Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-14
Municipal Affairs
GARBAGE ORDINANCE
IS ATTACKED AGAIN
RESTAURANT AND HOTEL MEN
MAKE PROTEST
Five-Mile Limit Clause Is Bone Of
Contention Among Protest.
ants Before Municipal
Board

Again the old bugaboo of the five
mile clause in the garbage specifica-
tions has arisen and threatens to de-
feat the work already done to provide
for caring for the city's garbage.
A committee of hotel and restaurant
men composed of ]. w. Mitchell, John
Brink, Al Levy and others appeared
before the board of public works yes
terday and complained of the five-mile
limit. They said that, because of this
clause in the garbage specifications
they We're unable to get a private con-
tractor to handle their garbage and
that, unless 1t was changed, they would
have to let the city collect the garbage
and would lose the profit they have
been realizing by selling their table
refuse to hog feeders.
Z The hotel men found the board of
public works sympathetic, for the five
mile limit for hog feeding has never
appealed to the board. The members
of the board believe that the city could
get a much better rate for handling
garbage If it was not for this clause,
but the board has never had to argue
with irate residents of the Sixth ward,
who suffered from the hog pens To-
Gated in Vernon, just over the line OF
the city llHllLS ana only DlOCK or TWO
from Los Angeles residences. The city
council did have to hear the COM
plants of these property owners and
the five-mile clause was the result
When the hotel and restaurant men
left the board of public works, it was
with the intention of drawing up
formal letter of protest to be presented
to the board and by the board referred
to the council. This letter will ask that
| IaO Or1inonPn p1raa DIV ma CSaH nd which
took more than nine months to get to
the point of passage be repealed and
another ordinance passed eliminating
the five-mile clause.
The hotel men were given what the
council considered the best of the bar
gain. Special arrangements were made
for hotels and restaurants. 1t is pro-
vided, in the garbage specifications,
that hotels and restaurants may sell
their garbage to private contractors.
each hotel man giving bond of $4,000
that the garbage sold would not be de-
liVered to hog breeders within five
miles of the city limits This hotel
and restaurant garbage Is what Is
called the "cPeam" of the refuse and
should bids be submitted for the reduc-
ton process, as is considered probable
the terms to the city would he much
better If this hotel and restaurant
garbage was included. But the council
considered it unfair to entirely deprive
the hotel and restaurant men Of the
profit of this by-product, and for this
reason the clause for their benefit was
inserted.
Now the people who were supposed to
be benefited by this clause declare that
thew will have to deliver this part of
their profits to the city unless the or
dipqnce is amended
The ordinance has been published for
about two weeks and the board of pub
lie works already has fixed the date for
receiving bids. 1t is believed that, If
the work has to he done over, 1t will
he spring before contract can be let
Meantime. 1t is COSTING the city more
every day to dispose Of garbage. The
Vernon hog men have been selling out
and the hog WAGONS are not so fire.
nuentlv seen collecting garbaTe lust
ahead of the regular garbage collectors
II is COSTING more to incinerate the
daily collections and more men prob
ably will have to be employed soon.