The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
new CREMATORY TROUBLE
Smith System Maybe Adopted,
But Will Il?
MR.. WARFIELD'S POSITION
He Thinks the Smith Representatives
Have Had Time Enough, But Is
Afraid the Dixon People May Not
Meet Their PrOmises-COnd
Necessary to Success Adopted.

AT hearing given yesterday by the
Commissioners 10 Mr.. Joshua N. Warfield
| the garbage contractor, il TRANSFERRED that
| il the owners of the Smith method OF Gre
| nation Will contract to put in furnace
| That Will efficiently destroy District gar
| bdge at as low a figure as any other, the
/ next one to be constructed will be of that
| pattern. III Tor any reason an agreement
| cannot he reached with the Smith people,
then Mr.. Warfield has the privilege or
contracting Tor DiAon IurLice, ana III
! case neither OF these shall be available,
new arrangements will be necessary.
That is to say. Mr. Warfeld will come
AGAIN To the commissioners, III that event,
for instructions. He has been told that
either of the two systems mentioned will
be acceptable to the board. but as the
case now stands. he is not obliged to ac-
cept either. He is privileged to make
The best terms possible, 50 far as cheapness
,, OF construction aud economy Of operation
are concerned.
When Mr.. WarfieId appeared before
the Commissioners yesterday, he stated
that. obedient to Instructions, Oh the second
of september, he had notified MIR. Cyrus
Boegner OF Philadelphia, representative
of the Smith Company. that site had
been selected for second crelnatory, and
he was asked il the company was ready
to enter into bond according TO the menio-
randum agreement previously entered into
with Mr.. Warrield.
SMITH PEOPLE IN DOUBT.
The latter received response on the
9th instant that Mr.. Boegner would see
him on the following day, which he did
but 10 definite conclusion was reached,
and ON the 18th Boegner was Informed by
letter that u explicit answer must bc given
ON or before the succeeding Wednesday.
1t was stipulation maue by MT boegner
that he should make a test of the Smith
plant i'll Philadelphia as to its capacity and
cost Of operating, and Contractor Warfield,
believing that sufficient tine had elapsed
for the ma king OF that test, told him i'll the
letter Of the 12th that he must meet him
at once TO settle matters. To this he re-
ceived answer that it was impossible to
meet him this week, but Mr.. Warfield was
asked To come to Philadelphia, and this he
will do at once.
The question OF &C cepting the Dixon arose
at the hearing, and Mr. Warfield said the
Dixon Company has no furnace, so far as
he knows, that will destroy dead animals.
He also stated that the Dixon representa-
tives had gotten him into one hole, and he
did not want them TO put him into another.
He wanted definite understanding.
WAKEFIELD FOOLED ONCE BY DIXON.
His reference to the trouble caused him by
the DIXON Company Is uhderstoou 10 nave
reference to the claim once made that its
furnace would destroy the garbage at the
rate of 20 cents ton, but which was
afterward withdrawn.
Mr.. Warfield was assured by the Com
missioners that they were not disposed to
drive him into taking a Dixon crematory.
The contractor is quite willing to accept
the Smith furnace upon the representa-
tons made OF its capacity and economy,
I.lf hinf is avid lon hat 10 Thnf
whatever system Shall be adopted, II will
have to consume garbage at not to exceed
% cents per ton, must be satisfactory
from a sanitary point of view, and cost
no more for construction than did the
one now in existence.
The matter is likely to be settled at an
early day, and competition seems Still to
be open to the three prominent systems
heretofore always in the local field-the
Brown, the Smith and the Dixon.
The Dixon people seem to be confident
OF finally getting the contract.