The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-23

is not so important where the' onl
work done is filing; but the laying 0
! the mains for sewerage, gas or waite
must or ought. in all eases, to preoed,
the paving
Hence, we suggest that il Is i'm
portant for the council to investigate
ana ascertain with care what streets
/ it desires to have improved and how
and To what extent. II is true, the Law
places with your Board Of Local I'm
provements the duty of originating
all local Improvements; but it would
be a useless and TO some extent an
expensive matter for the board TO
Istart proceedings for improvements
and have the public hearings of the
same when The council would be dis,
inclined TO consider The matter at all.
AS to the matter of sewers, we beg
TO say that we are ready to proceed
ana push our part Of the work as early
and as fast as practicable; but our
work must be preceded by other very
important work Until this latter work
is done or planned. we. can do very
little. SO far as we can aid in the en-
gincerng work we will certainly do
50 but we are not engineers nor ac.
quainted "a any considerable extent
with plans or systems Of sewerage.
Your Public Library has few very
valuable works on this important
municipal subject and We have not
been a little surprised at the great
differences in the views of men of
vide ana established experience and
reputation, One of them. an authority
throughout the country, Julius w.
Adams, says. in substance, reduce the
size Of your drainage areas or dis
iricts, go as to reduce the size of your
mains and increase your outlets.
where there is no trouble with tide
waters.
And this leads us 10 say that the
most important thing now and first to
be determined is whether you will re-
tain the Twenty-eighth street outlet
or ouifall, or carry everything down
10 and up to Tenth street, making that
he single and sole outlet for the
whole CRY Of 1210 acres within the
leYees.
Making the whole city one sewerage |
or drainage district means one large |
sewer from Fhirty,eighth or ForHath |
street TO Tenth street ANA one outlet
from Tenth street 20 the river Re
aiming the TWenty-cighth street out
.ei we would have two districts diyi,
ted Toy 2 tiuo acr the city about
Twentieth street The 40 town dis
rlct would embrace about $50 acres
ana The down town district about $50
acres. While we are not engineers. if
seems 20 as that VIII be much easier
10 plan system OF sewers for the
districts separately, than to make but
one district and plan for the whole
territory Of 1900 acres Besides. for
all the settled part of the down town
territory, or most of IT, there Is al
'eady an existing plan of sewers. more
Dr. less incomplete il is true; but as
las before been stated 10 YOU il win /,
De found difficult and expensive to
adjust or raadiust this down town sys-
EN-, incomplete as it g. TO a system
hal viii serve the up town people
properly ana at reasonable expense.
With TWO districts. the main In The
upper one would probably run from
twentieth and Thrty-eighth streets
% Twen'y-eighth street; and it might
'c founH that a main of vitrihod tile
ever pipe of 3 o. 3la feet diameter
would hc found sufficient In the large
oWrr now undertaken In East ST
ouis. more than half a mile of it, is
q be- of litrihed tile sewer pipe feet
~ diameter estimated al a cost Of
900 per foot with thi, main sewer.
# whatever diameter AN the lateral
ewcrs could bc connected without
We may also rcmart that the upper
art OF town constitutes naturally a .
istrict Of itself. and all it's sewage
.hethe- Of storm water or otherwise
hould b. gotten into the river at the
carest point and as soon as possible
nd not carried down town for dis
barge into the river
As TO the district or territory down !
own. % has difficulties of its own
hitch ought not TO be increased by
noris TO adjust il 10 the upper dis.
net. As already stated. both of these I
isiricis IL tlcTe are to be- two. can {
O. planned and arranged separately
q tbruk to much better advantage Z
ram bF making one district Of The s
hole CITY within the levees.
n g. aid. however. that there should
q no outlet NJ outfall AZ Twenty
.rhth street. because iif rs too near the
intake" a. tbc water works. b. Is said \
woniy 1iehth street is too near bat e
enth street is not If Twenlv-cighth v
rect Is really too near and viii en-
anger the health Of the people Of the
ty should we not be ve-y certain v
bat Tenth street is far enough away
ON fhe intalle7
Dui has any person ever seen the q
y in be Mississippi run into and up s
be Ohio2 Has any one ever seen the q
rift wood run ont of the Mississippi
ld into and up The Ohio7 Has any Z
le ever seen The Niesisipp river ID
arf running into and ~ the Ohio 2