The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-17
BUY A TRUCK FOR The WORK
Clerk Is Instructed to Advertise for
Bids for Thousand Garbage Cans
Work Expected to Start in June
a City May Sprinkle the Streets.

The City Council adopted plans for
the municipal collection of garbage in
Kenosha at a special meeting on Fri
day evening and it is expected that
the plan, which will be more or less
in the nature of an experiment, will be
in operation within the next two
months. In furtherance Of the plan
the city purchased specially designed
truck for handling the garbage and the
city clerk was directed to advertise
for the purchase Of a thousand garbage
cans. Tt is the plan Of the members of
the health and sanitation committee
that these can be sold to property
owners and the price of them will be
in the neighborhood of two dollars and
fifty cents. Several cans were submit
ted for purchase on Friday evening but
the aldermen held that the contract
would be such a large one that it
would be unfair to the taxpayers to
make the purchase without seeking
bids from all companies engaged in
the manufacture of such cans.
The plan is one which will make pos
sible the handling of the garbage with
out the usual complaints following this
sort Of work. Closed cans will be pro-
vided at the houses and the city will
have supply of the empty cans When
the garbage is collected the full cans
will be taken and placed on the truck
for disposal and an empty can left in
the place. The only place that the lids
will be removed from the cans will be
at the public dumping place. Provi-
sion has been made to dump the gar
bage on property owned by the city at
the north end of Lake avenue and it is
understood that this portion of the
work will be handled by the committee
on streets and alleys in such a way
that it will not be in any way objec-
tionable to the property owners resid-
ing in the neighborhood. 1t is the plan
of the committee to try out collection
of garbage by serving thousand
property owners and if the plan is sue
cessful the service will be extended just
as rapidly as the trucks and cans are
secured. The estimate of the commit
tee of the cost of collection was placed
at $2,675 a year for each truck in
service, but it is possible that these
figures are little low and the cost
may be found to be. slightly in advance
Of this amount. The bids for the
supply of the cans are to be opened at
the next regular meeting of the
council and it is expected that the
city will be able to get Immediately
delivery on these cans.
If the experiment proves successful
it is expected that the municipal col
lection of garbage will be established
throughout the city within a year, but
the aldermen emphasize the fact that
the plan at the present time is not
to stput the private garbage collectors
out of business. Just what attitude
these men will take to the experiment
remains to be seen.
The council spent some time consid-
ering the purchase of a motor driven
street sprinkler and fiusher to be used
on the streets of the city The plan
includes the sprinkling of many of the
streets of the city during the summer
months and the flushing of such paved
streets as may be properly cleaned in
this manner. Tt is expected that the
equipment necessary will cost in the
neighborhood Of six thousand dollars.
The city has invited companies making
this sort of equipment to submit prop
ositions to the council before the next
regular meeting of the council.