The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-05
Garbage Question 0vershadows All Other Topics When Peo- pie Discuss With Board
 of Finance.
DEMAND RELIEF AT ONCE
Playground for Wclch School the Only Other Matter That Got Much Attention from Public
 Last Night.

HE ol lHe DUHTu ol HbdHCt biii ssNi- mates last night were the collection and disposition of garbage and the purchase of an addition to the site of the Welch school, and of these the for mer had quite the larger part of the attention. In fact almost all of the speakers who talked at all had some thing to say on that matter and of course there was but one underlying idea that something must be done at once to remedy the situation at least regarding the collection. There was di- vergence, however, beyond this point and even a near quarrel resulted from the ideas expressed by differing inter ests.
 Attorney David E. Fitzgerald open cd the case, speaking for the residents of the Fourteenth ward in the neigh borhood in which are kept the objec- tionable plggeries in that locality. He declared that the condition there was very serious and insisted that some thing must be done The citizens of that locality are up in arms about the matter and as plant has been found, referring 10 the one on staten Island which seems to answer the purpose for sanitary disposition of the garbage, he said the city should have the best and get one. The citizens he believed would be willing to meet the increase in taxes which would result in order to meet the expense even if 1t went to quite high figure.
 George c. Bradley of Quinnipiac avenue followed. He said 1t was im- possible to sit out evenings in his vi- cinity and that the conditions were so bad that unless there was some relief he would not live there another year He also expressed the belief that the citizens would be willing to pay their share towards doing away with the nuisance. He said he had talked with twenty of his taxpaying neighbors and all were quite willing to do so.
 Dr. Converse declared that there must be improvement at once in the collection of the garbage. but he thought the method of disposing of 1t would be all right and that 1t would
 
 building an incinerator here. He ob- jected that the cost would be too great and suggested that if the residents 0; the Fourteenth did not like the odor from the pggeries they could sell their homes and move somewhere else. He said that only a small portion of the citizens of the city were opposed to the method of disposal and that they should not be allowed to burden the rest of the city by large increase in the tax rate, but he insisted like the others that a better method of collec- tion must be employed. He declared, however, that Farnham could collect all right If prc~erly compensated and said that there had been, so far as complaints had reached him, no diff culty about collection until the pres ent contractor had taken up the work
 The remarks about the people of the Fourteenth ward selling their homes if they did not like the piggeries was not kindly received by a large delegation from that ward | which happened to be present. 1 Attorney Fitzgerald suggested to Dr. ! Converse that perhaps they had prop erty which was worth as much as hls was 10 which the doctor replied that he did not believe it. Thereupon a chorus from the Fourteenth warders broke out asserting that they did have property just as valuable as his. The unpleasant incident went no farther, | however
 J. E. Livingston. agent for the Ma tlonal Products company, which made an offer to take away the garbage from the city dock for sixty-siN cents ton, told the board of finance that he be- lIeved t would find that his sugges- ton provided the cheapest method of dlsposing satisfactorily of the garbage He said that an incinerator would mean a large first cost. that the city would be
 saved some money by accepting his
 offer over the actual estimated cost ol running the plant each year, and would
 have 1t off it's hands He also said that
 1t would be found a very hard jo. to locate an inclnerator, on account of
 the damaging effect of he connection
 of the word garbage" with it Hc
 further stated that the slxtysix cents
 represented the actual towing cost and
 nothing more, and he did not believe
 the price could be bettered by the
 city on any other proposition.
 Attorney Barnette Berman appeared
 In favor of an item in the estimates
 of the board of education asking fol
 an appropriation for the purchase Of
 a lot next to tho Wech school for ar
 addition to the plnygrounds thcre, Al
 present there Is practically no yart
 room there, and he urged that 1t was
 very badly needed He said the price
 asked and which the board of educa.
 ton had made on the place was $2,2b0
 and the assessed value of the land wa.
 s2i0) Attorney German also appeared
 asking for the appropriation of a sun
 of money asked by the park depart
 ment for the building of women''
 and chidrens bath house al Fort Hall
 park. He stated that there are batl
 houses for men there, but no arrange
 ments for women, and that number
 of the poorer women and childreY
 would like to use the place as 1t is
 an ideal spot for bathing,
 Several others appeared for tht
 Wech school land One of these, Ab
 raham PodoloH, also spoke on tho gar hage question. He favored an nciner
 ator and showed that 1t would pay citi
 zens to have one built despite the ex tra cost in taxation, as 1t would at tn,
 same time sac the cost of removint ashes which would amount to fully ai | much he figured, as the extra taxa , ton, Clifford F. Minor of Qunnipla, avenue also appeared on the garbag, matter, He went for Acunto. the con tractor He declared that he aid no , care to do tue work. that he was in {, make money simply, and would do s, despite the fines He thought 1t wa up to inc board of health to mak immediate improvement in the stua ton. He expressed it as his opinioI
 that the board of health did not seen to be any good,
 : Anthony Carroll appeared in obiec
 ton to several accounts in the vari
 ous departments Including most of in salary increases which had been ask - cd. He onposed the building Of schoo { hnnans Mithnlt nn1n nnt q mi sntaarIr, tn IL, 4