Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-01-05

HADGr CALCULATION.
IA URDAY, JANUARY s, 1854.
The Newly Proposed se " axe Law
The plan by which New Yorl
Company proposes to sewer and drail
our city Of garbage and feculent mat
ter has been outlined in a communi
cation to the City Council published il
yesterdays REPUBLICAN. As We hav,
already said, the plan looks feasible il
the dim outlining of it in the commu
nication published, and unless there il
something in the details not yet fully
set forth we cannot see why the IVES
system" as it is called, should not re
ceive popular endorsement.
The plan proposed is simply this
The National Sewerage and Sewage
Utilization Company, of New York,
proposes, if permitted by the City
Council, TO enter our city and TO lay
tight Theoretically sealed pipes through.
out our city at proper gradients, which
shall carry off all focal matter, as well
as garbage, to different points and de-
post them in tight Dramatically sealed
wells, in which the matter is to be
thoroughly deodorized, when it is then
to be removed and utilized for ferti
LIKING the land. This is all to be done
without any expense to the city as a
municipal government, and conse
quently will be free from the entailment
of additional tax burthens. All the
company asks of the city is its fran.
chise or the privilege of putting the
new system into operation. OF course
the citizens will be subjected to the
Inconvenience arising from the laying
Of pipes, which can last but short
time inconveniences which they would
no doubt gladly put up with for the
sake Of securing permanent and per.
feet release from the objections to the
present imperfect system, or rather no
system at all.
The cost of maintaining this new
sys EN- is something to be looked at. |
How is it to maintain itself? Simply
as 1t proposes, by yearly rental by all |
who use the pipes. This yearly rental
is represented to be less than the cost
OF any other system. What is now
paid, probably less, not more, by
property owners to odorless excayators
will be paid to this company Thi,
will effectually do away with the I'm.
eighty numbering excavators, which
perambu our streets and which are
at all times in themselves a nuisapre
AS the pipes are to be hermetica,ly
sealed there can be no escape of noxious
or gaseous odors upon the streets, and
as they are to be laid at proper gradients
the 1ecu!ent matter will Immediately
be carried of into the deep hermeti
cally sealed reservoirs, where it imm.
diately undergoes deodorization and is Il
made ready for immediate conversion
into phosphates. The latter of course
Will be one of the financial perquisites
to reimburse the company, and the I
more the profits are from this source
the cheaper will be the proposed system
to the individual property owners
The introduction of this system, pro. +
yided it works rs well az promi,ed Z
Will settle the vexatious health uues- 3
tion As all fetid and noxious subs;ar- Il
ces vii be Immediately carried. off, p
without bling permit ed to lay in sew. !;
age wells and to permeate and gradual c.
~ poison the earth. In fact feculeut mat #
ter will not be permitted to touch the G.
earth until after il is by a chemical A
process despOilcd of its poisoning DOW. p
er. II,
Saving as this plan may be to our p
city and citizens in the direct outlay Of sa
money, the greatest advantage and b
saving will be in the Increased health il
OF the city In a sanitary Point of fc
view it becomes human..a ian in its u
Objects and purposes. The health or a is
CITY Is OF the first Importance, and if C;
Ihe newly proposed sewerage system III
would result in lessening he death.rate h
which now is not high it will be Ct A
more consequence than tie expendi- pr
lure Of little more money even snp- p
posing that the plan should be attend IL
ID with increased expense. A direct h.
'aving of some. five or six thousand he
iollars annually now paid for the IT, ca
no7al of garbage would result to III. ri,
city and consequent tightening Of I'll. III
Of taxations. u,
We are not informed that the system a.,
has been put in operation to any great ri,
'xtent yet, but We infer that it has II II @,
We are told, however, thai it is being he
Introduced into Atlantic City, New Jer. 81,
ey, and the patentees are conf. mr.
lent that when it is completed /" that m,
ity will enjoy the best sewer system in ri,
he world, and will be wholly free from 9,
ii troubles on the score of disposing of us
is sewage" n
The plan is now before the CITY n,
'ouncil, merely by communication 80,
rom the company, and its importance i,s
as been recognized by referring it to tn
be Street Committee. In,
CHI an Important ma ter deserves tb
areful consideration We do NOT ~
pprehend an immediate acceptation vi
! the plan, nor indeed have We anv III
eason for expecting its acceptance on
all only as the good seuse of the City 80
may dictate after mature de T.,
Iteration. 1t is proposition that lin
hould not be accepted hastily, nor in
hould it be unnecessarily delayed. As m,
be plan is TO cost tie city nothing it sis
eed not enter into the calculations for he.
and taxes for the wear A,
scept so far as it would 90 away with
10 appropriation for the removal of ,