Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-09
CITY DUMP IS CLEARED
UP FOR INSPECTION

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fore some other provision would
have to be made in order to dis
pose Of the city's garbage. A incin-
Grafton plant was suggested by
Alderman Christian Andersen, the
chairman of the street committee,
and this seemed to meet with the
approval of the others. Such a
plant, Alderman Andersen said,
would not necessarily have to be a
retaining affair, such as was To-
Gated on Staten Island and caused
so much trouble because of the
odors, but a plant in which the
garbage could be entirely burned
and none OF the byproducts saved.
Peter j. McKeon, of the firm of
Graham g. McKeon, the contractors
who collect and dump the city gar
bage. was present at the dump and
explained conditions to the city Off
Gals. According to the contract be-
tween the city and contractor a
seyen-foot fence must enclose the
dump. There is no fence there now
but a fence which filled the specifi-
cations was built by the contractors
when they took owe the contract.
Soon after ii was erected 1t was set
fire to and partly destroyed. the re-
mainder being stolen by those living
in that part of the city. The con-
tractor said he tried to replace it.
fence cost $500, McKeon said, and
was a total loss to him.
The contractor told the officials
that two teams are working every
day doing nothing but carting dirt
and cinders to cover owe the gar
bage while n man is employed
steadily at the dump doing the ac-
tual covering. The aldermen were
told by n of the residents near
the dump that six teams of horses
had been used this morning to cart
cinders in order that the exposed
garbage might be covered to make
the dump more presentable to the
officials when they inspected it.
John Kilmurray, who was appoint
a special police officer by the
aldermen in the spring, to do duty
at the dump, keep away those who
go through the refuse and TO
direct the dumping and covering of
all garbage, said that the condition
was not as bad as the signers of the
petition had made them. Many of
the people signing the petition, he
said, where the ones he had chased
from the dump for picking out de-
cayed food to take home to their
dogs. cats or other animals.
These people, the aldermen were told,
enter the dump after the garbage
has been covered over with dirt and
dig around with sticks, thus stirring
up the refuse and exposing it to the
sun.
On the extreme eastern end of the
dump a deep ditch, in which there
is considerable water, still remains
trnAl1aH and the xvnw1 af 1rrpapfrr d.
Is now progressing rapidly. The
aldermen and mayor we're of the
opinion that the gully, filled with
garbage and properly covered over
with cinders, would be a big i'm
of the present condition.
A large amount of the low land
on which the dump Is located has
been filed in and leveled off by the
SO that most of 1t pre-
sents a decent appearance. The Of
found on the western end Of
the dump, however, that persons,
other than the garbage contractors,
had piled up old tin cans, parts Of
old automobiles, carboids. junk iron
and articles of every description. In
stead of dumping this junk into a
large hole in that section of
the dump in which there Is consider
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iron were piled up in the air to a
heighth of several feet.
The aldermen decided to prevent
dumping of this sort and
the parties who dumped the
cans and scrap iron there remove it
to be used in filling up the pond.
The question of finding another |
place in which to dump the gar
bage vas put up to McKeon, who
said he had nc other place in view
At present and did not see why the |
present site could not be used for
TWO more years. The contractor
said he is doing everything possible
TO keep the dump in such a condi-
ton that it will not prove a nuisance
TO those living in that neighborhood.
Many Of those who are complain
ing about the location of the dump,
the officials were told, are persons.
who have bought up property at a
low price because of the fact that
it was located near the garbage
dump, and now they r DESTROYS
Of having the dump done away with
in order that their property values
might go up.
The establishment of the dump In
that section has reclaimed a large
of land, as can be readily seen
when the adjoining property which
has not been filled in as yet, is COM
pared with that now filled. The
garbage is not dumped in piles all
the tract but is dumped in the
hollows, bitches and swamps n
hen levelled off so that the appear
ance of the dump itself is better
than that of the property which has
not been touched as yet.
The general concensus of opinion
on the part of the aldermen this
morning seemed to be that If the
contractors continue to keep the
dump covered as it was today there
can be no complaints forthcoming
but they realize that before long
else must be done to
another way of ~disposing of
the city's garbage.
The officials were told that the
odor. arising from the garbage
dumped by the. contractor is not as
bad as that coming from decom-
posed articles of food, such as meat,
fish, eggs and vegetables, dumped
by storekeepers in this city. This
dumping is often done after the
of 5 o'clock in the afternoon
when the Waterman has quit work
and consequently the rotten articles
are not covered because those
dumping them are not forced to do
work. Upon learning Of this
fact this morning Alderman Ander-
decided to give public notice TO
all using the dump that no dumping
will be tolerated after 5 O'Clock in
afternoon and hat anyone
violating this rule would be
as provided for by the law.
McKeon a questioned by the
aldermen as to what other tracts in
city would be converted into a
dumping ground. He named n or
two places but stated that their size