This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... much more green stuff is taken to the destructors in summer than in the winter and spring. It is gratifying to see that Mr. Hering raises no vain hopes regarding the possibilities of obtaining power from American municipal refuse. Undoubtedly, however, some of the British authorities on refuse ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... much more green stuff is taken to the destructors in summer than in the winter and spring. It is gratifying to see that Mr. Hering raises no vain hopes regarding the possibilities of obtaining power from American municipal refuse. Undoubtedly, however, some of the British authorities on refuse disposal will argue from the figures of composition presented in the paper that the American people are not showing their usual alertness to utilize by-products when they fail to combine refuse destructors with electric and other power stations. Such combinations are even more common in Great Britain than Mr. Hering indicates, but few detailed figures are as yet available to show whether or not such combinations are really worth while. Mr. Hering very properly emphasizes the need of considering refuse disposal as an engineering questionn which has seldom been done in America. It is to be hoped that his paper will be the means of hastening the day when some large city will take up the problem from that point of view, giving due consideration, as he suggests, to Mr. Bak.rn the sanitary and economic possibilities of garbage reduction, the adaptability of British furnaces to American refuse, the utilization of heat, and the relative advantages, where cremation is practiced, of dealing with separated and with mixed refuse. Shirley C. Hunse, Jun. Am. Soc. C. E., Ithaca, N. Y.--The Mn. Huis.. speaker would like to say a word with reference to the possibility of making garbage burn itself. During the Ithaca typhoid epidemic in 1903, George A. Soper, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E., at that time representative in Ithaca of the New York State Board of Health, recommended that the city garbage be otherwise disposed of than by dumping in outlying low ground--the...
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