The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-22
F. P. Bullard, Member of Advisory Committee, Says
 that Sanitation of New Bedford Plant is Excellent

Wheelwright Not Willing
 to Purchase By-Products
 Property Which is With
 out Railroad Facilities,
 and Not Well Adapted to
 Work.
 The impression is growing among informed citizens in Bridgeport that Charles H. Whee1wright is being held up by influential interests to compel him to purchase the old plant of the Bridgeport By-Products Go. There seems to be determined effort upon the part of certain persons to unload this plant upon the Ninth District, whose people have fought it for years
 When Wheelwright made his bid to the board he agreed to take over the old plant if railroad facilities could be furnished. Such facilities cannot be furnished. MT. whee1wright when see this morning, objected to an attack upon the New Bedford plant that has been made, and fur nished the statement of Harold Wins Board of Health, who had been quoted as attacking the sanitation of the plant.
 MT. wheelwfight is said to feel that be is being harshly used in Bridge port, inasmuch as his proposition has received the approval of the commit tee composed of executives of the Bus mess Mems Association of the Board of Trade and of the Manufacturers Association, and also of the boards own expert.
 In the matter of the sanitary con- dition of the New Bedford plant B. p RIIllaT6 who nr0SidRnf the manufacturers association was member of the advisory committee, gave to a Farmer reporter, today. an interview as follows:
 ''On June 20th, 1910, in accordance with the wishes of the Board of Health of this city. I visited the plant at New Bedford, accompanied by MT. c. s. Wheelwright and examined same from an engineering standpoint. I found the plant to be exceptionally well constructed of the most approv- ed materials and built in a workman like manner. I was impressed with inspection had been given due consid- eratiOn.
 *sThe odor emanating from the plant did not seem to me objectionable, and T feel confident that an up-to-date plant such as might be constructed by MT. Wheelwright today would be more sanitary than the New Bedford plant.
 ..In my opinion the incineration pro- cess is the most sanitary in that it provides for the disposition of rubbish ashes, etc, as well as garbage
 It was said today by man fami-. liar with the subject that the con- tract which the city has made with Wheelwright would be promptly ex- ecuted if he could be induced to buy the old plant of the By-Products Co. Then, it was said, certain clements would withdraw their objections.
 This speaker said: MT. Wheelwright a nuisance. any objectionable odors with his plant'' If the plant is erected and it does create objectionable odors it will vest more than s1OO,o0o that he can make good. The boards expert says he can make good. We believe he The city can't suffer. In the mean time, let's have fair play.
 MT. Winslow's statement follows: To the Editor of the Farmer:
 Sir-Having been misquoted by the reporter of the Bridgeport Standard relative to statements alleged to have been made by me as a member of the Board of Health of New Bedford, am asking for a, little space in your news paper in order to correct several ab- soluteIy incorrect impressions which may have been drawn from the Stan dard's story of September 10th.
 As a. member of the Board of Health I have never received a complaint against the Wheelwrfght plant on ac ing the residents of the country sur rounding the New Bedford garbage plant.
 As a newspaper man I have never been called upon to write any stories based on the unofficial complaints of residents of this district. nor have ever seen in any New Bedford news paper even a communication on this subject from any disgruntled land holder near the plant. This is a sur prising statement. yet is absolutely true.
 am quoted in the Standard as tell ing the reporter that have received complaints from the citizens near the plant about the flies which make life unbearable in the summer"
 Not once during my talk with the Bridgeport newspaper man were mes of New Bedford referred to in the story are quoted as accurately as l was, the reporter did some of the best faking on record.
 My conversation with him was to the effect that never as a newspaper man or a member of the Board of Health had I received one complaint regard ing the New Bedford garbage plant.
 I did tell him that before I was member of the board understood that the board had received complaints from those who lived near the plant to the effect that during certain hours the smell was very bad.
 These complaints, said, had been investigated by William G. Kirsch- baum, then chairman of the Health Board, and found to be justifiable. 1n- vestigation proved, however. that the reason for the odor was caused by the fact that in order to save time the engineer of tn eplant blew off the cylinders over water provided for this purpose instead of into the water
 In this way the odor from the plant was sent circulationg through the air instead of being absorbed by the wa ter. MT. WheeIwright, when he learn ed what was being done. discharged this engineer Since then, I said, knew of no complaints on this score.
 I told the Standard reporter to see