THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, ' AUGUST CO, 1910.
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P0MIITI1
OF DISPOSING OF
E IS BEST
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Superintendent of Incinerator,
After Making Investigation,
Reports Waste Can Best Be
Destroyed by Fire.
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, Statements taiade by Harry Napier,
" superintendent of the city's garbage In
cinerator, that municipal collection of
refuse Is not only essential but can
5 economically be performed, have been
i challenged. '' Jn support of his asser
. tlona. Mr. Kapler has spent the last
month In making investigations. The
results of his work he has put Into an
extended statement, which jreads afol-
.: lows: . ;'VV ."v. '
."Prior to l$85'the collection and dis
posal of garbage was carried oh In a
crude, unsatisfactory and Unsanitary
manner. 'A great many of the local
, health officers of our eastern cities, at
that time, recognised the Importance of
. and their responsibility for public anU
' tation, and were the first to advocate
better methods of removal and disposal
of civic waste, which was most -offensive
and dangerous to the public
' health. , . - . , '
"At this time, the health officers had
no system of concentrated action, but
were Influenced by the respective city
councils, which as a rule' would only
appropriate money 'to suppress epi
demics, but could never be brought to
see the wisdom-of prevetWe measures.
Xeiort to Bo? reading-.
"Therefore, hog feeding or dumping
on land, up to 1885, was resorted to in
nearly all cities, and up to the present
time is advocated by some health offi
cials as being economical, and remu
nerative In some Instances as in the case
of Worcester, Mass., which has the most
extensive and up to date hog farm In
the United States.
"In 1887 the American Public Health
association made a careful study of
, conditions In the United States, Canada,
Mexico and the Cuban republics. For
nearly 20 years a special committee
from that body, with the assistance of
sanitary engineers, have continued this
research, and municipalities are begin
ning to reap the benefit of their ex
haustive Investigations. .
"Municipal engineers with this knowl
edge and the statistics published by the"
United States bureau of commerce and
labor, have 4 hard battle with some
people of mercenary motives or politi
cal aspirations, who suggest all manner
of schemes for the collection or dis
posal of municipal waste.. Such schemes
should be carefully watched by city
officials and the taxpayers' money not
allowed to enrich the coffers of some
greedyCQrporatlon. - ....
rilth Breeds Disease.
. "Admitting that hog feeding reduces
the collection and disposal about 60 per
cent, from the best reports yet, there
are a great many drawbacks to this
. economical system. Milk from cows fed
on swill is poor in quality, often of
fensive to taste and smell and is uni
versally admitted so by health authori
ties in the United States, and the fact
is commonly known- by people who have
used milk from a garbage fed cow.
"If bad for the cow, It certainly Is
no better for the ptg, and no one who
has visited a hog farm and witnessed
the feeding ground In hot weather and
seen the process, can say it Is sanitary.
The clouds of flies and Insects, creep
ing maggots and nauseating odors In
fest the field and it has sometimes hap
pened that epidemics of hog cholera
have swept away the whole herd, en
tailing great expense for their disposal
and renewal.
"Outside the city limits of Portland
there are' some 17 hog farms and In
several Instances herds have been swept
away by cholera or many of their hogs
lost by eating Portland garbage con
taining a great deal of fine glass which
sticks in the throats of the hogs and
causes death.
Liable to Trichinosis.
"Garbage fed pork is liable to tri
chinosis and as shown by the Massa
chusetts state board of health (1889) 13
per cent of hogs fed on the public gar
bage of Boston died of this disease.
"The towns on the seaboard and bor
dering on the Great Lakes find It con
venient to dump garbage Into scows or
will boats, either under their own
steam or by towing to sea, then dump
ing large quantities of civic waste a
few miles off shore. This was contin
ued for some time In New York city and
Chicago until the beaches and shores
became a source of pestilence ana gave
rise to Inland complaints. I personally
remember when the Chicago boaches
became so littered that as one of a
crowd of small boys I was compelled to
go miles up the north beach of Chi
cago to find a suitable place for swim
ming. "A great many of the Inland cities on
the great rivers used this system up
to a few-years ago, and, according to
statistics, eight cities dumped Into the
Mississippi river In one year's time 15,
267 tons of garbage, 108,250 tons of
night oll and 3765 animals; five cities
on the Ohio river dumped 46,700 tons
of garbage 21.150 tons of night Mil and
S100 dead animals.
Garbage Causes Epidemics,
"No wonder that Memphis, Vieksburg
snd New Orleans suffered from epidem
ics. Since this practice has been dis
continued we hear no more of these
plagues from that region. At the pres
ent time, some small cities continue to
dump in the rivers mentioned above, but
sanitary boards and health officers are
making: a strenuous fight to abolish the
system. In many bordering states laws
have been enacted making It a crim
inal offense to pollute such waters.
