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THURSDAY, OCT. 17,

1940

CITY COLLECTIONS SYSTEM UNIQUE

It’s too Complicated to Explain Fully, But It Has Never Bogged Down Seriously; Regarded as Model : By Other Communities. By RICHARD LEWIS When the garbage collector misses your pail, count up

to 10 slowly.

: When you reach the count of five, ask yourself if you didn’t forget to put it out the night before so the garbage man could pick it up early in the morning when he passed

your way.

If you didn’t forget, ask yourself if the pail wasn’t

camouflaged by the weeds in the alley. If it wasn’t, finish

"counting 10 and then call|

DR-4722. They'll pick it up for you, cheerfully.

In the Collection Department, the theory runs that if the taxpayer isn’t always right, don’t contradict him. It’s bad policy and it’s a campaign year.

Complicated Machinery

That telephone call to Drexel 4722 will not only connect you with a Municipal Service, but it will bring you into contact with one of the most complicated pieces of municipal machinery you ever paid for.

Tell the Collection men their operation is “hit and miss” and they'll try to explain that it isn’t. Then they'll give up. It’s too complicated a procedure to explain over the phone anyway. They've got to have maps, charts and diagrams to show you how it works. Even then, it’s hard to follow. But?it works. It’s like an old blece of machinery built so many years ago that no one remembers how to take it apart and put it together. A Series of Systems

Take Ray Herner, the husky, cheerful Collections Superintendent. He’s been supervising garbage collections now for two years and his bosses, the Works Board members, believe he’s pretty efficient. But even Mr. Herner can’t explain the Collection Department system. to you in less than two hours. The reason is that there isn’t one single system, there is a series of systems which have accumulated over the years. The collection department has been collecting systems because the City has been collecting new residents, new homes and more garbage pails. For collection purposes, the City is divided into districts, each patrolled by 25 teams of horses dragging trailers and by six trucks. The districts are patrolled twice weekly in the winter and three times a week in the summer.

From May to September

Roughly, the summer collection season is from the end of May to the end of September. Garbage is collected twice weekly and refuse once. In the winter season, when the Collection Department’s long haul takes place, ashes and refuse and garbage are collected once a week, on alternate days. The schedule of collections follows a custom evolved after years of trial and error and complaints.

Districts are laid out hodge-podge. ;

Residents sometimes cannot understand why the garbage trailer will pick up one side of the street one gay and the other side, the next ay. The reason is that each side is In a different district. The districts are so laid out that it is all the department can do to collect one in a day. Years ago, the districts were defined as the amount of territory one horse and wagon could cover ~ from sunrise to sunset.

Garbage Products Sold

. As the population grew denser, more teams of horses and more wagons were added. Garbage goes to the City’s modern, efficient Sanitation Plant where it is reduced to greases and feed. The products are sold to brokerage houses which find ready markets for them, and they yield a fat revenue. Ashes are hauled in relays to empty land, designated as dumps, at the City limits. - Ash disposal is getting to be more and more of a problem, as dumps fill up. New sites are being surveyed for dumps, but they are getting harder to find. At present, a great change is Coming over - the Collections Deent. It is gradually becoming pert anized. Year by year, there are fewer horses. Trucks can work faster and are cheaper in the long haul. Indianapolis has no system for selecting its collection employees, outside of the time-honored patronange system and straight hiring.

Other cities require collection men to pass rigorous physical tsets. But a process of natural selection quickly weeds out those who are unfit for service. They don’t stand up under the grind, long hours of back-breaking labor in all kinds of weather.

Superintendent Herner believes||

physical tests should be given men before they are hired. They should be able to qualify as to strength and endurance, he thinks. The Department itself is selfsufficient, and, in addition, does work for other departments. Its blacksmiths, machinists, mechanics repair all equipment. The blacksmith shop doesn’t shoe horses. The horse teams work under contract, and the contractor takes care of them. But the shop is able to turn out just about any spare part that may be required to repair a trailer. Regared as a Model If the Collection Department is sometimes unappreciated at home, it looms up as a model for other cities. Mr. Herner fills up his spare time describing its operation to inquiring . sanitation commissioners from all over the country. He has just finished a description of the department for Pittsburgh City officials, who recently have taken over a private collections system. It’s a complicated set-up, Mr. Herner admits, and the work is never done. It draws a good deal of heat from the taxpayers. It would stand improvement. But Ray Herner is proud of one record. For all the complaints, the system works. And in all of its grief-filled history, it has never seriously bogged down.

BURNS FATAL TO BABY

MUNCIE, Ind. Oct. 17 (U. P.).— James Cordell, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cordell of Muncie, was burned fatally yesterday when he fell into an ash pit at his home.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (U. P.) —The United States has kept itself proportionately strong in face of growing international conflict during re-

cent years - and has its defense|® foundation so well laid that it “can do in two years more than Gera|} many did in seven,” Col. Louis A.|j Johnson, former Assistant War Secretary, asserted tonight. His address, replying to the speech Monday night of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, was broadcast over a network of the Mutual Broadcasting System. Mr. Johnson interpreted Col. Lindbergh’s proposals as meaning the United States should “appease” Germany and Japan. Charging that Col. Lindbergh wants the nation to “sacrifice the principles on which the United States was built” and that the flyer considers this country a “weakened nation in the center of an antagonistic world,” Col. Johnson said Mr. Lindbergh displayed ignorance of U. S. preparedness. Knowing that the Navy comes first, the Ap Force second and the| bergh. -

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES U. S. Stronger Than Japan and Can Ouftstrip Germany, Too, Col. Louis Johnson Declares

Col. Johnson , , . answers Lind-

land army third in importance to this country’s defense, Col. Johnson i | said, U. S. officials have been strengthening the nation steadily along those lines since 1933.

“In 1933,” he pointed out, “we were weaker even than Japan. We have now the most powerful Navy in the world. “From 1933 to now we increased the men employed in Navy yards ship building from 5000 to 30,000. Increased Navy personnel from 90,000 to 150,000. “We increased our naval planes from 1000 to more than 2000. The number is increasing daily. In the past seven years we have commissioned eight times as many combatant ships as in the seven years preceding 1933. “Our planes are the world’s best. We are producing 950 fully equipped military planes per month now. We expect to be producing 1250 such planes per month in January 1941, and that figure will grow in succeed-

available for American defense should we need them.”

ing months. All of these planes are|§

WOMAN GUARD AT “RAILWAY GROSSING

BATH, N. Y, Oct. 17 (U. P.).— Guarding the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Belfast street crossing here is a veteran railroader whose hair is done up in curls. She is Miss Ellen T. Brennan, watchwoman at the crossing for the

past 21 years. Miss Brennan resembles a successful business woman more closely than a woman who for two decades has guarded

from her little office by the tracks. The tall, dignified watchwoman was one of thos€ of her sex who took a man’s job during the World War, and she’s done so well since that no one has seen fit to remove

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