Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26
CITY SCAvENGER
SYSTEM IS PUT
INTO OPERATION
Municipal Collections Begun by
Large Squad-End to Com
tractor Arrangement Urged.

Two hundred and sixty-nine men
and seventy-seven wagons were put
to work by the city today collecting
garbage and refuse.
The city was mapped out in five
districts by Charles M. Shipman, gen.
eral superintendent of works The
wagons and men were distributed
among these districts in charge of
foremen.
The men placed on the garbage col
lection work represent large part of
the city street cleaning force. City
wagons and dump carts are being
| used to transport the refuse. The
garbage collected by the city will not
be taken to the disposal plants con-
| trolled by Joseph Marrone. All the
/ refuse is being carried to the various
city dumps in Vailsburg, Meeker ave.
nue. and Oraton avenue.
Collectors employed by Joseph Mar
rome, the city scavenger contractor,
are at work also. Mr.. Shipman and
]. Milton Kennedy manager for Mar
rome, were in consultation last night
until a late hour. On map of the
city Mr.. Shipman told Mr.. Kennedy
just what districts the city would
| look after today.
| his men to other parts of the city.
He declared he did not know exactly
where his collectors were scheduled
| to work today He said this was left
| to big Bilr' Edwards and the scav-
enger superintendent who work on the
outside. He agreed. however. to see
that his collectors did not Interfere
with the work of the city collectors
| The city districts as subdivided by
Mr.. Shipman are as follows:
| District One--Between Clinton ave-
nue. and Eighteenth avenue from
! South Tenth street to the city line.
| fifteen teams and ninety men.
| District Two-Between Springfield
avenue and Eighteen avenue from
| High street TO Belmont avenue,
twelve teams and seventy-two men.
| District Three Between Eighteenth
avenue and Avone avenue from Bel
mont avenue to Bergen street, five
teams and thirty men.
| District Four--Between Bank and
Orange streets from High to Nor.
| folk street, fifteen teams, nine carts
and fifty men,
| District five is in the centre of the
city within short radius of the
-Four Corners In this district therc
are six carts and twenty seven men
working. The city collectors were at
/
they found that more wagons We're
necessary. Mr.. Shipman WAS notified
land Immediately sent out fifteen
more teams with drivers.
The city employees working on gar
bage receive the same w3ges as when
tworking on the streets. The iaborers
4 get $40 a week: the drivers receive
! twenty-eight cents an hour and the
drivers helpers get twenty-five cents
| an hour.
| The city men work just the same
| as the contractors men. One gang
goes ahead of the teams and pulls
out the garbage and ashes. The
drivers and helpers empty the cans
Then another gang follows up the
wagons and returns the cans to the
backyards
Board of Works Commissioner
| Charles p. Gillen today declared that
| his orders have not been fully car
ried out. He instructed Mr. Ship
man to employ extra teams Tor the
garbage collection, he says. Only the
regular city teams are now at work
The annoyance and unsatisfactory
service alleged to have been given by
Marrone and other city Scavenger
| contractors may lead to the city tax
| ing over permanently the collection or
| its garbage and refuse. Marrones $
contract runs for three years, from
January l. 1918.
Mr. Shipman declared today that
the city could collect it's own garbage
in a more economical and satisfactory
manner than by the present method
| Numerous complaints came into MT
Shipman's office today. Most of these
people declared that the fault lay with
| the city, saying the city should DO IT'S
| own collecting. In most cases Mr
| Shipman agreed.
Commissioner Gillen is also in favor
| of municipal collection OF garbage.
To a representative of The Star today
| he said that was the most satisfactory
and efficient manner of collection.
"If had my choice today between
contract collection of garbage or mn
uicipal collection, | would cavor tne
latter method he said.
"The street cleaning department and
the garbage collectors could work to-
gether. There would be less spilling
| of ashes and garbage from the
wagons and the service generally
would be more efficient. The profits
| of the contractors would also be
wiped out and the work done at less
expense to the city. Then, too, 1t
| would furnish more help for local
| men. The money would stay in the
| city"
The city has taken all the men
from the work of cleaning UP the
snow and placed them on the garbage
collection work. A private con-
tractor with fifty men and twelve
wagons with foremen arc now doing
the street cleaning of snow for the
city