Show A baat A correspondent asks what is the dust destructor the dust destructor is a of furnaces set in an apace containing the requisite yards and buildings used for consuming the rubbish which is swept off the london streets which amounts to many thousands of tons in a year the furnace house is approached by an incline driveway leading to a covered place above the furnaces in this place the scavengers carts shoot their rubbish which by ample apparatus is dropped into the furnaces where it is speedily converted into clinker this clinker is theof removed and broken up some of it is ground some reground and some ground a third time in the ward are seen piles of broken and ground clinker some of courso lumps some resembling gravel some looking like tho finest sand for all this material there is a nse some of it goes to form the foundation of roads some mixed with tar is made into a durable pavement some makes admira I 1 ble sand for mortar and cement and some is made into imitation stone for sidewalks in the battersea district of london the parish wagon houses stables blacksmith shops etc have been constructed entirely of this imitation stone made from the refuse of domestic dust bins and the streets if any of the residents of the parish want any of the broken or ground clinker for any purpose they are permitted to tadeas much of it as they can carry away in barrows or carts nothing goes to waste the process of cremation is cheap and this method of disposing of the refuse of a crowded district has had a wholesome effect from a sanitary point of view la battersea tho death rate has gone down from eighteen to eleven new york commercial achelis |