St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-02
CREMATORY NOT A GO
Garbage Committee Upsets
the Scheme. to Stick to
the Old Plan.
REARDON MOVES FOR BIDS
For the Collection and Dis
posal Of Garbage as at
Present.
REARDON MOVES FOR BIDS
JOHNSON AND ROBB OPPOSE.
Reardon'S Motion Prevailed,
and the Matter Is Settled
for a Year.

st. Paul will not have any garbage
erematory, after all. The joint special
committee on garbage, the members of
which had, after several lengthy dis
cussions, decided upon a crematory as
the only effective and proper way 10
dispose of garbage, upset the whole
scheme yesterday afternoon by deciding
TO recommend the It lection of the three
bids for crematory that were submit
ted to the assembly last Saturday even
ing. The committee further recon-
mended that the city advertise for bids
for the disposal of garbage in the pres
en-. way, that is by hauling it
outside of the city limits. AS
semblymen Johnson and Robb
voted against such recammend-
alton, Mr.. johnson expressing his dis
gust at what he termed the schoolbCy
behavior OF the other members of the
committee in changing their minds so
abruptly. The other members of this
committee are AsSemblyman Reardon
and Aid. Murphy. Wolf and Mllham.
1t Is intmated by parties that the rea-
son for this action o. the majority is an
objection To One OF the Bidders,
or rather, the preference of the commit
tee for bidder who did not submit the
lowest figures. The bidders were
Thomas Manning, who offered to furnish
a Dixon crematort and operate it as
specified for $50. 500 for the year 1895;
l. A. Grant, who offered to furnish and
operate a Dixon crematory under the
same conditions for $3.50 a month,
which amounts to SIS, 500 for the year,
and W. j. Preston, whose bid was
S23,6S4, but who did not specify any par
ticular kind of crematory.
The advertisement called for a "satis-
factory" crematory, so that Preston's
bid complied with it as fully rs the
other two did. But the delicate ques-
ton at once arose. How could the COM
mittee determine whether Mr.. Preston
would furnish crematory that would
last more than a year? Then the COM
mi;tee plunged into discussion, in
which Mr.. Preston and Patrick Kiegher,
his 0ondsinan, took an aggressive part.
MI. Preston started in emphatcally
and wound up indignantly. He MAIN
talned that he was not getting fair
treatment. Something was said about
his not bidding Oh a Dixon crematory,
which moved Mr.. Preston to declare
that MIR. Langan, the agent of the
Dixon crematory. had lot made fair
nor reasonable proposition. Mr.. Lam
gan denied this statement, and added
that he
Could Not Make Any Deal
with Preston, because the latter failed
to come up with his security" The
committee stopped the dispute, as il
was entirely ont of order.
Patrick klegher then took the floor. as
he had done once or twice before, and
urged that the city readvertise for bids
that should be accompanied by plans
and specifications to enable the council
to decide which was the most "satis-
factory" crematory, although MIR.
Kiegher was of the opinion that there
was no entirely satisfactory crematOry
IN the United States.
Mr.. johnson differed, and said that
there was satisfactory crematory in
Atlanta. Ga.
Aid. Murphy moved to readvertise for
bids that should contain guaranty that
the crematOry would last for a certain
number of years. Mr.. Reardon took
this occasion TO remark that he had
always been opposed to. crema-
tories. They were nothing but
experiments at the present time. He
moved that the committee recommend
that all three bids be rejected, and that
the city advertise for the collection and
disposal Of all garbage according to the
present contracts with kiegher and
Manning that is. by hauling the refuse
outside the city limits. This motion
prevailed by vote of to 2, it being
understood that the present contractors
continue removing the garbage until
Jan. l, although their contracts expire
this month.
The committee then adjourned, and
thus disposed of the crematory question
In st. Paul for another year at least.