New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-17
REFORMS UNDER WOODBURY..
HIS FIRST REPORT SHOWS DECREASED
EXPENSES AND INCREASED
EFFICIENCY.

Commissioner Woodbury. of the Street Clean
ing Department made his first general report
TO Mayor Low yesterday afternoon. MAUI
Woodbury. goes into the minutest details OF MS
department, showing all expenditures and the
comparative merits of the various steam dump
ers Speaking about the department as ne
found IL when he took office, he said:
found the material of this department In
most lanaentable condition; horses oNer"oEheu
and worn out: three hundred horses snort Oh
our complement. forcing us to hlre 20 hoi
and forty-seven trucks in order TO coiiect dI an
in the Seventh District. What horse covers we
had in rags, and we had no cart 49,, C1ttlS
whatsoever 1 have most strictly prohlptea
the giving of any money. fee or present OF dnS
sort whatever by an enlisted man when IN the
uniformed force TO his superior for the purchase
or sale of any ticket tickets. This has peen
most rigidy enforced and eft1clently carFleu
out.
In reference to the three Delehanty steam
bumpers which the former administration iald
by as useless he says:
They have been repaired and put in commits
sion. These steam bumpers have been laid vi,
in ordinary for the last three years nut l Ilu
that despite their disuse. they are III 1alr CON
dition for service and they may be run al d
most distinct saving to the city
Mr. Woodbury. says that incinerator Is be
ing constructed at the dump at West Forty
seventh-st. and that it should give "a decreased
yardage of not less than area of 90 per cent
of the amount of output Of the material pos
sible to be hauled to it, at the same time max
ing the output Of this dump a clean ASH Whlch
becomes commercial product"
To give the upper West Side better service,
Mr. Woodbury. says that automobile dumping
truck is being built. which will carry sixteen
cubic yards of material at the rate of three miles
an hour. BY the public letting of all horseshoe
81 100 Is SaNeu
in Manhattan and The Bronx. with proper
tionate decrease in Brooklyn. In the last four
years the work was done by private letting
The Commissioner quotes from a Don't
card which was distributed, stating what should
and what should not be done with waste In
reference to this he praises Police Commits
sioner Partridge in the following language:
Rv the courtesy of Colonel John n. Partridge.
Commissioner of Police, who has in every way
aided this department most efficiently, ana
without whose constant support and assistance
our attempt at primary separation would nave
most certainly failed, we have been able 10
issue the householderS of the boroughS OF
Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn 3So,Voo
of these circulars folders. and the primary
separation has been well begun. and Is ALREADY
showing its results in the change Of material
at the dumps.
The Commissioner then gives a comparison OF
the tons of garbage collected at the dumps in
the first four months of 1895 1901 and 1902. as
follows: $685. 39S4661: 1901 90. 1856, and
1902 3661S51. Speaking of deep sea dumping.
he says:
In 1901 approximately 1921, 49, 46
pended for the purpose OF towing outside the
mud buoy, which is located six miles beyond
Sandy Hook Lightship and there dumping the
ashes. which more or less Immediately sink, and
the household rubbish, which floats in onto the
beaches OF the Jersey and Long Island shores,
rendering them not only unpleasant to the IN
habitants and to the vast throngs seeking the
refreshment Of bathing during the summer
months from this city but also most decidedly
unsanitary. This method Of final disposition is
almost barbaric in its waste. 1t has been the
aim of this department to discontinue this sea
dumping. only for the purpose OF stopping
the enormous expense. but also 10 keep these
beaches clean. The possibility OF this has now
become a probability. and We are making every
possible exertion successfully to carry forward
this idea.
These are some of the statistics of the de-
partment for the first four months:
Carloads of all material collected by the de-
i235 a. ''''1 '''
Carloads Of material disposed of. including
699,312ia.
Expenditure for first four months of 1901. In
Guiding sn9W and 25. o jce.JanuaTy $ %a lo1 o'
April. $320,7S 40; total $1.493,384 20.
Expenditures for first four months Of 1902.
March $47377S 3d. and April $3S 15S ? o. total
81 $50 AL 60. The increase in the Newly
Sanitary Utilization Company contract must
be taken into consideration. the contract
went into operation on August l, 1901 The in
crease for Manhattan and The Bronx is $13,-
23S IS month, $52952 81 for the first four
months of 1902. This, taken together with
saving Of S9,04S IL in the working accounts for
the first four months of 1902, would make n
saving of $4,000 as over the amount expended
in 1901.
In Brooklyn the statistics follows: Elk
penditures for first four months OF 1901, includ-
ing and ice, S493411 50; expenditures for
first four months of 1902, $679013 IS.