The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-25
GOVERNOR AT QUARANTINE
CONVINCED THAT THE BARREN ISL
AND NUISlNCE MUST GO.

He Favors n Crematory for City Garbage
and Says It's Mistake to Try to Mako
Money Out of the stun or Garry IL Out
to Sea in BarRss-whnt He Saw Yesterday
Gov. Roosevelt was met at the Thirty. ninth
street ferry. South Brooklyn. yesterday morn
Ing by Health 0f1lcer Alvah H. Doty with the
Quarantine : steamer Gov. Flower. They
crossed the bay to the boarding station at CHI
ton. Staten Island. landing at 10 o'clock. Gov.
Roosevelt was accom- panied BY Senator Plat.
who knows the quarantine sstabllshm emit, hav-
Ing served as q Quarantine Com miasio Toner and
Ipsnt one summer on swinburns Island. Mrs.
Plat. Capt. Nicoll Ludlow. U. 8. N. Lemuel Z.
Quige. Mrs. QuigR. Mrs. Hassn Of WASHINGTON
and Capt. John o. Fremont. Supervisor Of the
Harbor. were alec in.the:party. At the board
Ing station the Governor met Senator John
Ford. who 10 stoppinR-at Clifton.
The party landsd-nt the Quaran tic e.station
and walked about the grounds. They visited
the ARCHAEOLOGICAL laboratory. whsre DR.. Doty
produces the yellow fever serum. This build
ing 10 fitted with all the modern appliances for
laboratory work and Is under tho supervision
OF Dr. Doty's assistant. DR.. c. b. Fitzpatrick.
The disinfecting boat James ". Wadsvorth
was o, much:interest to the Governor. After
seeing the Quarantine station and winburne
Island and going as near as was prudent to
Barren Island. the party steamed UP to Grants
Tomb. They had luncheon on the tug. On
the way back all OF them except the Governor
get off the boat at the battery, The Governor
went on to Long Island City. which he reached
He selected a quiet seat outside the station.
r1I MS ,nS ~ Of ks
read long Without interruption. FRS. ono
had l.5n e lay III: Liis Of Cromwell aside Tos
thoroughly convinced that tho Barren Island
1ue.a % TN mpst b. abH,ed bill vas Intro
Flat ia1ored Il. but Health 6 SaI Do.y 1a and
Capt. Fremont opposed IT, heoanse II would
kind, Q, garbage a. Barren Island lp The sum:
. es1 OsSG ssf
whom i appoipted and in whom hav. every
the continuation Of the nuisance.
1t Is my opinion that the city should. not
garbage. don't know what profit thsrs is in
1t TOR tho several concerns which reduce the
glue. &C. but there must be biz one in the the
enterprise or else men could not be found 70
engage In such Web an, an oecuDation But hrofs
the wind is In certain directions the odor on
shore IRON tn. garbage reduction works on
big enough and rich enough to stop making
money 10 this way. 1t should o as is.dono.in
many other big cities-cremate it's garbage.
This would cost something. but what the city
Nigh lose In that direction 1t would gain in the
health OF It's citizens.
1T Is useless to talk Of taking the garbage
thirty miles out 70 sea. looked to-day at the
barges which are supposed to be able 20 do
this work. and they are unit for IT, As mat
ter Of fact. We saw some barges dump gar aRe
a few miles from the Hook
Il shall favor at the next session OF the
LEGISLATURE o bill 10 do away with the scheme
to make money out OF garbage on Barren
only to have 1t drift up along the coast, endan-
earring the lives OF the seacoast residents. am
In idSor OF irematmry lor the CITY Raroasei
OF utilizing sewage bv having II drained on
to fiat lands away from the city. whore 1t can be
useful as fertilizer"