The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-03

with the sand filters which We're installed,
We're series of mechanical filters which
We're operated for year and a half, and
the tables that are published in that re-
port snow the relative merits of the two
| methods of procedure. The whole matter
is open TO the inspection of the critic, so
that he who runs may read.
MECHANICAL SYSTEM CRITICISED.
While it is true that by the so-called
mechanical methods water may be clari-
fled ami very large percentage of the
! morbific germs removed. nevertheless the
results were not as good as We're obtained
by sand filtration. and the amount of care
that was required to operate the mechan-
ical filters so as to prevent them from do
ing bad work was such as not TO commend
them in our judgment to the citizens of
Pittsburg
Another very material objection to me-
c''"hcat hitration is the fact that the ap-
para'us employed has necessarily but a
very snort HE. 1t will soon wea. out and
rust out and have to be replaced
While it may cost a few hundreds Of
thousands of dollars more to install a sand
l'fanoh plant at the outset, once installed
1t VIII last practically forever. There are
'i'N~. S''s az III Europe tO-uGS
that have been in operation for fifty years
under the sand-tltration system. that are as
good to-day as when they were first built.
There Is only one thing. 1t seems TO me.
for the people of Pittsburg to do. and that
Is to rise up in their might and protest
against the system of wholesale murder
when is being perpetrated in our 1nids,
! through the carelessness and inane neglect
those whom, ba,
care of our municipal concerns
Il have stood too often by the 6eathhets
of men and women whose precious lives
have been burned out by this fith-besotten
! disease to feel Indifferent in relation TO the.
subject
Hundreds of thousands of the best
young people of this community have been
, literally slain since the agitation in favor OF
pure water was taken up
PHILADELPHIA OUTRAGED.
THE work ought to have been begun long
ago. The city Of Philadelphia took up the
work after the city of Pittsburg and 4
great deal of the water supply of that city
to-day is purified. and the typhoid fever is
rapidly deer, asing in Philadelphia.
I'VE call Philadelphia slow sometimes.
but she has proven herself to be wise
erOusn 10 duopt lne results mat were
| reached by the Pittsburg commission. and
to put them into effect within her own
limits. while Pittsburg. that paid for the
original investigations. is Still sitting and
| proposes to refer decision in reference to
questions that are no longer open to discus
sion to councilmanic committee.
Il would like to know what more a coun-
c!!manic committee can ascertain in rela-
! ton to this subject and its bearings upon
our welfare than has been ascertained al
ready by Professor Welsh Of Johns Hopkins
University William a. Copeland. Allen
Hazen. Morris Knowles and Doctor walther
! Riddle.
Every day Of delay involves three deaths
! practically three murders committed by
| the Council OF the City of Pittsburg Every,
day witnesses gathering around the bed
sides Of the sick in scores and hundreds of
/ homes. of anxious friends and relatives KEEP,
| in suspense and agony because Of the de-
lays of the Council of the City of Pittsburs
to do its duty. This is plain talk, but it is
| as true as the Gospel