Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-20
THE GARBAGE CONTRACTS
SEALED BIDS OPENED AT DISTRICT
BUILDlNG TODAY.
Proposals Are for the Collection and
Disposal Of All Refuse,
Including Ashes.

Proposals were opened at the District
building today for the collection and dis
posal of garbage, dead animals, night soil,
miscellaneous refuse and ashes in the Dis
trict during a ferioa of five years, COM
mencing July 1, 1000, or as soon thereafter
as practicable. Five bids were received,
ard were as follows:
r. v. Rusk of Washington, D. C-For the
collection and disposal of night soil, SIT, 900
per annum; for the collection and disposal
of ashes, $4,000 per annum. The night
soil, Mr.. Rusk explained in his proposal is
to be removed beyond the District, and he
proposes to dump the ashes at such points
as may be designated by the Commission
ers.
American Contracting and Manufacturing
Company of Philadephia-For the collec-
ton and disposal Of garbage and dead ami
mails, SCI 200 or 200 per annun, accord
ing to the collections to be ordered; for COL
lection and disposal of garbage, dead ami
mails and miscellaneous refuse, ST. 200
$4,000 per annum, according to collections
ordered. This concern proposes to dispose
of garbage and such waste by reduction
process the plant to be located outside the
District.
z. F. McGill of Troy, N. Y.-For the col
lection and disposal of garbage, dead ami
mails, ashes and all other refuse S1O6, 900
per annum. Mr.. McGill proposes if his bid
is accepted, to erect two crema tories, with
a total destruction capacity of 40 tons per
day; small animals to be burned and the
large ones transported to Mann's factory on
the river between here and Alexandria. Mr..
McGil also proposes to collect and burn.
when so directed by the health officer, all
infected clothing, bedding, &C.; to maintain
a central Office connected by telephone and
to erect his crematorieS within eighty days
after the awarding of the contract to him.
Lester Furnace Company Of Atlanta, Ga
For the collection and disposal of garbage,
ashes and all other waste and refuse, $225,-
600 per annum. This company proposes to
erect two furnaces, one at Water and 22d
streets and the other at the foot of South
Capitol street, or wherever the Commits
sioners may decide, with a total destruction
capacity of 200 tons every twenty-fo
hours, the furnaces to be ready for opera
ton the Goth of next November. Between
July 1 and that date the company proposes
to utilize the plant Of the present con-
tractor.
General American Reduction Company of
New Jersey-For the collection and disposal
of garbage and dead animals, $S5 900 per
annum. This company proposes to erect
it's reduction plant at Sandy Bar farm
Maryland. below Alexandria, Va, where
the garbage of the District is now said to
be taken, sulphuric acid being one of the
principal agents in the reduction of the
refuse.
In the pending District appropriation act
as 1t passed the Senate, the sum of $1,000
is provided for the collection and disposal
of city waste, including garbage and dead
animals, this appropriation being under the
health department. In connection with the
street cleaning department the Senate add
ed an item appropriating the sum of $4,000
for the collection and disposal of ashes and
similar refuse in the city