The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-28
NOW FOR SEWERAGE.
Arrival Of Col. Waring, the
Sanitary Engineer.
Same Facts Concerning His Noted
Work in the Science of
Draining Cities

Col. Geo. z. Waring, Jr., the sani-
tary engineering expert who has been
called to advise with the city authori-
lies relative 10 the establishment Of
complete system OF sewerage, arrived
here yesterday morning and Is regis
tered at the Occidental. He was called
upon at his room last night by Posr-
IgrELLrGEscER man, who stated TO
him that his coming had been patiently
waited by the people Of Seattle, and
that as 80 much benefit was
expected to be derived from
the system which he would recon-
mend, they were naturally anxious
to learn more OF those great sanitary
projects which. it was said, he had
contaminated in the past.
Colonel Waring has been a sanitary
engineer all his life. and has paid
special attention to drainage mat
ters since 1854 From 1857 until the
rebellion broke out he was the drainage
engineer of Central Park. New York.
After the war be constructed the
plans for the sewerage system OF
Ogdensburg, n. Y. About 1876 he
superintendent the sewerage construc-
ton for the city OF Lenox, Mass. Here
the experiment OF a sewer-p;pe six
inches In diameter was tried for the
first time and proved success. In
1879, at the expiration OF the great
yellow fever epidemic in the South, he
recommended the same system of
sewerage for Memphis, Tenn. and
after great deal of opposition II
was adopted. In 1880 the con-
struction OF about Is miles OF sewers
was finished, about 80 per cent OF
them being pines six inches in diam
eter Since then the mileage OF sew
ers has a great deal more than doubled.
He applied the same system TO the
city OF San Diego, Cal, in 1887 There
are now 300 miles Of the same system
in operation in this country. In 1852
he also built the great trunk sewer at
Buffalo, n Y, four miles long and eight
feet in diameter, at cost OF over
81 10000.
Being questioned as to details OF his
system and what he would propose
for Seattle, Col. Waring said: II do
not always adopt the same method
OF procedure in different places.
Warnings system as Is known, has
for It's main feature pipes not neces-
sarily OF any stated size, but it is n
system whose object is the exclusion
OF all surface water. and which are
kept clear by the intermittent action
OF automatic flushing. So far as Seat
Gle is concerned, have not rs vet the
faintest idea as TO what course ] shall
pursue. The conditions must be stad-
led and the recommendation made to
suit them"
Col Waring is aged about IS, and Is
tall soldierly-looking, with short gray
hair, neatly waxed mustache, and
fiorid complexion. His cards an
nouuce him to be an hon
orary member OF the Royal
Institute of Engineers. OF Hol-
land. member OF the Institution of
Civil Engineers OF England, Fellow of
the Sanitary Institute of Great
Britain and corresponding member OF
the American Institute OF Architects.
He was colonel Of the Fourth Mis-
souri, cavalry during the war. His
residence since the rebellion has been
at Newport, II. |.
Colonel Waring will to-day go over
the city with local officials for the pur-
pose OF examining the contour of the
ground and the conditions Of the work
to be done.