The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-18
MILLER ARGUES
 WITH SCRANTON Hearing by Board of Finance on Incinerator Turned Almost Into Joint Debate Over
 Diverse Proposals.
LIVELY T|LTs OCCURRED
Playground Committees Request for Increase of $500 Also Heard at Special HearIng--No Action
 Taken Last Night.

There was another lively tilt between Alderman ] Edmund Miller and George Scranton at the public hearing held by the board of finance last night. The hearing was arranged to give special parties opportunity to favor certain Items In the estimates and one of these was the Associated Civic societies which asked that tho board of health request for money for an incinerator be allowed George Scranton repre- sented the association and Alderman Miller took issue with him because he favored, or rather his association through him, the request made by the board of health, while Alderman Miller Is chairman of the aldermanlc commit tee which has been investigating the same proposition and with plants of another style believes 1t can install one to do the work at less>cost Mir. Scran- ton objected to the plant proposed by Alderman Miller on the ground that It was one for garbage and refuse only and did not include ashes. The alder man asked him what need there was of collecting the ashes when tho only thing people were complaining about was tho bad collection of garbage and he declared that it would he mucl, cheaper for tho city to build one on the plans recommended in the report of his committee for the burning of garbage and refuse alone than one for ashes also. but Mir. Scranton replied that the other would be In his opinion cheapal for if would cost each man less In ad- ditionsl taxation 10 build 1t than tt have someone come and cart it ava, at the prices which are paid here foi such service. Mlller's reply was thai you could not make people sec it thai way and Mir Scranton replied that h. was not arguing on what you coult make people ses but the facts existed and showed the economy of tho scheme | whether yon could make people se' ] them or not
 | Miller questioned Mir. Scranton all th' way through In his attempt to shor l that tho plants proposed by his com mittee were cheaper and just ss goot as that advocated and there wer
 wordy filings between tho two mon Millers persistent questioning and up holding of his ideas gained through hi long study of tho question made tn eveut rather joint debate than a gen eral hearing Alderman Miller tool Issue on the amount of garbage an, refuse which would be gathered her
 per day and quoted the opinions 0 four engineers given to lls committee Mir. Scranton further opposed thu plants that do not include ashes on tn
 ground that 1t Is practically irpossi
 ble to collect the two completely sep arste and the sorting Is difficult work
 Mir. Miller's continued remark
 about the servceabllity of the Amer
 can made plants al cheaper cos
 brought out the fling from Mir. Scran
 ton that he favored the English type
 because SD far no one In whom he ha, confidence had advocated plant tha
 would do satisfactorily the work de
 sired outside of tho English plants
 Miller continued to advance state
 ments of fact that contradicted MT