New-York tribune., 1921-10-19
E2vla1l AIisruIe
Cost Millions.
Says C1rrrann

Mr.. Hylan took no steps at all in the
matter Of garbage disposal for the
flrst two years after HIS election. He
depended entirely on scows that the
Street Cleaning Department hired
from contractors to carry i out to sea
Many of you after Your garbage can
stocd IN front Of your home for many
days. filled to overnowing, have indig-
nantiy called up tho Street Cleaning
Department on the telephone to com
plain. You probably remember how
you were told that the department was
doing its best, but that it could not get
scows enough to dispose of the refuse
OF the city. Those of you who live in
Brooklyn, near some Of the city's
beaches, probably remember how you
have awakened morning after morning
curing the last three and half years
to find that, like chickens coming homo
to roost. this garbage which you had
finally shipped out TO sea had returned
on the waves to plague you In addi-
tion, due to the fact that there has
been no head or tail to the whole bust
ness, the garbage in many localities Of
the city gets mixed up with the street
sweepings and rubbish and is carried
by the Street Cleaning Department to
the city's land dumps, there to remain
public nuisance and d dangerous
menace to health.
This was the plan; 1t was proposed
to load garbage disposal plant on g
ship and sail with it around the har-
Dor, taking on garbage at the various
dumps and reducing it as the vessel
steamed from dump to damp. For ex-
ample, the good ship Garbage would
caA say, at the dump at 130th Street
q Ind
iferous load would be taken on and
the sh:p would sail majestically down
the Hudson. adding variety to the
fumes waited from the shores of Jer-
sey At Seventy ninth Street and Riv-
ersidc Drive another load would be
taken on. The ship would then nro-
ceed by easy stages, down to the Bat
terry ano up the East River until the
air of the whole island of Manhattan
had been impregnated with its garbage
odors. Then the Bronx's turn would
come. There were no limits 20 the
sGiliNgs of these argonauts Of the
gs,rbare can. Flushing and Flatbush,
Bay Ridge and St. George Totteaville
and the Rockaways-all were to get
their turn at the garbage smell Even
the Staten Island ferry boats were not
immune, for the plan provided for
enough garbage boats to give a convoy
to every ferry boat that left the Bat
terry Staten Island was to be 'stung'
again, only this time the nuisance was
to come over the water instead of over
land. The only merit in the plan was
! that it played absolutely no favorites.
Every borough was to get its daily
Whit of garbage Every citizen was
guaranteed free smell. Could any
thing be more delightful?
after several months Of valuable
fi,,,o y toI = L 1 | 7
of Estimates serious onsidcration of
this proposition the matter came be
fore the Finance and Budget Commit
tee, after had become member Of
the board. | challenged it at once and
! pointed out its utter absurdty. Mr.
Hylan finally agreed with me, and. even
though his Board of Estimate had ap~
proprated $4,000, he decided that he
could not 60 through with it.
Results Under Proper Leadership
81 am going to be fair about this
thing, as | am a6out everything !
shall discuss in this campaign. The
garbage committee may eventually
give the city relief from the present
extravagant haphazard methods OF
getting rid OF our waste. There are
good iAen on that committee They
were here long before Mr. Hylan be-
\ SdiIt NloS VI. anu lntI Will De mere
! long after he has gone. They are tho
regulars Of the city service, and they
get results when they have proper
leadership Some day New York will
have to adopt up-to-date methods of
garbage disposal. This must be done
without polluting the air. No borough
] should be asked to dispose Of another
borough's garbage. | am dead against
that But with that promise, some
/ thing has got to be done. Mr.. Hylan
has done nothing. He has broken his
word once again, and there we have
an end Of the whole matter.
Il want to take up one more pledge
made by Candidate Hyian, ana de;
with it briefly before | close tonight.
In the same paper four years ago he
! said; My fight is to construct public
/ ly-owned wholesale terminal marke ts
/ storehouses and refrigerating plants,
to help reduce the cost of living
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