. Water & sewage works . taken as only pounds, or one-fifththe value of coal. This gives an equiva-lent evaporation value of 60 cents per proportion of clinker resulting fromthe combustion of the mixed refuse wouldalso be less than that obtained from theashes and rubbish, and this has beentaken at 20 per cent of the total tonnage. CONCLUSION. The best solution of the refuse disposalproblem in Chicago requires that theplants should be municipally owned. From a sanitary and economic compari-son, complete incineration is now seen tohave many advantages. Added to its otheradvantages is
. Water & sewage works . taken as only pounds, or one-fifththe value of coal. This gives an equiva-lent evaporation value of 60 cents per proportion of clinker resulting fromthe combustion of the mixed refuse wouldalso be less than that obtained from theashes and rubbish, and this has beentaken at 20 per cent of the total tonnage. CONCLUSION. The best solution of the refuse disposalproblem in Chicago requires that theplants should be municipally owned. From a sanitary and economic compari-son, complete incineration is now seen tohave many advantages. Added to its otheradvantages is the fact that the by-productsderived from it may be directly utilizedby the municipality and the revenue is,therefore, not infiuenced by the fluctuatingmarket of commodities not always in de-mand. This system has been adopted inLondon, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg andall of the larger cities abroad; it is alsoin use on the outlying districts of NewYork, and has recently been decided uponfor San Francisco. December, WIS. COMMISSION GOVERNMENT FOR CITIES Mr. Bradfords article on Twelve Years of Commission Government,elsewhere in this number gives a very good idea of the development andchange in the ideas concerning the method of governing cities bearing thisname. It is very evidently, a materially different plan now from that firstproposed by Galveston, and really first used in Memphis, Tenn., when thatcity had to be pulled out of its financial troubles following the historicepidemic. From appointment by a governor presumably for efficiency andcompetence in their respective offices to election without reference to par-ticular experience in their otifices was the first long step downward, requiredby the constitution of the state of Texas. All the changes made since thattime have been made really for the purpose of throwing proper safeguardsaround the acts of the body of commissioners which was thus made intothe old city council without control of a mayor, which has long been con
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