The Detroit times., 1912-08-31
CITY INCINERATING
PLANT GARBAGE SOLUTION
tcon,inued from Par. One,

day and seven the next" said Mr,
Haarer. These cars are especially
CONSTRUCTED TO receive the boxes. In
stead OF getting in eight and seven
cars day we have been getting less
than five cars daily. We have 800
garbage wagon boxes which would
provide q loading out capacity OF 16
cars, bat the reduction company has
only IA cars in service. The COM
pany should have at least "a cars In
service.
1T Is impossible to get other cars
from the railroad company. and the
consequence Is that the service Is
becoming more congested. Two hun
dred and sixty G; our boxes are now
in French Landing. waiting TO be
emptied and returned. Seventy boxes
of garbage were left over from
Thursday and only four cars were
available To dispose OF them on FRI
day. Two OF those cars came in after
IL a. m. We needed 10 cars TO dis
pose of the garbage"
The contract does not expire until
June 80. 1916, and the city Is bound
not to dispose OF Its garbage in an
other way. The city has the privilege
OF purchasing the company's plant at
appraised value, and this may have
to he done. In fact, some city Of
ficials believe that the company has
been lax with respect to the contract
In the hope that the city will buy the
plant
Commissioner Haarer asked for an
appropriation this year for an incin-
Grating plant, but when the matter
was discussed, Secretary Robert X.
Davis, OF the reduction company, was
on hand and threatened suit II the
city proposed. TO dispose OF its gar
bage in any other way than that cali
ed for in the contract. The estima-
tors cut out the item.
Il am still OF the opinion that the
only satisfactory way to dispose or
the garbage is by a municipal incin-
Grating plant" said the commission
er. Our six-years' experience with
the company ought TO have convinced
the estimators and council Of that"
The contract required the reduc-
tion company to establish stations on
the Belt Line railroad to receive gar
bagc on the east side, but the excuse
was given that no location could be
obtained. This required extra long
hauls by city garbage wagons from
the east side to the foot OF Nine
teenth-st The council records show
that Aid. Vernon introduced a reso-
luton In the council, Aug. %, 1911.
which was adopted, and which
directed the corporation counsel 10
cue the company to collect for the
extra expense the city was put to N
hauling the garbage from the east
side to the foot OF Nineteenth-st IN
a letter to the council, Commissioner
Haarer named the amount he esti-
mated the company was indebted TO
the city and told how he estimated
1t. The corporation counsel's once
has never begun this suit, the excuse
being that IL was difficult to estimate
just how much the extra expense
amounted to.
The enforcement Of that part OF
the contract relating to the disposal
of the garbage at the foot Of Nine
teenth-st., has now been put up 70
the corporation counsel by the coun-
Gil. and Commissioners Haarer 10
waiting to see how long II will be
before action is started. The company
Is under bond 10 the city for $4,000
In the meantime another methot
has bsen taken To reach the reduction
company The Board OF Health has
served notice on the company that the
garbage must be removed by Monday
or its officers will be prosecuted for
maintaining q nuisance.