. Town and city. Saving Treasures from the Traveling Belt thousand tons of garbage a day. More garbage is dis-posed of on that island every day than in any otherplace in the world, and they do it scientifically. Theyeven turn this unpleasant city waste to good account. 54 TOWN AND CITY The unloading with shovels and pitchforks is simpleenough; then follows the interesting part of the that mass of garbage is put into monstrous kettlesthat hold eight tons apiece, and there, with a good dealof water, it is steamed steadily for eight hours. Besidesthe fraginents and remnants of food, t
. Town and city. Saving Treasures from the Traveling Belt thousand tons of garbage a day. More garbage is dis-posed of on that island every day than in any otherplace in the world, and they do it scientifically. Theyeven turn this unpleasant city waste to good account. 54 TOWN AND CITY The unloading with shovels and pitchforks is simpleenough; then follows the interesting part of the that mass of garbage is put into monstrous kettlesthat hold eight tons apiece, and there, with a good dealof water, it is steamed steadily for eight hours. Besidesthe fraginents and remnants of food, the potato skins. 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 purposes.
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