The Topeka state journal., 1901-09-03
TWO Want IT.
Scramble For Job Of Disposing
of City Garbage.

There win likely be two propositions
submitted to the council this evening
for the establishment Of a city crema-
tory.
One proposition will come from Frank
Zingheim, who is in charge OF the pic
ture department at Ke1lam's. The other
is the one fathered by Oscar Kuehne,
brother of Otto Kuehnes the Topeka
manufacture.
Frank Zingheim is the manager of a
company which will be known as the
Topeka Dessicating works. This COM
pany is composed Of two Topeka busi-
ness men, besides Mr.. Zingheim. Mr.
Zinghei1n has just returned from trip
to Kansas City, Omaha. Grand Island,
and Des hIoines, where ne inspected the
erematories and fertilizing plants in
those cities.
we want a 7-year franchise to build
$4,000 erematory in Topeka" said Mr.
Zingheim this morning. we have leas-
ed the Ennis 90-acre tract, lying on the
north bank Of the Kansas river near
the mouth Of Soldier creek. On this
tract we win locate our plant. If the
council grants US a franchise tonight,
we will order our machinery Wednes-
day morning, and have the plant ready
for operation within eight weeks"
The plan proposed by the Topeka
Dessicating company IS to cremate
nothing except the solid portions of the
nightsoil. Liquids viii be passed off in
to the river by means of a pump, and
water viii be pumped from the river IN
to the plant to keep everything cleanly.
Dead animals viii not be cremated, but
viii be transformed into salable prod
ucts. They will be skinned, and the tai
low extracted from them They VIII
then be put through process which
cleans the flesh from the bones. The
bones Will be sold, also the hOofs. The
flesh VIII be frayed and puIverized, and
sold as fertilizer.
I'VE propose to do everything in
perfectly sanitary manner We will ac-
cept the contract which was rejected
by the Thompson crematory. We viii
agree to haul all dead animals and
night soil in covered wagons. Vaults
will be cleaned by means of pump. We
will place ourselves under the complete
jurisdiction Of the board of health, and
will do whatever that board directs us
to do. We Will not take a franchise for
less than years, nor viii we pay the
city anything for a franchise. Rather
than do thatwe win abandon the whole
thing. We will use the latest machinery
and will do everything as it should be
done. Our rates for doing work viii be
the same that the city now pays We
are going into this thing az a strictly
business proposition, and expect to
make some money out of It. But we are
not trying to skin the city"
The proposition which Mr. Kuehne
will submit Is very similar to that of
the Topeka Dessicating company. Mr..
kuehne will manufacture glue and FER
tilizer at his plant, and viii locate the
plant at his farm on the river five miles
from town.
The Kuehne proposition viii probably
be favored by some councilmen because
it takes the whole crematory business
SO far from town that there Is little
possibility of ever having any annoy
ance from it in the future.
Mr.. ZingheiIn, the manager of the
Topeka Dessicating company, says that
his company may purchase the plant
now used by the company at Grand ISL
and. The passage of laws in Nebraska
are said to interfere With the success
full operation OF such an establishment
there Mr.. Zingheim says that he has
already engaged two men to work for
him in case his company gets the fran
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