The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
no other.
THAT GARBAGE vExATION.
Joint Council Committee still Strug-
giles With 1t.

The specifications governing the col
lection Of garbage during the year 1897,
were further considered yesterday at
ternOon by the special joint committee
appointed to prepare the specifications.
Health Commissioner Stone, who was
present, offered a number of SuggeS-
tions which will undoubtedly be adopt
ed and recommended by the committee
as soon as they are submitted to
quorum only three members Of the
ccpmittee Of six being in attendance
yesterday.
DR.. Stone informed the committee at
the outset that in his opinion the work
of collecting and removeing the gar
bage and dead animals, could not be
done properly for less than $751; a
year. For that sum, he thought that
the contra ctor could do it reasonably
well. AS an illustration of the inability
of any garbage contractor to collect
the garbage with Is teams, Dr. Stone
said that he started out with his horse
and buggy the other day and stopped
in front of every house on both sides
of Summit avenue for the entire length
of the street, and it took him seven
hours to cover the territory. AS there
are about 3S2 miles Of streets to be
travelled by the garbage contractors
teams, each team would be obliged to
cover 43 miles a day in order to take
in the houses on both sides of the
various streets. This it was conceded,
was impossible.
Dr. Stone assured the committee that
If the appropriation for the health de-
partment was increased sufficiently to
enable him to employ an inspector,
whom he could trust, he would guar
antee that the garbage would be col
lected. The incomplete manner in
which the work had been done for the
past few years, was simply make
ehift.
N"The report of the health department
far the last month";" continued DIR.
SASie, showed the health of the city
oHPSt. Paul to be the best i'll the world,
but if the council will let a proper gar
bage contract whereby the contractor
can thoroughly clean the city and pro-
vide the health department with means
of effectually inspecting the work, I
can cut down the death rate one-half."
DR.. Stone recommended that the
clause in the specifications requiring
the contractor to haul the garbage 10
miles outside the city limits, he amend
ed so as to provide for hauling the ma
terial to New Brighton, where it will
be disposed by the rendering process
New Brighton is only six miles from
the city limits and is the only avail
able place which the garbage can be
disposed of.
DR.. Stone declared that several loads
of garbage had been deposited on the
Langham farm. and others had been
fed to hogs within half a mile Of the
city limits. Mr.. Shepley, of the firm of
Fielding & Shepley, the garbage con-
tractors, denied that this was true,
and said the doctor had been misin-
formed The dortOr replied that he
had seen the garbage on the land in
question.
AS for the provision prohibiting the
garbage contractor from loading gar
bage on the railroad cars within the
city limits, DR.. Stone deemed it the
wisest policy under the circumstances,
to permit the garbage contractor to
load the garbage on the 500 cars just
inside the city limits. At the sugges-
ton of Mr.. Shepley, it was decided to
further amend the specifications so
far to require the garbage contra ctor
to haul the dead animals all the way
to New Brighton by team, instead of
transferring them to the cars.
DR.. Stone also recommended that the
fine for every failure to collect and re-
move garbage as required by the con-
tract be 81 instead Of % cents, and
that in case 250 complaints for the nom
removal Of garbage prove upon inspec-
ton by the health department to be
well founded, then the council should
have power to annul the contract by a
twO-third vote. To make the proper
inspection, would, so Dr. Stone said,
necessitate an increase in his force.