Public works . erating Com-mittee. The members of this committee, though servingwithout compensation, have given the entire afternoon ofeverj- second Sunday for three years to meetings at theplant for considering ways and means. That they haveshown much foresight and breadth of vision is evidencedby the results. JNIr. Downes states that in his fifteenyears experience in water and sewage purification, hisexperience with this committee is unique. FLOATING GARBAGE REDUCTION PLANT. The large garbage reduction plant which has beenoperated off and on during the past two years with con-siderable diff
Public works . erating Com-mittee. The members of this committee, though servingwithout compensation, have given the entire afternoon ofeverj- second Sunday for three years to meetings at theplant for considering ways and means. That they haveshown much foresight and breadth of vision is evidencedby the results. JNIr. Downes states that in his fifteenyears experience in water and sewage purification, hisexperience with this committee is unique. FLOATING GARBAGE REDUCTION PLANT. The large garbage reduction plant which has beenoperated off and on during the past two years with con-siderable difficulty, both mechanical and legal, for dis-posing of the garbage of Greater Xew York City, hasbeen closed down for some time, following most vig-orous protests by the inhabitants of Staten Island, wherethe plant is located. At present the garbage is beingtaken to sea in boats and dumped there. The problemof garbage disposal for a large city like New York ismuch more serious than for a smaller city, both because. the enormous size of the plant makes it many timesmore objectionable than would be the smaller plantrequired by a medium-sized city, and also because thedensity of population in almost all of the surroundingterritory makes it ditYicult to find any spot where thereare not near neighbors who will protest vigorously (andwith considerable political influence) against the loca-tion of such a large plant anywhere in their vicinity. Street Cleaning Commissioner Arnold B. MacStay, wholias immediate charge of the disposing of New YorkCitys refuse, is opposed to the cost and waste of ma-terials involved in incineration and is endeavoring to workout a plan by which the citys garbage can be disposed?of with some financial return if not at a profit. Chemistshave been experimenting with the citys garbage andhare worked out plans for treating it by which wouldbe produced chicken feed, a dry and easily handledfertilizer base, and fuel compressed into balls. Tie most interesting feature
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