1893
Jany 19
Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.
  Cloudless but very hazy, especially in the forenoon.
No wind whatever. Ther 14[degrees] at sunrise, 24[degrees] at noon.
  Met E.A. & Outram Bangs by appointment at
Fort Hills Wharf, Boston, at 10.30 A.M. Half an hour
later we started down the Harbor (Dr. Sidney Holdritch
accompanying us) in a large scow loaded with city
garbage consisting chiefly of decayed fruit, vegetable
scraps of meat etc from the market and swill 
from private houses, besides a great quantity of
waste paper, paper boxes battered tin cans etc-
in all some four hundred cart loads gathered
during the preceeding twenty-four hours by the
city scavengers. This scow alternates with another
of similar build in making daily trips, in tow of
a tug, to the dumping ground well outside the
outer islands.
[margin]Trip on a 
Garbage Scow[/margin]
  Despite the ice which, in cakes of varying size
and thickness, covered the water for the first half
of the way, we made such good progress that by
1 P.M. we reached the Graves and got rid of our
redolent cargo. This was accomplished quickly &
easily by two men for the scow is so constructed that
by the aid of a simple piece of mechanism the
hull can be split in two longitudinally allowing
a broad stream of water to flow directly through 
the hold from stern to stern and sweep everything
out. The halves are hinged together of course &
are prevented from sinking by capacious air chambers.
[margin]Method of
dumping
the cargo[/margin]