Moving Picture News (1911) . seven pounds of it being used to ten thousand gallonsof sewerage. After being thus treated, the sewerage ispassed in liquid form through pipes to the filter beds a littledistance away from the plant, and which consist of layersof crushed stone, gravel and sand. On the surface of thesefilter beds are placed at equal distances cement groovesprobably five inches across through which the liquid, nowalmost as clear as water, runs, and from thence into the fil-ter beds of sand and gravel, and, being gathered into pipesa distance below, it is carried to the river 99 per c
Moving Picture News (1911) . seven pounds of it being used to ten thousand gallonsof sewerage. After being thus treated, the sewerage ispassed in liquid form through pipes to the filter beds a littledistance away from the plant, and which consist of layersof crushed stone, gravel and sand. On the surface of thesefilter beds are placed at equal distances cement groovesprobably five inches across through which the liquid, nowalmost as clear as water, runs, and from thence into the fil-ter beds of sand and gravel, and, being gathered into pipesa distance below, it is carried to the river 99 per cent, purewater. The swimming pool, which is now but a one-storybuilding, will next year be replaced by a new one which willhave an upper room of cement, where the children canromp. At intervals through the grounds are small watertanks, where the children may drink, and which water issupplied from an artesian well of 635 feet depth, pumped tothe reservoirs on the hill beyond the cottages by a force THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS II. pump pumping 60 gallons a minute with a nine horse-powergasoline engine. There are fifteen teachers in the establishment, headed byMiss Goering, matron, and Mrs. Matthews, assistantmatron, all of whom discharge their duties with a vim andenthusiasm befitting the cause. The chapel work at this institution deserves special men-tion. I may mention here that children are taken regard-less of religion, creed, color, or nationality. The musicalwork in the chapel is conducted by Mr. Henry P. Noll, awell-known organist of New York City. Mr. Noll is to becomplimented on his success in teaching these children oftransient residence two part singing. It is remarkable tohear their sweet, childish voices harmonize in the differentparts. The drills and walks out over the hills are conducted hyMr. Wm. Schirmer, by whose earnestness and interest inhis work I was extremely touched. Sir. Schirmer, w^hoseone supreme thought seems to be for the happiness and wel-fare of the chi
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