The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-14

DISCUSSED
Garbarge Destruction
Plant Considered.
CITY OFFICIALS CONFER
Working Model Shown councilmen
Last Night.
Plant, IL Installed I'm Montgomery, win
Cost Approximately 100000, and
should save City Light
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Consideration of q garbage destruc-
ton plant, which. 1t is claimed. will
consume Montgomery's sixty tons OF
garbage and refuse each day. without
| odor, smoke, or danger of contagion,
| to a nom organic sanitary ciinker, occu-
pied a score of the city officials last
night-the Sanitation Cmmittee of the
Council, several other Councilman, and
q half dozen other officers.
| A small model, the replica of fully
equipped garbage destruction plant on
staten Island. was built on the table
of the Council chamber. and the two
| officials of the construction company,
L. b. Nutting and e. L. Penruddocke.
| explained its principles of operation,
its cost, and every detail connected with
| its installation. $50
The idea of the garbage Instructor
was attained by the three Aldermen
who took the Eastern trip some months
ago, Gunter, Saul and Virgin. 1t was
Immediately championed by Alderman
Saul, especially. who, as chairman OF
! the Sanitation Committee, sprung the
subject before the Council.
Already complaint has been register
ed in regard to the present alleged
unsanitary and unsightly method OF
dumping garbage along the river front,
where 1t catches fire and shoulders
throughout the year, the source, as
physicians have declared. of pests and
epidemics. The garbage destructor
was hailed by alderman Saul as a
means of eliminating the trash dumps.
the odors and the probable disease.
The destructor, as shown last night,
Is essentially a furnace. or furnaces,
| capable Of attaining the most intense
heat, 1900 to 1850 degree Fahrenheit,
| through the consumption of the gar
bage as fuel. The garbage, be 1t
whatever 1t may, is reduced to 2 clink-
| err, or to an almost impalpable dust
| kitchen swill. street refuse, the hetero-
geneous trash of the streets and yards.
| and even animals. Mr.. Nutting said
last night that a horses carcass. when
placed in the furnace. is reduced. with
| in ten minutes, to a powder. And no
odor, he said, is given OFF, so great is
| the heat.
The plant, it was shown. is a,proft-
| able venture, once 1t Is established. In
the consumption OF the garbage. sixty
| tons each day, as Montgomery's trash
| amount was estimated, steam Is gen.
| Grated, capable of being converted into
| ESQ electrical horse power each hour.
This newer, 1t was shown. can be
/ sold, or used to operate the street
| ares of the city, and ESQ horse power
| with allowances for loss of power In
| transmission, will operate 20p arc
1 lamps. During the discussion last
| night, it was shown that The arc
| lights cost the city. now that the pow,
or is bought, $50 per year each.
\ The residue from the burning gar
bage is a clinker, solid, brittle mass
much of the resemblance of Stag. That
! 1t could be put to use In the manufac-
\ ture of concrete, or OF clinker brick
| or as street or road filling, or to any
number of similar purposes, was
| proven.
The proposition of the garbage de-
| structor has already found some favor
with the Aldermen. and the Sanitation
| Committee will consider. In the light
| of last nights clinic, the advisablity
| of recommending the installation OF
such a plant.
1t was declared that the plant Is alb
solutely sanitary, without odor, and
without danger of disease. In New
| Brighten, Staten Island. where the first
of the Instructors was built In the
United States, the plant Is but zoe
Yards from a fashionable residential
portion of the town, and not a CON-
| plant has been registered.
Any gases which result from the con-
sumption of the trash are carried of
by a system Of draught pipes and q
| fan through a tall chimney. The gases
are imperceptibie. 1t was told by the
| two officials. to the smell or sight, or,
in fact, to any sense, and harmless.
The plant If installed in Montgomery,
will cost probably $4,000 to $4,000,
according to the engineers. 1t will be
about As BY so feet in dimensions. The
garbage will be hauled In wagons
dumped near the furnaces, and stocked
in by the men in charge of the opera
| ton.
Two men, according to Mr.. Nutting,
will be able to handle the plant at a
shift, and two shifts. or probably three.
will be- made during the twenty-four
| hours.
In explaining his plant. Mr.. Nutting
declared that most of the European
cities-The Hague, Rotterdam, Rouen.
| for example, use 1t at present, and the
use is extending to America. The first
plant, to destroy thirty tons per day.
was installed on Staten Island. and It
was that\which the Montgomery Alder
men saw. Another has been built at
Detroit, to consume 900 tons daily.
The engineers go this morning to Bir-
| ningham, that city having proven in
terested in the plant. They prophesy