Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-09
OFFICIALS
REPLY TO CHARGES
Object to Nye Co.'s Allegations
OF Abuse by Management Of
Crematory.

Officials of the Board Of Health take
serious objection 10 statements made
by the Nye Odorless Crematory Co.
TO the effect that the incinerating
plant installed here by that concern
Is being Infused and that Il In not
being operated efficiently and rs per
instructions from the building com
pany's experts, as charged by the Nye
people In letter received by Her
man ID. Faulkner. chairman of the
public health committee of CITY Coun-
ell, which letter was read before Coun-
ell last night and resulted i'm that body
requesting the health officials 10 ap-
pear before the committee OF the
whole next Wednesday night to dis
cuss the subject
The health board today made public
n letter which was written Wednes.
day, and forwarded yesterday TO the
Nye Co. I'm reply 10 the latters let
ter to Mr.. Faulkner. copies of which
were received a few DAYS ago at the
health offices. In this they challenge
the company to produce definite proof
OF instances of abuse at the crematory
and they charge that any fault that
may exist Mt this new s45,0 900 plant
the city has purchased lies with the
Nye Co.. tho builders.
The health boards letter ia as fol.
lows:
December 7. 1921.
Nye Odorless Crematory Co,
Macon, Ga.
, Attention Mr.. A. c. FELTON,. Jr.
Dear sir:
, The Board Of Health has re-
ceived your letter of December
9th enclosing copy of a letter
written to the Chairman of the
Health Committee of the Council
, under date OF November 29th.
, We have carefully read these
/ letters and the board feels that
you have made unjust accusa-
tions and they want to go on
record stating the manner in
, which this plant has been oper-
ated.
The plant is now being run by
the same men who worked for
: your Mr.. Abel during the test.
These men were instructed by Mr..
Abel as to the proper manner to
operate the plant and we have told
them 10 continue the operation Of
the plant strictly in accordance
: with instructions given by Mr..
= Abel
r IL there is any fault YOU can
very plainly see that il lies with
T, your company, in view of the fact
that our men are still working
under instruction given by your
representative.
In view of these circumstances
e we do not understand your state
o ment TO the. chairman OF the
r health committee that every in
z struction OF suggestion that YOU
nave made for the operation of
O the plant has been ignored. IL is
!; true that City Council passed an
. ordinance requiring the garbage
J.. TO be drained and placed in a
l covered can. This has no refer
S ence, however, TO the contract as
= 1t very clearly states that the
plant will dispose of average city
run garbage The garbage is in
even better condition for burning
Il than 1t was at the time Mr.. Han
a nan sold us the plant.
s At that time Mr.. Hannah spent
O several days in Wilmington and
O was entirely familiar with the
4 kind of garbage collected and as
sured the members of this board
that the Nye plant would burn
( our garbage as collected.
" You state that we will soon
need some new chutes, which is
10 a surprise to us, as the present
IS chutes seem to be in a fair con-
II dition. We naturally wonder
Il why you wish us to keep these
Il parts in stock, unless your are
continually having this trouble
In other plants. II such Is the
case we would like to be advised
OF other parts that usually fail. so
we can keep a stock of these on
hand and be prepared TO keep the
Y plant In running condition as
We have 10 dump the garbage in
% hole and cover II with lime when
we are unable TO operate your
:. plant ana we want to make the
II necessary repairs as soon as pos
" sible
e We honestly try to operate this
q plant economically, with as little
a coal as possible. We have used
Y all the rubbish that the plant will
take and we have also taken very
=. good care of the premises.
III there has been any abuse OF
~ the plant we can assure you that
'u IL has not been Intentional. This
lie statement Is one that we seriously
object 10 and we insist upon YOU
giving us definite information as
TO how II has been abused and
also as to how 1t could have been
n prevented. We believe that your
statements are entirely unWar-
ID ranted and we will expect a de-
20 tailed explanation by return mail.
- Very truly yours,
~ Board of Health