New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-13
ON THE GARBAGE PROBLEM.
Brooklyn Health Protective ASSOCIATION
Listens to Commissioner Wood
bury's Plans.

Major Woodbury. confded some OF the woes ol i"
Commissioner of Street Cleaning to the hielhoers
NJ the BROOKLYN Woman's Health Protective Asso-
citation Yesterday forenoon. At the same time ne
1ipbtened their hearts with the Information tnat
charity the rubbish of borough would be carried
off from collecting stations at night IN steel water
tight trolley cars, thus ohviating the nuisance Oh
having waste matter hauled through 'ie S'4~0'
by the present slow method
The idea" said he. is TO have the ruob1sh cart
cd to certain collecting stations and here he as
played a large map peppered with req circles 10
designate the present dumping GROUNDS anu Uiue
squares to show the prospective collecting stations
..These stations will look like engine houses. Inc
nart laden with rubbish, will drive in. the doors
will be closed. then the contents will be emptied
into great bins. There will be no odor or dust III
the ueighborhood. BY this method we shall re-
duce the hauling distance over one-haf. Ana We
are going to have fixed tops to the carts. so that
we shan't have so much sweeping to do after
March gale.
IT'S been a hand 20 hand fight over mere III
Brooklyn collecting the garbage, because the COZ
lectins is in hands of contractor IN Mdfindt-
tan immense amounts collected every day
With no trouble because the department does it
itself The department collects for the sake OF the
householder but the contractor does It Tor the
sake of his own pocket, every time
what ia the earthly use of paying $3.50 for fine
dra,,r,t horse for the Street Cleaning Department
and then n,1tting il in rotten old barn? That $
what we are doing now. 1 want stable that VIII
be A modei-a stable built like hospital with all
the corners rounded and asphalt floors tnat can DE
sIuiced out every day. I've chosen the lot ana
think I'll fight the aldermen and get the staple-
= cream coored brick and oak stable-and the
funny thing about 1t is that it won't cost half as
much as we're paying / want you ladies TO
help me get II. . ,, L,-- of
Il asst Monday the in the shoeing shops OIL
tho Manhattan Street Cleaning Department struck
R,I+ nv noon / had most of them back at WORK
Tuesd3v the same thing happened again. Again
7 Succeeded in getting some OF the men Dack 10
their forges but stable after stable cohtaihnS
twentv eighteen sixteen horses, was locked up
because the horses couldn't be got into shape 10
oo ou+ on the slippery pavements Ihe waking
SSlaga+e had been around. But he hasn't caught
me Vet over here, and shall take care ne doesn't
Mr. Clarke has his eyes open and won't let one
entar the Brooklyn stables. (Here Deputy Com
mission Clarke. who had accompanied EdaJ"i w oo
bury smiled intellgentlye ;, ~, ,,,
patient pursuance or all TINS seefilIeiy
oetty detail that is heartrending II we could
ssav Well have it so'-and have 1t so-hoW easy
II would bet -. -. c,+-.a+ Clean
ing Department and the Board OF Health De re-
nISesfed to post on lampposts in other consplcu-
,Is sces at Intervals of blocks the ordinances
nskfng the throwing of rubbish In the streets anc
snitting on the sidewalks punishable orrenses Inc
motion carried