Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

4 GOAT is generally supposed to include in his
~ dietary everything from newspaper to a tin can.
I \ AS a public scaverger Billy was at one time of
immense service to communities that observed the time
honored custom of emptying garbage in their back
yards to fill undeveloped lots for future building opera
TONS But that in the days of easy living before
made business of conserving everything and con-
verting all ordinary waste into valuable byproducs.
For many year poor Billy has been deprived of
his favote newspapers which go back to the pulp mills
instead of into Billy stomach; and the tin whose
fancy labels oft made him think of juicy tomatoes and
ripe peaches likewise recovered, eecroy tlcally
treated a bath, and converted back into sheet tin
to begin anew their little cycle of existence.
There is mansion built just off Fifth-ave:, New
York. that might appropriately be called 3Iin Can
House. because it made of tin cans but because
its and builder made his fortune in collecting tin
When other people despsed tin cans and threw
attened them out, and repaired roofs with them Then
he discovered another for them and by the time he
had factory established for recovering the tin he
had one hundred scavengers from sunny Italy picking
and buying tin cans for him. Today his well organized
force of collectors numbers nearly five hundred and the
goat that find stray that has escaped the
ArguSeyed force of the tin merchant must be abroad
bright and early in the day
Far up under the Arctic Circle in Alaska is mining
town called Tin City. 1t was SO named because OF its
location in tin producing district But the real
Tin City, every pioneer miner OF the klondike will
tell you is not the place officially marked thus
the map, but mythical city whose geographical loca
ton is plainly marked by of trails. This Tin
City owed its existence to the great American tin
Its inhabitants saved from starvation by the tin
can, and many home in it lighted and heated by
this article of common which discard and
throw away every day in the year. That first winter in
the Kondke riot of tin Milk, fruits vege-
tables meat, fish, and all that eats carried
there in cans, and when the big of oil emped
of their contents the tin used for making stoves
The tin stove was great institution in Alaska be-
fore railroads invaded the region miner could sling
his homemade cooking stove over his shoulder and walk
away to a camp without considering the weight.
When spring the tin were fattened out and
made into all sorts of household utensils Houses
built of them, and today score of these pioneer
Tin Cities of the Klondke paved and built and
patched up with the discarded that went North
filled with the delicious edbles of a warmer Cline
The cycle of tin is said to be short and prosaic
ally routine. First, the in the ground; then the
purified ngot; then the terne sheet tin; then the
finished tin can; then, when filled with luscious
fruit meat, the @hope and pride of the good house
wife, and then-the discarded rejected shell thrown
the ash heap or in the garbage pail But the period
of regeneration begins when the secondhand dealer
rescues it and back its swift road to restt
ton 1t loses its identity in the process; but
it forth shining and glossy in its FURNISHED coat
ready for the canning factory That is the ordinary
cycle of existence for the average tin cam
Value to Housewives
PUT there enough exceptions to the rule to make
- them worthy of special paragraph Not to men,
ton the variations of the rule experienced by tin
tied the tails of mongrel of the Streets of those
which faithfully drinking cups for the Weary
saloons often in lieu of pitcher that they euphe
mistcaly called the "tn grower it is necessary only
to call attention to the to which tin put by
the ordinary housewife.
helpful article published number of years ago
in magazine devoted to the home and housewife which