New Britain herald., 1916-05-27

| In time this reduces the refuse to clear
 water on top and sand like sub- 1 stance as a precipitate. By using this | sediment as a catalyzing agent, that is, | by using it with the sewage in con- nection with the air flow, the new sewage refuse is itself reduced to ] clear water and activated- -sludge in few hours. The beauty of this I system is that the resulting solid sludge has absolutely no offensive odor
 and, when dried, can be sold for fer tilizer at about. $9 per ton, accord ing to the claims of Professor Bart oW of the University of Illinois, who discovered this system.
 | But was New Britain only confront ed with the question of how to dis pose of domestic sewage alone, this
 might solve the problem economically
 and effectively. It is the chemical wastes from the factories, mixed with the domestic waste, that makes the problem so difficult and undoubtedly
 makes the present sewer beds even less effective. The factory chemical
 wastes are such that when mixed with the clay soil of the filter beds a solid
 crust is formed, preventing proper
 drainage. The question now arises,
 would the sludge system successfully reduce a mixture of both chemical and domestic sewage. Casual opinion would
 be in the negative but to experiment
 is the only way to learn. Should no satisfactory solution be discovered, it may eventually be necessary to com
 pei the factories to neutralize all their waste before turning it into the city sewers if possible. But it would
 be very expensive and so would it be expensive to have the city construct new sewers for the factories so such waste could be taken to central point and be neutralized before being turned in with the other. But a solu- ton must be found and the quicker the better.
 Once again New Britain, in com mon with the rest of the country, is about to do honor to it's soldier dead on Memorial Day. The programs of the various devine, patriotic and Mem orial Day services have been printed and it now remains for the citizen to show his reverence for the old soldier by adopting Com mander Streeter's request that on Tuesday everyone wear a little sprig of green with a little bow of the red
 
 of the gallant boys of '61 is in truth "evergreen.' Steadily the grim reaper is diminishing the ranks of the gray-haired old warriors of half century ago until in a few years hence there must be but one wearer of the little bronze button, tottering and feeble who of all that vast horde of fifty years ago, will have survived and on Memorial Day falter to the graves of his departed comrades and place there a flower of loving mem- Ory; only to return to await the final bugle blast that will muster him into the service of the Great Commander. Then only memory of the boys in blue and the boys in gray will be left. In New Britain cemeteries there are about 500 soldiers graves to be decorated and in order that not single lonely mound be left unnoticed on Memorial Day morn the citizens should turn to and assist the mem- bers of Stanley Post, as they have and are doing.
 Undoubtedly this will be the last Memorial Day that many New Brit ain veterans will ever witness and during the past year several joined the army crossing the Great Divide. To the civil war veterans participat, ing in the Memorial Day parade and paying their annual tribute to their dead comrades at the cemeteries is the one event of the year to which they look forward To take part gives them great poy, but as many are too old and feeble to trudge along the street as they did in years before, Commander Streeter hopes to secure II, of take every old veteran desirious of going. in the parade and to the ex- ercises. There will be about fifty and those who have automobiles will cer- tainly be doing a kindly deed to loan their use for this purpose. It will be but few f1eeting years when their will be no civil war veterans to take part in the exercises.
 While a majority of the members of the supernumerary police force are lying awake nights worrying for fear they may not be appointed as regulars there are a few who would not take such an appointment under any condition. At least one super numerary has resigned for fear he might be appointed a regular and one other supernumerary who would be sure to be made a regular has openly declared he would not accept appointment. He feels that his pres ent occupation is more pleasant and remunerative and while extra fees de. rived from special duty are always desirable, not so With a permanent | 
 That the legal authorities are de-
 ioJo low shall be vigorously enforced here this