New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-28
81 100000 for New York
Hangs on Contract In
junction Decision.
DENIAL WILL CHOKE
BARREN ISLAND DOORS
Firm Seeking Disposal Rights
Plans Sanitary Plants on
Riker's or Staten Island.

A profit to the city of nearly $1,000
900 in the next five years and the pur'-
fcation of the atmosphere about ia
maica Bay by eliminating the garbage
utilization plant on Barren Island
hinge on a decision expected to-day by
Justice Donnely in the Supreme Court
Arguments will be heard this NOM
ing on applications for separate IN
functions made by the New YORK SAM
tary Utilization Company and the Al
lied Investors Realty Company to re-
strain the city from awarding con-
tract for the disposal Of garbage Tor
five years beginning January 2, 1917.
Fortunes Turk in garbage barrels as
will be brought out at the hearing. The
immense profits made from converting
garbage to salable greases and other
by-products are attested by the earnest
ness with which the city's foremost
legal representatives intend to contest
the case and by the retention OF al
least a dozen OF the best known and
highest-priced attorneys in New 1orA
as counsel for the garbage interests
Some of the lawyers are heavily imam
cially interested in the concern.
Temporary injunctions were granted
when the petitions and afiidavits were
filed with the court. If they are made
permanent by Justice Donnelly II may
be necessary for the city to renew Its
contract with the New York Disposal
Coronation. lessees of the Barren ISL
and plant, owned by the New York Sani'
tary Utilization Company, which de-
cided three years ago that the privi'
lege of destroying New York's garbage
was worth sl62 900. The amount was
not paid in full, and at present the
Corporation Counsel has a suit against
the concern for $4,000.
Plan TO End Evil OdOrs.
If the application for the injunction
is denied, it is likely that the new
contract will be awarded to Carney
Gahagan & Van Etten, firm headed by
James E. Gaffney, contractor and for
mer owner of the Boston Braves. Calf
news bid was 100000 for five years.
A garbage disposal and utilization plant
operated on the Cobwell system will be
built by the Gaffney firm on Arthur
Kill. Staten Island. By the process the
city has been assured that a repetition
Of the Barren Island nuisance will be
averted. The Cobwell system, it Is
claimed, disposes of all odors and OBJ
noxious gases. oooooo
New York paid nearly s4,0OO,OOO to
have its garbage destroyed before II
realized that besides the fees the con-
tracCoNs made enormous profits from
the conversion and sale of the waste
material. The New York Sanitary
Utilization Company has had the Bar.
rem Island plant since 1896, and until
January 2, 1914, was paid to dispose OF
garbage from Manhattan, Brooklyn anc
The Bronx The municipal authorities
were startled two years ago when John
]. Hart offered to pay the city Tor the
privilege of disposing OF the garbage
$62,500 the first year, S87 200 the sec
ond and $4,000 the third year. In ar
option of renewing the contract III
agreed to pay $4,000 for each of two
additional years.
Big Lawyers Interested.
Hart had no garbage disposal plant
| but he was acting for others. lnclud
ing James Z. Gaffney, who ORGANIZED
the New York Disposal Company. Tit
Barren Island converter was LEASED
from the New York Sanitary Utiliza
ton Company for 100000 year
| Gaffney withdrew from the company
schortly after il was organized.
The corporation directory gives a:
officers Of the present New York Dis
posal Company, holder of the contrac
for the disposal OF garbage: Thoma!
II. Gillespie, president; Henry ). Nor
row. secretary, and George II. Flynn
treasurer. The firm is capitalized a
| 100000 and has Offices at 80 Church
| Street. The officers are also the di
rectors. The attorneys for the com
pany are Wellman, Gooch G. Smyth
william W. Gooch, of the law firm
| is also president of the New Yorl
Sanitary Utilization Company, tn
attorneys for which are O'Brien
Boardman g. Platt The Allied In
vestors' Realty Company, which is of
ficered and controlled by Maurice
Samuel S. and Louis S. Levy, the con
Germ which brought a taxpayers actor
TO restrain the awarding of the gar
bage contracts 70 any firm but thu
present holders, is represented b.
Stanchfeld & Levy. The Levy o
the law firm is the Louis S. Levy. o
the realty company. De Lancey Ncoll
Paul D. Cravath and other prominen
lawyers are interested in the utiliza
tion company.
Payments of the New York Dis
rosal Company have amounted 10 onl.
: SAT 900 in three years. The city sue'
recently, and counter claim OF $500,
| 600 was instituted by the company
II was alleged that all the garbag
called for in the contract was not de
livered. Hotels, It was found. sol,
their garbage 10 dealers, who con
verted Il into pig food most OF whicl
found its way TO pens 1t Secaucus
n. J.
In advertising recently for contract