Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-08-06

ground before and after the lava had reached
it, the way IL sometimes cools and then again
bursts through its dull slate colored crust, or
sometimes how it seems to defy the laws of
gravitation and push forward or spread side
ways in a manner that no one could anticipate
all this and more may be seen by careful
study Of these views.
.Scribney''s MggasiBe is always good, but tn
number for this last May is exceptionally go.
Tho frontispiece, head fthe old philosopher
and historian Thomas Carlyle, is an admir-
able specimen Of wood-engraving. ain and
out OF London with Dickens" is most in
teresting and beautifully illustrated. "In
Fountain Court, The Tenmple, " we actually
saw the original of the poor crazy little Miss
Flite, just as Dickens drew her ia "Black
House. Another interesting and amusing
article is "Artcmus Ward, his Home and Fam
ily." "The Mutineers Of the Bounty" The
Pit Cairn Islanders from 1850 to 80, by Miss
Rosalnd \. Young, a Native" ore Of the
descendants of a Mutineer of that name, is
very clever and interesting. The editor Of
Scribusr's describes the authoress as young
woman of "a years Of age, who has never
worn a shoe in her life, Bwims like a fish, four
miles at a stretch, and is an excellent per-
former on the organ. The article is illustrated
by cut from drawing by native A valu-
able article on the "Sanitary Condition Of
New York." is well worth study here, espe.
cially by our Board of Health. "Among the
Esqumaux with Schwatka," with excel
lent illustrations. Jenny Lind" by Sir
I Julius Benedict ia n wel-exccuted biography,
and of course, recounts all the particulars Of
the American tour of the great songstress un-
der the auspices of the famous Mr.. Barnum.
Eugene Schuyler's Peter the Great goes
on and many other useful aud instructive arti-
! cles are to be found in the volume. But in
| the department called the "World's Work" is
an article on the Disposal of City Rnfuse,
which suits case in this city so exactly that
we cannot do better than urgently call atten-
tion to it by transcribing the whole article:
"Attempts have been made from time to time to
find means of dispo5ing of the waste of cities
by burning ii in some form of furnace; but for some
reason best known city governments all these
furnaces have been declared useless or unsuccess-
ful. More recently new style of cremating fur
mace has been made the subject of exhaustive ex-
pertinent i'll disposing of the waste of a large city,
and, from the reports made upon its operation, 1t
would appear to work without Inconvenience to the
neghborhood and at n material saving of expense
Two forms of furnaces have been erected, one
q 'Destructor.' for burning ordinary city rubbish,
and IA rcUurJ called 'Carbonizer, for burning
street sweepngs TO cinder or ash, suitable for
fertilizng purposes. The destructor consists of q
group, battery, of furnaces, built of fre-brick,
and tied together with iron rods. Each furnace
has soping Crate placed over deep ash-pit, and
covered with reverberatory fire-brick arch. Be
hind the flue is an inclined fue, or arched passage
way. down which the refuse slides on its way to
the fire. The battery of furnaces is covered with
| IL b.
bish may be driven from an inclined roadway con-
Meeting with the street below. Openings are pro-
vided in this platform each hue to enable the
loads to be shot directly into the furnaces. Iron
doors provided for these openings to prevent
the escape of the products of combustion while
the rubbish is being burned. At the back of the
furnaces is a horizontal fue leading to the CHM
ney, and connecting with each furnace by an open
ing at the top of the inclined hue. Toprevent the
material from falling into the tlue, bridge wall
is placed at the top of the ue aud all the heat and
smoke pass through and over the rubbish as it
slides down toward the fire. 1t is found that in
such furnaces all kinds of refuse are completely
destroyed, the products of the combustion drawn
from the ash-pit being clinkers partly melted
metals, and fine ash. The metals are easily sep
arated from the ash, and may be sold, while the
cnkers ground and mixed with lime, TO make
a good commercial mortar. The waste heat of the
furnaces is used to generate steani and the power
thus obtained is employed to grind and mix the
cinkers. Each furnace is said to be capable OF
consuming seven tons of rubbish in twenty-four
hours and after the fires started they re-
quire no fuel, as the rubbish contains enough
waste coal to consume itself, leaving only the ex
pense of labor and attendance.
The carbonizer, for dsposing of street-sweep
ings, is essentially upright retort The material
is not brought into direct contact with the fire, but
passes through hot well, and is subjected to de-
structive distillaton. The apparatus consists OF
an upwright fiue of brickwork, having inside q
smaller hue, carried sprally around the inside
The lower part of this small ue, next the furnace
that is placed at side of the main lue is made
of re-brck, while the upper part is formed of iron
plates. At the top of the structure the small iiue
N rnu
and thence to the chimney. The fires having beer
started, the street-sweepings, condemned meat
and vegetables, are shot into the top of the fur
mace from a platform above and fill the entire fue
, and are charred or cabonzed by contact with thu
hot plates and brick-work and are discharged be
low in the form of an excellent fertilizer.
These two forms of furnaces designed to bt
/ placed in group chimney serving for both
the ash of the destructor being used fuel in thu
carbonizer. They have already been adopted by
/ number of cities, and reported to work mt
, material saving of expense, and with no incon
venience to people living near them"