The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-04
SITE SELECTED
FOR CREMAT0RY
Garbage Plant Goes to Fifth
West Street.
OTHER SANITARY MEASURES
ASHES WILL NOT BE HAULED
AWAY.

Councilman Beatty was enabled az
last evenings meeting Of the council
to secure enough votes to locate the
site of the new garbage crematOry in
the southwestern part Of the city. He
took further advantage of the oppor-
tunity to secure the passage of two or
dinances making important changes in
the city's sanitary regulations, and the
adoption of two resolutions relating to
the public health. At the close of the
meeting DR.. Beatty said his achieve
ments were but "A beginning of what he
intended dong for the betterment of
! sanitary measures before his term Of
Office expires a month hence.
Early IN the session Beatty obtained
, unanimous consent to offer what at
first appeared to be an innocent reso-
luton. 1t recited that the sanitaOry
committee had, after further investi-
/ cation, confirmed its judgment that the
site selected for the erection OF the
new garbage crematory at the corner
! of Fifth South and Fifth West streets
is the best available, for the reasons
| before set forth. The resolution pro-
posed TO appropriate $3.50 to the
mayors contingent fund for purchase
OF the site
DR.. Beatty stated that in the matter
Of hauling the garbage $1,000 yearly
could be saved, and this would war
rant a vast improvement in the gar
bage collecting service without addi-
tiOnal expense, and there would be no
| expense to the city for hauling fuel,
| because of the crematOry being along
side the railroad tracks.
Hewlett thought ESQ is too much to
pay for the land, and in his judgment
the site of the old crematory, back of
| the Warm springs, is ideal for all pur-
poses. A further objection by Hewlett
was that the crematory would be only
a block from the Lincoln school and
but little farther from the Franklin
and Riverside schools.
Crematory a Good Thing.
The contention that a garbage Gre
matOry is a nuisance is not borne out
by the facts, Robertson declared. If
The garbage is properly handled in
closed carts, he added. there could be
no reasonable objection to the crema-
tory in any neighborhOod, as the ex-
| perience of larger cities has shown. He
charged that the prevalence of conta-
giOUs diseases in the southwestern part
of the city is due to the filth existing
there and to the Indifference Of the
people to their surroundings, but with
the new crematoTy close by they will
have opportunity to keep their prem
/ ises free from unsanitary nUisances.
He urged the selection of the site pro-
posed on the score of economy and eff
ficiency in the garbage collecting ser
vice.
Would you consent to have the Gre
matOry located on the block where you
liver asked Hewlett Of Robertson.
mo" was the reply, because the
block on which 1 live is worth six
times as much as the block where the
crematOry viii be built, and pays six
times as much taxes.
With virtuoUs Indignation COttreu
I arose to say that the protests of the
LOO residents and property owners of
| the southwestern part Of town against
! erecting the crematory on this location
as proposed is entitled to consideration.
Moreover, he said, the protests should
be. needed. The long protest was, he
| believed in the hands of Councilman
Canning, and he insisted that the
proposition be tabled until the protest
ants could be heard.
IT was cited by FernStrOm that only
three of the protestants showed up at
! the time appointed by the sanitary
committee. and he believed that the
objections of the southwesterns were
not as strong as has been represented.
: Those whose interests are near the
Warm springs did not object to the old
crematOry in that locality, he added,
anG their disappointment that it is to
be rebuilt elsewhere should convince
the Second precinct DIRECTORS that they
are getting a good thing.
CottrelPs motion to defer action on
the resolution was lost and the reso-
luton appropTiating the money to pay
for the site was carried by ten af-
firmative votes. The opposition was
confined to Cottrell, Whittemore and
Hewlett Canning and Hartenstein
were the absentees.
After the meeting it was stated that
the mayor would not veto the councils
action.
Removal of Ashes.