New-York tribune., 1916-01-29
Injunction Suit Reveals
Demand for Grease Prod
uCt to Make Explosives.
100000 DISPOSAL
CONTRACT OPPOSED
Barren Island Concerns Want
Gaffney Bid Rejected Their
Plant Barred by New Terms.

The deadly possibilities Of every bar.
rel Of garbage collected in New York
City, besides those arising from noN-
lous gases caused by decay,ng waste
material. we're called to the attention
Of Justice Donnelly. Of the Supreme
Court, yesterday. by John Z. Stanch-
field. lie appeared as counsel for the
Allied Investors Realty Company 20
argue for an injunction restraining he
city from awarding new contracts for
the disposal of garbage.
THE resultant product Of garbage
after being treated with steam eN-
planned the lawyer. "is grease. 'ts
value huctustes between one and six
cents a pound There happens to be
at present great demand for grease.
because from il comes giycerine, and
from tina; IS made nitro-e eiycerine, used
in making explosives, for which there
is so great a demand across the water
The price for grease is nign. and the
demand is likely 10 continue"
Spectators in the courtroom gained
an inkline why a dozen Of the highest
priced attorneys in the city are fght-
ing over the present privileges Of the
New York Sanitary Utilization Com
pany. owner Of the Barren Island
garbage reclamation plant; the New
York Disposal Company, holder OF the
present contract. which converts the
garbage there. and Delaney Nicol, Z
large part Of whose fortune is said to
be invested in the scheme. The city
recently received bid from John +.
Gafrney and others. who offered 5000.
coo for the fve-year privilege Of con
verting and destroying the garbage.
Had the city not been restrained by
injunctions obtained by the Allied In
yestors' Realty Company and the Ne"
York Sanitary Utilization Company.
Gaffney probably would have received
the contract.
Barren Island Plant Barred.
The Barren Island plant long con-
sidered n nuisance. would have been
eliminated. as the contract forbade the
erection of a disposal plant on Man
haitian Island or within the confines or
Jamaica Bay.
Affgr nearing ~ 4e' N''
for the garbage interests and the CITY,
Justice Donnelly granted both side.
one week in which 20 submit briefs and
file affidavits.
Mr.. Stanchfield cOntended that the
CITY had Disseminated against the
New York Sanitary Utilization Com
many when the Street Cleaning Com
missioner's advertisement for bids Tor
bade the disposal OF the garbage IN
Jamaica Bay.
r. Percy Chittenden, who. with John
F Collins. Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci. represented the city. said that the
fact that the Sanitary Utilization
Company had a plant on Barren Island
did not prevent il from putting IN a
hid. although the Barren Island plant
could not have been used.
Good Faith Is Disputed.
Furthermore. those interests do not
show good faith" ne declared, pc
cause they did not enter old, ne
city actually paid them s3''oo'Ooo ior
disposing Of the garbage over perloi
OF seventeen years. and never received
a cent from them. Now we have
most advantageous bid, and they come
+ here and say, Prevent the Guy rpm
awarding lnal COubiHS| S'''f's
cause we have plant ana the o'hei
company has none
the intention of the lawyers to cause Sc,
such delay that it would be necessair;
for tbe city TO renew the contract win
the New York Disposal Company les
SEQ of the Barren Island works, for
S2O0.000 a year. r.
stephen A. Baldwin appeared 10Y 10Y
Complaint corripi IN Of John B. stanchde!d and and
Of OFF Morgan J. O'Brien, attorney for the
New York Sanitary Utilization Com.
pany. there had appeared no en, statemen, u
of cause for action or no suggestion
/ of waste of city funds. -,
For seventeen years he said'
these men have held the city BY the
throat" ,;1.l nor
,,.ho,ber or not the Street Cleaning
Commissioner was discriminatory
said Justice Donnelly.