El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-29
of dollars now expended in repairs will

of dollars now expended in repairs will
| be saved.
TIE sanitary plumber is public
be nefactor. Let the people demand
| fixtures be selected with care, havip g
in mind that the cheapest is not the
best. Let plumbing fixtures be intel
ligently cared for, and health risks
will be greatly reduced.
The argument is used that it will
cost too much and bear heavily upon
the poor. AS rule the poor rent their
homes and the cost of plumbing does
not fall upon them. The poor man
can no better afford to lose his wife or
child than the rich by reason of de-
fective plumbing. but it is he who suf=
f. rs the greastest danger. Tenement
houses are more cheaply fitted than
those of the prosperous, and it ia more
often the poor mau who pays the pen
atty OF Incompetent plum bing more
than the rich.
The master plumber of the United
States, Canada, England and Australia
favor laws that require an inspection
and issuance of a certificate to protect
cheap and defective plumbing.
Sanitary plumbing means health,
progress and developments; defective
plumbing means disease, doctors bills.
funerals and expense of unnecessary
plum Olng repairs.
Scien tific experts assert that more
mounds cover the victims of sewer gas
than are chargeable TO all the open at
mospheric epidemics com bined. No
question can be raised to the PROPOSE
lion that the health of city is more
leopard zed by underground sewers i'm
properly trapped and houses improper
ly trapped than by the old system of
overground drainage. The old system
is impossible in large cities. Sanitary
science says the underground sewer is
the safest means Of disposal in thickly
populated districts.
Medical science has discovered the
fact that the sewers generate an odor-
less gas that is very deadly. This gas
of course is all the more dangerous b.
cause it's pre- sence is not detected It
bears in its wake a long list of deadly
diseases the cause of which is never
known.
Sewers are necessity, and when
their relation to the house is properly
regulated, there is no greater fac or in
the health of the community, but when
NJ elected, there is Nc more greater
menace to the public welfare. The
Vi ohy OuiloAhS 10 Su ely bhC
most important part, and should be
done under direct contract and the
master plum Der held responsible.
The plumber who is capable of
carrying out the latest sanitary i'm
provements of today in thoroughly
Intelligent manner is no longer the
ordinary mechanic, but a scientific
man. American plum bling is a profess
sion as we'll as trade, and l call i'll
professional trade. The capable and
reliable plumber of today must be
natural mechanic and he must be an
industrious man. The man who under
takes to do work which he does not
thoroughly understand, no matter
what line it may be in, is dangerous
man, and l know of no trade or even
profession where there can be more
harm and damage done through ignor-
ance than in the construction of
plumbing fixtures in buildings. It is
only the in elligent plumber who can
realize why it is so important to carry
out his work in the most perfect man
ner. He knows that the very lives of
those who live in the house where he
puts up his work depends upon how it
is done; therefore, such mau to
sligh hit piece of plumbing work in a
house would be willful criminal and
consequently the Intelligent plum Der
would naturally be more careful in
order to protect himself against
damages, while the uninte' gent
ignorance, not only endangering the
lives of hundreds of persons, but en-
daugering his OVID life and making
himself liable for damages that he
might never be able to settle. These
are very important matters that
should be cons dered by both the
architect and the owners of houses
It is not only the fault Of the plumber
that his WORK is poorly done, but often
the fault of those who hire him. Some
times they know as little of the i'm
pOrtance of the work as he does, and
sometimes their object is to save few
dollars; but poor work in the
plum bling line soon shows, and in the
place of it being cheap, it is always the
most expensive. A man in the plumb b.
ing business and who works practically
at the trade, or who must superiutend
the work, cannot be too intelligent:
and again, he should be conscientious
person with respectability, so that the
people for whom he works could place
confidence in him with good reason for
doing so, and feel safe in trusting their
lives to his care. The plum Der who
realizes the great Importance and
respor sibility which he has in his
every day practice could not make
many m stakes. The great danger Of
getting bad plum bing work comes from
the plumber who has not sufficient in
telligence to know his great response
bilities. There is perhaps no trade or
class of mechanics who get so many
uncomplimentary and unfair criticisms
as the plumber: and again, there is
scarcely any person who pays plum b.
ers bill, no matter how small it may
be. without finding fault, really con-
sidering that they are robbed out of
the full amount OF the bill. We never