Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-06
Hoover & Snyder,
H2Iz Pa. Ave. N. w.
should be more rigid in enforcing regula-


lions.
Your committee is emphatically in favor
of removing the garbage and disposing OF II
at a distance from the city. For the dis
destruction and its utilization. Both plans
have advocates and both plans have ad-
vantages. With regard to economy. there
can be no question but that the latter plan
is the cheaper. In fact, properly managed,
it may be made source of revenue. In the
destruction of garbage, while theoretically
it may appear to be the healthier method.
there is a loss of the money expended. In
the utilization of garbage. the method need
not be unhealthy, and yet 1t may be made
remunerative.
Disposal.
"Your committee is in favor of the latter.
as the city itself could do it. or make a more
advantageous contract than where destruc-
ton of garbage is the plan. In the utilization
of garbage there are two plans which have
been adopted in different places. Both con-
template the rendition of the garbage so as to
extract from 1t valuable residua. One is
by boiling and expressing: the other is by
distillation. In the former plan, the gar
bage is cooked by boiling. run out into large
watts, squeezed in presses and the grease
fioated off from the water and the solid part
dried and ground into tankage for fertil-
izers. In the latter plan, the garbage is dis
titled in steam-tight digesters, and after all
moisture is expelled, the grease is extracted
from the dry tankage and the solid part
ground into fertilizer The salient difference
between the two, from a sanitary stand
point, is that in the former the heated sub
stance is exposed in a liquid form TO the
| atmosphere and throws off Objectionable
odors; in the latter all odorS pass off with
the water of condensation and do not come
out into the air. The former plan was tried
in this city and the merits thereof fully can
vassed. The latter plan is in use in St
Louis, Buffalo, Milwaukee and Detroit.
rnannhar rOnmlffaa q
thorough and detailed examination of the
working of the system in the city Of Detroit
and from his report we are of opinion that
Ii is the best system devised for disposal OF
the garbage Of city. The garbage is col
lected daily in metallic boxes, which are
carried in cars to the factory, twenty miles
from the city. After the cover Of the box
is closed on the last lot of garbage put in, II
is not opened until the box arrives at the
factory. Hence there is an entire absence
of any disagreeable or offensive odor from
garbage in the city.
From what we can learn, we would
recommend the system of distillation fol-
the disposal of garbage and that the factory
be beyond the city limits.
"W. II. Singleton, chairman; Archc
Greenlees, William Birney, NJ. /. Weller"
Opposed to tie Contract System.
This report gave rise to a general dis
cussion of the subject OF garbage collection,
and the opinion was expressed that a sys-
TEN of letting contracts for the collection OF
garbage to the lowest bidder resulted most
unsatisfactory, as experience has shown
| that when a contractor, who had taken his
contract too low failed to perform the SER
vice efficiently, the District government had
no way of making him do so. A resolu-
ton drawn by DR.. Billings was adopted, as
! follows: THAT it is the opinion of the coun-
/ ell that the collection of the garbage of the
city of Washington can be best effected by
employees OF the District government and
| II is desirable that the law should be so
changed as to permit this 1t is believed
| that satisfactory results, from a sanitary
point of view, can never be obtained by CIV
/ iEg the work out by contracts to the lowest
bidder"
Mrs. Frederick Harnden and Mrs. Charles
W. Richardson were appointed members OF
! the ladies' committee on sanitary house
keeping. and Mrs Laura A. Talbot was
elected member Of the league.