. Water & sewage works . g over the rear of the car, and it isclosed by a stopcock. When the com-partment is full the liquid is run off thruthe hose, which is inserted to the baseof any sewer or manhole where thewagon happens to be. The garbage willnot have to be compressed more thantwo or three times on a trip, probably,and the liquid run off two or three times. five men could go with each truck. If de-sired, and it can be kept on the in this way will reduce theodor, as a large percentage of this is inthe liquid extracted and, the wagon beingwater-tight, very little odor will
. Water & sewage works . g over the rear of the car, and it isclosed by a stopcock. When the com-partment is full the liquid is run off thruthe hose, which is inserted to the baseof any sewer or manhole where thewagon happens to be. The garbage willnot have to be compressed more thantwo or three times on a trip, probably,and the liquid run off two or three times. five men could go with each truck. If de-sired, and it can be kept on the in this way will reduce theodor, as a large percentage of this is inthe liquid extracted and, the wagon beingwater-tight, very little odor will escapefrom the load. The unloading feature is simple. Therear end of the cylinder is a hinged doorforced tight against a rubber gasket withthrust bolts which may be easily manip-ulated. At the unloading station thisrear door is opened, power is applied tothe screw, and the compressing plat©scrapes the whole wagon clean. A larg©hose will then be played into the cylin-der and in that way it is kept clean. September, WIS. Lighting HZ] Municipal Electric Light for Cleveland, Ohio. For some time the city of Cleveland,Ohio, has been operating two small elec-tric light plants to which it fell heirwhen the towns in which they had beenestablished were annexed to the city. One of these, called the Brooklynplant: has a rated capacity of 1,500 ,and the other, the Collinwood lightingplant, of 430 The question of the construction andoperation of a municipal plant for light-ing the whole city has been under con-sideration for some time and a largeplant of 15,000 capacity is now un-der construction. These two smaller plants have beenoperated to some extent to demonstratethe possibilities of the larger plant. Thefollowing results of the operation of theplants taken from the 1912 audit of thebooks of the department, recently con-cluded, will therefore be of Interest as ameans of comparison. The figures forexpense in both plants include allow-ances for interest paid to sinking fu
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