Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-09

| The garbe ge is taken by the carriers into
| the building, where it is lifted by an ele-
vator to the second floor. and there taken
| by a second series of carriers ard dumped,
automatically, into large tanks, for diSes s.
| ton by steam under pressure. When a
| tank fs filled, it is tightly closed and the
steam Is allowed to enter. When sufficient
| " cookeH, the resulting mass passes into
| large covered tank made OF iron and sit
| uated directly below the digesters. From
| this tank it is drawn. as needed, between
pressing cloths and mats for pressing. The
mats. when filed are transferred to pow
| erfuf presses near by, operated by steam.
All liquid is then squeezed out and flows,
| through channels under tho floor, into
| large watts, in tn, same room, where 1t =
| allowed to remain until the grease can be
| dipped off the water, which has settled to
! the bottom. The floor of the room Is OF
| concrete, and is provided, everywhere with
cutters to carry to the settling tank any
| liquid accidentally spilled. All grease is col
| lected into large iron receptacies cnd par
| relied and stored in a separate room.
| 1.-The mass remaining in the Oil press.
now quite dry and hard, is taken on an
| elevator to the second floor, where 1t Is
| partially broken by hand. rags ana othef
| foreign substances being picked out at the
| same time, so not to Interfere WIN
| grinding. The breaking is compieted IN d
| breaker. The material is then dried on the
| first floor by steam driers and afterward
| ground. screened and bagged, ready Tor
| sale for the manufacture OF fertilizer.
| THE building is provided throughout
| with tracks ana trucks 10 1aClittate
| ling all ms teral. Escaping gases from the
| driers and digesters pass through condens-
ers. but the superintendent of the WORKS
| did not know whether those not condensed
| were afterward burned or not. l saw no
| evidence of this being done. Refuse water
| finds it's way direct into the Schuylkill
This establishment is owned by the
| American Incinerating Company, Whlch
| street and Washington avenue. 1t has
| been in use but short time. The material
utilized is pure garbage, all combnstiDie
waste being separated and burned.
| AT the time of inspection about two
carloads of garbage were being handled
| on the platform, and was neither more nor
! less Objectionable than two cart loads or
! Washington garbage would be in any local
/ ity The carriers necessarily filthy
| whenever in use, and with the exposed
garbage, tankage and liquid waste, are
| constant sources of foul doors, to remedy
| which no provision has been made. Three
| of the empty digesting tanks were open
and steaming and each carrier in the sec
ond story was dumping on the floor sew
| eral pounds of garbage that saouid nave
| gone into the tank. Both of these defects
| were due apparently to neglect on the part
of the employees. but are cited as showing
| possibilities.
| this plant. the cost of manipulating given
| amount of garbage or the value of the pro-
| duct.
1.-THE Arnold process of reduction, as rep
resented in the plant above described, may
| probably be operated without inconvenience
| to neighbors when located as that plant is,
| at considerable distance from them, but
not otherwise.
The Brown Cremntory.
1.-The Brown crematory has been in use
In Wilmington. Del. for nineteen months
! 1t is owned and operated by the municipal
authorities and is under the immediate
supervision CT the board of health. 1t is
situated about three-quarters of a mile
from the center of the city, not far from
the Delaware river, in a neighborhood oc-
cupied chiefly by manufactures, etc. Close
to 1t passes a canal into which enlpties the
drainage from a number Of morocco tan
| neries. and from which emanates stencil
worse than anything Of the kind in Wash
ington.
The furnace is constructed to burn fifty
| tons of pure garbage in twelve hours. It is
lnclosed by an iron building, and is con-
structed that the garbage is discharged
into 1t directly from the cart This fur
mace IS about thirty feet long, ten wide
and ten high. 1t contains an iron CRATE
of peculiar construction. The furnace IS
lined inside with fire brick and ncased in
a water Jacket to prevent overheatng of
the furnace itself. On top arc ten openings
through which garbage is rut in, and on
each side corresponding with these, are
twenty openings, ten above the CRATE
| through which the garbage is leveied. and
| ten below through which the ashes are
drawn. The chimney is situated at one
| Petroleum is used as fuel. 1t is stored in
reservoir outside of the building and is
| pumped into the burner as rapidly as may
| be needed. The burner consists of three
| concentr.c tubes, through one of which
| passes the petroleum. through another dry
| steam, ard through the third the hot gases
| from just over the burning garbage. These
| combine and give as in the roof CT the fur
| mace the entrance.
'"The same engine which punps the oil
| also operates a blower, drawing warm air
| from inside the building near the roof and
| forcing 1t into the furnace in such quantity
ard at such places it may be required
The draft within the furnace is direct.d
| by the blower. away from the fue above
| the CRATE. and, in order to reach the Chin
ney. passes in the opposite direction under
| meath.
THE carts empty their contents directly
| into the furnace. Failing on the CRATE it
ing over it, and again below by the flame
| passing underneath. Any particles OF gar
bage and any liquid, passing thro4h the
CRATE, are destroyed by the flame below.
mace from the top may be raked down
and distributed evenly over the crate
through the openings in the side. The
ashes are drawn from the lateral openings
| below the crate.
The amount of fuel supplied and the
| draft of the furnace are determined by me-
| chancai means, and independent cf atnos-
| pheric conditions
|
! garbage and one barrel Of fish put into the
| furnace. and rapidly disappear without
| creating any odor whatever. The garbage
contained a large proportion of water.
| Some smoke escaped from the openings in
| the top of the furnace when they were an
| covered for the dumping of carts. but this
| seemed to occur only when openings in the
side and top were uncovered at the same
| time.
"NIr. w. c. r. Colquhoun, secretary of the
| board of health, states that during the
| nineteen months in which this furnace has
| been in operation only one complaint
| against 1t has been received, and shat was
| found to be due to other causes.
| This furnace could, ] believe. be op-
Grated in any part of this city without nui-
| SanCe
NO reference has been made above to the
i ability of any Of the above methods t. dis
| pose OF dead amin ais, but 1t is claimed in
| each instance that such material can be
| handled without nuisance. I am satisfied
| that such claim IS correct"
| Stole Property.
| George WATSON. sixteen years old, was
| placed under arrest today by Detectives
| Horne and Weldon and locked Up on a
| charge CT stealing carriage lamps and
| nj nor halOpsjpp fo ia of