New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-25

turning over 10 the company everything except
| the actual collection Of the material from, m.
| houses the Street Cleaning Department. has re-
duced It's expenditures by several hundred thou
sands OF dollars, and in addition has been able
70 make more frequent collections
Many items go to make UP the total of +rf,
economy. but one Of the most obvious is the
superiority to cart horse Of electricity as a mo-
! tive power. One Of the cars on which the
American Railway Traffic Company now carries
the ashes to the dump can do the work Of
twenty-four carts. twenty-four horses and
twenty-four drivers in about one-ffth Of thu
time 1t is cheaper for the city 10 drive its
carts an average distance Of half a mile to the
thirteen receiving stations established bv the
company in central locations throughout the
borough pay so much CARLOAD to the COM
pany. and then send them back for another load
than it is to start them on days journey TO
the outskirts of the city in the search for an
available dumping place.
The average run of the cars from the receiv-
ing stations TO the present dump near Coney
Island is ten miles. and there are few horses
capable throughout the year Of pulling a ton
or so that distance and coming back the same
day. Even if this difficulty could be overcome.
the interminabIe procession Of carts. like the
baggage train of an invisible army would make
the streets impossible for every other kind OF
traffic
But a large part of the material brought into
the receiving stations never finds its way TO
the GraveSeud tract Enough OF the 'rubbish''-
technically, whatever of our household equip
ment and wardrobe we no longer want-can be
used I'm some one or hundred ways of which
the average householder never dreams TO make
it worth a contractors while TO nav S5O OOO q
year Tor the privilege of looking IL over To the
cytS or the average American IL Is strange
mine in which to look for treasure The a-riu12-
toillng Italian piCkers, however. find much ON
the belt COuyeyOr as 10 carries the tbfDI,- go
tered mass past them. Paper Tin cams rags
bits of metal, shoes and bottles are their most
frequent prizes. and these are thrown out in
great quantities. 80
In the two stations in BROOKLYN i'm which tina
company has established incinerat0rs the nh
DISH which successfully runs the gantlet OF tina
cleaners drops from the end of "a baIf ,',,,,-.
INTO the mouth of the furnace below n is NOT
nigh class fuel these bits OF broken croc<erv
lasS OF paper TOO small To be worth saving mas
hlenJs OF broOms, broken boxes am tba 5abrjs
win which hOUsekeepers are only too far9ilisr
qua Du1 a good deal OF power is derived from il
The Manhattan plant at the foot Of the VIII
I&ihsburs Bridge lights the whole struct--ra
ahoVe It, and the East New York ;r,f-s-s+-,-
provides steam of 800 horsepower Tba Torys-
mere Is used, not only 10 heat the adioini6a re-
-, ~ - - rate an the machines i'm them
as Wen The neighhoring recreation nan - ,be
employees Of the company moreover a. 49,
htattd by this transformed mass OF rsT,ss
more power could i'm all probability he Sari,-a7
I'm I'm the Manhattan moderator III the prata -
IN IN punt on different principle As IN -
mere Is some difficulty i'm inducing The I1,.t,-jsi
20 ourn; Tor the hrehoN is of the old fasbiCrsJ
type. which provides merely for sf,-s,.s ~
9ustion The rubbish moreover &c. @ , S
directly into the firebox from me bsIt t,,,--"
pIoved S SaotE,tea IN by three or four men cm-
r,+ an last New York ON the other hand rbe
rfr7,,nt company has installed crate which
ton. The feeding. too is pura,v r,e.t N'.r,
49, ~, tnT ohiF human assistance required FL .~s,
like the artists roncerti,I e '''S tuN foI,
guard in Hades ~ 'nc demons On