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The great horse manure crisis of 1894 refers to the idea that the greatest obstacle to urban development at the turn of the century was the difficulty of removing horse manure from the streets. More broadly, it is an analogy for supposedly insuperable extrapolated problems being rendered moot by the introduction of new technologies.
The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 (GHMC) is an internet myth put forward by Stephen Davies in an article posted online in Sept, 2004 [1]. No online references to the GHMC can be found prior to this date. While horse manure was a problem in major cities[citation needed], the GHMC makes three major claims: 1.
Waring's men cleared a shin-deep accumulation of waste across the city. Horse carcasses were removed from the streets and sold for glue; horse manure was sold for fertilizer. [13] Other refuse was sent to dumps along the waterfront. [13] Waring's crew even removed snow, packing it into trucks and dumping it into the rivers. [13]
Horse manure covered the streets. In winter, when all the grime froze, walking on the sidewalks was a challenge. Dead pigs and other carcasses remained on the street for weeks. [40] In 1894, Colonel George E. Waring Jr. introduced sanitary reforms using a large street cleaning force. [41] [42]
What should be done with the hundreds of thousands of tons of manure produced each year by the 2,000 or so horse farms in and around Wellington — enough to cover 50 football fields 3 feet deep.
The manure originally belonged to the owners of the horses that dropped it. But when the owners abandoned it on the road, it became the property of the man who was first to claim it. The Court found that the best owner after the act of abandonment was the borough of Stamford, Connecticut where the manure was found.
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