Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
CITY PLANT PLAN
DUE FOR MORE
JUGGLING
Health Boards Recommends
ton Again Will Go to Council
Finance Committee.

Members of the board of health said
today they expected to make the same
recommendation to the city council for
a garbage disposal plant they made
before. The council again will refer it
to the finance committee. where it was
argued at three long meetings and
finally referred back to the board Of
health.
Il don't see how We can improve OF
our former recommendation said 6
II Brandon. a member Of the board
who has supervised the building of two
crematories.
1T is false economy not to proceed
at once to build a modern incinera-
tor" said DR.. j. H. Bradfeld. The
people of Atlanta are demanding 1t.
Or. Gilbert said the board would 60
over the propositions for garbage dis
posal once more and that the board
then would stand pat" on its recon-
mendation.
To Consider Forsyth Bid.
The instructions of the finance COM
mttee are that the board cut out
every possible item from the disposal
plant bid. BY leaving. off the water
pump and the electric plant, the mem
bers Of the board expect to reduce the
cost of the plant they want from S44o'-
600 to about s23O,0Oo. They also Will
consider the $4,000 bid of the Forsyth
Crematory Company.
JonCa5- arising from
the garbage heaps in the city has been
cited to the board of health by parents
whose children cluster about the IN
healthy piles searching in the filthy
refuse for coins or leather scraps from
which the, make sings
At the corner of Greensferry avenue
and Ashby street more than two dozen
boys were using the vicinity Of the
dump heaps as Fairgrounds.
These boys said others III various
sections of the city gather about the
unsanitary spots several hours each
day.
chief Jentzen. Of the sanitary de-
partnent. and the other health officers
are alarmed at the increasing com
plants of the dump piles where the
garbage and refuse matter now is de-
nosited IT now is dumped into heaps
al eighteen places around the city. me
decaving matter gives off sickening
doors and flies, mosquitoes and rats
swarm around the heaps. They are
constant menace to the health of the
city.
The garbage dump at the end oil
North Jackson street IS on city proper
tx in Piedmont park. A ditch leading
down 70 what is known as Clear
Creek" the little stream which hoWs
almost under the bleachers at Ponce
DeI.eon ball park. has been nearly
filed BY refuse hauled in the city carts
The ditch into which the garbage is
du,nped receives the garbage and drains
If into The creek which flows north past
the fashionable district Of Ansley park,
ca irving with it Thousand impuri-
ties
Refuse Dumps Imperi Many.
lust across the stream. and not loo
wards away. is q baseball diamond
where each afternoon a score of tbs
neighborhood boys play baseball ana
breathe into their lungs the fetid ar
from the refuse heap.
Homer Bartlett. a little boy living
near here. had typhoid fever last sum-
mer." said Mrs. A c. Walters whose
home is at North Boulevard and Tenth
street and many of the children in
the neighborhood have fever.
Does that dump Inconvenience US?
That is not the word; it is simply aw-
ful We can't sit on our porch at
night. and you see how far We are
from It."
The walters rome is at least block
from the pile.
I'VE don't notice the odor during the
day-at least, not very much: but al
night IT is almost unbearable.'
Mrs. W. B. Cox. whose husband and
brother run general store on the op-
posite corner from the Walters home.
said:
1T makes it almost impossible for Us
70 stay in this store On damp days
if is particularly bad. ] don't see why
the city should treat US this way.
Haven't they started to build crema
tory several times l don't see why in
the world they don't 90 something. We
folks out here are all going TO have
fever this summer