. Town and city. Digesters in a Row on Barren Island and banana skins for nearly four million people, deadhorses go into the digester, too; also dead cats and animal that dies on the streets of New York Cityends by being a part of the eight-ton stew in one of thedigesters on Barren Island. Altogether there are aboutone hundred of these digesters. GARBAGE, ASHES, AND RUBBISH 55 When the steaming is over the cooked garbage is sentinto presses, where powerful machinery squeezes out thewater and the fat. CooHng now separates the two, andthe mass of grayish, brownish fat which rises to the
. Town and city. Digesters in a Row on Barren Island and banana skins for nearly four million people, deadhorses go into the digester, too; also dead cats and animal that dies on the streets of New York Cityends by being a part of the eight-ton stew in one of thedigesters on Barren Island. Altogether there are aboutone hundred of these digesters. GARBAGE, ASHES, AND RUBBISH 55 When the steaming is over the cooked garbage is sentinto presses, where powerful machinery squeezes out thewater and the fat. CooHng now separates the two, andthe mass of grayish, brownish fat which rises to the topis packed in barrels and sold in Europe and Americafor soap grease, for pomatum, and various other Squeezing Water and Grease from Cooked Garbage It is claimed that whatever disease microbes were inthe garbage to start with have been killed by the heat,so there is not the slightest reason why the fat shouldnot be used in any of these ways. The solid part of the stew is dried, crushed, sifted, andsold as a base for fertilizers. Of course it is supposed that nothing but garbagegoes into these city digesters. But, strange to say, when 56 TOWN AND CITY it comes to the sifting, all sorts of things turn up,—silverware, boots and shoes, cans, jewelry, and falseteeth. Dr. Woodbury says that hairpins are the worst:they clog the sifting machine. Yet so many are foundin it that they are picked out by the ton and sold to thewire works to be used again. These things get into the digesters because care-less people have tossed them into their garbage that when things are put into the wrong cansome one has twice as much trouble at the other man who is most loyal to his city
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