, 1880-08-08
SEWER GAS.


ber OF Chicago Plumbers.
4 reporter of the Eutnin0 Jourra, yester
day interviewed number Of the best
known and most intelligent plumbers in tn
city aneut the sewcr-gas evil With
THE FOLLOWING RESULT:
E. BaggoH said tho Instances Of defcctiv
| houses were SO numerous and varied he hardI,
knew which to single out In regard to bad sew
era0e, leakage Of soil-ptpcs, and broken traps
but was OF opinion that they existed in all guar
ters of the city.
Tho old veteran vcntilator. ". f. ChnppcIl oj
| Chappel s. wilucr, says the ventilation o
| houses, In a majority Of cases. Is vory bad. Mr.
| CoW1es residence, of Tue TRIBUNE, which be
! had ventilated throughout. and which is nov
perfectly sweet. Is only ono Ut many instances In
] his experience.
Numbers Of residences on the West Side,
which j. J. Wade has lately put in perfect con-
ditiou. were in most cases frghtful. the plumb
! ing and sewerage being deplor,,hle, and sewer
gas in many instances having claimed its victs,n.
residence on Indiana street, near Cuss Dan
| j. Rock found catch-basiu and sewer pipe
| stopped up, caus(ng deposit Of filth TO bo de-
| posted under the entire basen1eat floor.
| residence on Indiana street, near Dearborn,
Was found In same condition by R. Graham.
Six houses on Morgan street wcro fcun,l In
same condition By J. Mckinley. The sewcrage
i residence Or Franklin street was found in
same condition by T. O O'Malley.
4 residence on West Lake street, where " c.
Brown found sewer crushed for ten feet by set
tling Of foundation walls, sewer gas all over
house.
4 residence on Wabash avenue near Peck
court, P. Harvey had TO yentiiate, as sewer
gases were escaping from the under portion Of
Al residence on Thirty first street, II. H. Wei
come found NO connection Ut the soil with sew
er-plpes; sewer gus III nouse. and dlth deposited
ia cellar three or four inches decp.
In Il residence on Michigan avenue, near Six
teenth street, Matthews s. Holt found in Il ter
rjble condlrion; sewer-pipcs broken, and sewer
gas very bud.
In some half A. dozen houses on Bowen avenue
Wilson Coiiliu found that they were using q
ing waste from the houses to buck under their
.bascments which WAS about one foo. In depth
and nlive with crawling worms.
Ou,ithodes avenue T. Z. Boyd found the sewer
connections all above the soil and defecrve and
house full Of sewer-gas-
oae A9aPa R5n1P aas
the plupbing and sewerage IN bad shape, to
such un extent that it made it dangerous to live
in house.
Residence On South Leavitt street; A. ".
Murray found that the foundation walls had
crushed tho sewer III; sewerage turce itself
through the hOusc and through the partitions
Residence on North La Sale street; n, P,
Molter found that the sewer had not been CO.
mented.
son street we're found by: Charles j. Brooks TINT
the sewer-gas was SO bad that tenants COM
1f not of9s Ws a1 to I'VE IL
lnm S. Verify found under the basement hoor
liquid mass Of filth, caused from choking up uf
connecting pipe between kitchen sink and
catch basin.
A numt,er Of honscs on West Washington |
We West M.nroe, and West Juckson streets: Navld !
siphonuge, and making them worthless.
Residence on Ohio. uear Cass street, Williams |
Brothers found the soil-p1pe not connected with
to run into the ccllnr.
On Hurlbut street, near Lincoln avenue, Web
ber & Weppuer found houso where epil~ pipe !
seweE~gas free passage
Store and tlnts ncar Archer and Portland ave
ae r9%erS C!nrk state sapipes were
here fearful.
on South Park avenue, near Twenty fourth,
H. T. Wilson four-inch Pipe run into Hue nor
ppeued, causing sewer-gas to no through the
Residences on Michigan and Wabash avenues,
sanders Bruthers say the chief defects are |
where the soll-pipes enter the sewer.
f. Rfns ro,9 4ysnoe and
On Michigan, Calumet, und Indiana nycupes !
II. Moylan says be has removed numbers Of old
hand-mndc traps under closets, having been
orpken for two or three years. |
On ThiEty-seventh, near Vinccnnes avenue,
u. Anderson found sewer connected with the
house BY several lengths Of common stove~pipe.
lad in nearlr ull streets in that ucighborbuud
Residences along Wabash and Micn,gsn ' AVE-
from sof-pipes, seams and bends Of trnps and
'Hsets cracked. and more OF less OF sewer-gus in |
Residence On Lake. near Thlrticth street, ].
4ouahaa found seweT-pipc stripped, soii~pipes |
:rackcd. ana sewer gas very strong over entire
TEE INTERVIEWS SHOW l.
hat the cheap tcncments by no means have n
nonnpnly in this matter OF sewer-xas, but that |