF CITIZENS.
Well rs the Riker's Island dsinfection is being
pushed along according 10 the reports received by
CITY officials citizens living in the neighborhood
of the crbwork into which the Barney pumping
Scows unload their pestilential contents ten IN
ferent story. Charles II. Broas, of No. cSo East
One-hundred and thirty hfth-st, sent letter 10
The Tribune yesterday. in which he says that 1t
might be supposed judging from some newspaper
articles that the most sweet and wholesome QUIZ b
arise from the gesOaEbe e q air Between $50 and
o'clock this morning In q,h IN osi Vie oi6r
imaginabie Notwithstanding the Grand jury ana
our Board of Health 10 the contrary. e,,o y, o,
DR. l.. q. JaneWay was seen al ms 0h!'c, ~ ~
west Fortie;h-st.. Yesterday. and said he was saL
10 have an opportunity 70 express his opinion on NE
subject OF disposing Of garbage IT IS believer Dy
many" said DR.. Janeway. mat me expense -. -
peremat wTIs wos have to b. erected This l.
false notion because know that there are manu-
featuring institutions where oal ana Waste are 'r
mated successfully ana without dscomi ort or an
npyanfe IN summer Has at eabrsh AMI
he has had occasion there 10 see how fomnina,a2n i
of dumped garbage and east wnd can Oi'"s aoo"'
extremely unpleasant state OF AFFAIRS
THE CITY COMMITTING a NUISANCE.
"Any citizen of New-York who maintains null
sance on or near his premises Is taken to task Tor II
and compelled by law to have it abated, yet the
city itself makes 'ss5 nH RG IS ii s s
time the nuisance should be stopped $3.50 .o 70
Gently BEFORE Congress- of medical men al Bat
more the subject Of the disposal OF cry ~
ton considerable study is heartily in favor OF
cremation. and when seen at ms once , NO, nv
system positively dangerous In regard 10 } }ne
Cost 81 sad he as prace Of dumping garbage
will be the most expensive in the long run ny ~
m nasnce ~o of the e PRACTICE viii make hsrbor
filthy and unapproachabe to say n9nnE OF r rhe
cremation of garbage is PrSe5sfd 62acdss hs
aofSaq sso surely Would not adhere 70 it
where dollar is made to do the greatest service;
j believe cremation 10 De ilOSt It"9lp'' ~
the safest way TO dispose OF the citys garbage,
and when one takes into consideration that the
ashes could be sold as fertilizer ana revenue us,
rived from that source, can't see why IL wouid
not be cheaper also than the present unsaus-
factory system ON my own little farm | have
made practical tests OF the matter an garbage
is creriated. and the ashes are utilized with Sood
results fertilizer
.. WASTE BURNED BY FACTORIES.
DR. Janeway's statement as TO the cremation
NJ waste by manufacturing institutions Is Endorsed
nv Norman Schultz OF the United States Leather
COMPANY who at his Office, No. 70 Ferry
St Mr.. Schultz said - - ~ ut.
NJ firebrick into which the thoroughly saturated
bark is fed by automatic feeder Inc, comous..
zion Is complete; there is no smell. ana the top OF
our chimney looks though there was no nre IN
she furnace But with this very waste which FOR
DER ton we now drive our works and by means
Of these ovens generate daily 300 norse power.
Mr. Schultz knew no reason why these same ovens
known as the Hoyt oven could not be used TOT thee
cremation OF city garbage hey conp ne pd e ep
he said ION any pier or point anu "O"'N O"'''
neither fumes nor smoke -, IT,, ,
There are. he said. crematores or the knd useu
IN tanneres enough 10 this city to nave an
experiment made.
cremation said that enough power couid be gener-
ated by burning the cy's garbage to run the CAPE
or electric light plants. and the city might reap
handsome revenue from the scheme. ms "ouiu,
however be novelty" he SAID, because one
FOR SELLING OPIUM NLAWFULLY.
CAPTAIN Berghold, OF the Elizabeth-st. station.
with forty patromen In citizens clothes and De
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