The evening world., 1894-10-03
REFUSE IN The DOCKS.
Tons of Garbage Illegally Dumped
in the River and Bay.
The Barney Company's Green Hands
Can't Handle Pa'e,t bumpers.
Criminal Proceedings May Result,
Under the New Law.

1t became known to-day that owing TO
the inexperience OF men employed by the
Barney Dumping Company. tons OF gar
bage have been dumped into the East
River at the docks where the refuse Is
loaded into the scows and sent to sea.
Since the strike of the scow captains
the Barney people have been obliged to
employ green hands The new men. not
being familiar with the automatic dump
ers, have. In many cases. failed to close
them properly, and when they are about
half filled the weight of the refuse forces
them open, deposlting the contents Of
the scows in the dock.
In one case a bumper which was al
most filled, opened in the dock, and 800
tons of garbage were deposited in the
slip. Men in boats were employed to
take up the matter that foated to the
surface. but the services OF a wrecking
company were employed to remove the
filth that sank to the bottom.
1t is said that this operation was re-
peated at other docks and In another
case a scow which had put out to sea
opened when off Fort Hamilton and tons
of city refuse found a resting place in
the main ship channel.
Since this occurrence, United States
Harbor Supervisor Delehanty has pro-
hibited the employment of such OF the
automatic bumpers as were not in good
working order.
The same bumper. No. IL, which
dropped it's 800 tons in the slip at East
snSad at the foo of West aEam
this morning. When about one-fourtl
loaded 1t was discovered that the bumper
was beginning to open. and when the
gap was about three inches wide orders
were given to discontinue loading.
The same state of affairs prevails al
Rutgers street, and. with slight varia.
tions, at Stanton street and the Other
piers where bumpers are tied UP.
The negligence which is responsible fol
such an alarming condition Is sought tt
semm1ssioner Andrew. oH the aeof
OF the Barney Dumping Compa ny,
was brought about by the actor
OF the Barney Company In reducing tn
wages OF the dumping-scow captain!
from SIS &c $12 per week. The thirteer
captains who struck afford the Barney
Dumping Company an opportunity t
save $39 every week.
Everywhere on the east and wes
sides of the city are mounds of Nth
ranging in Intensity Of odor from the
got-breeding, decayed offal whiffs thai
come from slaughter-houses. Annual
ly $3.50 1900 are appropriated to enable
the Street; Cleaning Department TO keel
the city clean. This vast sum is fount
TO be insufficient to accomplish tn,
work.
nothing of all this seems to be known
Assistant Chief Power OF the Final Dis
position Department says that all tht
bumpers, with one exception. are II
them are now loaded and ready to 20 4
sea. He evidently derives his informa
ton directly from the Barney Dumpin
Company, for at the office OF this con
Germ, $40 Broadway, an Evening World
reporter was told this morning tina
there is no truth In the statement tina
any of the bumpers are out OF order, o
that any of them have dropped thei
refuse.
1t is said by several private contract
ors for the removal of refuse that tn
seems strongly to indicate that 1t Is try
Ing to compel the city TO purchase 1t
plant and patent.
THE patent expires next year" sal
one of these men to an Evening World
reporter to-day, and all he bumper
are in such rickety copndttion thai
long even as the patent. There seem
to be no other reason why the Bnrne
Dumping Company should have preciu
tated the present strt sss than to get r,
paltry sum. when compared with IN
company's earnings to make 1t credihl
that 1t would stand, out against tn
ut certainly cannot be-" says one cit
Zen, that win s2.5OD,OOo at his comman
a street-cleaning commissioner waul
have TO stand by and see the stree
heaped up and the docks and rivers an
harbors filled in with foul reuse smpl
because thirteen sclW captains hay
struck tCr DETER pay. There must |
something else behind II all"
Owing TO the tie-up Of so many dunn
ers, private contractors, who are pa
by hotels and restaurants to rcmoN
refuse, are unable to dispose Of the loac
OF garbage that have acCumulat ted. We
terGay there were forty loaded carts
the foot of Canal street waiting t'
disposition. Supt John q. BirmnGha
would not allow these carts to be dump,
into the scowe.
At Supervisor Deiehanty's office n
Evening World' reporter was to
that 1t was more than likely that erin
inal proceedings would he institute
against the Barney Dumping Compan
under the new law, whicl makes II in
nc. Eible for the Company to Justify /
Violations on the heretofore very cor
mon plea OF accident" Resides
fine or Imprisonment or both, wniC
may result: from such rrocee iings, II
also probable that a civil suit VIII
Instituted for damage done to the ha
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