The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-09-05
NEW SANITARY ENGINEERING.

Philadelphia Ledger.
The success of Col. Warnings system of
sewerage as tested in Memphis has estab.
lished its advantages on the score of
health and cost. Naturally enough the
example thus furnished of converting q
noisome town in a malarious district into
a clean and comparatively wholesome
city without exceeding the limits of
narrow treasury has been followed in diff.
ferent parts of the country. Lenox and
Pttsfield, Mass. Keene, N. H., Wilkes
barre, Pa, Kalamazoo, Mich, Omaha,
Neb., Little Rock, Ark, Birmingham,
Ala, and Norfold, Va, have set to work
to adopt the Warning system of drainage
and General Russell Thayer, of our city,
has prepared 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 its streets in order. Balt'-
more, through its able engineer, c. II.
Latrobe, has made comparison of the
cost and merit of the Warning system, aud
contempates the early construction of
sewerage works at cost of three millions
of dollars. Brooklyn spent nearly eight
millions of dollars in the same task, un-
der the old system, supervised by conf
petent adviser of the old school, aud now
it finds itself very badly Off. The fashion
of one great system of huge sewers to
carry off rain-water and sewage, was in
troduced 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,
whilc the cost of extending them through
out the city frightens the French fnan-
cers. 1t is not surprising, therefore, to
find that the Commission of Experts CON
vened in Paris has determined in favor of
the Waring system of separate sewers
one for rain fall, the other for the drain
age of the houses. 1t is to be begun in
one of the --LATEST parts of Paris and is to
be gradually extended to the parts of the
city not yet provided with sewers, the ex
tensions to be connected finally through
the existing sewers, which will be mere
means of concealing all the underground
| works of the city The discussion of the
question was carried on In Paris for sew
eral years, and only lately the city has
adopted the conclusions Of its experts,
and voted the money and ordered the
work to be begun. Rome and Naples
have adopted the Waring system, and it
is at once to BIO introduced in the new
parts of Rome. At st. Petersburg the
leading citizens have formed an associa-
ton and employed Col. Warning to pre-
pare plans to be submitted to the city
authorities. Trieste is another unwhole-
some city which has also come to Col
Waring for system of drainage to keep
it clean. To carry on all these works u
Drainage Construction Company has been
organized, with offices in New York.
Boston and Newport, and with resident
agents and engineers in Paris and Rotter-
dam, and it is busy preparing plans for
the works already in hand 1t has nu-
merous patents and these are now under
licenses by all its customers at fixed rates.
Besides the public works, the company
has numerous contracts for sewerage and
drainage of large private estates, such as
the Bryn Hotel, Wayne, Devon, Berke-
ley Arms, and other Summer resorts and
building sites, as we'll as many residences.
The actual safety insured by such pre-
tentative measures is not to be counted
in money, yet the experience of twelve
years in this country shows that this sys-
tenn, first proposed in England forty years
ago Is the best one devised there or here.