"No better proof of this criminal act
could be demonstrated" than the Guilds
lake dump in our own beautiful Rose
elty, aid no doubt epidemics, from this
system, have been averted by our ex
tremely pure air and the strenuous ef
forts of our health officers. The pres
ent administration has made a " hard
fight to prevent putrlfactlve matter from
being deposited on the city dump, so
that in a. ..measure that" condition, does
not at present exist, and the near com
pletion of the pew Guilds lake destruct
or will relieve the situation for a year
or two. However, its burning capacity
was figured to take care of the west
side of the river only, . The present
administration contemplates an east
side destructor, to minimize the cost of
collection. ,
Method Favored by Promoters.
The method sdvocated by reduction
plant promoters or sales agents is very
alluring, and by the figures they give
shows a profit to the city, Therefore,
It is1 very difficult for municipal con
sulting engineers to demonstrate this
method as impracticable and not suited
to a particular city's needs.: The first
cost of a reduction plant Is large,' ex
pensive machinery is .required coat 'of
operation and maintenance, .labor and
fuel bills, wear, tear and repair on ma
chinery 1 large, and the corrosive' ac
tlon of the acids soon reduce a reduc
tion plant to a scrap heap.'
'"This system does not eliminate 'the
necessity of an Incinerator for burning
alllhe other city wastes. This method
Is fast becoming obsolete and the only
two plants referred Jko by the promoters
are located In Cleveland, O., and St.
Louis, Mo. ' , y ,
"The St. JLouls reduction plant was
paid 27 cents a ton by the city to allow
the city dump carta dump garbage
there, thus adding to the revenue .of the
plant Itself It was commonly known
Wat this c6ncefb7Twa"''tpIdly" losing
money and after some years of service
was destroyed' by fire. '
"Reports" Saow Profit.
"The red'uctlon plant at Cleveland, up
to the present time, is In operation, and
the 'reports show profit, but the same
reports do not show break-downs,' extra
labor, nor the friendly spirit accorded it
by the city officials. .
"It must be remembered that these
two plants have a ready sale for their
by-products in home towns, where fuel
and labor Is cheap. One has only to
look up the records of reduction plants
to learn their Impracticability.
"This practice is carried on principally
In European countries, and, though very
unsanitary. Is somewhat profitable to
municipalities. In this case all dis
carded wastes are hauled. to the refuse
plant and there 'hand picked' for rags,
bones, Iron, glass, boots, cardboard, tin.
bottles, paper, etc., all of which have a
marketable value In those particular lo
calities, and though covered with filth,
after being picked are shipped through
out the country.
"In France some of the garbage is
extracted for the making of perfumes,
soaps, etc. However, this system re
quires the use of an incinerator or de
structor for burning the balance, from
which ashes or ground clinker are made
! into bricks or building materials.
Paper Marketable.
, "At the., present time the only mar
ketable value In Portland garbage Is
the vast quantity qf paper that goes
to the city dump; some of it of very
J fine quality. However, all of it di
gested at a paper mill- would make a
very good quality of wrapping paper.
The Salvation Army at present collects
a certain amount of the best scrap pa
per, but does not always find a ready
market for it when baled, and quite fre
quently when overstocked makes Its col
lections and hauls them to the city
dump.
"I presume this Is due to the cheap
and large supply of wpod that is used
at Oregon City pulp mills for the mak
ing of paper. No doubt at some future
time such mills will install paper ma
chinery for digesting scrap paper.
"Within the last year a German chem
ist has discovered a process by which
he claims that paper scraps can be made
into clear white paper. However, the
process may be too costly to be of
any practical use.
"The question has quite frequently
been asked me by visitors at the plant,
why we did not utilize some of the
refuse which they saw going Into the
fire.
rirs Best of AIL
"Figuring the expense of sorting and
taking the following table that Is based ,
upon the present New York market ',
price of 'commons' one can easily re- i
allse It would not be profitable to the i
city of Portland; 1
Grades. Per 100 lbs. Per ton. t
Paper . . .7 $.26 tot .80 $ 5.00 to $16.00 I
Rags . . .6 ,30 to .85 6.00 to 17.00!
Bagging ..4 .65 to 1.00 13.00 to 20.00 1
Carpets ..3 .60 to ,76 12.00 to 15.00 1
Twines ..2 .36 to .50 7.20 to 10.00:
Rubber ... .30 to .60 6.00 to 10.00 1
"The above figures are wholesale
prices for carload lots delivered to deal-
era. The retail prices for smaller ;
quantities are 15 per cent !to 25 per ;
cent lower. .
"There are numerous other methods',
used for the disposal of refuse and as :
previously noted, after twenty years of '
research, the committee of the American ,
Public Health association decided that '
the best and most sanitary method was '
destroying the entire city waste by
fire In a high-class, high temperature
destructor, euoh as is now being erect-1
ed in this city. This type of plant has;
proven inexpensive, sanitary, free from '
odors and baa - been so demonstrated!
