Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-31
SANITARY ESGINEER1xG.
The Memphis system Accepted
In thi sOunfry and
In Europe.
Philndelphia Puhlio I.adeer. b.

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The success of Colonel Waring'
system of sewerage as tested in Mem
phis has established its advantages on
the score of health and cost. Natur>
ally enough the example thus fur.
nished Of converting noisome town
In malarious district into a cleaner
and comparatively wholesome city
without exceeding the limits of mar
row treasury has been followed in diff
terent parts of the country. Lenox
and Pitts6eldl Mass, Keene, N. H.,
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Kalamazoo, Mich ,
Omaha, Neb, Little Rock, Ark, BirS
mingham, Ala, and Norfolk, Va, have
set to work to adopt the Waring sys-
TEN Of drainage; and General Russell
fhayer, of our city, has prepared a
comprehensive plan of drainage for
Cape May Point, N. j. New Orleans
is moving also in anticipation of
raising the necessary funds to
set its houses and streets in
order. Baltimore, through its
able engineer, Oh Latrobe, has made |
comparison of the cost and merit of
the Waring system, and contemplates
the early construction OF sewerage
works at a cost of $3,000,00O. Brook /
Ign spent nearly $1,000, 900 in the same
task, under the old system supervised
by competent adviser of the old
schcol, and now it finds itself very
badly off. The fashion Of one great
system Of huge sewers to carry off rain
water and sewage, was introduced 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 noisome smells, and
that its great sewers are breeding
disease, while the cost of extends
ng them throughout the city
rightens the French fnanciers.
It is not surprising, therefore, to
ind that the Commission of Ex-
'erts Governed in Paris has determined
n favor of the Waring system
It separate sewers-one for the rain
all, the other for the drainage of the
houses. 1t is to be begun in one of
he latest parts OF Paris, and is to be
,radually extended to the parts of the
ity not yet provided with sewers, the
xtension to be connected finally
through the existing sewers, which ]
will be mere means of ooncealing all
he underground works of the city. I
The discussion of the question was
arried on in Paris for several years, ,
nd only lately the city has adopted i
he conclusions Of its experts, and
'oted the money and ordered the
york to be begun. Rome and Naples
lave adopted the Waring system, and d
is at once to be introduced in the e
lew parts of Rome. At st. Peters
'urg the leading citizens have formed Q
q association and employed Colonel &
Naring to prepare plans to be =
ubmitted to the city aus {
horities. Trieste is another 5
InwholesOme city which has
lso come to Colonel Warning fora sys.
EN- OF drainage to keep it clean. To /
AIRY on all these works a Drainage :
Construction Company has been or 2
anized, with officers in New York
Boston and Newport, and with resi- /
ent agents and engineers in Paris and
rotterdam, and it is busy preparing
lans for the works already in hand
has numerous patents and these are
ow under license by all its customers
t fixed rates. Besides the public
'orks, the company has numerous
ontracts for sewerage and drainage of
.rge private estates, such as the Bryn
lawr Hotel, Wayne, Devon, Berke- |
y Arms, and other summer resorts |
nd building sites, as we'll as many
'sidences. The actual safety insured |
such preventive measures is not to \
counted in money, yet the expe- i
ence of twelve years in this country
lows that this system, first proposed
England forty years ago, is the best |
le devised there or here. |