Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 85, Number 126, 18 July 1893 — Desiccated Garbage. [ARTICLE]

Desiccated Garbage.

[San Jose Mercury.] The attention ofthe world was sharply called to sanitary matters last year by the prevalence <a[ cholera in Europe aud its threatened outbreak iv this country, and aij a consequence there has been an almost universal interest taken iv ali subjects connected with the cleanliness and the health of cities. No part of this complicated sanitary problem has beeu more carelully investigated than that of the disposal of refuse matter or garbage, and toward tlio solution of none have more various attempts been made. Two scientific methods have been presented for the disposal of garbage; one by iiieiiieratiou and the other by desiccation. The iirst of these has received much more attention than the other., because it is simpler aud promised cheaper results. It has therefore mainly occupied the minds of those who worked at such problems, and as a consequence a large number of cremating furnaces have been devised for burning refuse, ami many of the more progressive cities of the Union have adopted them with considerable success. The desiccating process haa not beeu so prominently put forward, but its advocates claim tor it a decided superiority over any possible process of cremation, 'ihat ilis not to simple to appearances doe* not imply that it may not prove to be more simple when scientifically worked out, and though it may not be so cheap at first cast, it may yet prove to be more economical in its results, inasmuch as the desiccated garbage has a high value for fertilizing purposes. The difficulties in the way of applying the principle of desiccation have heretuI fore prevented communities from ati tempting it, but it i- now Mid that a sys- | tern based upon that principle has been successfully operated at BlisaviUe, N. Y. ! The main feature of the method is said to be that it works automatically. All vegetable and animal matter as collected is dumpod into air-tight tanks, from which ; it does nol emerge until completely disinfected by a volatile substance. It is ■ then devoid of grease and putrid moist- | ure and reduced to pulp, which requires I slight additional drying to make it a merchantable article iv the form of lerliliz- [ ing ingredient. It is claimed that iv the operation of the process ail foal odors and gases are condensed and destroyed, and mat there remains nothing obnoxious in the material when taken irom the tanks into which it was dumped. The advantages claimed for desiccatiou over the cremation of garbage are great, and, since the Common Council is nowengaged in the consideration of this problem, it might be well for it to obtain some fuller information in regard to the Blissville experiment before deciding to adopt any one of the many cremation furnaces that are otlered. • Snow appears white because it is au aggregation of an infinUe number of minute crystals, each reflecting all tho colors of the rainbow; theso colors, uniting before they reach the eye, cause it to appear white to every normal eye.

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