SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF LIEURNER'S PNEUMATC SEWERAGE SYSTEM.

Southland Times, Issue 1154, 7 May 1869, Page 2

SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF LIEURNER'S PNEUMATC SEWERAGE SYSTEM.

- » ' * " ■ (From the ' Prague Agricultural and Commercial Journal.') Prague, 3rd January, 1869. "While calling attention to the success of this important invention, we, at the same time have great pleasure in mentioning the name of the gentleman who has been mainly instrumental in having it introduced into this city. The well«nd favorably known Mr A. H. Ahrens, Director of the Imperial Sugar Manufactory of Cza-Kowitz, in Bohemia, and partner in other similar establishments in Austria and Hungary. He is also one of the most extensive and successful agriculturists on the Continent; always aiding and encouraging those introducing any improvement in machinery or otherwise, tending to further the interests of society, whether by the extension of sugar maaufactoriea, the promotion of agriculture, the utilizing of manures, now thrown into the sea, or otherwise. This gentleman's quick practical eve enabled him at once to comprehend the importance of Lieurner's Pneumatic System, not only for sanitary purposes, but also for the promotion of agriculture, the basis of all national prosperity. In proof of his entire confidence in this system, Mr Ahrens (who for many years has been paying this city upwards of £4000 per annum for stable manure) has entered into an agreement with Lieurner, to pay him at the rate of 8s per head for the excretes of 8000 people, amounting to £3200 per annum, to be conveyed from the city by the purchaser. Assuming the manure thus purchased from Lieurner to be of no greater value as a fertilizer than that for which Mr Alierns has been paying £4000 be makes a clear gain, on the transaction, of £1600 per annum, as follows, viz : — £800 the difference between what he pays Lieurnor, and the £4000, formerly paid, and 2a p<r head on a population of 8000. Liebig, Hoffman and ojther eminent scientific men having ascertained the value of such manure to range from 9s 6d to lls, say 10s, it follows that the 2s per head, tho difference between what Aherna pays L^urner, and the ascertained value, amounts to other £800, in all £1(500 per anuum. A company has been formed here under the guidance of Mr William Beller, having for its object the immediate introduction of Lieurner's system into this city, having 180,000, and Brunn with upwards of 90,0.00 inhabitants. They have already ordered the piping aud all other necessary machinery here (oneeugioeonly to be constructed at Breda, where the last was made) for the introductioji__jp£^.

Lieurner's System into the Imperial Military Barracks, several large manufactories, stations, and workshops of the Imperial Bailways, &c. Mr Phillip Laurin, Civil Engineer, of Vienna, who had access to the plans of that city, prepared fov the Imperial Government in 1866, compiled very interesting and elaborate tables, shewing the capital necessary for the introduction of Lieurner's system. He gives the results of three districts of the city, representing the average population throughout, the outlay and expense of management per head, value •of manure, &c, &c, as follows, viz. : inhabitants, 55,733 ; capital for the necessary works, £515,000 ; per head, 18s 8d ; do, working expenses, Is lOd ; annual revenue, at 10a per head, £275,336 10s ; workingexpenaes, £50,500, so that by the adoption of this system, Vienna would derive a revenue ( of upwards of £200,000 a year. The annual expense in reference to its sewerage at present, is about £24,000. It therefore follows that this must be added to the annual loss, or in other words, Vienna pays £24,000 for pouring into the "Danube a fertilizer to the value of £275,336. "When the evil effects of the present system, in spreading disease and death along the course of such rivers, is taken into consideration, along with the frightful waste of the most valuable fertilizer, it seems incredible that science should have been so far behind in discovering a suitable remedy. This honor is now due to Captain Lieurner. His patented invention appears, from its simplicity and cheapness of construction, 18s Bd, or say 20a per head, to be as perfect for accomplishing the object in view as can bo imagined. Add to this the great advantage, that it can be taken up by any number of companies, each independent of the other, for separate sections of the same city.