The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-13
THECEMENT SEWER
Declared to Be the Best and Cheapest
BY Competent Authority--Brook-
lyn's Experience.

! ing before the people of Cairo in the
matter of sewer building any informa-
| ton relating to the matter should be
| Of interest, and the following from the
Municipal Journal Of May 2d-an ex-
tract from an able article by A. j.
Provoct, Jr., under the head of the
Brooklyn Sewer System lis Of much
value as giving reliable information
on the subject with special reference
to cement sewers:
Prior TO 1858 there had been con.
structed in Brooklyn less than seven
m les of swers. these were of brick
and Intended chiefly for surface drain
passed April Is, 1857, the Board of
Water commissioners Of the city of
Brooklyn created February II, 1857,
were authorized TO devise and frame
a plan of drainage and sewerage of the
city upon a regular system" On Sep
| TENDER 10 Of that year. Julius w.
Adams, in a report TO the Water
| Board, outlined a general plan of the
proposed design, stating that the pipe
sewers will be OF glazed etoneware or
cement pipe Al the very inception,
| therefore. of an enormous system.
comprising AT this day more than 100
niles of sewars-equal to the com
biaed mileage of sewers in all the
other boroughs OF Greater New York
we find injected policy regarding
tie materials TO be used in the pipe
sewers which has continued 10 the
present day in spite Of the cCntroVer-
sizes which have always existed regard
ing the relative merits Of eartlenWare
and concrete pipe Except at such in
tervals when the adherents of one Of
these classes Of pipe have maintained
their position by The exclusion in the
specifications of the other pipe the
two materials have been admitted in
common and are so admitted at the
present day
The carly pipe was principally i'm
ported Scotch CLAY pipe The chief en-
eineers report for 1861 shows 69.37
miles of this material and $40 miles
Of cement pipe laid at the end of that
year; the sizes used being 12inch to
1s-inch inclusive. The cost Of these at
fhat date was; 12-inch, $121 per lineal
foot; Is inch. SIS per lineal foot
18inch 81 % per lineal foot Twenty
four inch pine was first laid in 1862.
BY this tine the preference for CO.
ment pipe appears to have become es
tablshed ANA he contract prices per
iinea foot We're: Pinch, 79c; Is inch,
s114 lS-inch, $135; 24-inch, $3.50.
The 24inch pipe was in use fer only
a couple Of years when the original
practice of using brick for this size |
was returned TO until about 1886 The /
use of egg shaped cement pipe. with |
integral fat base was first introduced
in 1873 During that and the succeed
igg two years 53,5 miles in Gizes from
i.2-iDch 10 1S-inch, inclusive. were laid
IN plank foundations. The chief ergi-
leer reported for these years tnat the
quality Of cement pipe used had been
good, Being carefully mala
ma thoroughly seasoned
Report Of Chief Engineer Adsme.
IN 1877 The propo ition 20 return TO
to uo of carthenwaro pipe va ad
'ers7ly reported on by Chief Eueiaeer
ulus " Adams. as follow: THE
owcr pipe question has been very
.eneraly discussed for several years
asst Tho Akron pipe is, believe, the
ct American rtoncwaro pipe, hut the