The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-12
WHEELW WRIGHT HANDICAPPED
 BY HACKERS
Antagonistic Newspapers Here Also Hurt Him, He
 Declares to Farmer
 FISHER MAY GET CONTRACT York, Pa, Mans Proposition Is Now Favorably Con sidered by Health Board
(Special to The FarmerA

Wheelwright president of the Ameri- can Extractor O., told a Farmer re- porter today that he would be in a position to tell definitely what he proposed to do in the garbage disposal problem in Bridgeport by Monday.
 'I have been greatly handicapped '' said MT. Wheelwright, 'by the attitude of certain of the Bridgeport newspa- pers. They have taken it for granted that I had nothing, and could produce nothing. The statements they have made along these lines have been a detriment to my carrying out my plans. If 1 had some assistance in- stead of this opposition I could have made much better progress. I want to state that I believe the Farmer has been eminently fair
 Members of the board of health are convinced today that MT. Wheelwright will have to abandon his proposed garbage plant on Ash Creek. They are equally certain that MT. Wheel wright was in good faith throughout the negotiations he made with the city Business differences with his associates have seriously impaired his ability to carry out his plans. how ever and because of the differences that arose between him and wealthy men associated with him that he was unable to post s10.0O0 bond he agreed to file with the city yesterday and in default of which he is likely to have to forfeit a. $1 900 check.
 Members of the board of health are now looking to renewal of their negotiations with Charles c. Fisher a garbage reducer of York, Pa. MT. Fishers bid for the reduction Of Bridgeport's garbage was based upon different proposition from that of Mr. Wheelwright. He proposed to re- duce the garbage for $1 per ton. MT. Wheelwright agreed to reduce garbage for sS, 500 per year, this figure having been arrived at after the board of health had several conferences with him and imposed several duties upon him which he had not taken under cons iteration .when he filed his first bid of S7.6O0 per year.
 It is known that MT. Fisher is ready and anxious for a renewal of negot1a- tions with the city. He has appeared before both the board of health and mayor and made a favorable impress sion, taking the attitude that he was ready to sell his wares if the city wanted to purchase them at his fig ure.
 Fisher has reduced garbage in York, Pa., for a number of years, and his claim that he was carrying out his at any of the meetings he attended.
 MT. Fisher would either purchase from the Bridgeport By-Products Co. its plant, now partially dismantled, Ill Asylum street, near LakevleW nome, Or erect a plant of his own. MT. Wheelwright's option on the Ash Creek site, at the end of State street extension. having expired, he may have difficulty in securing location.
 The erection of a municipal garbage reduction plant, which the health commissioners and other officials agree is the ultimate solution of the problem is not likely to be favorably consld- cred at this time. the health commis- sioners- being satisfied to accept the proposition of Mir. Fisher.
 J. B. Livingston. president or the Bridgeport By-Products Co.,, is anX1- ous to unload the reduction plant of the company upon the city. MT. Sev- erance of Cleveland, O., the principal stockholder of the concern, and the present owner by virtue of foreclosure proceedings he brought for loan side from his stock subscription, is equally anxious to get rid of the plant. IT they cannot sell it to Fisher, they will continue to dismantle the ma chinery and will ship it elsewhere.
 .lO tract for the collection of garbage, is burying the stuff for 50 cents ton in trenches dug upon the city property near Iakeview Home. The process or burying garbage may be satisfactorily continued during the winter months, but in the summer there is likely to be determined opposition to the prac- tice. King has indicated that he IS not willing to continue to bury gar bage indefinitely for the present price of half a dollar a ton
 Members of the health board have spent many days in trying to arrive at the completion of arrangements for the reduction of garbage. and if MT. Wheelwright is able to deliver the goods or show any reasonable indi- cation of soon being able to do so, the health commissioners will not take any undue advantage of him. They would not even insist upon the for feiture of the $1.000 which by his own agreement has already forefeited in his certified check. provided he eventually carries out the plans he has outlined.
 Wheelwright'S drawback throughout his preparations. has been a split with his money men. Wheelwright Is accredited an expert in the reduction of garbage He has invented several devices of use in the process of gar haze reduction. The money Enter ests he depended upon, however, in- sisted, that before he should have funds for carrying out the Bridgeport proiect. he should turn over his pa tent rights to them. He refused, and