El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-20
Purifying Water.
t. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.

81. Louis GlODe-DemOcrat
The problem of Gle ar filtered water
is in fair way to be solved so far as its
4daptability to municipal water works
is concerned. The water works officials
here have been sorelv taxed for q long
ime past to find al effective and not
costly system of filtration to be used in
Connection with the city's water works
ny which would be assured a supply of
clean and clear water to bOusehOlders
aud other consumers. Last fall Water
Commissioner Holman visited Europe
speeding the filteripg plants of tho
leading cities of the European CONT
nent. He was much taken with the
Fischer system, and so expressed him
self. Persons interested in inaugural
ng the rmost scientific method
of purified water, from q business
standpoint as we'll as for sanitary con-
sideratiOns. followed suit. The result
IF the latter was made manifest when
At the Office of recorder of deeds yes
terday articles of incorporation of the
Wormser Filter Plate company, of ST.
Louis, were filed.
company will operate is adapted to
municipal W alter work plants and also
for manufacturing and dome house
mold purposes. The system is in use
in the leading cities of Germany and
Austria, under governmental super
vision. In Germany eighty cities are
using the Fischer system, q sand fl
trait, N. with the greatest of success.
The idea of the system. as culled
covers these points: The germ or fun
dsmental idea, upon which the Fischer
system is has ID, is the fact that clean,
harp sand, when mixed in due pro-
PORTION with finely pulveriz ID glass,
which may be derived ON the waste
of glass works, old bottles, etc., forms
a porous mass, which, by baking under
high temperature, may be gsrdeued
in aoy desired form. This porous GEM
ent is nodded into porous pl .tes about
40 inches square and Inc hes thick k.
These plates, in filterin9 plant, are
set upright in groups 90 batter es of
any number according to the size of
the plant, and are arranged along the
lower port1On OF one or more tanks of
hydraulic masonry. where they can be
covered TO depth of 6 or feet with
the water to be filtered. The water,
by it's own pressure, Is then Fore
through the porous walls of the plate
into the interior hollow space, where
through pipes, laid at the bottom of
the tank, to the reservoir which re-
ceives the filtered water. There is an
economy of SPACE and tubing by setting
two tiers of these sand plates, one
above the other.
In the m after OF labor saving and ex-
p >nse, desired results are obtained BY
simply reversing the uorrent of water,
|. e., turning to backward through the
into the hollow plates,
IT perlocates through the po-
rous walls into the tank, dislodgipg the
dirt that has collected on the outer
surface. Fuller details as to the ope-
ration of these sand pla es can be ex-
planned only in technically
scientific way, showing the results OBJ |
,ained.
The newly organized concern. it
seems, will exploit It's system of f1ltra. |
ion wi h the objsct of demonstrating
ts value, not only to municipalities |
put also to large and SIN I'll consumers |
If wster. The Wormssr company is |
having a test plant erected for. q thor
'ugh demonstration of the Fischer
'ystem