The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-22

The success of Colonel Warnings sys-
tenn of sewerage, as tested in Memphis,
has established its advantages on the
score of health and cost. Naturally
enough the example thus furnished OF
converting a noisome town in malarl-
GUS district into cleaner and COMPARE
lively wholesome city without exceed
ing the limits of narrow treasury has
been followed in different parts of the
country. Lenox. and Pitts6eld, Mass,
mazoo, Mich, Omaha, Neb.. Little
Rock, Ark, Birmingham, Ala, Norfolk,
Va, have set to work to adopt the War
ing system of drainage; and General
Russell Thayer of our city has prepared
comprehensive plan Of drainage from
Cape May Point, n. J. New Orleans
is moving also in anticipation of raising
the necessary funds to set its houses and
its streets in order. Baltimore, through
it's able engineer, @. 81. Latrobe, has
made q comparison OF the cost and merit
of the Waring system, and contemplates
the early construction of sewerage works
at cost of three millions of dollars.
Brooklyn spent nearly eight millions of
dollars in the same task, under the old
system supervised by competent ad-
wiser of the old school. and now it finds
itself very badly off. The fashion CT q
one great system of huge sewers to carry
off rain-water and sewage, was intro
duced in Paris and for years exploited as
the great pride and boast Of that city;
but of late years it has been found that
Paris is full of roisome smells, and that
its great sewers are breeding disease,
while the cost of extending them
| throughout the city frightens French
| financiers. It is not surprising
therefore, to find that the commission of
experts convened in Paris, has de-
termlned in favor of the Waring
| system of separate sewers-one fol-
the rain fall, the other for the drain
age of the houses. It is to be begun in
| one of the fattest parts of Paris, and is
to be gradually extended to the parts oe
| the city not yet provided with sewers,th
extension to be finally through the exist
ing sewers, which will be mere means oi
concealing oil the underground works a
the city. The discussion of the question
was carried on in Paris several years, ,and
only lately the city has adopted the con-
| clusions of it's experts, and voted the
money and ordered the work to be be
gun. Rome and Naples have adopted
the Waring system, and it is at once to be
introduced in the new parts of Rome. A
St. Petersburg the leading citizens have
formed an association and employed
Colonel Waring to prepare plans to bt
submitted to the city authorities. Trieste
is another unwholesome city which has
also come to Colonel Waring for sys-
tenn of drainage to keep it clean. Tt
carry on all these works Draining Con
struction Company has been organized
with offices in New York, Boston and
| Newport, and with resident agents and
engineers in Paris and Rotterdam, and il
is busy preparing plans for the works al
| ready in hand. It has numerous patents
and these ore now under licenses by al
its customers at fixed rates. Besides the
public works, the company has numeroul
| contracts for sewerage and drainage O
large private estates, such as the BryI
Mawr Hotel. Wayne, Devon, Berkele.
Arms, and other summer resorts anC
building sites, as we'll as many resi-
dences. The actual safety insured by
such preventive measures is not to b.
counted in money, yet the experience o
twelve years in this country shows tina
this system, first proposed in England
forty years ago, is the best one devised
there or here.-Philadelphia Ledger
August 9th.