Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — JUST LIKE A BIG CITY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUST LIKE A BIG CITY.

A REGULAR MUNICIPALITY IN JACKSON PARK. Facts About tho Sewerage System—lt Is Claimed that Every Noxious Vestige Will Be Destroyed—Attractive Simplicity of the Ohio Building. New System of Drainage, Chicago correspondence: “The White City” is an appropriate name for the World’s Fair.- Its predominant color is white, and. it possesses all the attributes of a city, and a very cosmopolitan one at that It will be complete in every detail, with Its temples, libraries, theaters, music halls, art galleries; and ‘ panoramas, which, with the schools in the Illinois and women’s buildings, form the amusement and educational institutions of a metropolis. It has also its manufactories, restaurants, hotels, and liveries, Its fire and police departments—even to a justice shop, in which it is possible a real Chicago justice may be oTi exhibition. Lastly, this city, besides many other things, will have broad boulevards, shady promenades, and handsome parks, drained by a most complete set of tiles and waste pipes emptying into large mains, whose contents are kept in constant motion by the use of compressed air. The system of sewerage has not been tested. It is a combination of several methods of 1 disposing of sewage and will be given a thorough and lasting trial, which- will settle for all time its claim as being the best solution of the problem of efficiently disposing of immense quantities of sewage. It ingeniously combines the disinfectant and oremation methods, so as to leave abso-

lutely no noxious residue. In each building the sewerage pipes concentrate in two large oval tanks called ejectors. These tanks when filled are arranged to automatically open an escape pipe at one side, while on the other side the compressed air tap is opened. As the air rushes in it forces the waste material out until the tanks empty, when the valves reverse and the tanks again HU. The sewerage mains lead to the southeast corner of the grounds, their con -

tents being forced along by compressed air operated at a pressure of 100 pounds to the square inch. At the main terminals are erected four large cleansing tanks 54 feet high by 25 feet in diameter. In the center of each tank is a large standpipe open at the top and bottom. The large tanks are connected to work in pairs and are clustered about a five-foot standpipe through which the sewage is forced to a smaller fifth tank, the lower part of which is on a level with the tops of the large receivers. A 3 the sewage, in ijs passage though this apparatus, reaches the small central tank it receives a quantity of a disinfectant chemical. The quantity of the chemical used is gauged according to the volume of waste passing through the pipes, which pass from the disinfecting tank to the central standpipes in the large tanks. As the fluid mass reaches this standpipe the current is so sluiced by the quantity of water in the receivers, amounting to some thousands of barrels, that it is practically rendered stagnant by the time it reaches the bottom of the pipe and seeks its level in the fluid surrounding. This gives the solid portion of the waste, which is already being precipitated by the action of the chemicals, time to settle, leaving a perfectly clear, supernatant liquid. A second set of sluices leads from the tops of the receivers and into pipes conveying to a large escape main, which conveys the fluid into the lake. At the bottom of the receivers are placed valvos, which open into pipes leading to a compressor. Through these pipes the sediment is drawn and pressed dry by a hydraulic apparatus. The resulting material is immediately cremated. Thus every vestige of disease-producing waste is destroyed. Tile Ohio Building. Near the western bank of the north pond and directly opposite the broad

flags leading to the west entrance of the art palace stands one of the neatest State buildings on the grounds. It is the Ohio building. It is not as large and cumbrous In appearance as several

of the buildings, notably the Virginia and Massachusetts buildings, neither is it as gaudy and as ostentatious an example of architecture as is the New York building. There is a simplicity in the pleasing colonial model, set off In its monotony by the broad semi-circular portico copied from the State capitol at Columbus, that renders the building very attractive. On entering the large hospitable double doorway one steps into a large hallway. The first thing

to attract the attention of the visitor is the stained-glass window directly before him, bearing the State arms on an opal background. Under the window is a highly ornamental mantelpiece, in the grate of which during these cold, windy, disagreeable days is kept blazing a cheerful fire. Overhead the high arched ceiling is prettily dec orated and friezed. From the hallway open large doors into the ladies’ parlor, gentlemen’s parlor, smoking-room and commissioners’ room. The northwest corner will be devoted to a postofflee, telegraph-room

and bureau of general information. It is proposed to have interpreters in several languages here. The upper floor is devoted to assembly-rooms, pressrooms and library. The interior is finished in hardwood. The furniture is already being moved in, and carpets will soon be laid. Fair Notes. A daily newspaper will be published at the World’s Fair grounds, including morning and evening issues. Pennsylvania has donated SI,OOO toward a building where mothers may leave their children while taking in the Exposition sights. The brick and tile manufacturers of Ihe country and the manufacturers of fire extinguishing machinery have decided practically to put up special buildings adjacent to Machinery Hall for exhibits of these industries. An exhibit of American antiquities will be made in the ethnological and archaeological department, in which will be seen natives of Vanoouver Island in their long boats drawn on shore, or in and about their curious plank houses, performing their peculiar feats of jugglery. At a recent meeting of the Advisory Council of the World’s Congress of Electricians to be held in Chicago this year, it was decided that the meetings should last one week, beginning Aug. 21. Fifty-five delegates from the leading countries of the world are expected to be in attendance. The State of Maine will contribute largely to make the Marine Building historical in structure and interesting. All of Its old ship-building firms are being visited, and models of all kinds of marine craft that have gone out from Maine ship yards collected. Some of the latter will be set up and arrayed so as to show a vessel in the various stages

of construction, from ihe ‘skeleton to the full-rigged ship. • The New York Statue of Liberty, which, stands at the entrance of the harbor of the metropolis, is to be shown at the Exposition in a model carved out of salt. The exhibit will come from the Salt Union of Cheshire, England, The model will be twelve feet six inches high. The ornamental base, which is to be enriched with moldings, panels, and inscriptions stands upon a sub-base of rough amber-colored rock salt. The statue of the goddess herself will measure five feet six Inches high.

IRISH CASTLE AND VILLAGE.

PORTICO OF THE OHIO STATE BUILDING.

THE SEWAGE TANKS.

CASTLE IN GERMAN VILLAGE.

DIANA ON THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING.