Contractor is Sought to Cart Off All Refuse

Wilmette seeks a man who will contract to haul away its refuse, which means its garbage, its ashes, its tincans and paper as well.
With the advertising for bids for this work the impression has gained favor abroad that the garbage ordinance, fathered throughout by President Schmidt, and which is pretty generally agreed was a perfectly good ordinance if it had been intelligently or even fairly offered to the people, is falling down. Also it is reported in circles close to the village hall that Mr. Schmidt would like to discover some convenient and yet legitimate way in which to unload the responsibility for this measure, aving become convinced that to jam it through along the lines already adopted with the villagers, spells disastrous failure at the polls next year, for him, at least.
There can be no doubt left in the mind of the man who takes the trouble to cull the town over, that the means by which subscribers to the new garbage ordinance have been secured was unpopular from the start, and is growing more so, that is the talk in all places of public meeting.
Now with approximately $3,000 of the people's money in the village treasury, and the greater part of that already expended for the necessary work of the community, the problem arises which presents the most vexing situation of all.


John Ileff, who resides about two miles west of town, and who has been the contractor for the village garbage, which means discarded vegetable matter usually found in buckets, pails and baskets at the backdoor of the household, has declined to renew his agreement with the village at the previous emolument of $1,800 a year.
While Ileff has been hauling away the garbage proper at this figure, it has cost the village additional money to have ashes, paper and other refuse carted away as per the terms of the ordinance. This it was necessary to do in many cases where the property owner or tenant thus favored had not been a subscriber to the terms of the new ordinance.
It has now become impertive that the removal of garbage in the village be placed on business basis. Therefore members of the village council on Tuesday evening decided to advertise for bids for the removal of all refuse from backdoors and alleyways throughout the town. This having been accomplished upon a competitive basis, the problem of locating a suitable dumping place for this matter, which is the next difficulty to be overcome, will be taken up by the board and dealt with in a manner which seems the most expediant.