Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-04
HOTEL KEEPERS
OBJECT TO NEW
GARBAGE PLAN
ASK To HAVE SYSTEM REMAIN
AS IT Is
DECLARE PROPOSED REMOVAL
OF REFUSE INcoNVENlENT
Claim 100000 Annual Receipts from
Kitchen Waste Will Be Lost-Say
Will Bring Injunction Suit
If Change Is Made

Whatever may be the decision of
the council on the question Of chang
ing the garbage ordinance and can
ceiling the contract John S. Mitchell,
representing the Southern California
Hotel Mems association, frankly told
the legislation committee last night
that his organization would not al
low the contract to go into effect.
Mr.. Mitchell said his organization
and the Los Angeles Restaurant Mems
association were prepared to brlng an
injunction against the board OF pup
lie works to prevent completion OF the
contract with Charles A. Alexander
and against the latter to prevent him
from collecting the garbage.
The question of the five-mile limit
for the disposal of garbage, which was
before the old council so many months
is the bone of contention That mas
come up again. The hotel men have
asked the council to repeal this ord1-
nance providing for the garbage con-
tract and make several changes in II,
chiefly to eliminate the five-mile
clause. clause so thev can continue to sell
their garbage to the Vernon hog
feeders.
But there are other features that
need changing, according to Mr..
Mitchell. Under the present system
hotel and restaurant garbage is re-
moved from large cans every nlght IN
the week, between midnight and
o'clock in the morning. Under the
proposed ordinance it cannot be re-
moved Sunday nights and must be
taken from the curbs. The cans are
limited in capacity to sixteen gallons
and Mr.. Mitchell painted word pic
ture of twenty-five or thirty garbage
cans stationed on the curbs all day
Sunday and every evening, While peo-
pie are going to the theaters. This
is the condition that prevailed seven
| or eight years ago and it caused such
a protest that the council made ar
rangements for the hotel and restau-
rant men to take care of their own
| garbage.
Display of Garbage Cans Assured
In the district west of Hill street
| garbage is allowed to be removed from
| hotels only three times a week and
there are a number of large hotels in
the Westlake district which will have
| to make a display of garbage cans on
their curbs half the week.
Mr.. Mitchell said that because the
: restrictions of five miles was so diff
ficult to comply with the hotel and
A restaurant men could not sell their
| garbage and would lose 100000 year.
For this reason they want the contract
to remain as it is now. Garbage at
| the present time is collected by the
| Vernon Livestock association and the
| city pays less for this collection than
! it ever has before.
Councilman Miles Gregory appeared
before the committee last night as
secretary of the Union League club
| and asked that the contract be cam
ceIed. He said the Union League club
received considerable money from the
sales of garbage from its tables.
Property owners and residents of
the Sixth ward appeared before the
committee to protest against any
change in the existing contract. They
| told how, they suffered by reason OF
| the offensive odors which come from
the Vernon hog farms and declared
they were growing desperate and
would not stand it much longer. They
want the five-mile limit strictly en-
forced.
The committee did not take any ac-
tion on the question last night, but
even should the council refuse to cam
eel the contract it is considered prob
able Alexander will not be able to be-
gin the collection of garbage March /,
when his time limit expires, and he
may have to surrender the contract
voluntarily. When he secured the
contract he expected to remove gar
bage at least five miles from the city
limits and feed it to hogs, but he ex-
pected to send it there by rail. He is
having great difficulty in making ar
rangements with the railroad company
and may not succeed in closing the
deal. In that event he would have to
transport 1t by wagons and to carry
the city's garbage five miles from the
city limits by wagon would make such
an expensive proposition that at the
price he has offered to do it the con-
tract would not be profitable.