The Washington times., 1906-04-23
SCIENTISTS WOULD
LAUNDER THE AIR
Unique Proposition to Puri-
fy New York.
ASK FOR FIVE MILLIONS
Will Not Only Cleanse Atmosphere
But Propose to Make Valuable
Products From It.
ASK FOR FIVE MILLIONS

NEW YORK. April 23.-For the trihing
sum OF 5000 90, two breezy scientists
lave offered New York city the oppor-
tunity Of having It's atmosphere fresh
laundered every twenty-four hours and
all iis microbes, coal dust, and baciin
carefully sifted out
DR. Hans Leibreich and DR.. L D
Lothrop, who announce themselves as
the founders of the new science. have
presented their plan 10 Mayor Mcclellan.
They do not see how he can fail 10 ac-
cept it.
This is a twentieth century rhe-
nOmenOn.'' they assert in their letter.
"springing uIon the technical horizon,
bringing 10 a crowded population the
blessing. II the government, whose duty
IL is 10 promote the welfare Of its peo-
pie. vii! assist in installing the sys-
ten.
Air Analizstion.
These two pioneers in a new field OF
science calI their discovery "a system
OF air canalization and evacuation"
DR.. Hans Leibreich describes himself
as a civil engineer who has lived IN
Europe He neglects 10 give any paTtiC-
uIars concerning DR.. LothrOp. his assO-
ciate. Both live in Gloucester. Mass,
but are willing TO move 70 New York IL
Mayor Mcclellan and the aldermen will
adopt their plan for cleaning the air
The two discoyerers propose TO man
ufaCture valuable by-prOducts from the
garbage extracted from me air. and
they tell the mayor.
Enormous profits viii be derived
from these side products. which VIII
refund the entire investment and pay
the running expenses All this has been
carefully proved by careful estimates
Of the founders
Full Of Chemicals.
They explain that the side products
are 70 De realized from sewerage gases
and for this purpose cold storage houses
are to be erected between the -evac-
uator'' and the outlet; on the walls OF
these houses enormous quantities Of
saltPetre, ammonia. potash. soda and
acids. such as urea, &c. form, all OF
which can be Used for medicinal pur-
poses Of all kinds
We get the first chance at the new
system II is described by its founders
as "a system Of preventing plague.
smoke dust. OdOr and other poisonous
gases that are in the air OF the metrop-
oils by a canalizatiOn and evacuation
system BY the use OF the present sewer
system"
founders. lit is necessary 10 constitute
two new departments, one for hygiene
and one for fresh atmospheric air, be-
cause by the system the bad air and
the poisonous atmosphere is removed
from such places as desired
THE undersigned founders should be
appointed as heads OF these two depart
menJs aforementioned. with authority
10 carry out the pr ljects. estimates and
other requirements previous 70 installing
this system
What They Caught.
The mayor is invited to investigate
the system through experts on hygiene.
chemistry. engineering. and metereol-
Ogy-"
The founders Of this system" * 10
stated. "have made a number Of tech
nical chemical, difficult dangerous. and
I expensive eutionetrical analyses Of the
different atmospheric air taken from the
surface Of the metropolis Of New York
From analyses, the atmospheric air
I Of the city Of New York was found 70
/ contain. besides the regular mixture OF
oxygen and nitrogen, an extraordinary
proportion OF hydrogen poisonous car
bonic acid gas. ammonia and other diff
I ferent gases mixed with more or less
Ca-'bOn particles smoke, dust, dirt, and
other dirt and a kind OF mephitis, which
I i absolutely incapable OF supporting
human or animal life
The well-noticed dissgTeea bic Odor
which is more apparent IN Changeahle
I weather, which Is caused by said gases
not rising on account Of gravity, is de-
rived mostly from the evaporation OF
ali kinds of things, such as kitchen
wastes. wash drying overcrowded dwell
ings. closets, nres, stables, respiration
and perspiration OF crowded human and
! animal bodies. smoke. dust, sewer gases
I and fermentatiOns Of all kinds
{ The scientist declares that a thick
black cloud. similar to a volcanic
witch kettle hangs over this sTy. This
cloud, they assert. represents a volume
I or 150,0Oo, 10000 cubic yards
EvacuatoIs the Thing.
( To get rid of this cloud. reeking with
impurities. the discoverers propose 10
( instaIstheir evacuators. One air sling
machine, with a Jen-foot hOOp, they
claim. viii evaCuste more than 1900
cubic yards OF air per minute. One
hundred Of these centrifugal evacuators
viii replace in twenty-four hours $50, =
air. This viii drive the bad air as far
I away as desired
The impurities are TO be caught in
I the sewer and swept into the river To
with suction pipes attached, are TO be
installed. Thus the microbes and i'm
purities are all sucked into the sewer
| and disposed OF.
I The founders close their glittering
/ offer by saying that IL the city desires
i TO experiment with the air canalization
/ scheme an extremely cheap experiment
can be made by cleaning the foul at
/ mOSphere of the subway
/ Mayor Mcclellan has sent the propo-
sition TO the board ef aldermen. and
1 the health committee of that body is
/ 10 have a public hearing on the scheme
/ in a few days.