Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-24
A Proposition for Rejection Of the
Cremation Process
MEETS WITH COMMISSIONERS FAVOR
The Reduction Method to Be
Tried at Country Site.
SUGGESTED BY CONTRACTOR

There is every indication that within a
short time there will be an entire change
in the method of disposing of the city's
garbage. Reduction will be substituted for
cremation. and The system will be inaugur-
ated at a point least eight miles outside
OF the District of Columbia. This is briefly
the plan proposed by the garbage con-
tractor. and 1t is believed. in view of the
unsatisfactory results obtained from ere
melton. that the Commissioners Will ap-
prove it.
Cremation in the District has not been
successful. The failures recorded have con-
WINGED the Commissioners of this, and with
the unsatisfactory results ending in the
condemnation of the Smith crematory, they
nave concluded that Washington must have
another and a better system with which 10
dispose of its refuse.
snort time ago. when it was found that
me smith crematory was not sanitary, the
commissioners sent for Contractor War
neld, and held q long conference with him
upon the subject of garbage disposal They
ordered. in the first place. the abandon
n>ent or the crematory, and directed him
would be satisfactory
RMS the contractor has DONE and Man.
aeer Bayly was at the District building
this afternoon discussing the proposed plan
Advantages of the Plum.
MI Bayly stated under the new arrange
ment there would be no occasion for cit
liens associations to pass resolutions of
concentration. and that citizens living in
any part of the District would have no
reason to complain of foul-smelling gar
hage He stated in the first place that the
wharf at the foot of G street. where gar
page has heretofore been dumped upon
scows when the garbage navy was neces-
Sary, would be abandoned, and that a re-
ceivins plant would be erected upon the
compahy's wharf at the foot of South Cap
itol street.
This building will he fitted with a huge
hopper, into which all of the garbage, as
soon as it is collected. will be dumped. The
hopper Is to communicate with scows. upon
which are placed a number of water-tight
metallic tanks. These tanks are to he al
Solutely waterproof with tight-fitting COW
ers, and have an estimated capacity of five
tors. Each scow is to be provided with
several of these tanks. and as soon as one
Is filed and properly closed. another will
be brought into service, and so on, until
the scow Is loaded.
When this is done a tug will come along
side and the scOw will be lowed some eight
or ten miles down the river. where the
contractor owns a large farm. At the
further end of this farm about a mile from
the river. the latest improved reduction
plant will be erected and a gravity railroad
constructed to the water front. AS soon as
a scowload of tanks arrives they will be
lifted one after another to the elevated rail-
way and run by gravity to the reduction
plant, where the garbage will be treated.
The tanks will be thoroughly cleaned be-
fore they are sent back to the city. In
this way. Manager Bayly says, the con-
tractor believes he will satisfacto rily dis
pose of all the garbage in sanitary man
ner and without exciting any objection.
Should the River Freeze.
Should the river freeze over and naviga-
ton become impossible, he says the reduc-
ton works will be shut down and the
Brown crematory, at the foot of Sout h
Capitol street, operated until the river
opens and navigation becomes possible He
laid particular stress upon the advantages
Of this system, and called attention to the
fact that the q street wharf was aban-.on-
ed because of the fact that the garbage
would have to be hauled along the entire
river front, which would not only be eX-
pensive, but unsatisfactory. He is DESTROYS
however, of having the Commissioners i'm
carts will not all be forced to traverse one
street on their way to the wharf.
The plan, it is understood, meets with the
approval of the Commissioners. althoug h
as yet they have not had the matter pre-
scented to them officially. 1t will probably
come up during the present week.