The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-08
lNCINERATOR IS
ACCEPTED BY CITY
Found to Have Answered
Every Test to Which
1t Was Subjected
PLANT COST $4,000
viii Successfully Dispose OF
40 Tons Of Garbage Every
Twenty-four Hours

Acting on tho recommendation ~
an inspection committee romposad
OF city Engineer G. j.. Griggs. CIry
Bnildlng Inspector II T.. Kopr nnd
City Attorney frank ~. Duncan th"
mayor aud cummiasluucrt TucHdHv
accepted tho new inciu'lntiug plnW
and authorized CITY Auditor MtA.
Icrnuk Seaman 20 draw u warrant
for S2b.000 payabl" to the NNr pdui
leHs CromatOry company. lundN TOT
this project were provided by the
last bond isguc voted
Accordance ~ the incluerhtor d'-
pended ON G0-day tcsi, which has
lust been completed. This tost pc
riod was protidcd for IN the con
trnct Ho tho city would hay" umplo
upportuultv 10 lind whether tho
plant was odurlcsa ana n iis cnpn'-
Nv was ~ much as tho Crrmntory
company claimed. Tho committee
report shows tho plant HuceeHNfully
passed boih tests
two Years before the installation OF
tho Nyr plant broke down com
pletcly when II had been I'm opera
tion but "a tow days. hut the com
pnny had already received payment,
and rs tho bonding company ala NOT
mako IoparntiOn the city hhd no -.
rniIlNt. II NNN UffbNN' w ''liH ''''
~ experience Of another ndminlstro-
tlon that the present city officials
insisted on q severe test ana on
Withholding payment until the
plants efficiency had been conciu-
slvely dcmonStrated.
Conditions sanitary.
Until the Nye plant was huilt ana
operated go days ago the clty'a gar
baga and trash werc disposed of In
AunhuyuYH and nngut lNlntintN
manner Tho garbage contract was
held by persons who collected II In
efficiently. hauled II several miles
and uscd II 10 fatten hogs. They
were able 10 cpiloct enough Feed Tor
their hogs Ia the downtown hlstrlct
where streets are thickly settled.
with the result that hundreds nt
oonplalnta wore received by the city
health department daily that the
collectors had failed TO visit the out
living districts where there are no
hotels or restaurants and where tho
amount of garbage from each hoine
In small.
Trash was collected In tho Same
manner aa Il now In, hauled 80 the
city's edge and dumped. nut the
city dump was always M unslEhty
Mace. Numerous objections to It's
location were received by the CITY,
and occaaionally an Injunction suit
was filed by property ownera to pro
vent its use. About the time the
city felt the situation was relieved
there was further trouble about the
dump,
since tho new incinerating plan,
was finished and put Into use, onc
the garbage collection cquipmen
enlarged. thero arc days when no
n single complaint reaches th'
health department. Occasionally M
many ns n half dozen complaints ar
heard In a day. but II Ia not often
Consumes Everything.
Garbage and trash are now con
cumed I'm tho new ineiuorating plant
with comparatively short hauls, nno
with n force of men ready TO UNLOAD
tho garbage and trash wagons
quickly, the collection service ha'
heer Improved almost unholeNabiy "
ms IL ehown by the reduction IN th'
number OF complaints
The new plant ia virtually ouor
less and sbmokeleas, ono residen
Of tho West side complained th'
first OF this week that an odor emh
mated from the inclnorator, hut al
investigation disclosed II was caused
hy burning trash and trees on th'
inclnerator grounds. which are be
ing cleaned and which are To u
beautlficd this spring,
Another resident OF that Hecuol
declared the incineratinE plant wa
smokinR p1ike n locomotive "