Show SEWERAGE After the municipality has decided to undertake the work of putting in sewers it will be tI long time before the labor begins and after there has been a commencement com-mencement there will be another long period before the system can be utilized It is no longer a question of whether or not there will be sewerage Everybody is convinced of tho necessity of the improvement im-provement and all agree that it must be made The town has outgrown its Tillage proportions and conditions it spreads over miles of territory and contains a population above 30000 in number from now on the increase will be rapid so fast indeed that it is believed the census of a little more than two years hence will show a population exceeding 50000 What will be thought of a city of 50000 people and not a sewer within its corporate limits 1 That is the condition in which A this city will find itself unless work shall be begun immediately Doing our very utmost only two or three main sewers could be laid in two years And still We are no nearer to sewerage apparently ap-parently than we were fifteen or twenty years ago before the improvement had been earnestly talked about Not even has a system or plan been devised It is not known to what point the sewage caa be conveyed nor what disposition Is to be made of it We suggest that it is high time for ioing something in the way of prE e HrainRriea If the present Council will not be longlived enough to undertake actual work it can at least arrive at some conclusion as to a system to be adopted and get the matter into such a shape that the succeeding Council will not have to waste three or four months in preliminary labor and consultation con-sultation which can be performed now A thoroughly competent sanitary engineer should be employed to make a careful investigation and examination and to say what can and should be done If we have local engineers who are competent and can do this work they should be employed i otherwise let some capable man be brought here If a right start shall be made a good system adopted and worked to we may escape much of the trouble which afflicts other cities But let us make a commencement |