The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-10
AGAIN THE "GRABBAGE"
BOARD OF HEALTH KEPT BUSY MOL
LIFYING INDIGNANT CITIZENS.
Garbage Man Declares It's All Along
o. the People at the CrematOry
Being Too Slow.

The busiest place in the City Hall yester-
day was the Office of the city Board Of
Health From o'clock in the morning
until the hour of closing last night there
were kicks over the phone and kicks
over the counter And they were all against
the garbage man.
We're fighting the garbage man to-day"
said City Controller johnson, hopping his
perspiring brow. Whats the matter with
that garbage MANI" inquired a firm voice
over the phone. oh he's all right" re-
piled Clerk Collins.
yes, but he don't get around our way
any more" was the rejoinder, and so it
went all day. All kinds of complaints were
registered yesterday, Notwithstanding the
additional teams and wagons put into SER
vice yesterday morning. Contractor Nc
Carthy said he had thirty wagons at work
ana expected to put on fourteen more this
morning. He intends making an effort to
get the city cleaned up by Sunday morn
ing. Mccarthy is putting all the teams
ana men into service the city sends him.
He is paying 81 a day for teams and claims
he is glad to get them at that. Yesterday
morning members of the Board of Health
and Board of Works had an interview with
the contractor and the managers of the
desiccating plant at the Sellers farm. These
people were Informed that they must make
some arrangement to dispose Of the gar
bage more rapidly. The promise was made
that tSe plant would be in shape in a day
or two SO that all the garbage brought
there can be consumed as fast as it is de-
livered. Contractor Mccarthy declares the
Sellers farm people are responsible for
much of the delay
I've been dumping from forty to fifty
tons of garbage each day at the plant"
said the contractor yesterday evening, and
they are not able to get away with it, The
garbage l dumped there yesterday lies
there yet to-day NV teams have been de-
layed as much as two or three hours at the
plant. We are trying to reorganize the sys-
tenn OF collecting garbage, and 1T will take
little time to get things running smooth
ly. If people would only put the garbage
receptacle where my men can get hold of it
readily it would greatly expedite matters.
l know OF enc man who Keeps the gar
page barrel in the cellar, and, of course, we
don't empty it. We are not required to go
into cellars by our contract"
DR.. Morrison says he has understood that
the collectors employed by Mccarthy don
take the trouble to find the garbage barrel,
but drive by many houses without getting
off their wagons. He says some of the
collectors have declined to take paper and
paSteboard found in the garbage barrel. He
knew OF one instance where a woman on
the North Side was compelled to roll up her
sleeve and remove waste paper from the
garbage receptacle when the collector re-
fused to take it. 1t is a part of the con-
tract that waste paper must be included as
garbage. Contractor Mccarthy says his
men are willing to take garbage from any
style OF receptacle so that 1T is in the
proper place
Among the complaints received by DR..
Clark, secretary of the Board of Health,
yesterday, the following on a postal
card and signed Rank Weeds
Since 1T has come to pass that the gar
a M of aXraF1 chnr1
with the ak and brush scythe tackle that
forest Of weeds on the west side of Ala
bama street, one-half square south of new
Fifteenth street Have them go prepared
with ak, cross-cut saw, oxen, etc, and
don't send boys"