Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1906-01-04

There promises to be another mix
up between the Board of Health and
City Council ovsr the garbage ques-
ton. The former body has already
advertised for bids for collecting
garbage as the contracts Of the present
collectors expire on January 18th, but
Council will p'ofatlv make fight and
also al posals Couu-
Gil &c out the t contracts
three ss@a ~ 4 June, 1904,
under an opinlon of none rtG. Harmah,
who was then CITY solicitor, Council
surrendered the contracts to the Board
OF Health and that body has had charge
of the collectors ever since. The board
ocntends that IL has the right to give
out the new contracts.
The Board of Health not only be.
lieves that it should have charge of
the collection Of aIbaRe, but that the
disposing Of 1t should also be taken
charge of by the beard. 1t is the
opinion of the members that such an
arrangement would save the city
thousands of dollars annually. Appica-
tion has been made to City Council
twice by the Board of Health, to get
charge Of the disposal Of garbage and
now another effort is to DO made. At
Council and therefore tho authority
Of the Health Board ends, when the
garbage Is delivered there.
William L. Haman, secretary of the
Board Of health, who has nude a
study OF the garbage question, stated
TO reporter Of Every Evening that ia
his opinion from 50, 600 to IS, 600 could
be saved the city every year, if the
board had charge of both collecting
and disposing Of the garbage. Mr.
Hamann says that he knows OF at least
three corporations that would be glad
to erect plant here for the disposal
Of garbage, without a cent of cost to
the city, II they could get a contract
Tor eight or ten years. Such a plant
would dispose of the refuse by the
reduction process, boil it and then sell
the by-products. BY this means, Mr..
Hamann contends, tho corporation
would make a prof and the CITY would
save from S5, coo to as, 600 yearly. His
idea would be to pay the company so
much to both collect and dispose of
the garbage. The more gar bage col
looted the more the corporation would
make, which plan would insure good
service. The same system, he says, is
In force in other cities the size OF Viii
mington, and is much cheaper than is
now the case In Wilmington.
! IL Is now costing the city about
5000 a year 10 collect and destroy
/ garbage and there is said to be about
| 600 tons hauled to the crematory
every year OF this amount about
$1,000 10 for collecting and $4,000 for
! the cunning of the orematory. The
Q 81 ler ton for collecting and destroy
ius is about 49, 81 Mr.. Hamnnn claims
that II the Board OF Health had entire
charge, by the sy stem he proposes, il
would only cost the city IT m Sl5, 600
60 SlS COO yearly.
Although the BolId of Health did
not get charge Of the collection Of
garbage until June, 1904, complaints
were always made to that department.
previous to that time. That Council
did not take the interest in the matter
that the board does is evident from a
comparison OF the number of COM
plants for the last seven months of
1903, when Council had charge Of the
collectors, with the last seven months
OF 1901, when the Board of Health had
charge. For the seven months OF ! SOB
there were 1854 complaints, he said,
and for the same period of 1904 but
!, l96, which was falling of OF 4,738
The crematory committee of Council
had conference, last evening, with
City Solicitor Townsend relative to the
specifications for garbage disposal
which the committee has prepared.
The matter may come up for action at
tonignt's meeting Of Council.