The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-12
Several Topeka Firms Won't
Give 1t to Collectors.
New Firm Makes Complaint to
the City Today.
is VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE
Independent Collectors Con-
tinue to Buy Refuse.
Mid COntinent Co. Has Office at
CrematOry.

Parts of the new city garbage ord1-
nance, under which the Mid-Continent
Hog company Monday began free col
lection of edible refuse here, develop
ed friction for the first time today
DR.. L. l. Shoemaker, Topeka manager
of the Mid-Contineut company, ap
peared at the city hall and asserted
that a number of commission men and
restaurants have refused to permit the
company's collectors to haul away the
refuse. The commission men and
restaurant owners told the company,
he said. that a number of negroes ana
white farmers who live near the city
and raise hogs are collecting the
garbage and paying the firms for it.
Shoemaker declared the independ-
ent collectors are violating the city
ordinance under which the contract
for the refuse was awarded his com
pany. The ordinance provides that the
Mid-Continent company have eXclu-
sive use of the streets.
Arrange Conference.
A conference was arranged by Shoe
maker with the city commissioners TO
thresh out the matter Formal action,
il was announced, will be taken to-
morrow.
Mayor House this morning declared
when told of Shoemaker's complaint,
that the ordinance would be enforced
to the letter
Shoemaker said that the firms that
refuse TO turn garbage over to his col
Iectors include W. o. Anderson, the
Lux Mercantile company. the Crem-
erie. the Ever-GIoss restaurant, the
Busy Bee restaurant and others
Feeding Hogs Now.
The Mid-Continent company has
erected hog pens south of the city on
the Kansas avenue road and is feed
ing the garbage it collects here. Schu-
maker has been given a temporary Of
flee by the city at the crematory.
The manager today reiterated his
request that all Topekans place all
edible refuse in cans in the alley lin
cans and similar rubbish must be kept
separate from the convertible refuse
He said all questions would be an
swered if Topekans will call his office,
telephone 1914
w l. Porter, health and parks COM
missioner, when told of the attitude
of the restaurants and commission
firms said
I'VE will handle those fellows easily.
As soon as the Mid-Contfnent company
gets well organized here, I will have
the police stop the independent col
Iectors from using the streets II the
commission men and restaurants still
refuse to permit collection of refuse
by the company, I will have them ar,
rested for keeping filthy back yards.
Promise a Fight
G vogt. proprietor of the Crem-
erie restaurant, declared today that he
would fight any attempt of the city to
gather the garbage from his restau-
rant. Vogt owns a farm near the city
and the garbage from his retaurant is
hauIed daily to the farm. The gar
baze is fed to hogs owned by Vogt.
u have made $3.50 out of my gar
bage since March l. said Vogt- In
other words, I have added 5000
pounds of fat to my hogs and with
/ pork selling at SIS a hundred pounds
/ that means $3.50 to me. I am willing
to use a sanitary cart to haul the gar
bage and furnish any garbage can the
( city desires but 1 don't feel it is fair
/ to make me give up my garbage"