| Show ot DOWN irown WITH THE DUST 0 f sr loius LOTUS mo complains of or duat dual aleno streets are with sort soft dimes tono tone which the wears away rapidly creating a large lage amount of believed t to ba be the cause of the arge per pent age of deaths from pulmonary disease e a so ia in that city it is stated that tint st louis is getting the reputation of being the dustiest city in the united state stater and hundreds of c e strangers after riding a few fey blocks ili in the street cars or in vehicles irlis iRles become and leave for other cities citie to live tand and db bua business 1 I 1 that in 14 summer bummer thai that pity resembles nothing so much asi 44 tild tb desert of sahara in an a windstorm r wat that the local quest iob lob odthe of the day is as to io the abatement ent of of the dusi dusl and that this year there is seemingly a at growing de determination tion arrived at not only by a consciousness of personal ap erso fial eni ence euce trouble troubie Z and iossi lossi buiji conviction clio cilo n that the thier interests of the city eity have serio seriously 14 fla ila suffered by the inadequate means moans adopted in ili tb the e past pa st that tuat some means bb shail ahall allbe be taken to protect the city from the intolerable nuisance that has fiat so 0 1089 1099 existed 11 what would the ausec despising people of st louis louls think if they lived jived here at salt bait with three 0 or four inches of du dust stoil on the unpaved streets ets all summer long iong and A we late in id the fall except when the lilay playful ful fui breeze whirls it into the al air nir f r like a cloud W what about spoiled ladies indies satins gatins and silks and beavers and broadcloths increased percentage of pulmonary disease til ill sease sandy randy saharan similes itha general dis disgust at the dus dusty discomfort here I 1 A subcommittee sub committee appointed by a ine meeting eting of citizens of st louis a appeared 9 leared before the water commissioners f a few days ago mr whit anan juan said that of or gallons lally bally of water could bo be pumped up by the engines at the plugs plugs ready leady to be taken out for sprinkling t at the rate of selent seventeen kents cents per gallons at this rate it was calculated that during keven ruven months of the year streets air iid could be lie sprinkled led to t ilg the length of loo miles at a total cost coat af pf the actual cost of pumping the water was only fifteen 1 depts ier jer gallons gallous stated that ther ost oc of water per gallons gallon aln Jn cincinnati bvm only ten cents and the price was wa smaller in city pity on op tile cpr continent than i three abree plans of watering wagering the streets are moro more prominent in tha th st loul LOUIS discussion i the dana mansfield plan mitar si r to that late ite jy introduced in ilk london bondon the bly MKe koever Keever ever plan ril rii and nil the hydrant and hose plan the who ThoD dana dna dua mansfield plan is to td lay inch and a quarter gas pipe at the edge of the sidewalk and next to the curbstone the pipe forthe whole leng ieng length of the lipe elpe block on being filled with water feromone fr omone tap presses the water out tn long iong streams of spray from froin the perforations it is esti osti estimated mated that the cost of auctorial aud and work to pipe a block would be 0 not including water license the pal objection made to the scheme is that the pipes would be frequently broken and put butof out of order from being exposed to certain necessary contingencies as boxes 0 of freight being loaded on and unloaded from j vehicles and ahi vehicles backing up to and crossing cro saing the sidewalks the duls duld beevor plan plau consists of pern perr pipes suspended above the center of the street by guys from the fronts of the houses in iri tilis 14 the principal objection tj an a viry very light one oab all will acknowledge ad kno cledge was that mischievous boys and girls would frequently pull the pipes down by swinging on them the mj even IF the pipes were placed twenty or thirty feet above tho pavement 1 the feird plan ils 1 s aa as follows follow s othe the simplest and cheapest jaan is Istir for the city to gnant grant to the pro perty h along a block the use of one tap on the sidewalk in the center of the block free of tax and water license on that at certain bertam hours of the day the whole block shall be bi sprinkled through nifty fifty feet of hose and a spray nozzle under this arrangement certain men would buy the hose and spray hozz nozzles les ies and take lake a contract to td do I 1 the sprinkling nt at a small amount per pr block for tha season or ye arand each ipach bouse house would be equally assessed for tile tiie he expense one man could sprinkle a mile of street twice per pen gerdav dax day it would probably require three to 10 four million gallons of water a day to sprit sprinkle ikle ikie efery street where the water apply pl exists the water baard now charges 12 i it a license h of 20 per tap app for sliewa sidewalk 3 ik aud street t purposes |
