. Scientific American Volume 89 Number 17 (October 1903) . Traveling: Conveyer Belt. The Pickers Sort Out Over Halfthe Material and Sell it; the Rest is Conveyed to the Furnaces. pered. Between 47th Street and 134th Street on theNorth River, a distance of nearly five miles, absolutelyno dump whatever is to be found. As a result, it isnecessary to cart the material at great expense over agreat distance to the nearest available wharf. Whenit is considered that the annual cost of carting in NewYork city is not very much less than that of sweeping(the actual figures being respectively ,
. Scientific American Volume 89 Number 17 (October 1903) . Traveling: Conveyer Belt. The Pickers Sort Out Over Halfthe Material and Sell it; the Rest is Conveyed to the Furnaces. pered. Between 47th Street and 134th Street on theNorth River, a distance of nearly five miles, absolutelyno dump whatever is to be found. As a result, it isnecessary to cart the material at great expense over agreat distance to the nearest available wharf. Whenit is considered that the annual cost of carting in NewYork city is not very much less than that of sweeping(the actual figures being respectively , and12,090,) the fruit of this opposition becomes ap-parent. In the end the taxpayer must suffer. Thus far the attempts of the city of New York todestroy its garbage totally by incineration have notproven successful. An experimental plant installed inthe Borough of Bronx for the burning of garbageproved a failure. The city must, therefore, rely en-tirely upon the Barren Island plant, which is con-trolled by a private company, for the reduction of. Rubbish Discharged by Conveyer Belt Into Furnace Hopper.; THE DISPOSAL OF NEW YOKES REFUSE. its garbage. In some European cities the practice ofmingling the garbage with fuel has been tried, withmore or less success. Indeed, sufficient power hasbeen obtained to drive electric lighting plants, andthus to make at least a partial return for the cost ofcombustion. But actual profit by these experimentsnone of these cities can show. Although the burning of the garbage has not been assuccessful as it might have been, the same does notapply to the destruction of rubbish. At the foot of47th Street and North River an incinerator has beeninstalled, which has conclusively proven that not onlycan rubbish be burnt, but that the heat thus generated is sufficient to drive an engine for the propulsion of abelt conveyer, upon which the rubbish is scattered tobe picked by Italian laborers. In time, an electriclight plant will be operated, and st
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