Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-28
CITY SEWERS.
". rouncil's Attention Called I,
- Their System.
sad sewerage Ccndemned--A
ries for the streets.

.,s sewerage Condemned--A
rles for the streets.
y our city engineers, aided by a
~ II interested citizens, have
"a y a system of sewerage for our
WI The city council having
~ The same, and advertised for
~ for material, construction,
Ne taxpayers can get an idea of
thew are going to get for their
9tbe sewers are to be
on the plan, and
,be material advertised for,
make a good system of "dry
'sru sewerage, but it will prove u
Lshle failure during wet weather.
{sbole thing will turn out like
Fam of water-works adopted by
i'mmittee of "excursionistsu who
sant out two years ago, ut the
w of the city to examine the
works In Illinois and Missouri,
where that cost the city hun
If dollars this will cost thous-
n dollars. Now, would it not
n for the city council to call a
on the sewer question. Gentle
|douit be in toe great haste, you
! agents of the people of Fort
n give them an opportunity Of
ZINC this sewer business. TO
{jnd, the idea of draining almost
Rtire city through an eighteen
/ pipe il preposterous, to say
3east of it a main sewer Of
4 times the capacity of
n adopted by the city council
at the junction of the two
I east of the colored Methodist
h, would be insufficient to con
he drainage from there TO the
h river during May in such rain
as we have here.
Il rain storm we have often
| more water running down
ite drain by the st. Charles Ho-
an could be forced through two
len inch pipes, to say nothing Of
I rains east of the City Hall, and
be south of the gas-works. We
! THAT before our city council en-
hlo q contract with any one to
fuct the "Toy" system, that it
get up an excursion
! the next hard rain to
! Of the old wooden culverts
lin street near the Texas wagon
Then they can see that large
M sewer running full to its ut
and the water often
be- up into Tom James yard and
bie's lumber yard.
b talk of an eighteen inch pipe
Iiuct the drainage of the entire
But the grandest mystery of all
b unenlightened mind is,
use has the city for
1000 feet of four inch pipe, and
loco feet of six inch pipe. There
b timer in this city but what
least four inch pipe to conduct
Entail from the roofs of dwell
bid business houses, and then
Ire often full and running over.
\ this day and time, our city
! proposes to construct sewers OF
bd six inch pipe to drain our
city engineer advertises for Is, 045
sewer pipe. More than half of
tire amount 40, has just the
Ny of an ordinary stove pipe !,
feetwith less than half the carry
)pacity of common stove pipe,
Sg the grand total of 10000 feet OF
pipe sewerage. Citizens of Fort
how do you like the "stove pipe
n as accepted by your city
IL
system of sewerage would be
Tess, and every dollar expended
construction would he just so
money thrown away. In the
of common sense, if we muht
system of underground sewer
u us construct it in workman
hammer, of solid masonry, and
he mains at least four feet in di-
n, and no drain with less than a
y or eighteen inch pipe.
i is not sew ers alone the people
They want good streets and
hlks. Gentlemen, if you wish
by out the wishes of the people,
work and tear out those old
(n culverts on Main and Houston
and replace them with solid
d stone with larger capacity, build
of like material aud capacity
Rusk, Have good substantial
curbing put down on those three
Put in good, solid cutters
pin those streets, then put in
stone backing and thoroughly
Iainize those three streets with
broken stone, not with wooden
compel the property owners to
pwn uniform sidewalks of dressed
on Main and Houston street,
gravel on Rusk; have
Thing put down to grade, and
pwn to stay. Then if you have
money left macadamize First,
"a, Third, Fourth and Fifth
between Rusk and Houston.
go down to Fifteenth street and
lamize il between the Santa Fe
me Texas & Pacific freight
This is what the people
OF you, and anything else
@ contrary to their wishes.
PAT underground sewer business
Nature has made u good one,
'cent better than the one pro-
4 W you--that one is worthless.
fOpe that our people will have the
2eto speak out against such ir-
lency, before this wrong is per-
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