El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-29
Waste Makes Living High
New YOrk's Rubbish In n Year Is
Worth Half n Million; Great
Waste OF Food
IL NadFsnu &. PeterP--
vEsTIGATING committees ha

7 -rNVESTIGATING committees have
concluded that families with in
4 comes below $500 waste little food,
. from L to 4 percent. while families hav-
! ing an income from $1,000 to SSVOV
/ year frequently waste from IT. 10 %
! percent OF food purchased and eEtrava-
\ gance in buying to an equal amount
{ such families spend from SSyU 20 POW
I year for food. If ZOO,OyO Ianllles IN
I New York spend necdless1y ana 10 thelr
I detriment only $500 a year, the sum or
I $4,000, 600 annually is involved
! The Majestic hotel, in New ork, mas
q ton Of fOOdstuffs hauled away every
I day. The same is true in larger or
/ smaller degree OF the thousands Of big
hotels in New York and other cities
! Neither servants nor the people who
/ are served have sense Of appreciation
/ Of the value of food.
1t has been estimated that 100000
tons of ashes are collected every year
/ from the various buildings, hotels and
I houses in New York which, reduced to
useabie fuel would produce $40, I55
tons Of coal which might be used i'd
( yantageOCsly to some purpose and
which. at 81 a ton. represents waste
Half a Million IN Rubbish.
In 800 600 tons OF uDbiSh collected
every year in New York city, paper
alone, valued at $500 600, finds its way
TO the dumps.
It has been estimated that enough
wood is thrown away every year in
new IOEk city 10 properly CONS IT -IL =
modern cottage for 1000 WOrk1ngmen-
There are discarded every year IN New
York 1920, 600 barrels, also 100000
wooden boxes. S00,500 Christmas trees
and probably $50, 900 cubic yards Of
miscellaneous wood
There is enough tin in New York
city's annual rubbish pile TO make 1872
600 dinner pals while the 10000
pounds Of wooden and cotton rags that
are sent to the dumps every year In
New York alone could be turned into
LAOS. 900 OvercOats- This rubbish col
lected by the city at the taxpayers ex-
pense is sold TO private individuals for
a trifle and disposed Of by them ut
great profit
WASTE Makes Living High.
Our prOdigal waste makes living
high. Common. ordinary cOrnstalks OF
which upwards Of 55.O00.00O tons have
until recently been allowed for years 10
rot or be burned in the seven corn pro
ducing states Of the west have IN them
material out Of which excellent paper
can be made at cost Of about SIS =
ton. and paper from rags or wOOdpulp
Gently have we found a process that
makes remunerative this waste by
turning it into excellent paper.
Someone has said that "On the beaches
Of the United States enough prOteids
are cast up by the waves and allowed
TO decay and deSsicate into their Origi-
nal elements 10 take the place Of the
whole product Of the northwestern
wheat fields Certain foreigners in
our midst who gather rags. old bottles.
etc are teaching Us -Wasteful Americans
some things we need to leadn.
Thousands in Rags.
The 236.000 pounds Of rags the Ital-
fans gather every week in New York
at go cents a 100 pounds net these thrift
~ newcomers s76,532- The castaway
corps now gather and use again covers
for steampipes and boilers. FOR ice boxes
and icehOuSes and other apparatus that
need TO be protected from the influ-
Al
made OF this waste material Lesson
in wealth taught US to practice on the
garbage piles OF our cities A New
York preacher, from broken stone and
sand that the city builders would have
thrown away, built hotel for working
girls. A HObOken preacher has asked
the people Of that city to save their old
papers. the young people OF his con-
gregatiOn gather them and sell them
at $3.50 a ton The church is paying
for the minister's house from this. and
he is at the same time preaching q
practical sermon about gathering I'D
the fragments. that nothing may be
lost
Children Gather Up Rubbish.
In the city Of Brussels. the school
children were asked by their teachers
to gather up as they came and went
from school. such apparently valueless
objects as old metallic bottles. capsules
tin cans. tinfoil. paint tubes refuse
metal. and deliver them into the keep
ing OF their teachers Within eight
months they collected 1925 pounds OF
tinfOil, AIS bottles and capsules. 22O
pounds Of old paint tubes, 1921 pounds
OF scraps OF metals, total TIS1 pounds.
This heap Of rubbish was sold and its
proceeds applied so as to completely
clOthe 500 Door children and send 95
to recuperative colonies. and there still
remained quite a balance.
Stop letting things go to waste. and
thus minister TO your independence in
later years