Sewers: ancient and modern; with an appendix . n grateful and kindly remembrance so long as this societyshall last, or we remain behind to keep the record. Fellow members, we are about to draw aside the curtainwhich veils another year; its comings for us are too obscurefor either record or prophesy to-night. May your individual blessings be many, including peace,happiness and success in your various undertakings; yourtrials, sorrows and disappointments, light and few in number. And while Providence shall continue to work out lifes prob-lem for us, in 1887, let us see to it that our associated
Sewers: ancient and modern; with an appendix . n grateful and kindly remembrance so long as this societyshall last, or we remain behind to keep the record. Fellow members, we are about to draw aside the curtainwhich veils another year; its comings for us are too obscurefor either record or prophesy to-night. May your individual blessings be many, including peace,happiness and success in your various undertakings; yourtrials, sorrows and disappointments, light and few in number. And while Providence shall continue to work out lifes prob-lem for us, in 1887, let us see to it that our associated workhere goes on with vigor and intelligence, so that the CayugaCounty Historical Society shall gather additional strength withits increasing years. SEWERS: ANCIENT AND MODERN;WITH AN APPENDIX, COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES OF THE SEWERAGESYSTEM OF THE CITY OF AUBURN, N. Y. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE CAYUGA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,DECEMBER 14, 1886. BY CYRENUS WHEELER, JR. Mayor of Auburn, and a member of the Historical Society. HE subject of ourpaper this eveningwill be Drainage andSewerage, ancientand modern. Howthe work was done;how it is done; howit should be done : To some of ourhearers this eveningwe fear the subjectwill be dry and un-interesting, yet it is one of great importance and should notbe ignored. The character of the drainage and sewerage ofour residences and their surroundings, determine the standardof the individual and public health. The more perfect andthorough this work, the purer will be the soil, the water, andthe air ; the higher the standard of public health, and the lowerthe death rate. We have succeeded a people, whose liveswere passed in a primitive manner, on this beautiful domain. 6!* sewers: ancient and modern. Lo, the poor Indian, erected his wigwam on our river banks,and here children engaged in healthful play ; young men andmaidens, in youthful pastimes, and old men met in wants were few and their ambitions limited.
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