The Nome daily nugget., 1907-05-20


 pail consisting of smoKe, dirt noxious vapors. bad smells and dis ease germs.
 To this condition is due by far the greater number of deaths that occui from disease in cities.
 A man in good health walks tbroug'l the crowded streets of city, and after he reaches home ne is smitten with scarlet fever, smallpox, tuberculosis pneumonia or some other germ dis ease. From this he dies and some of his family and neighbors die from the same disease. This waste of life is di rectly traceable to the disease germs that are constantly floating iE th4 thick foul air of cities.
 In cubic foot of air taken from Fifth avenue, presumably the cleanes. part of New York, countless billions of harmful germs have been found among them those of the principal deadly diseases.
 A definite plan to remove this hid eous menace to human life has been laid before the city council of Boston by Dr. Hans Liebrich, Q very distin guisned German scientist and inventor. By his plan the impure air and disease germs will be gathered up continually and rushed out to sea, while a con stant supply of pure air from the country will flow in to take it's place.
 His patent provides for system of lair canalization and evacuation to carry off all poisonous matter through sewers and pipes and deposit it some where out in Massachusetts bay"
 "The analysis of the atmosphere of the city of Boston" said the doctor which I have made, shows that out side o1 the regular mixture of oxygen and nitrogen there is an extraordinary proportion Of hydrogen, together witt poisonous carbonic acid gas, ammonia and other different gases, mixed with smoke, dust, dirt and a kind of me phitis, the whole being absolutely det rimental to fife.
 "You will notice about your city, said the doctor to the shocked Bos tonian, that the disagreeable odors are more noticeable in moist weather. This is on account of the greater spe cilc gravity, owing to their mixtura with water vapor
 "These horrible odors are derived mostly from the evaporation of kit chen waste, wash drying, overcrowde1 T dwellings,, human and animal perspira- tion, respiration and waste"
 By means of a gigantic centrifugal ovacuator of a type already used in Germany it is proposed to suck up all this foul air and carry it away to sea. where it will do no harm to anybody The evacuator will draw up and dis charge 100000 cubic yards of foul air a minute. Of course, when the foul air is carried away fresh air nus blow in to take its place.
 It would be an entertaining and re- assuring sight to the tired city dweller worn by fear of the plaques that walk by night and day, if he could look up and see all the fou! air and disease germs being carried away in a vast funnel at the ez pense of the city gov enment.
 Dr. Liebrich has estimated that tn. expense of installing his plant would be not more than $5,OOO,OOO. That of course, is a small item in the budget of q great city, and the prevention Of disease and saving of human life that would res ut would be worth an in hnitely greater sum. But the inventor explains that the apparatus would very nearly pay for itself Vast quan titles of saltpetre ammonia. potash. soda, acids 9nd urea for chemical pur- poses could be extracted from the foul vapors between the evacuator ard tn. outlet Cold storage houses would b. erected along the line of piping to col lect these products. They would ob . Viously yield a handsome income to the city SO that in the end good would come out of bad.
 The machinery would be operated day and night. In the course of 2i hours between 15O,GOO and 10000 cubic yards of foul air would be re moved at a hurricane rate of speed This, of course, would insure a brisk breeze constantly blowing into the city. The inventor has worked out his plans to the minutesG details including not only the mechanism, but the cost and income from by-products.
 Dr. liebrich is scientist who has already made many useful scientific inventions. He is a graduate of the German universities of Baden and Carlsruhe. He is a doctor of philos Cphy an architect, engineer, inventor electrician and chemist.
 He is now in partnership with L. D. Lathrop, the richest man in Glouces- ter, Mass, and has Q laboratory on Sudbury street, in Boston. He has now reached the final stages of a method of making real diamonds from eooeO900So@0o0e0s00o00@0@@ Q