The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-23
SYRACUSE CONVENTION ENDS.
MAYOR MAGUIRE's REFERENCE TO
CHARLESTON.

believes the Meeting There Next
Year VIII Add weight to the Pa
triotic Loyalty to the stars and
.tripeS-Drainnge and Sewerage
Problems Discussed President
Regretted Leagues Opponents
We're Not There.
Syracuse, n. Y, Sept. 22.-The third an
nual convention of the League of Ameri-
can municipalities finished its work ana
adjourned to-day.
The programme of the convention was
not fully carried out owing 10 the unusual
eusth Of the paper on municipal owner
ship questions and other topics listed for
discussion.
Mayor Mcguire of Syracuse made a fare
well speech in which he referred 10 the Sc
lection of Charleston for the next conven-
ton as being most appropriate. lie said
that the meeting of the young West with
the representatives. of the Old South at the
dawn of the new century would
add weight to the ring of pa
trotc loyalty that was forged
NEW around the Stars and Stripes by the
North. south, East and West in the late
war
Prof Edward W. Bemis Of the bureau of
economic research of New York, conclud-
ed his address of yesterday of municipal
ownership.
G. Everett Hill, New York city, of the
staff Of the late Col. George E. Waring,
discussed sewerage disposal problems,
dwelling on the technical and scientific
aspects of the question arriving at the
conclusion that in spite of the completely
Of the problems to be solved and the he
uildcriug variety Of the schemes offered as
solutions, it was clearly established that
any community could purify all its waste
upou its own premises without offense az
reasonable cost, and can put itself in an
massallable position as far as its sanitary
ohlsa ions to other communities were con-
oeuod lie pointed out the methods of
broad irrigation Intermittent downward Ill
terra ion, and the disseptic tank explaining
the conditions under which each work IA
}orabIy.
Drainage, Sewerage and Water supply
was the subject of Mayor William 9.
Flower of New Orleans. lie believed every
one familiar with the salient features Of
the subject and its importance i'm modern
municipal government. He confined him
self largely 10 the conditions at New or
Ians Pleading the peculiar conditions IN
the practice proposed in using the Missis-
sIpp river as an outfan for the sewage Of
New Orleans There was no soil fit for
filter beds or irrigatng farms within thir-
l} miles on the other side Of Lake Pontch-
attran The discharge of the river at It's
lowest stages never fell below 100000 cubic
i'et per second thus giving a degree OF
'l1uon far beyond that ever held as nee
-sary by any sanitary authority. More
over, below the city there were no thick
%-setued communities using the river
water therefore, he argued, that local con
%.aons designated the river AS the proper
Ita'e Tor the sewage disposal.
4' was intended TO complete the whole
"3nage, sewerage and new filter water
aht at New Orleans within five years.
Hen yellow fever and other epidemic dis
ses viii be forever banished from New
V'leans, IL is believed, and there will be
Op.Hed an era of progress and CONNER
S'ai prosperity such as the city has never
Yet dreamed of.
oe discussions aud papers on The con
U'ol system We're laid over until the mex
Invention, and a paper on constitutional
mutations of municipal Indebtedness in
canon TO public Improvements, by c.
coke of the University of Illinois, was
@ derad filed
In c'osiug the exercises President Black
<'Il he regretted that the opponents and
FUrs of The league did not attend the
'@.ons as he felt sure they would be
IMPRESSED with two facts:
HSi that the municipal officers of
~" great commonwealth are in the main
ouy OF honest, intelligent and cOmpe-
TO- officials, earnestly striving 10 find
'."e pathway leading out Of the chaos
'.'o,ihpassing the government of the cities
second, that the difficulties against
',h ms struggle Is made are no nearly
iH"ch the results of dishonesty, IncOm-.
'1hcN or neglect Of the officials as they
IN me system Of government applied
~" CUES and for which the people
-l-neeINes are crnaiIN r.ar,nn.illa y