The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-11
THE CITY WILL SAVE.
MONEY TO BE MADE UNDER NEW
GARBAGE CONTRACT.
BETTER SERVICE LIKELY.
WAGONS WILL MAKE MORE FIRE.
QUENT COLLECTIONS, TOO.

1t Is Figured That the Municipal
Government Should Save $4,000
Year After the Third Year-Savan-
nah Electric Company Will Have
to Build 1000 Feet of Trestle
Work Near CuyIer Syvamp-TO Lay
Tracks on Roberts Street to Gre
matOry-Many Advantages Under
New Contract.
Besides improving the scavenger de-
partment, and assuring citizens of the
more frequent removal of garbage with
the present force, the city will, after
three years. save money under the
contract to be made with the Savan-
nah Electric Company for the haul
ing of garbage to the county farm.
For the present year City Council
appropriated $50, 900 to be used by the
scavenger department. 1t is estimated
that the same amount will be required
for the next three years, but that after
that time the city will be able to save
IS, 900 a year. At the same time the
service is certain to be better without
the necessity of increasing the number
of wagons, and the Objectionable fea-
lures of the scavenger department I'M
der the present system will be entirely
eliminated. There will be no offensive
odors.
Air-tight Cars.
Six air-tight garbage cars with a ca
pacity of 10000 pounds each will be
used in hauling the garbage to the
county farm. where it will be used as
fertilizer, after it has been picked over
for junk. The city will agree to pay
the Savannah Electric Company $50
day based upon rs tons, and 81 a car
load for all in excess of that number
of tons. 1t is believed that the neces-
sary tracks can be laid and the cars
gotten here by April l, at total ex-
penditure of about $4,000.
The garbage cars will be hugh af-
fairs, and as has already been stated,
will be alright. In this way they
can be whirled through the streets
without offending the nostrils of citi-
zens. The cars will be constructed at
cost of $3.50 each, and will have au-
tomato dumps One man will be able
to do the work of dumping by operat-
ing brake that will lift out the side
of the car. 1t will be a modern gar
bage carriage in every respect and will
be built on special plans drawn by
General Manager Maggie of the street
railway company.
Will Load at Crematory.
The cars will be loaded at the old
crematory and in this way the obiec-
tionable long hauls under the present
system will be done away with. The
scavenger wagons will not have so far
to go, it will not take so long to IN
load them and they can visit residences
and business houses oftener. Outside
of the fact that the new arrangement
Will be more economical, it can De
readily seen that better service can be
given, and, too, without increasing the
number of wagons.
The fact that the crematory has been
selected as the spot where the garbage
cars will be loaded makes it necessary
for the street railway company to ex-
tend its track on Roberts street The
crematory site was selected because it
is reached by a paved road and be-
cause 1t is within easy reach of the
city.
Where Cars VIII Run.
The tracks of the Savannah Electric
| Company at present extend only a
| short distance on Roberts street along
| side of the Union Station. This track
was temporarily laid when the Union
| Station was being erected. The munich
| pality will now be called upon to give
| the Street Railway Company a fran
chise to extend the tracks down Rob
| erts street and across Gwinnett. di-
rectly into the crematory. There from
| high platform or trestle the garbage
cars will be loaded. The cars will go
from the erematorY down Roberts
street to the Union Station and then
south on West Broad street.
They will be run from West Broad
| INV tn l.
built at Whitaker street so that they
can go directly into the Isle of Hope
line. The Isle of Hope line will be fol-
| lowed as far as Cuyler swamp, where
turmoil will have to be built. Cen
eral Manager Maggie has figured on a
| spur line 1000 feet long to the county
land where the garbage will be dump
/ ed. This track will he on a trestle and
the rails will be of the heaviest type.
While work has not yet been begun.
| 1t will probably be started early next
month, and there appears to be no rea-
son why by the first day of April. Sa-
vannah's garbage will not be handled
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