The day book. [volume], July 08, 1913, Image 27

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the committee on streets and alleys
and will come before the council next
Monday, along with the garbage dis
' posal contract.
BITSOFNEWS
Hammond, Ind. Beatrice Ward,
Pittsburgh, saved from drowning in
Kankakee River for third time within
week.
Walthill, .Neb. Mrs. Wm. Hensass
and daughter, Ethel, 25, instantly
killed when Burlington train struck
their auto at crossing.
Paris. Prof. Arsene d'Arsonval of
College of France has perfected long
distance wireless telephone.
Los Angeles. R. J. Mulroney, Chi
cago, who suffers from a dent in his
head that makes him crooked, again
in jail. Collecting money on- bad
check.
Salt Lake City. Harriman merger
is at an end. Dissolution plan hand
, ed down in U. S. court at St. Paul
filed in circuit court here and is now
effective.
Pittsburgh. Bankers and busi
ness men unite in declaring Pitts
burgh banking interests sound de
spite crash of Kuhn interests.
New York. Queen Sophia of
Greece has cabled Solon G. Vlasto,
editor of the Atlantis, asking for a
shipment of chewing gum for Greek
soldiers at the front.
Boston. Mary. Johnson, 7-year-old
daughter of Jacob Johnson, play
ed with matches. Her two sisters and
herself burned to death.
Dougias Schroder, 4, 2242 W. 50th
st., died from burns received while
playing with matches.
OUR CELEBRATED GARBAGE
Here are some plain statements
made to the council committee on
health on the interesting subject of
garbage:
Mary McDowell: "You have had a
report that the present reduction
plant is a good one. I visited it yes
terday and I saw millions upon mil
lions of flies swarming on garbage
lying exposed and rotting in the sun
and sending its foul stench through
the neighborhood to poison little
babies."
Alderman Merriam: "We have
found some power, behind the throne
that has blocked every move that
might take the contract away from
the Chicago Reduction Company.
Step by step we have been crowded
back. The city administration, the
law department and the department
of public works have .in turn blocked
every effort to get action. That delay
was marked from, the day that Rep
resentative Sabath appeared as
counsel for the phicago Reduction
Company."
C. J. Brown, former head electri
cian of the company, said garbage
was allowed to .stand exposed from
24 to 60 hours when it could be clean
ed up in 24 hours. Also said the rev
enue of the reduction company was
$2,400 a day for by-products, such
as grease, fertilizer, etc., aside from
the 47,500 a year paid by the city.
Frank Burney, former time-keeper
for the reduction company, said 300
to 400 barrels of condemned catsjip
was dumped into Bubbly Creek and
that condemned calves, hogs and
other animal matter are allowed to
stand for days until there is enough
to fill a tank.
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