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Show I OUR DRAINS. H When we consider the present In- H debteduessof the city It Is perhaps H folly to press the claims of a city sew- H erage 6ystem but on the other hand, H the need becomes dally so urgent that H It cannot mnch longer bo Ignored. It ' l8 a wcn known principle of municipal H life that a city water system should be I accompanied by a city sewerage sys- H tem. The second Is tho natural out- I come of the first and city mayors east H and west have been trying for the last I fifty years to convince their constltu- H- cntsthat one Is the complement of H the other, that the Increase In the use H-.f of water, resulting from a city water H supply Is too gicat to be cared for In I cesspools without serious danger to I the public health. . Still less should It H be allowed to How through yards and H by contaminating streams be carried H all over tho town. Not alone Is the H lack of a sewerage system a menace H to tho health of a community. It Is also a bar to the growth H N of the town. The new hotel which Is H being planned is to contain one hun- H drcd rooms, fifty of which are to be H. supplied with bath rooms. Under H present conditions It will scarcely be H possible to dispose of this increased H amount of sewage. The hotel will be creeled near one of our largest H canals and If we continue the cesspool B system the sewage of tho hotel will 1 seep Into the canal and be carried to B thedcorsof all who live In the south western part of the town. And those H who drink.the canal water will not be M especially pleased to know that It Is diluted with hotel Juice. M Then again we are promised a new fl postotllce building, which seems to be m long in coming. Rumor states that M we shall never got 'it until wc have an H adequate system of sewerage. Ttie H ground on which tho postotllce is to B - be built cannot be drained in such a H way as to assure good foundations M without some system of sewerage to H carry off the surplus water. The na- H tlonal government, bo It said to its M credit, Is not in the habit or putting m up 180,000 buildings anywhere except H under proper conditions. Here are H two public needs, a hotel and a post- H oillce, neither of which can be secured H until the sewerage conditions of tho H city are changed. Is It not worth H while for tho oily to get more deeply H In debt In order to secure theso three H blessings of which one is the basis of H the other two? Tho progress of the H city demands Imperatively that we H have them all three. |