Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1893-10-07
HEALTH FROM REFUSE.
Singular, Industry of the Great
 City of Paris.
|.ad Animals Ffshed fvom the Rivers @na Sewers Treated with Chemicals and Converted Into Useful Articles
 of Commerce.

ma Sewers Treated with Chemicals
 and Converted Into Useful Articles
 of Commerce.
 The following account is given by |harles Gaston, who has for years cen connected with the famous firm souffrice ct Cie, who have been win |sno wealth from the sewers of Paris, svs the San Francisco Examiner. NIT. Gaston has not come to San rancisco with the idea of suggesting |he adoption of the Paris system in |onnection with the sewers here, but, s an expert in his line, he has diseev- red fp Q day that San Francisco's .sys- sm of sewerage is et least several de- rees short of the parisian ideal.
 .sIshe work done by the Maison souf- |sice in Paris, said Mir. Gaston, ''could |at be carried on so well in San Fran l isco Or in Chicago as in New York, or hiladelphia or Washington. It needs stream. and Paris has the advantage
 f fhe Seine, where there is no tide. With fhe help of the Seine NM. Souf- |.ice have made an immense fortune, nd fhev have won 1t all from the waste |f a great city. All the sewers Of Paris, ou must know, center in one great |bwers which empties into the Seine Inst below the bridge of Asnieres. All |Iae rnfuse, the greasy and dirty water, ae mclean waste of the shops and
 reefs. pass into this and out upon the
 yer again in one form or another, Ind it is from this we reap our har-
 stt
 Mir aaston said the firm had never .sked a sou for scavenging the city and .lund themselves fully repaid by hat they collected in the streets l Id in the waters of the Seine. The
 under of the firm, as early as 1886, gan the study of how all waste ma rial might be utilized. He afterward sociated bis sons and then his grand
 ms with him, and early in the eos E Icy took the job of keeping Paris can. They built a big factory at 5srget and had the chiffoniers bring ere the rags and refuse of the city
 Id they turned it into gold. |ugThe next step was the development a speciality in the utilization of the l. aste of the butcher shops and sham les This was all boiled in great vats |l q the scum was made into oil and ndles and other merchantable conn 1dities. One set of men collected the ks and waste that engineers and ma intsts used around the factories and schtne shops. The grease was ex. l. tied from these and purified, the rags D Ire sorted, the woolen stuff reduced |l powder for fertilization purposes, |s ia the cotton turned into paper stock. . Gaston's personal superintendence
 len at Paris, has been directly in con-
 ction with the collection of things md footing on the water. The firm tDermission to construct short piers into the Seine below the point
 ere the great sewer empties, and on
 .se men stand with huge forks or ,,ons, lifting out everything that ats along It is all carted to Bour. and boiled and squeezed and sorted
 e grease is treated with lime, and is nsformed into soap and glycerine E 9 wood, hay, stubble, corks and pa. when dry, are used to feed the
 ,Atory furnace.
 You would probably be surprised, Ii Mir. Gaston, ito know how many Aknals are picked up in the Seine i1 course of year. can give you figures that will astonish you II can assure you they are less thar actual records. l have knowr e than eight thousand dogs to be ed out of the Seine in & single year res, sheep, goats and pigs come odl9 every day or two. Scarcely g 1, passes without goose, or duck lcbicken being found, and rats art plentiful.
 Next to the dogs, however, come Y rabbits. The poor people of Pari!
 R have dogs, and most of them raise bits in a back yard or on the roof latter breed so fast that many 0. -w.ln are thrown into the sewer, and n they are part of the fish that he to the Souffrice net. Cats come AEer the same category. All these lies are treated with chemicals, anc
 different parts are utilized to the |L f Advantage.
 n Incidental industry developed il Is connection was referred to by Mir |elliton as asticots. The eggs of the IS riads of flies that congregate or ayed matter at the Bourget factory |-duce. so many grubs that it wal l nd possible to supply them as bail Y the entire fishing contingent 0: E lis, and it is not unusual for the firm sell five thousand dollars worth O. se grubs during a single fishing | son.
 l < lRThose connected with the Souffrict ablshment are often told, /" said he conclusion, s'that the original idea the great business was suggested Victor Hugo's remark in Les Mis- gsbles' that Paris throws into the
 ter every year twenty-five million ncs.' 3
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