Milford chronicle., 1896-07-17
HAS SHE SOLVED lT1
The Garbage Problem May Have to Yield
to Woman's Ingenuity.

The Garbage Problem May Have to Yield
to a Woman's Ingenuity.
Dr. NJ II Bowen has solved the gar
bage problem She has succeeded, after
two weHks' work, in bringing about such
union Of effort between housewives, serv-
ant girls and garbage contractors that GER
tain parts of the Eleventh ward show no
I sign of i'll smelling, disease breeding gar
1 bage boxes and are 81 clean that residents
do not recognize their own house fronts
and rears. DR. Bowen has introduced an
element Of music into the problem, and
the success of the experiment. is attested by
nearly all the physicians living in the
ward
One of the drivers of Contractor Powell,
who has the garbage contract for the ward,
has been armed with a horn At the sound
Of this housewives and servant girls bring
out to the wagon in metal receptacles the
garbage which has been collected during
the previous "a hours This does away with
the necessity of the ordinary wooden boxes.
which soon become saturated with filth,
and whether empty or full are constant
breeders of disease. 1t is proposed to give
every driver one Of these horns, and as fast
as the houses arc provided with the covered
metal receptacles, which can be kept in
the yard, the new system will be extended
over the entire ward
DIR. Bowen was led to undertake the
work by the condition of the alley in the
rear of her residence BY a house to house
canvass she finally succeeded in persuading
all the residents in the block to get the
metal rcceptacles and to do away with the
wooden ones. Then she explained her plan
to Contractor Powell who saw its advan-
m nj md al
low the driver on that route to play the
horn which would be furnished him by the
residents
Having cleaned up the alley in the rear
Of her own residence, DR. Bowen began to
extend her operations She gave two hours
every day to the missionary work. The
next place attacked was Ogden place, be-
tween Ogden avenue and Paulina street.
There the wooden boxes sent their microbe
laden smells heavcnward from the curb
stones DR. Bowen found some difficulty
in persuading the residents of the efficacy
of the metal rcceptacles to lie emptied at |
the sound of the horn Some of the house /
holders charged her with being in the pay !
of the contractor She therefore considered /
it advisable to procure credentials from 1
the physicians of the ward BY dint Of /
many visits and much talking DR.. Bowen /
in banishing the foul wooden 1
boxes from the locality and in putting in F.
operation the born blowing system
Superintendent Rhode of the street and
alley cleaning bureau has given Dr.. Bowen
every encouragement and says her system
will solve the problem Il also has the
sanction of the Civic federation DR.
Bowen said yesterday:
1.-The point for which am working is
The abolition Of the wooden garbage box,
with filth to such degree that
wen when empty it is serious menace to
public health I shall not stop my work
until the entire Eleventh ward is free from
ihe wooden garbage box. l am now pre-
laring a circular which will be sent to
very house in the ward, so that when
all my mission will be understood When
he system has been thoroughly tried
hall endeavor 10 secure the passage Of an
ordinance making the system obligatory
throughout the city Chicago Record
and Contraction of Water.
At meeting of the Edinburgh PhilO-
optical society an experiment showing the
Of water above the freezing
,oint was exhibited The water operated
N was contained in glass jar, about (
nches in diameter and about IS inches /
Ugh. The changes in its density were ,
learly shown by the ascent ard descent of
olored glass balls each about an inch in
iametcr When the water was ice cold, ,
he balls were all at the bottom, bat grad I
ALLY, us the warmth Of the rooE was conn ,
to the water, its contraction
nd consequent increase Of density caused !
he balls to rise. As the water approached {
he state Of greatest density the heavier
alls were seen To move about in an ir I
OCULAR and srasmodic maLLcr, probably I
b consequence Of tie currents in the fluid (
aused by tie c.4snEcs that were taking /
lace in its tenn erature- In the course Of /
II hour, the point Of nuszinlUm density /
aving heen PASSED, the balls began TO de- y
rond in reverse order and soon grouped to- i
ether on the bottom ag;iin.--St Louis /
sepuhlie I