Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-03
THE ODD FELLOWS.
Preparation Under Way for the
September Enca mpment.

September Euca I'M pment.
In little over month visitors to the
National Encampment of the Sovereign
Lodge OF Odd Fellows will commence to
arrive in. large number in this city and
every day brings to the hands of the
Committee ON Arrangements requests to
secure them rooms. According to the
letters already received about one-half
OF those who come here will stay from
one to three months, and these with the
regular tourist travel will probably make
matters pretty lively here during the
fall and winter. The Committee of
Arrangements has secured Armorv.
Turnverein, Odd Fellows and other halls
and had engaged the Pavilion but a
mistake as to the date gave that
building to theatrical company. Efforts
are being made to induce this company
to change its date, as it is essential that
the Pavilion shall be added to the list of
halls. 1t is to be used for a pomological
exhibit, which it is expected and intend
ed will be the best ever made here.
1t is the intention to take the visiting
Odd Fellows to the various points of in
terest in the county, and while no exact
programme has as yet been arranged it is
probable that Pasadena, Santa Monica
Long Beach and Monrovia will be Wis
tied, and other places have been men,
toned but no decision has been reached.
The committee has received invitations
from a large number of towns to take
the visitors there.
One division of the visitors from the
East will start from Kansas CITY on the
10th of September and will arrive al
Topeka in time for dinner This division
will remain in Topeka until midnight
when it will move on to Wichita, where
breakfast will be served, and they will
be entertained until O'Clock p. NJ. On
the following morning the travellers will
breakfast at Fort Dodge and dinner will
be served at Ration. From this place q
side trip to Las Vegas will be made, and
| banquet and ball has been arranged a,
this resort. On Thursday Santa Fe will
| be visited. On Friday breakfast will be
served at Winslow and supper at Will
| liams, and on Saturday dinner will be
served at Peach Springs. The delegation
will reach Los Angeles on Sunday, Sep
tember 10th, and will be accompanied b,
Grand Sire White. Deputy Grand Sire
Underwood and Grand Secretary Ross
The Brick Sewer.
EDITORS HERALD-In Monday morn
ing's HERALD appeared letter from
Hydraulic Engineer" on the subject o
the outfall sewer for this city, in which
the writer deprecates the use of bricks il
building the sewer. He cites Trautwine
Rankine and Latham as saying that tn,
velocity of the water running through
brick sewer should not exceed five fee
per second. And he goes on to say:
81 would remind the readers of thi
letter that the bricks referred to by tn,
authorities quoted are good, sound, well
burnt bricks. 1t is we'll known tina
bricks suitable for sewer construction, es
pecially in sewers having high velocity
are not manufactured in Los Angeles
and its vicinity. We must accept facts
and the facts are, that good brick fol
sewer construction are not manufactured
here and that with good bricks the
maximum velocity allowed in a sewer
according to the recognized authorities
is five feet per second. In the face of al
this we have design for the outfal
sewer OF this city submitted for adoption
said sewer to have velocity of six an(
six-tenths feet per second and to be bull
OF the soft, porous brick OF Los Angeles. ,
Now, it was never intended to build the
sewer of "the soft porous brick of Lol
Angeles" None but bricks hard burned
specially for this purpose could or would
be used. Trautwine and the other auth.
4 critics cited above referred to the ordin.
| ary building brick. But negotiations had
been opened with NJ. d. Freeman for the
building of Boehncke patent continu-
ous kiln, wherein bricks can be burned
to uniform hardness, and to any hard.
ness requir red. Half way between Los
Angeles and Santa Monica there is a
large bed of very superior clay, and Il
was proposed to build one OF these con-
tinpous kilns there, and burn the brick
for the city sewer. Bricks specially
burned under this process could resist
the abrasion of the debris in a sewer
when the velocity of the water would be
six or seven feet per second. A good
brick sewer is the best and cheapest to
build, and if the bricks are hard burned
the sewer would last for a century. The
La Ballona outlet is the best and most
practi cable, and it is to be hoped that
nothing will be done to prevent the
building Of the sewer.
TAXPAYER.