San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-15
GARBAGE BURNING,
WHERE AND HOW CITY REFUSE
is DISPOSED OF.

Waste of Raw Material-Death of a
Garbage Burner and the Cause
Scenery From the Back of a Bike
Unique Suspension Bridge.
In the hills to the north and a
little west of north OF this city is
where the garbage and refuse OF
our $1,000 citizens is daily disposed
of by that most obliterating of all
the elemeuts--fire.
Here, In the depressions caused
by nature and the hand Of man,
the pretty landscape Is dotted and
blurred with unsightly heaps OF
rubbish, indestructible by the
open. air flames that have robbed II
OF all combustlble qualities and
fit only for burial or for use in
the crucible Of some factory, which
will reduce the piles OF tangled
bale wire, hoopskirts and broken
hoops OF beer kegs to the useful bar
iron Of commerce, or the bones,
horn, etc., to fertilizer or buttons
The place was reached this week
by LIGHT man on a bicycle and
the visit well repaid the trouble, IL
it may be called trouble to ride out
on a smooth road, past thrifty gar
deners' homes, with their adjacent
acres OF garden truck almost, il
not ready for the reaper; past the
busy cement works; past trees
heavily bearded with picturesque
Spanish. moss; past the county
poorhouse and farm, we'll kept and
looking a comfortable home for our
county wards, or past the creek
like branches OF the head waters of
our river, covered in many places
with great patches OF the aquatic
lily, in bloom, and past quaint
Mexican huts that look more like
the Yankee boys field traps for
birds and rabbits than like actual
residences.
All these were passed by and
the impressions Of rural life were
frightened by the sight.
Winding up hill and over old
lava rock that reverberated with
every football, instancing the fact
that there are subterranean assures
below that may hold caves of more
magnitude than the famous ono in
Kentucky, the reporter pushed his
wheel, until the dense smoke and
the smell of burning hay, mingled
with other less odorous puffs, told
him % his destination. Piles OF
tin cans, that formerly contained
fruits or meats, put up in the great
markets of the world, here lay
around on every side. Were these
in Chicago they would be purchased
by thrifty contractors from the
haulers or the city, and
their tin coating and tin and lead
solder would be melted off and
sold at the market price OF 20 cents
per pound, while the sheet iron res
due would be sold to the furnace
men. There is a great quantity of
Did copper, wash-boiler bottoms,
Juho0 DOiltE DObtOuuo, piOSoo VI SOp-
per pipe, with many bits of brass
castings, zinc tubs, worn out, of
old gasoline stoves and a
world of barrel and beer keg hoops,
I'll of which are to an extent valua.
Die, but here are being wasted and
)ut out of sight when it can be
lone.
A great deal of yard garbage,
uch as mown grass, weeds and
rec branches, was being burned.
This is not properly garbage, but
he haulers are good natured and
take it up.
Their care l6 garbage carts which,
With great regularity, make two
Dads a day, or 80 loads in all. The
asst loads are brought in about
o'clock p. m. and by the time they
re dumped it is quitting time for
he men. Each garbage cart aud
Iauler receives $40 per month I'M
err the new arrangement with the
it, &athe burner s1N2 YES $50 /
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