The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-07-28
BIG MONEY
in GARBAGE
TO GO AFTER SOME
OF THE EASY DOUGH.
Vincennes, Ind, With Population Of
Ten thousand, Makes 100000 a
Year Of It's Dump Pile.


bish and slop," has been solved b,
Mr.. Wiselogal of Vincennes, Ind.
and is known there as the Wiseloga
system. The hauling off of this mat
ter or its destruction by the crema
tory plan draws heavily from the rev
enues of city, but by adopting ths
Wiselogal system money IS added te
the city's treasury. According to ths
report of DR.. Raymond of Memphi:
to the Council, on the Wiselogal sys
tenn in Vincennes, he said that tn,
population of the Indiana town was
about Io,24o, and they realized last
year from the clty's garbage the sun
of 100000. We publish below his full
report: /,
"Gentlemen-In obedience to a re.
quest of you gentlemen | went to St
Louis, Mo-, and Vincennes, Ind, te
investigate what is known as the
.Wiselogal system of handling dead
animals and the garbage of large
cities Inasmuch as Capt Scales had
been corresponding with Mr.. Wiselo-
gal about this system, and the fur
ther fact that he is a practical engin-
eer, | asked him to go with me- We
went to St. Louis Wednesday night
the 18th, and found the plant there
had been closed for two years, on ac-
count OF some alleged graft on the
part of the parties who had been run
ming it. While this plant cost $780,
900, and was in perfect order and all
that, we passed it up and went to Vim
cenneS, where Mr.. Wiselogal met us
in answer to a telegram sent by Mr..
Scales the night before we left Mem
phis.
"Mr. Wiselogal went with It's to the
plant, which is mile from the city
proper. We found the plant in full
operation and were shown every Cour-
tesy by Mr.. Wiselogal and the mana
ger, whose name is Kellersohn.
First I'll say that we were very
much pleased with the plant, and as
president OF your Board of Health
want to serve notice on yOu gentle
men, that if | live and hold my posi-
ton, | don't intend to stop begging
until we have such plant here m
NJ Memphis.
zone of the greatest objections
have heard against such plant is the
odor produced by the process The
only odor at all about the Vincennes
plant is caused by the skinning and
putting of the dead carcasses into
he cookers, and even that is not no.
-iceable on the outside of the build
IN, or even on the first floor, directly
under the space used for handling
these carcasses.
"The first floor is used for mixing
The fertilizer which is made from the
bones and certain parts of the car
,asses and ordinary city garbage.
1--WE were informed by the mana
ger that he realizes from $1,000 to
$4,000 a year on fertilizer alone
"They also have machinery which
picks the tendons around joints and
periosteum from the bones, which is
dried and sold at 4 cents pound to
the glue factories. The horns, hoofs,
ETC., sold to the button factories.
The fertilizer is sold at from $I7 to
$40 per ton, and is shipped by the car
load. It 10 sacked just as corn or
oats and shipped, with no more odor
than either. They also get from ten
to twenty barrels of grease each
month, which is sold for $500 to 5000
for the months output The hides
from the dead animals are worth
$4,000 per year.
"In the aggregate they realize per
year: Grease, $1,000; hides. 10000;
fertilizer $1,000. Total $3osooo.
''While l think the Dixon cremato-
ries were very great improvements on
all previous plans, this system seems
to me to be as much superior to the
Dixon crematories as they were over
all older plans. These crematOries
have burned up, in their six or eight
years of use enough valuable stuff to
have built half a dozen such plants as
the one at Vincennes.
THE labor required at the Vim
cennes plant to run it, except in the
shipping season, is two boys 10 to
I8 years of age, who handle the car
casses, the manager, one engineer
and one fertilizer mixer. In the ship
ping season, which is three weeks in
spring and six weeks in the fall, they
employ two extra men.
"The company use their own teams
(four two-horse wagons) to haul ami
mails, and garbage is brought to them
by the city"
This is a question worth investigat
ing. for the people of the north enc
of the city can not much longer stanl
the oGnsive smell from the city's
present dumping ground, and unles:
moved, the authorities and the court:
will be appealed to for relief