. Water & sewage works . s assigned taskand is expected to make its final report tothe Board of Estimate and Apportionmentin a few months. The new commission, which will take upthe development of a plan of main drain-age, sewage collection and disposal, to pro-duce practical solutions of the problemsdiscussed by the Metropolitan Commissionand the various borough engineers, ismade up of the chief engineer of the ap-pointing board and the consulting en-gineers of the various boroughs, ErnestP. Goodrich for Manhattan, Geo. W. Till-son for Brooklyn, Amos L. Schaeffer forThe Bronx, Foster Crowell f
. Water & sewage works . s assigned taskand is expected to make its final report tothe Board of Estimate and Apportionmentin a few months. The new commission, which will take upthe development of a plan of main drain-age, sewage collection and disposal, to pro-duce practical solutions of the problemsdiscussed by the Metropolitan Commissionand the various borough engineers, ismade up of the chief engineer of the ap-pointing board and the consulting en-gineers of the various boroughs, ErnestP. Goodrich for Manhattan, Geo. W. Till-son for Brooklyn, Amos L. Schaeffer forThe Bronx, Foster Crowell for Queens andLouis Tribus for Richmond. Nelson , chief engineer of the Board of Es-timate and Apportionment is chairmanof the new commission and Charles , deputy consulting engineer ofManhattan has been selected as executivesecretary. The Metropolitan Sewerage Commissionhas been requested to confer with the newcommission that there may be as closeconnection in plan, work, records and re-ports as 5S3;#i4p^iS^^sfe*i^x^i >;r-ii;^.i;5v^-^ - -V- \.-^ FIRE AND WATER ^:>^;?-^i:?ggai:v^>;^iaijfefey-.^^A^fcgw^?M:i^ Water Works for Marceline, Mo. By L. A. Nickell, Superintendent. No matter how large or how small themunicipal plant, it should be operatedwith the greatest efficiency it is possibleto obtain. Efficiency and economy are notnecessarily the same, altho efficiencyis essential to economy. In our municipal electric light andwater works plant, careful attention isgiven to both fixed charges and operatingcosts. From the very start, careful studyhas been made of present and probablefuture operating conditions. The cost oflabor, fuel and supplies is carefully con-sidered. The interest rate on loans, theefficiency and durability of the machinery,the load fluctuations, the character of theservice, the probability of proper handlingand many other things must be taken intoaccount before a rational decision as towhat is the most economical plant can
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