Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
FIGHT HOLDS Up
NEW CITY PLANT
Council Committee to Take Up
Purchase of S44G,00 De-
StruCtor Again Monday.

Though a majority of the council
finance committee favors the purchase
of the $4,000 garbage disposal plant
from the Destructor Company, of New
York, new hopes have been aroused by
the proposal Of the w. H. SAWYER &
Sons Company, of Atlanta. to destroy
all the eity's refuse matter free of cost
in a reduction plant to be operated by
private capital
Some of the members say they have
no confdep44 in the Sawyer offer, be-
cause 1t is indefinite. But due to the
proposal and the opposition of Alder +
man A. ]. johnson to the purchase of
the s44O. 600 plant, Anal action has been
postponed until Monday afternoon w.
H. Sawyer & Sons Company were in
vited to submit written statement
then of what they are able to do.
Sawyer Apologies for Statement.
Something of a stir was caused at the
meeting of the committee yesterday
afternoon when Alderman John ;.
Gambler read a letter from F. l.. saw
yer. of w n. Sawyer &, Sons Compa-
ny stating that DR.. Rudolph Herring
the expert engineer who recommended
the Destructor Company bid, was an
associate of the Destructor Company.
MIR. Sawyer said he had been given
that information by a reliable citizen
Nd -
diately made that he give the name Of
that citizen. Mr. Sawyer refused. and
apologized and said in view of the
statements of members of the commit
tee he had absolute confidence in DR..
Herring.
Mr. SAWYER wanted to sell the city a
reduction plant He was told that the
reduction system had been investigated
and was not considered practical for
Atlanta. He then. said that If the city
would give him all the garbage for a
period of 20 years. he would see that. a
plant was built and all the refuse mat
ter destroyed without cost to the city
IL he can make good in his offer, the
CITY will not only be saved the ire
mendous cost of building an incinera-
tor hut also the SO. 000 a year of main
tenance expense.
Purchase Urged by Mayor.
The bid of the Destructor Company
was. explained in detail. Mayor VIM
then took the floor and urged the &C
ceptance of II bid as the most rea-
sonable means of abolishing the eigh-
I teen dump piles in the city. He said
the city was threatened on all sides
with Injunction suits against the dump
niles. He said that he was willing to
accept the Destructor Companys bid on
DR.. Rudolph Hering's recommends
tion Tor DR.. Herring had designed At
Ianta's whole waterworks and sewer
system and they have proved salts
factory.
Alderman Johnson insisted that the
Destructor Company wanted too much
for its. plant He showed that it had
built a larger plant in Milwaukee for
S200000 He said that he was in
formed that the specifications were
taken principally from the Milwaukee
specifications, and that other manufac-
turers had not had an equal chance to
hid These arguments were denied by
DR.. W. L. Gilbert, president of the
board of health, and w. E. Dowd Jr.,
representing the Destructor Company.
w. q. Smith, general manager of the
vaterworks. told the committee that
he had not been informed about the
specifications for the proposed water
pnmp. nor had the water board been
given any information
Bond To Guarantee Contract.
Alderman Gambler explained that the
Destructor Company would give a
$4,000 bond that all features of the
contract would be carried out, and one
of them was that the pump would sup
ulv 90 600 600 gallons of water day.
Ii was brought out that if the city
purchased the plant, about 100000
would be saved in the purchase of a
nump. and about $4,000 in annual coal
expense would be saved by the electric
plant.
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