Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-11
TAKESUP GARBAGE QUESTION
City Engineer ROsewater Preparing Report
for the Advisory Board.
INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS CITIES
In Places of Omaha's Sire the Only
Satisfactory Method of Final
Disposal Of Garbage f.
by In"cineration

City Engineer Rosewater is now receiv-
ing replies to about fifty letters sent out
last month to as many cities Of the coun-
try asking for information as to the meth
DDS employed In collecting and disposine
OF garbage and other waste matter. The
letters show that a great variety OF meth
DDS are in vogue. Mr.. Rosewater will
present his report on this subject to the
Advisory board at its meeting May IA,
when he will make recommendation as to
what, in his opinion. Omaha should do in
the way Of settling the garbage question.
my opinion is" said he, that Omaha
should ultimately collect and dispose Of its
own garbage and from what Information !
have been able to gather l think the crema-
tory is the best solution Of the problem.
We should prohibit the dumping Of manure
in the river. 1t should be hauled out to
the farms and used as fertilizer"
Following ia the substance Of the letters
that have been received thus far:
Observation-Disclosures In process Of con-
gtruction; at present all refuse is carted to
dump.
Baltimore-Garbage is collected by city
employees and is disposed of by being towed
eight or ten miles down the river and sold
TO farmers as fertilizer or feed for hogs.
BridgepOrt-Has been using Dixon Crema-
tory. but Is about to discontinue on ac-
count Of excessive expense of running.
vS SthsrI @ssgaw59 b e1ts& dumped ed c,i in u Isalt
are covered by tide twice each day.
Uses Reduction Process.
Cleveland-Contract with private com
pany which, for $50, 400 per year, disposes
OF all garbage, by reduction process. No
olsagreeable odor; entirely satisfactory.
Columbus-Contract with private com
pany, $4,000 per year. Garbage shipped by
rail to works, where IL is cooked and oil
for soap grease extracted.
Davenport-All garbage dumped into Mis-
eissippi river.
Denver-Garbage collected by hog rails
ers outside city, without expense to city.
Contract Is let to one man, who agrees to
keep city clean: he districts city and sub
Detroit-Contract with private company
which dlsposes of garbage at reduction
plant located several miles from city.
Duluth-Has large area of land on Bay
front" Of the city, to which garbage is
hauled.
MISUNDERSTANDING disposed Of by burial
in sandy ground.
Houston-Has been using creamatory
Of operating. $500 per month; furnace out
of order and has not been operated for
three months.
Indianapolis-Contrac with private COM
pany, which employs a dess.cating process;
cost per year, $4,000.
Memphis-Has four Dixon creamatories
located in different parts of city; cost of
cremation, 20 cents per ton; no disagree
able odors.
land river; carcasses taken by fertilizer
plant at small cost to city.
Newark-Thousands of acres of low
ground south of city used as dump for all
refuse matter.
Peoria-Garbage and other waste used in
filling up very low tract land on opposite
side of river.
Incarceration Is Satisfactory.
Notwithstanding incinerated by plant
erected five years ago; has been in constant
use since; entirely satisfactory. In 1901
14,lSO cubic yards of garbage were con-
sumed at a cost of &,366. 46.
MISUNDERSTANDING is burned in a crema-
tory maintained at the city's expense.
Salt Lake C1ty-Garbane crematory
burned down in 1900 ana city is now con-
sidering bids for new plant. The old plant
cost $4,000 and had a capacity of seven
tons daily. The cost of running was 1914
per month.
Toledo-Garbage disposed Of by contract,
the contractor hauling into country and
dumping It in fields, where the farmers
pillow I'll under.
Wheehng-City has maintained crematory
for several years; fuel, natural gas:
capacity, thirty tons. Cost of removing
garbage Is $1,000 per year, betrayed by
city tax.