Abolishing the Garbage Can 



A gas -burning crematory is the latest 

 sanitary device for disposing of refuse 



The refuse is 

 scraped directly 

 into the inciner- 

 ator. There is a 

 constant draft 

 which carries all 

 odors up the flue 



The residue is 

 only a very small 

 quantity of ster- 

 ile ash. You 

 light the inciner- 

 ator just exactly 

 as you would 

 your gas oven 



PROBABLY a perfect method of col- 

 lecting garbage fresh and hurrying 

 it away in sanitary vehicles will 

 never be found. Only by burning it on 

 the spot will all danger and trouble from 

 flies, odors and germs be averted. 



A device which does this simply, thor- 

 oughly and economically, has recently been 

 invented by a New York man. It is in the 

 form of a garbage crematory, which can be 

 conveniently installed in either new or old 

 buildings, residences, apartments, hospitals 

 or hotels, at the place where the waste 

 originates. It destroys by incineration all 

 house, kitchen or sick-room waste, wet or 

 dry, animal or vegetable, before it has a 

 chance to become a menace to health. 



The machine generates about 1,200 de- 

 grees of heat, but is so constructed that the 

 radiation is reduced to a minimum. It is 

 lined with asbestos with an air space be- 

 tween the outer and inner walls, to provide 

 for constant circulation. 



The cost of operation is very slight, five 

 cents worth of gas being sufficient to destroy 

 a bushel of garbage, which requires from 

 three-quarters of an hour to one hour to 

 burn, depending upon its nature. The 

 residue is only a very small quantity of 

 sterile ash, which may be dumped back in 

 the hopper on top of the following day's 

 accumulations, and burned over and over 



until you are ready to dump the ashes. 



In large apartment houses the incinera- 

 tor means a considerable saving in janitor 

 service, to say nothing of the annoyance 

 of having garbage cans to handle. 



The heat in a kitchen from such a ma- 

 chine is not any greater than that from the 

 range, but the proper time to operate the 

 incinerator is after all other work in the 

 kitchen is finished, so that in the summer 

 there need be no annoyance from its heat. 



If the incinerator is installed in the kitchen 

 or nearby where it can be connected with the 

 flue from the kitchen range, all garbage cans 

 and similar receptacles for refuse may be 

 eliminated. The waste can be dumped im- 

 mediately into the machine and allowed to 

 collect there until there is opportunity to 

 burn it. If one day's accumulation does not 

 fill the machine, it may be left standing 

 until three or four days' waste has collected. 

 No odor escapes from the machine, even 

 after the garbage has been left in it for 

 several days, because a constant draft en- 

 tering from beneath carries any odors up 

 the flue. The operation of the incinerator 

 is so simple, however, that it will be found 

 just as easy to burn up the garbage of one 

 day as it will to wait several days for an 

 accumulation of waste. You simply apply 

 the match to the lighter, exactly as if you 

 were lighting your gas oven. 



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