The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-23
Ordinance Providing for Three
Plants Being Prepared for Pre-
sentation to Council.
PRESENT SYSTEM TEMPORARY.
Board of Public Improvements Is
Divided on Question of Best
Method of Disposing
of Refuse.

Although the present system of dispos-
ing OF garbage is only one week old, a
determined movement has been begun by
members of the Board of Public Improve
ments to revolutionize the method of dis
posing OF the city's refuse.
Inc new plan, which has been so well
formulated that an ordnance probably
VIII be drafted to present to the Council
at the next meeting, will do away with
the public dump at Chesiey Island and
establish three ircinerators within the
city limits instead. The purpose is TO
establish the reduction plants at the foot
Oh North Market street. of Louisa street
ana at Forest Park boulevard and yanoa-
venter avenue
Ihe city owns all of the proposed sites,
and already plant has been established
At forest Park boulevard and vandeven-
Ter avenue. The North Market location
Is Where the collections for the district
noIth OF Franklin avenue are loade,i on
d 1parge and towed 10 Chesley Island
WIN the operation Of the three incin-
80 a,ots Sh 5ne long haul by wagon and boat
away with uoh7
The Board of Public improvements has
Ilos made any of its p.oposeu changes
from becoming generally known uaIii they
Cinance VI Oil VI
However, 1t has been known for some
@ @.ile tnat, inasmuch as the board had
never, as body, taken any action on the
garbage question, changes were Almost
Ser.Gn TO follow. There are those of the
board who have advocated the incinera,or
system from almost the first but when
PRESIDENT Phillips shouldered the TASK of
neiplnS the city through the emergency
doLo@lng the expiration Of the Butler
contract nothing was said at that time
The board. at its weekly meeting yes
teruay morning, devoted much time to the
discussion Of the garbage question. AL
tho ousn is the announcement was made that
the session was entirely routine. In fact
the movement received such an impetus
that several members of the board gath
cred yesterday afternoon somewhere and
@eh1 deep into the proposed plans. So
lar have the changes been agreed upon
by majority, 1t is said, that the Coun-
ell at its next meeting will be asked to
CONSIDER new ordinance changing the
members of the board, Council and House
have conferred.
-, FAVOR. .1NCINERAToR PLAN.
Inc cites for the proposed incinerators
that there are those who, while friendly
to President Phillipss present plan.
think better of the reduction scheme, will
give 1t their support: Many times
ASio.Aa oSSH dlluucu 10 as the
Philippine Island" and there are those
who have not taken any too kindly to the
presidents determined ways of bringing
results. But 1t is admitted that Presi-
dent Phillips filed the breech at time
when the city was puzzling over what to
do when the Butler emergency contract
expired and, moreover. promised to save
the city about 100000 a year in conpari-
son to the private contract
Many objections have been raised to
Chesley Island, but President Phillips
always has met them with an answer.
He admitted, however, that in q measure
his plan could not be perpetual while the
tncinerator enthusiasts assert that they
have reached a solution for all time In
the first place, they argue the hauls will
be greatly lessened, the plan is more
feasible and reliable, there will be op-
portunities for revenue, and that the
scheme will be permanent.
The newly created Sanitary Division Of
the Street Department Is only to collect
the garbage. the disposal of It resting at
present with President Phillips. In this
way the argument has been made that
city teams cannot be used at Chesley
Island for the distribution of garbage.
President Phillips says, however, that he
can use the teams there so long as he
provides feed and the cost of maintaining
them.
The garbage question has been a knotty
problem from the first and that the new
plan had not been in existence a week
before q counter-movement was begun, Is
an indication that more agitation before
decisive legislation is finally enacted will
follow