In Germany, , England, Australia and j
the United States."
VAUDEVILLE BILL
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Five Good Acts at Orph'eum
Make Up for Any Bad
Spots. ,
By V. H. P.
Those who give their evening or
their afternoon, which is cheaper end
their money to the Orpheum this week
will not be disappointed In a vaudeville
menu that manes up In originality what
It lacks In mirth and music Which Is
to say that, among other things, "Nem
esis" Is not much else but original
jVhlch alone Is full complement of praise
for the vaudevillian. ;
Glancing at the program as a whole, one
finds five g'ood .acts palliating four that
aro not good enough to be good, not yet
bad enough to be bad. And any vaud
eville manager will tell you that per
centage of good is Jilgh that If you
"hit the public in, a new place" five out
of eight times It Is a batting average
tbat will Insure gate receipts, go, vaud
eville.., not being a philanthropic insti
tution established to raise the standard
of dramaturgy and stage art, we must
take the word of the man who figures
success with both eyes on the box of
fice. : , ' , .
Despite the fact that "Barneses,"
"wonder worker," -stirred, the v effete
east, his success, laat night was not
eminently great Yet the novelty of
his act Is sufficient to add Interest to
rather mediocre magic.
"High Life In Jail"-4magine such an
oddltyl Is- participated in by " "six
stripes, each of the criminal kidney.
From the gallery god down to the patron
of the padded Chair it was received
last night with convulsions of laughter
and added applause for Its wealth of
novelty. It is a sketch brought about
by the advent into society of the bank
er jall-blrd and pictures the glories of
a aeiacnea existence under rather com
ftrtable conditions.
The Parsonage," In which Covington
ana wiiDur snine, is one of the best
quick Change things, sprinkled with ex
cellent acting, that the Portland Orphe
um has served up. With lightning ra
pidity the two change not only cos
tume, but poise, manner and voice to
suit the characteristics of seven widely
different parts. And the sketch, ap
parently constructed for the purpose of
permitting such feats of quick change,
races along melodramatically without
pause or confusion.
Vaudeville contends for Itself that
"The Four Rlanps," novelty acrobats
"In Africa," are the best of their kind
and no one has cause to challenge their
assertion. Their act Is past description
and must be seen to be appreciated. It
la a delightful combination of excel
lence, originality and fun.
Johnny Small and his Small sisters
do not permit Inability to warble to
Interfere with their refreshing rerson-
alities, nimbleness of foot and general
attractiveness. The, audience awarded
them their full quota of applause
end more.
Unfortunately for the rest of the bill
the Mullinl trio, which Is the first lnl
hing act, threatens to empty the house.
Barnes 'and Barron are neither good
r.or bad.
The motion pictures and orchestra
fill out an evening of entertainment.
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At the Lyric.
For the first time In many moons.
the two Armstronars, Will and Edward,
get; together on the stage. They are to
be seen at the Lyric this week with
the Armstrong Musical Comedy com
pany iff a convulsion of mirth dubbed
A Scotch Highball," Edward Armstrong
proved : yesterday that he remembers
what should go over the footlights.
If one were to attempt to describe the
plot of "A Scotch Highball," he would
get Into serious trouble with the copy-
reader, for,- as a matter of fact, there
Is not plot sufficiently coherent to
bear description. Yet that fact does
not detract from the general excellence
Of the entertainment offered by several
amusing principals and a chorus of
pretty girls with rather good voices for
the popular songs of the cay. s . : , -Miss
Clara Howard made an excel
lent Impression on last night's audi
ences., as did Edward and Will Arm
strong. The chorus achieved a hit In
a new song, "Portland for Mine," writ
ten by Manager Armstrong.'- : -
"A Scotch Highball' will be seen at
the Lyric all week. ' 'i
Makes Another Arrest. v
Forest Grove, Or., Aug. SO. The city
council has passed an ordinance pro
hibiting the riding of bicycles on cer
tain .sidewalks in town, and K. N. Staher,
a prominent business man of this city,
was the first to be brought before Re
corder'; Wlrts for violating the ordi
nance. Chief of Police Bill Doores de
tected Mr. Staher rldjng' on the pro
hibited sidewalk and arrested him on
the spot. - - i
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Salem, Or., Aug. SO.Rev. p. . jr
den, who was arrested by the authori
ties last week for setting out a fire
without a permit from the fire warden
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Chief Justice W. A. Johnson, of the
supreme court of Kansas, and Henry
F. Mason, associate justice, are In Port
land for a few days on a,toar of the
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were guests of honor at -' a lunch
eon at the Portland Commercial club
given by the Multnomah. Bar associa
tion. About 60 Portland attorneys were
present and a number of short talks
ere made. Charles J. Bchnabcl. Drcsl-
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