Wichita eagle., 1888-08-16
THE CITY ENGINEER ON SEWERAGE.
To the Editor Of the EAGLE.


In order to correct some erroneous state
ments in your issue of this morning permit
me TO state few facts.
The Pacific Sewerage Co., West Sewerage
Co., Pumping Sewerage CO., or whatever
they may style themselves, have never as
vet submitted any plans for sewerlng the
city; nothing but written statement or
what they would do; nothing whatever by
| which the feasibility Of their proposition
may be judged
The slightest reflection of any candid
person viii suffice that such propositions
are not worthy Of consideration.
This same company issue pampnie1
claiming TO have put IN the sewerage sys-
TEN at Pullman, H.. and ii has also been
stated they put IN their system in Boston,
both OF which are the barest sort Of false
hoods OF which | have the documents to
prove. People who make such stupenduous
misrepresentation as these are certainly
not worthy OF being looked upon with the
least sort of favor or credence.
Now they claim they can put in a system
having seven feet fall per nile and also
state the system which | advocate has
only four feet TO the mile, which II they
know anything about it at all, they are
calculating TO mislead the public, as Il has
been announced number Of times there
VIII be one foot fall IN each one thousand
feet or five and one quarter feet per mile
Ia he mains, which comprises about one
fourth Of the whole system, and IN the
IateraIs or three-fCurthS Of my system the
fall will exceed tweuty-one feet per mile
and which | trust will be sufficient TO suit
any croaker.
The so-caIled Pacific West pumping sys-
TEN claims only to carry the sewerage by
gravity from the district 70 a cistern or
stump centrally located therein and then
pump il out of this cisJern into the
river 1t Uses no water 20 flush the
mains TO keep them sweet and clean.
They DO not draw or suck the sewerage
through their pipes with their pumps; it
goes through simply by gravity, their
pamphlet says so and the public are mis-
led If they think otherwise
Your morning issue says neither system
calculates TO take any storm water but
let me state that our system will haYe
nineteen storm water lnletS.
The Topeka avenue sewer put in under
my supervision appears to work well, has
good flow and is free from deposit,
although many pred cted it would not be
a success. Also when the first Of the
Portland cement cutters were constructed
the cry of failure was frequent, but
thought | knew what l was doing then,
and think so now.
The system a. here proposed, with the
mains well flushed, II faithfully carried
out. will give us one Of the very best sew
cred cities in the United States.
.. NULyEy, City Engineer.
August -, 1885.
Mr.. Mulvey is evidently little too en-
phatic in some OF his statements. He must
not forget that the workings Of his plan
are not guaranteed by anybody. As for
his criticism that the West company have
never submitted plan or feasible prop
osition we call his attention TO the fact
that they agree to sewer according to the
survey Of Rosewater & Cristie, to give
seven-foOt fall and TO guarantee the salts
factory working of the same for, in fact, a
greater number of miles than are cOntem-
plated by the Mulvey survey, for ten
years. and forty or fifty thousand dollars
less money, and that they propose to give
a bond which shall be satisfactory, TO be
approved by two of our biggest banks.
And now further, the EAGLE has no
other interest in this matter than that Of
the best interest of the city, and no power
can convince the people of this city to the
contrary. The city council SO summarily
disposed of the West proposition that we
thought it due to the taxpayers that an
unparalleled and unbiased statement of
the two schemes be made TO our people,
the ten year guaranty being in our estima-
t4OA VI ILOLc LII pOEldA4CC LAetA even VIC
proposed saving of S50,0 600, which indeed IS
no small matter. Personally we know
nothing about the Pacific system" and
never met a singS D. man of the company, |
but we do know what ten years guar
anty of satisfactory work means when
backed by a good and sufficient bond, /
know it even in the absence of any plans, I
dimensions of pipes or amount of fall, for
satisfactory work thus guaranteed means
everything. - Editor EAGLE.