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IN other columns will be found a very full report of the proceedings of the convention of the National Association of Fire Engineers at Detroit last week, including the text of two of the many interesting papers read. Others of these will be printed from week to week as space permits. Our readers are referred to FIRE AND WATER for the earliest and most complete record of what was said and done at this important meeting.
THE subject of the disposal of garbage by cremation has been in the minds of New York city officials for some years past. A large number of statistics relating to the operation of the system have been obtained from places where it is in use, and it is now reported that Street Cleaning Commissioner Hans Beattie and President Wilson of the Board of Health will shortly make a personal inspection of the garbage cremation works at Buffalo, Minneapolis, Denver and other points. It is to be hoped that some better and satisfactory way of disposing of the garbage of the city may soon be decided upon; that the present way of dumping it in the lower harbor, or just outside Sandy Hook, to line the beaches with offal and filth, will much longer be tolerated, is not to be expected.
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