Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-27
CAROLS CONTRACT
Rspsrtsr Visits Cremstesy- t .
 . Case of Persecution.

bage question and the alleged failure of P H. Carroll to comply with the condi- tions of the contract. the Democrat thought it worth looking up and with this end in view sent a reporter to the crematory yesterday. Before starting he was informed that the stench at the plant was almost uncomfortable, that MT Carroll gives the matter no personal attention and that the plant was not running and that most of the garbage was thrown around the lots In the vicinity of the crematory. All this had an influence on the mind of the reporter and he approached the place with some doubts as 10 whether he could stand the smell or not.
 Well now let us have the facts about this question no matter who they help or flinders Here they are just as they were noted. together with what the man in charge had to say: The crema- tory is located at the end of Sheffield street and nobody. no matter how acute his sense of smell. would know
  lected there There is absolutely no of- fensiye odor about this place. not half as much as one gets in the best kept stable in Waterbury. Mir Carroll was on the premises and the plant was in splendid working order, better. so the engineer said. than at any time slce he started to run it under the new man. agement The whole place was ex. plored beginning at the chute where the refuse is thrown into the crematory and ending at the ash pit on the edge of the river where the cinders are thrown when they are hauled from the furnace One side of the plant was in full blast and the other was being loaded up so that the stuff might be dried and fit for cremation as soon as the other side was ready to be cleaned out In this way the plant is in opera ton all the time. day and night.
 4 man named Burke who operated the plant for H. NJ. Rigney appeared to be 8 sort of boss there and in answer to few questions replied substantial ly as follows:
 T was about the first to take hold of this plant after it was set up and kept at if during MT Rigney's contract. When he got through I left for time. but I'm here again and find things about the same as usual with the ex ception that the amount of stun brought is larger than ever before. Cn- til lately large number of people col lected garbage and fed it 10 hogs on their own farms. This has been done away with and now all that and the increase from the natural growth Of the city make up much more refuse to be collected and consumed than ever The work is being done now just as we'll as it ever was under the former contractor. In fact it is done exactly the same way. the only difference I see as I remarked to you before. is that there is more stun to handle. The col lections are larger and the amount Of stuff carted here by store keepers has increased.
 '.The only trouble here that I can see is that the plant is too small for what it is expected to do. This was not noticed while so much of the garbage was disposed of in a manner other than by cremation. but now that the whole of it has to be burned and the refuse brought here from stores be- sides it becomes quite plain that it Ia not large enough to do the work and give you a chance to clean t out regularly.
 MT Carroll gives the work a good deal of his personal attention. just as much as his predecessor ever did. Yes. you may say Mir Carroll makes as many calls here as the former contrac- tor used to- It is not necessary that the contractor should be here at all and suppose Mir Carroll would not spend as much time here as he does if the plant had not been going bad. This ia ' something none of us can help. The pipes need repairing from time to ' time and there is nothing to do when that happens but shut down and re- pair them. That was what was done ! before and that is what has to be done now The plant is in good workin. ' trim now. but we can't tell how long il \ will stay that way IL is oyerta xed and most of the tubes are pretty well
 used up and are apt to give out any moment
 Mr Carroll was asked if he had any | thing to offer on the question. He said | he hadn't. adding that he was too busy I trying To keep the plant in running or { der to devote any time 10 newspaper ' talk. In all his hurry he stopped long \ enough to point out the dilpaidated . smokestack that was apt 10 topple | over any day and also 70 tell that he
 really didn't know what was the mat
 ter with the crematory until Barlow q
 plumbers told him. The large iron
 straps that hold the cages in position
 dropped down and this caused almost
 everything else 10 expand and become i. useless. but he never could explain i { until the plumber pointed out the fact \ that the bolts had been taken off by somebody unknown to him and left so
 that they would sag and put the plant Z out of business temporarily. Mir Car
 roll said that already he has paid T. D.
 Barlow S29 for making repairs on the
 plant and that be is not half through
 with him yet. He expected to have
 Mir Barlow see what could be done
 with the smokestack to-day.
 So much for the talk that the crems-
 tory smells ofTensively. that very little eremating is being done and that Car
 roll gives il none of his personal st-
 tenti0n. After looking over the terri
 tory and wondering at the satisfactory
 conditions of things all around the re-
 porter concluded that there was some
 thing back Of all this fault finding be-
 sides the good of the community. for f
 Is safe fo state that the cTemstory is
 being operated as well as il can be and
 that the contractor is sctuafed hy 2 de-