MUSSELBURGH DRAINS.

Evening Star, Issue 12061, 4 March 1907, Page 2

MUSSELBURGH DRAINS.

TO THE -EDiron. Sir, —A correspondent last week asked this question from tho chairman of the Drainage Board, and so ’ far there is no reply to it: •' Is it a fact that • they are allowing the sewage to escape from the risirg main into the open drains mnning down Royal Crescent V’ The answer is that it is quite true. When Dr Ogeton went out to inspect they were filled up with the tide from the bav; the doctor . was satisfied, and your local is the result. But, sir, it cannot stay with suck an examination as that. If the Board are unable to cope with the evil short of having a new rising main put in, I could find them dozens of men who could remedy it. In the name of all that is insane or otherwise, why don’t they run tho stuff back into the tank and pump it up again, instead of running it into an open drain to pollute the whole neighborhood 7 What is happening is that the sewago runs down the Royal crescent drain; they let the tide in, and this drives tho filth (as black ns ink) into all tho other ditches, to the discomfort and ill-health of the inhabitants. I challenge the Board to start pumping in the daytime. If they did there would be ?ach a howl that they would see about getting it repaired at once-—I am, etc., R. Sjuoin^xps. March 2. A CHANCE FOR THE L.Y.A. TO THE KDITOIi. Sir,—How pleased Mr G. B. Nicholh must feel over the sale of cheap liquor tq three hotelkeepers, so as to give him the chance of having a fling at ms friend Mi Thomson. If they made a foolish mistake, that should be no reason to drag others into what they are in no way responsible for. Mr Nicholls is for cvei writing about his opponent having made the statement that hotelbeeping conld be made as respectable as banking. I confess that I scarcely understand where the analogy comes in, because I have read of several large banking institutions in Britain having gone smash.—l am, etc., Mac. March 2.