New-York tribune., 1922-03-31
City Gets Plan
TOTake Smells
Out of Garbage
Otto B. Shulhof Assures Of
f,cials His Process Will
Deodorize Gallon Can of
Limberger i'm Is Minutes
Seeks Disposal Contract
Committee to Fix Time and
Place Later for Demon
stration of the System

A new deodorizing process intended
TO neutralize fumes of garbage was
! described yesterday in the interest of
! public health and for the benefit of
the special committee appointed year
ago by Mayor Hylan to study the city's
| problem Of refuse, ash and garbage
/ disposal.
The dcodorizing proposal was made
| by Otto B. Shulhof, president of the
! Odorless ByProducts and Reduction
! Company, Of 320 Fifth Avenue, and
Professor Maximillian Toch, chemist
and inventor of the process, who is
secretary Of the concern, The com
pany wants the contract for the dis
nosal Of the city garbage and recently
released the reduction plant on Bar
zen Island.
The committee met in the Office of
Fire Chief John Kenlon, its chairman.
DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Health Com
mis- ioner: Commissioner Alfred A.
| Taylor, of the Department of Street
Cleaning; Arthur S. Tuttle, chief en-
glneer Of the oard of Estimate; Mer-
l1tt II. smith chief engineer of the
department of Water Supply, Gas and
Electricity, and Major W H. Roberts,
assistant engineer of the Board OF Esti-
mate, were other members of the
kenlon Coy of Demonstration
The representatives Of the reduction
concern asked that they be permitted
to demonstrate the merits of the proc
ess. NJ. Shulhof declared they could
take a half-gallon can of limberger
cheeSe and make it odorless in fifteen
minutes. Chief kenlon objected to
having the demonstration in his Office.
street ~; IT
was requested to find a suitable place.
preferably on some city dump, to con
duct the experiment. Chief Kenlon
SAID the time and place of the demon
stration would be announced later.
The reduction company, in a recent
letter to the Board of Estimate, Of
fered to deodorize the city garbage and
then dispose of it in the Barren Island
plant, without dumping it at sea. the
expensive method now employed bv the
city. Mr.. Shulhof is chairman of the
Mayors Committee on Fairgrounds
and Recreation, and the Mayors Com
mlttee N on Rent Profteering. Chief
Kenlon explained that the Mayor
communication requesting the meet
ing was based on communication
from the Brooklyn Chamber Of Con-
merce to the Board Of Estimate ask
ing that someth * be done toward
better solution of the disposal
problem,
Incinerator Plan Costly
The Mayors special committee, in
its report last July, suggested plan
to dispose of refuse and waste col
lected by the city in incinerators to
be constructed in various parts of the
city. 1t was estimated that the in
GENERATORS would cost about $25 ,00O.-
600, and that it would cost $500 900
wear to maintain them
ne suggestion was made yesterday
that these incinerators could be lsed
to reduce the garbage, using the refuse
as fuel at large saving to the city.
DR.. Copeland and engineering members
OF the committee said this could be
done without any i'll effects to the
residents in the ighborhoods where
the incinerators were located.
Chief KenIon declared the garbage
disposal problem ought to be entirely
municipal proposition, and that he
was mot keen on letting any private
contracts Other members of the
committee agreed with him. 1t was
suggested, however, that the new de-
odorlzlng process might be used on the
collection carts and at the incinerator
plants with good effect. Professor
.och said the chemicals could be used
to good effect in the collection carts
OF the Street Cleaning Departmen ent
Inc peductlon company, however,
wanted the whole contract of disposal.
In explaining the plan of the com.
pany Professor Toch said that if wa
proposed to put into service air-tipht
barges, into which the Street Cleaning
Department trucks would dunn the
garbage directly from the niers