Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-25
THE GARBAGE PROBLEM
Mr. Bayly Has His Innings Before the Com
missionsrs Today
He and Mr.. Warfield State That Mr.
Stewart Docs Not Represent the
Baltimore Contractors.

| 1t did not require the services of a very
! expert prophet yesterday to foresee further
| complications i'll the now-famous garbage
| problem" at whose solution the District
| fathers striving so manfully. Before
| long, however, it will require the services
| of an expert to see daylight through the
| maze of contractors, crematories, repre-
| sentatives of crematories and contractors
in which the Commissioners are becoming
| involved 1t is a question of who's who
and what's what.
In the daily see-saw which has been going
on around the District building it was Mr..
Stewards turn yesterday to be up and AIr.
Bayly's turn to be down. Today the con-
ditions are reversed. Mr.. Bayly is trying
| his hand at soaring, while Mr.. Stewart is
| in the-in Baltimore.
| Monday Prof. Anderson, the president of
| the crematory company, and his attorney,
| Mr.. W. Cranch Mcintyre, appeared before
| the board to present number of PROPOSE
| tions that were of a generally satisfactory
| character. Mr.. Arthur Stewart was with
| them, representing himself to be an attor-
ney for the Warfield company, the con-
| tractors for the destruction of garbage, and
he spoke in the most favorable terms of
the Anderson system and also chipped in
when it came to making suggestions and
propositions. Tuesday Mr.. S. P. Bayly, the
Washington representative of the Warfield
company, caused some CONSERVATION by
ing that the Warfield people entirely re-
pudiated his connection with them and that
Stewart really represented the crematory
company. Yesterday Mr.Mc1ntyre and Prof.
Anderson had their innings and insisted
that Mr.. Stewart was what he said lie was
and that his credentials were of gilt
edged character. They said there was q
misunderstanding somewhere.
MIR. BnyIy's Turn Today.
Today Mr.. Bayly insists that while there
hot
there ought to be, the fault was with the
other side, not iwth HIM. He called upon the
Commissioners this afternoon, armed with
a letter from Mr. Harry F. Turner. who is
Mr.. Warield's agent in Baltimore during
his absence from the city The letter was
addressed to Mr.. Bayly and was as fol-
lows:
had no intention in his statement to the
Commissioners of implying that he Off
cally represented the contractor. His de-
sire was to have the Commissioners under
stand that he knew the contractor wanted
the best system and was in accord with
the Commissioners and the health officer
in their efforts to secure such a system,
and that believing the Anderson system
of incneration and reduction combined was
the best, he asked the Commissioners and
health officer to examine his experiment,
which. il successful and satisfactory to
the Commissioners, would be satisfactory
to the contractor"
This statement can with difficulty be
reconciled with the one Mr.. Stewart made
Monday in the presence of the Commission
ers and the newspaper reporters. To Mr..
Bayly and to reporter, both, Mr.. Stew
art stated the day after the hearing that
he represented the contractor in the mat
ter.
AS if to clinch his side of the contention
Mr.. Bayly had with him today Mr.. Joshua
Warfield, the Baltimore contractor, who
had come over to Washington 10 see if he
cOnll ipb ont ba
were granted hearing by the Commits
SionerS.
1t was not a long one, hut it was long
enough for Mr.. Warfel6 to state explicitly |
that Mr.. Stewart had no official connection |
with the contractor, and if the Commits |
sioners had the idea that he old there was |
mistake somewhere. The Commissioners |
evidently had such en- idea, for Mr. Trues- |
dell stated that that was the impression |
he had received at Mondays hearing.
Probably Some misunderstanding,
There was PROBABLY some misunder- |
said Mr.. Rcss
Yes, probably some misunderstanding"
said Mr.. Warfield. Mr. Stews rt might have
felt authoriz ed 20 say that the contractor |
was anxious to secure the best crematory.
Any one might have said that much, but
he had no official authority from us to say
even that. He had no right to give the i'm
preston that We were predisrcsed in favor
of the Anderson system, for we are not
We are looking for the best, and for one
that will satisfy you gentlemen, but we are
lot bound down to any system at ALL"
The hearing was brought to a close with
a request from Mr.. Warfeld that if the
Commissioners should make an examina-
ton of the Anderson system, which is to
make test n Chicago he be notified and
be permitted to witness it also. This was
granted.
And so closed another scene in this most
curious comedy of errors. What will to-
morrow bring forth?