The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-05-03
WATER.
now 10 GET RID or TIiL Sitt
AND RAlE WATER.
A SUGGESTION BY CHAS rHRUPp.

10 rHE EDIroR or TRE BrLLETIH.
DeAR Sii:--kuow,ng that you have /
tho Interest and future prospects OF our
city Mt boart, with your permission bes ,
leave to make N few slsgsslions relative
t. question intimately concerning ne
all e. citizens: that is, how t" get rid ol
our great trouble sipe or rain water.-in
the shortest time practicable.
Since or large and extensive system
of pumping, which proved itself too OK
pensye . luxury, has been abandoned,
the question arises; "liow to get rad of tho
water cheapest aud quickest.'
| DO nor p,opoas TO prevent either The
rain or sjpe water from coming in that
thinI, RIA inpossibiiity although - might
he done by placing a ROOT over and boiler
iron under our town, With, We migp. FAY,
G!mcst Ss much how OF rosson a. is
eyinced by our pres nj means Of di'rhar-.
ing /; after it does come,
Having been connected with municipal
city know something Of it4 defects.
In 1885 there was -y.to,l - ''Haycge
planned bY r.o ana adopted Is tho cry.
This was intended ~ = feeder 81 tho biz
puup. Nhotucr The ori.inN glrpJs.
has beou carried out tho,s int may
indgo, thero ho,IG ~ that timn 4.tic 5
number Of knowing onos who predicted
failure 10 tho whole svstem, assigning ~
az argument the impossbility ot"lra'nins
up stream" The prescnt system Of sew
oscgn is a. iollor53 To commence with,
We have q main sewer itom the Tenth
street pump holss TO Commercial ave-
nue.. Fix feet in l0ight one on CONNER
cisl avenue from Tenth TO Soyeutcglth
sire It's, four AMI = hs.r feet high one ar
Soven,eeuth street scrosf Washington
syenue,o OF three !eot. At Eleventh slrcct
we run 20 Poplar down Poplar to Wash
inclon avenue, loWl Washiuct'n syc.
nuc - Fifth street, down Fifth ,aross
Commercial avenue ALEC thrao feel TAcrc
, arc .l.o nle's =. overv street crossir !,
tapping tho sewers. 10 discharge the
immense body Of water the maine are
capable Of collecting We ass provided
with ono cas- ron p, eighteen inches in
dimamcter.
Is that SUI 'nn; and So 70 ~ly sUct
larg. .ewcrs2 Oan might, with rossor
ssk Why wa. ua.s pipe Of sufficient siA'
pu, in, and tue answer given Is tia. the
big pump was % throw tue water ovoi
the .eveo aud ~: through the l.rco
dill At the time q is erection advise Tux
authorities 20 ri. in brick Quito. O
much larger size, bat w.s met with TN
objection that larger hole cut In the
lsvee would cnj,nger tho city ia
case anything gave away.
by comparing the capacity 0; our isrg'
sewer which snow full snd sb1g. iou
feet over VITA i.s outlet, We ind the Elsi
sewer, which 10 bpilt oval, il six fee: hig'
and liz, an sreG Of eiShtoen 'nFor'icloI feet
while the ogt'o., which should loo !srgs
than our lsrgest sewer, Ass diameter Of
eighteen iuShe, aud a. aroR ol Jss Zoo
nine inches.
AFRO You no. convinced that had We
good substantial brick sewer through tn
levee sulIicientto carry Of tie water some
what faster than that miseralle little pipe
il would be lasting benefit to our city
would recommend that when 1t hs
Gomez practicable, the eighteen inch pip
be removed and good brick sewer Of no
leis than the capacity Of our largest sewer
DO Pr. in it, place, attaching TO the .ewe
good valve or aJod gate OF the mos
simple construction, for instance q simila
one 60 those placed in canal locks, mad
OF iron and sufficiently strong - with
stand any pressure tha. may "a brough
TO boar against II, would pat one it
at the Tenth street pump house and an
other at Tweu.y.to1r!h street. would
also recommend that n cus,2 10 PLACED
in the Tenth street pump hous
corresponding with the / : river guage
built By myself, at Fourth street, SO ths
anyone may know the moment the sewer
can be open and the time 20 shut them
These outlets would carry tAn preseu
water oiYin few dRya, whereas it vi!
tako our little pipe weeks & accomplish
il; besides his Il would hnyo tondeno
10 Aush our sewers and closuse our ci.y
by means of the current created, 1t ma
be said that n valve or fool-gste cGnuo
b, made sufficiently strong THE howsvc
hydrosta,iCs will bear mo sut &c.
The nsxt question Is, how sAs'. thi
much needed Improvement b. paid for
and | propose to answer a follows
First would cell tho big pump which
now rottinS ..selt away and a.! tn
pumps, valves, pump hoUse, eneinca az
boilers located Mt lhirty-second street
Also 81 tha. ano machinery which was
in the Tenth stree. pump house; that ia
il has rot been disposed Of beyond recall
also The iron pipe which so propose TO re
: place bv the brick oaue'.. This l thin
would pay the whole coat, and would
preferable to allowing ihGt line lasChiEoFL
etc, 90 to rack and ruin. | would sls
sid that could No have hsi tho propose
mproyem eht prey.1.a 10 sLe preser
Q high wster We should s.t now he ineou
b moied with sipe water, n, tho accumu!l
o ton OF water would a., lave run out b.