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Show ITS NAMEIS DENNIS. The Eeign of Zing Pestilence to be Brought to a Sudden and Perpetual Perpet-ual Termination IN TEE FERTILIZER'S FURNACE. A Process That Will Cloan the Alleys, Disinfect Backyards and Bring Blushes of Health. The proposition of Z. Wood to receive and dispose of all R;irb;ige was accepted and the mayor Instructed to make the necessary contract con-tract with the Klo Grande Western for hauling the same In ali-tlgiit barrels to Kevler switch. This was the dry, prosaio paragraph that crept unnoticed through the columns col-umns of yesterday's dailies and yet it was the un poetic prologue of a revolution revolu-tion that is about to take place in the future handling of the garbage aud offal whose impish offspring has visited all quarters and entailed huge doctor bills, embalmers bills and florists bills when they were least expected. The simple work of making a contract with the Rio Grande Western for the handling hand-ling of filth was easy but there is a tale behind it. When Zoe Woods went before the sapient sires of the council chain ber with his proposition it was the lirst step in the erection of a Fertilizing works that, it is said, will afford direct employment to more than 100 meu or, on the basis of papular calculation, support to some three hundred persons. The works as projected are similar to those operating in nearly every city in the east and wil be put up at a distance of twenty miles from the metropolis that their gases may not reach tho sensitive sen-sitive olfactories of the inhabitants. It Is intended, according to Mr. Wood's brief recital, to handle through their furnaces every iota of the garbage and offal upon which the reporters have lavished their vaults of satire. The faithful old charger that died game and in harness and whose bloated trunk lies bleaching in the equinoctial rain will no longer furnish carnival for the skulking scavengers scav-engers of plain and forest but will be consecrated to the furnace. His dapper coat will go to perfect the plaster plas-ter for parlor walls, His hide will come forth upon the pinched and microscopic mi-croscopic foot of the clgarettish dude as a spike-toed shoo, while his fat and sinew will come forth as oil for troubled waters and highly perfumed soap for the complexion of the household angel. The residue well that goes to the Sandwich Islands to vitalize tho soil and subsequently into the bread basket of the consumer. So with the crumpled crum-pled milker, the faithful watchdog, tho grunting porker, the rejectod gobbler until the offal of the market, the gar- bage of tho alley and filth of tho thor-ughfare thor-ughfare has been harvested. Nor does it stop here for the odiferous vault will belch its contents into air-tight barrels and will go to the fertilizing furnaces. "There will be no more howls about the effluvia of of dumping grounds," said sanitary inspector William Show-ell Show-ell this morning, "for when this thing is finally settled all to be done is to fill up the barrel, seal it np tight and roll it aboard the cars at the Rio Grande Western depot. And it is a big reduction in the expense of the sanitary department, which has to bo maintained or disease will go on with its ravages." A run through tho pages of Inspector Showell's well kept register, which is rarely opened to public gaze for the particular reason that the name of the complainant is kept in inviolable invi-olable secrecy reveals a decidedly interesting in-teresting column of statistics. This column col-umn may not suggest the snowy whiteness white-ness of Italian marble but it expresses an idea of the real volume of tilth in which Zion has been floating. Within the past five mouths over two thousand complaints have been entered for in-fractious in-fractious of the garbago ordinance, and they are still rolling in. Mr. Showell says that his notices have been generally observed but as this is the lirst season in which a real aggressive crusade has been waged against alley and hackyards, the people peo-ple have had to be educated up to the metropolitan standard of municipal cleanliness and hygienics. In this period per-iod of five months between ten and eleven thousand cargoes of this sickening sicken-ing compound from kitchen and sink have been carted to the dumping ground and otherwise disposed of. "Yet," chimed the inspector, "the work has scarce begun." Nor has it, for thirty teams are now plying between the haunts of grim pestilence pes-tilence and the perfumed confines of the dump. Of this number nine are suplied by the city for public service, and is a gratuitous franchise to all who leave their sweepings at the front door. The alley is snubbed. The remainder of the teams are paid from private purse, and these will now be kept at constant work until every vestige of the death-breeding matter has been wiped out of alley, thoroughfare and backyard. The atmosphere takes brighter complexion com-plexion with tbesfl assurances and in a few weeks the citizen may gulp her down without syrnp or bitters. |
