The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-05
SOLVING THE GARBAGE
 NUISANCE.
(By Katherine Louise Smith.)

(By Katherine Louise Smith.)
 Minneapolis is blazing a new trail She has found out that no city that wants to be a clean city can neglect its garbage handling, and she has gone to work to set. a pace for the rest of us. The real beauty of 1t, too, is that she has solved the gar bage problem-Or more nearly solved it than has anybody else, up-to-date. She may be said to stand first in the list of cities in America in the solu- tion of the sanitary disposal of refuse and other towns are sending delega- tions to inspect this garbage system. Winnipeg has already patterned after it.
 The present method of collecting and disposing of garbage is due to the efforts of Dr. F. H. Hall. Com missioner of Health. Dr. Hall real ized that popular methods in vogue in various places, such as dumping in iand or water, pig feeding. and even incineration, did not entirely solve the problem of a clean garbage can or the utilization of the product. The handling of garbage should be san itary operation through its various transfers from the dining room table to the kitchen sink and the garbage can and incinerator. Minneapolis thinks it has solved this problem in part by adopting a way so that the
 
 the fly as free lunch counter. and It his also planned up-to-date measures in the final disposal of waste matter.
 Nearly four years ago this cam paign to handle garbage without nui- sance was started and to-day 1t IS pronounced an unqualified success. NO more are there foul, maggoty gar bage cans and all because city or dinance provides that every housewife shall drain the garbage of all mols- ture and wrap it in paper Def0re putting it in the can. This not on ly insures a clean can but the spaces between the paper allow the air to circulate and keep the garbage iron, freeezing and adhering to the can In cold seasons. In other words, heat moisture and the fly are all eliminat- ed. Any kind of paper can be used but as a rule there is plenty of wrap ping paper that comes around pack ages from the grocer and butcher, as well as old newspapers, that the housewife is glad to get rid of. That all this may be done properly the Board of Health issues printed card of directions for the housewife and advises that it be hung in her kitchen.
 But this is only an important in- troduction to the story of the garbage system which is being adopted by a large city as a unit. When the gar bage man comes around to collect hls quota he finds a clean can, he is not faced with wet and dripping refuse, and in cold weather he does not take a pick and batter the can in order to lift the frozen material. He merely loads the prepared garbage into Q large steel box. somewhat resem bling a bath tub, and which has one hum dred feet capacity. He hauls this to a central transfer station, where the tanks are lifted off the wagon truck by means of an electric hoist and placed upon fiat cars which con- 1ey them to the crematory or dis posal plant A train of several cars soon reaches the crematory just out side the city, where the boxes are lifted from the cars by an electric hoist and dumped directly into the fire In other words. from the time the garbage is rolled in paper by the housewife until the ashes are taken from the fire of the disposal plant there is no necessity for the refuse to be handled by hand. As the paper used to wrap the packages is, as u rule, waste material, this, too, is dis posed of and the sanitary condition of the cans and reduction in bulk or the waste, because drained. make the necessity for collection less frequent