The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-11
CARS FOR GARBAGE
WILL COST SAVANNAH ELECTRIC
COMPANY $4,000.
CITY WILL PAY HALF.
MOVING GARBAGE BY CARS WILL
COST ABOUT 500 DAY.

Conference at City Exchange BE-
tween Mayor and County Commits
siOners LathrOp and MOOre-TOn-
mage Basis Will Fix Cost to City OF
transportation of Garbage to
County Farm-WiII Be No Saving,
First Xear-New Method Necessary,
Mayor DecIares-COunty Will Use
Garbage on the County Farm, Sell
Pickings and Fay the City $4,000
Year.
The new method of disposing of the
city's garbage will soon be in effect.
The city and the county and the Sa-
vannah Electric Company, the parties
interested, have practically reached an
agreement.
County Commissioners F. s. Lathorp
and A. B. Moore called on Mayor
to discuss the disposition of the gar
bage. Last week a conference was
held by the city authorities. and the
officials of the Savannah Electric
Company, and it was then seen that it
only remained for an agreement as to
terms to be concurred in by the county
authorities. This concurrence was
given, and it is now only necessary for
the City Council and the Board of
County Commissioners to take formal
action.
1t will be necessary for the Savan-
nah Electric Company to invest $4,000
IN cars designed. for the transportation
of garbage from the city to the county
farm. This first cost will be shared be-
tween the city and company, each pay
ing one-half. These cars will not be
flats. but will be similar to the box cars
of steam railway.
1.-THE time has come when there must
be a change in the method of disposing
of the garbage" said the Mayor.
Complaints have been made against
the dumping grounds in the vicinity of
the CITY, and attention must be given
to these complaints. A means
had to be devised for the
transporta ton of the garbage
to some point more distant from the
city, and the street railway offered the
only solution to the difficulty. A ere
matory was not to be thought of, for
crematories have not been found sat
iSfactory.
THE new method will not represent
a retrenchment. On the contrary. it
will cost more for the first year. After
the first year, however, the operation
of the new method will cost no more
than the present system of disposing
of the garbage, and it may cost less
A tonnage basis will be employed in
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the garbage. 1t is estimated that the
cost will be about $40 a day. This will
be exclusive of the expense to which
the city will be put in the operation
of teams, which will be required for
the removal Of the garbage from the
points of its origin 10 the yards that
will be established for the garbage
cars. The first of these yards will be
near the site of the old crematory,
but it is probable that another will be
established in the eastern section of
the city. 1t is possible. too, that. aft
er time, still another will be estab-
lished in the southern section.
The county will defray a portion of
the cost of the removal of the gar
bage. This will be by contribution
of $4,000. In return, the county will
gain the use of the garbage for fertil-
izer 1t is valuable for this purpose
oAAN eAAC AoAAh VAL DO 6ACalAJ
In this way the county. and. incident
ally, citizens of Savannah, will be d.
rectly benefited.
A further advantage will be derived
by the county. 1t will enjoy the right
of picking over the garbage, a great
quantity of which is saleable to junk
dealers. Women and children at the
county farm will be employed in sort
ing the garbage, picking out the sale
able portions. These will he transport
ed to the city. this being stipula-
ton in the contract that will be enter
ed into with the street railway COM
pany.
The new plan will mean the curtail-
ment of the teams now used by the
Streets and Lanes Department Of the
city to haul the garbage to dumping
grounds near the corporate limits.