The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-23

of fertilizers to collect the garbage
and pay q premium for the privilege
of doing so. This system is being
abolished in many towns because it
has been pronounced unsanitary INC
modern ideas require that garbage be
promptly ~incinerated. A number of
incinerators are upon the market but
the idea that the results of their in
cineration a be a product of COM
mercial valu is comparatively new.
1t has been we'll demonstrated in Lon
don for two years, however, that brick
can be made from this product and
the introduction of a similar system
in American cities already has beer
given consideration, especially in
Philadelphia.
The London refuse dcstructor CON
slsts of a series of furnaces whose
only fuel is refuse of every conceivable
kind. Garbage, ashes, street sweep
inSs, dead animals, mones and offal,
excelsior, paper, crockery, glass and
cans, all are thrown into the furnaces.
The ashes into which they are finally
turned are manufactured into a new
brick of exceptional quality, having
a hard surface and a capability of sus-
tanning heavy pressure. The ashes
also are used extensively to macada-
mize roads. In several English towns
electricity is generated by the heat of
the Instructors, but it is generally
conceded that these vitreous, water
proof bricks are the most valuable
product of the process. A large por-
ton of the street railroads of Madras,
India, are said to be run by the power
generated by the refuse furnaces.
Americans have objected to the de-
structor on the ground that there is
too much wet waste from American
households to make household refuse
q satisfactory fuel for the Instructor,
but it is thought that this difficulty
might be overcome. A street COM
missioner of New York hopes eventu-
ally to introduce the Instructor in that
city, as in his opinion it is the only
really sanitary, satisfactory and
economical way Of ]disposing of a city's
waste.
The day of the white wings, the
white uniformed street sWeepers, who
have been familiar figures in most
cities for years, is soon to be past. A
machine will do the work more salts
factorily. One of the best types of
understanding machines is that now
in operation in Denver, which was the
invention of the present commissioner
of highways. 1t is a combination
gravity-flusher and sweeper and is
so constructed that the water flows
from the tank and runs through a
perforated pipe just in front of the
broom and extending it's whole length.
There is enough force to the water to
loosen the dirt without injury to the
pavement, and the broom Immediately
following the sprinkling, sweeps all the
dirt into the gutter leaving the pave
ment clean ard nearly drV. A second
machine follows close upon the first
flushes the ~o1ftte"" end sw"c"s tn"
dirt into the sewers. When the
weather is too cold to use the sprink-
Ter there is provided a reconstructed
sweeper which is expected to be alb
solutely dustproof and can be used
upon the Windicst day without detri-
ment to the eyes and lungs of pedes-
TRANS.
The water supply of the city has
much to do with it's cleanliness,
health and general attractiveness.
During The past year exhibits have
been made in many cities, in which all
of the conditions bearing upon the
water supply of a town were demon
strated to the public. The water
works of a city must supply clean,
pure water in sufficient quantities to
allow a sufficient per capita amount
to every inhabitant. At the same
time a properly constructed system
must provide against waste. Most
American cities waste large quantities
of water and do less s%prinkling and
street washing than sometimes is de-
sirahle. The European cities are
greatly in advance in the matter of
proper utilization of water. The Nv
erage daily consumption Of water in