The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-08-05
Aldermanic Special Committee
Will Go to Staten Island
Incinerator Early
Next Week.
NO EARLY REPORT HERE
Intention is to Ask Board OF Finance
for Appropriation Before
Any Special Plant is
Decided On.

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The special garbage committee OF the
board Of aldermen which has been for
some time considering the various
methods by which the garbage problem
of the city can be solved has decided
upon another out Of town trip OF in
spection. The committee will 20 TO
Staten Island this time and the trip
will be made either Monday or We'd
nesday Of next week. The committee
has visited the reduction plant OF Rich
mond borough and this trip will bs
made to an incinerating plant which Is
now being operated In Staten Island.
The entire COMMITTEES will go and City
Clerk Devine will accompany the party.
Chairman Miller of the COMMITTEES
last night stated that while facts and
figures have been collected on various
plants the committee will not make q
report favoring any special style Of
plant at first. II intends, to ask the
board OF finance for an appropriation
sufficient for taking care OF the erec-N
tion Of a plant Of some kind and af-
ter this is made plant will be decId-
ed upon and will be reported on.
As to the cost OF plant, Chairman
Miller figures that the first expense will
be in the neighborhood Of $4,000 OF
this $4,000 will represent the cost Of
erection Of the plant and $4,000 that
of collection Of the garbage which will
cost much more under any new sys-
tenn, It is generally agreed than under
the present method The other ten
thousand dollars represents various in
cidental expenses. After the plant Is
once established he estimates the cost
of running II viii be In the neighbor-
hood Of $25.ooo.
The garbage matter has dragged
along for several months now and the
fact of another trip of the committee
after the two to New York and to
Cambridge which have been taken,
seems to show with the statements Of
Mr.. Miller that 1t will be some time
before any action Is taken. Mean
while complaints continue to come in
by the hundreds showing the inefH-
cheney Of the present method of taking
care Of the garbage.
Chairman Miller, speaking Of the AS
ISOLATED Civic Societies last night,
claimed that the association had placed
his committee In an awkward situation.
He said that 1t had been reported to
the board of health that the alderman-
ic committee had Invited the Associated
Civic Societies to act In conjunction
with It In the solution of the problem.
On account ofthls the board Of health
officials felt somewhat aggrieved that
Z! they had not also been invited into the
work officially. Mr.. Miller declared that
the Associated Civic Societies had not
been invited toywork in conjunction
with his committee. When members Of
the association appeared before his
committee and asked for information
as to what the committee was doing
and had in mind he reminded the rep-
resentatives Of the,association that the
aldermanic committee was appointed to
receive information and that II they
had any to give. 1t would be received
but what Information they already had
was for the committees use until it
had decided upon its action, when It
would be made public. When the time
comes, said Mr.. Miller, the board Of
, health will be invited to cooperate, but
, at present the committee Is going It
, alone, doing the work for which the
| board Of aldermen created 1t.