The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-25
TODRAIN THE CITY
DR.. L. A. FALLIGANT'S LECTURE
AT MASONIC HALL.


What is Claimed for 1.-THE nlustra-
tions.
Notwithstanding the drilling rain that
set in about : O'Clock last evening and con
tinued during the night, an audience large
in numbers and easily recognized as repre-
Sentmg the intelligence and wealth Of the
city, greeted DIR. Falligant as he appeared
at Masonic Hall to lecture upon his i'm
proved system Of house drainage
Promptly at o'clock the Doctor APP
peared or the stage and addressed his hear
ers as follows:
The problem of cleanliness, which the
Great Father of the universe dec ares Is next
| unto Goodness, is one upon the solution OF
which depends almost entirely the prosperity
Of community and the lives of its lnhabl-
tantS. The fourScore or more years OF lie
! allotted to man Is too often cut short by
preventable disease growing out of mans IN
difference TO his sanitary surroundings
Month after month, as the years roll by the
funeral procession sounds "a refrain OF alarm
rs it bears our loved ones to premature
graves, but man, in his official capacity, has
| more worldly work on hand than the saw
ing of human life. Dollars, which
are only valuable as the instruments with
most precious of all created beings-the
human being-are made the sole object of
existence, whilst the precious image of God
is neglected as of comparatively trivial i'm
portance And inevitably we suffer the
punishments for our negligence-in the
family, where the negligence is individual,
and by epidemic disease, where the negl-
gence is official aud general.
THE CITY's EARLY DRAINAGE.
"In the earlier years of the present cen
fury this city was surrounded by stagna-
tiols, and not only was it regarded as an
unsafe place to stay in during the warm
season, but epidenics of yellow fever were
not infrequent visitors. In 1854, and again
in 1876, two seasons of epidemic devasta-
ton, the local conditions were dreadful
! owing entirely to official negligence and
gross ignorance Indeed, the physician who
gave warning Of rapidly approaching dan
gers was bounded by these wise-acres as a
! crank and published as Il public meddler
had a little such experience myse& in 1876
but the epidemic came, as | and others had
predicted
"A few years have rolled by since our
streets were thus lined with funeral process
sious and our hearths and hearts made des-
| olate by the devastatiOns of the gaunt
reaper, and already we can hardly get a
hearing for the great cause of how best to
needed sanitary work. And ] therefore
come before the community to point out, as
far as lies in my power. one of the greatest
means Of securing your lives and prosperity
| against future consequences of public Sani-
tary negligence.
MEMPHIS REFORMATION.
"Those of you who knew Memphis prior
TO her great sanitary reformation through
improved drainage, and who are familiar
| with that filthy outlet of our Savannah
sewers known as the Bilbo canal, Will have
| no difficulty in tracing our analogy be-
tween this canal and the old Bayou Gayoso
OF our Western sister After my inspection
of Memphis in De. emher, 1873, Immediately
! following the great epidemic of that year
on the Mississippi was so impressed with
the similarity of local conditions with those
Of Savannah in 1876, that | warned dis
tingushed citizen Of Memphis OF tn danger
of another epidemic in 1879, unless
| these conditions were remedied. They
were not remedied, and another epidemic
devastated her homes in 1879. After this
time that community came to its senses and
went to work cleaning up. The grand re-
| suits of that good work you are familiar
with. Let us take a lesson from our
rejuyenated sister and go to work in good
earnest to ward off epidemics for the future,
as we'll as shield our lives from the individual
dangers that lie within our borders
THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Immediately following these remarks, the
doctor began the real work of his illustrated
lecture. Beginning with the house drain,
thence taking up the central lane system of
! house drains, he illustrated by surface and
sewer gTadefalls the perfection of his sys-
tenn of lane sewers, as well as the remark
able economy connected with their con
struction On this point he illustrated how
n property-owner ought to accomplish with
s. 80 what it had taken another property
owner $500 to accomplish.
The Bay lane problem was easily solved
| by a suggestion of one drain from West
! Broad to Barnard street and thence to the
| river by the market drain, with short con-
nection from Whitaker to Barnard, and an
upper level from Whitaker to East Broad
. or feet below the surface. The Alice or
! Minis and jefferson street hollow, several
times referred to 10y Mr.. George E. Warning,
Jr., i'll the MORNING News, was as per
! fecty solved by a lateral on jefferson
| street, from Taylor to Hall, where the Doc
tor proposes to put deep central - or 20
! inch main as a receiving main for north and
south laterals on jefferson, Tattnall, Bar
nard, Howard, DTayton and Goodwin
streets, draining nearly all that portion of
the city between West Broad and Abercorn,
and between Taylor or Wayne and VALID
burg streets. The interesting feature of
this plan is that excellent gradefals are OBJ
tainable for every line of the Doctors pro
| posed house drains
DIR. FALLIGANT CoMPLIMENTED.
The practical solution of the interesting
problem was SO complete that at the close
| of the Doctors remarks and Illustrations
several we'll educated London civil engi-
| neers walked up to the stage and extended
| him their hearty congratulations. Among
! the interesting features of the evening was
an illustration by Mr.. Glow, Civil Engineer,
! of London, Eng of a maEhole and the
method of examining and ventilating sew
ers The Doctor was well Complimented
| by the unanimity with which the audi
| ence sat out the entire lecture
The Devil Fish Described by Hugo
Is not more tenacious monster than malaria
whether it takes the form of chlllS and fever
bilious rentteut ague cake or dumb aa1le
Like the octopus of the story it clasps the vie
tim in IFS tentacutp, and folds him closer and
closer in "a horrible embrace. Attacked with
Hostetters stomach Btters, however it grad
ually relaXes its tremendous grip. finally aban
donS IL. and the QuOndam sufferer. liberated al
last, reloiceS in the sense of new born freedom
engendered by the restoration of complete
| health. Dyspepsia too and cons tipatiou. those
old and rcmOrSeleSs enemies of the human
family, give ground. aud are finally driven from
the field by this Napoleon OF remedies, the