The Detroit times., 1912-09-09
GARBAGE AAU POLITICS
RUN PRETTY EVEN RAGE In
RAISING lHtuE STENCIL
Former in Lead Just Now, With
Noisome odofs Spread-An =
Oyereity. !.
REFUSE RIOTS IN ALLEYS
No Collections in Some Neigh
borhoods in Over Two Weeks
Court Case up Monday

Mrs. Samuel EaaIestone, OF No.
IS 6reckenridge-st., reports that
the failure Of garbage collectors TO
visit the five-apartment terrace IN
which she lives, 10 blamed. for
three cases Of fever. Paul kem-
nett, a roomer In her home, was
taken 70 the Marine hospital, last
week, suffering from typhoid.
George AFFORD, No. 81 6recken-
ridge, In the same terrace, 10 iii
Of fever, which 10 puzzlins the
physicians, who say that II 10 due
TO some germ infection, Mrs.
Eoglestone says.
Mrs. w. 6. Graham, AZ No. so,
has high fever, with the symp-
toms Of typhoid, and her condition
10 blamed on the garbage. There
has been no collection for three
weeks.
While politics and garbage ara
running a pretty even race to see
which can raise the greatest stencil,
Detroit Is becoming o city OF noisome
odors, not confined to the garbage re-
ceiying station at the foot OF Nino-
teenth-st. but spread pver all sections
OF the city where garbage cans and
boxes, many of them greater than the
required size. are overfiowing with
foul and decaying contents, un-
touched by garbage collector for
periods OF two weeks.
At places where grocery stores,
large apartment houses, or other In
stitutions of the sort are located, one
frequently finds a garbage stencil
which permeates through the whole
neighborhood. Calls for the garbage
collector are unavailing. In some IN
stances, there have been no collec-
tions for 16 days.
Meanwhile. there IL a complaint in
the recorders court against the De-
troit Reduction Co. II Is held up un-
I'll Monday, while the city's law de-
partment, and the legal lights employ
ed by the company delve learnedly
into the contract entered into be-
tween the concern and the city.
The nub OF the matter is this: The
ID. p. w. wagons dump the garbage
at the receiving station at the foot
OF Nineteenth-st. The department has
sos iron wagon-boxes In commission
for that purpose. II Is the depar.-
ment's duty to collect the garbage
throughout the city, haul II to the
receiving station, and place It on cars,
brought there by the Reduction COM
pany. But the cars have not beeu
there. ready to be filed. each ca
with 20 loads of garbage, Now the
question is raised that the reduction
company does not take control of the
garbage until II is on the cars The
cars are not there; the garbage is,
no M
wagons are out Of commission until
they can be emptied and returned for
more loads. \
Politics demands that the ID. p. w.
be attacked by the corporation coun
sells Office.
Health demands that the garbage
be taken from Detroit's alleys, with;
out regard for politics.
The Reduction company says that
labor troubles caused It's plant to be-,
Sanitary Engineer Williamson says
that Il Is small wonder that there
are labor troubles at the French
Landing plant. He declares that the
employees wade in garbage up TO their
knees all day long, and that there
are no conveniences furnished for
A&AGAls ACAC 10 hON C'Sh PANNS
where they can wash.
Willie the reduction plant is knee
deep with garbage, d. p. w. wagons.
not yet unloaded. are scattered all
jaround the grounds OF the plant, when
they should be promptly unloaded.
and shipped right back for more col
lections.
"The garbage question has been
q held up for so long, and has got so
far behind, that II the ID. p. w. could
collect, and the Reduction company
could handle, 500 loads Of garbage
day, II would take two weeks of such
activity to clean Detroit up to the
point where IL shold be" says En-
gineer Williamson.
AT present, about seven car loads
or lao wagonloads OF garbage are be-
Ing removed from Nineteenth-st., each
day .v- ~. u-, ...,ta. ...,.. ..
There's the nub OF the whole stu.
alton, and the man who is forced TO
hold his nose while sitting on the
porch of his home. may see what
chance there Is OF cleaning the
garbage under the present arrange
4 ments