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Waring, George Edwin

engineer, author, was born July 4, 1833, in Boundridge, N. Y. He is an eminent sanitary engineer, since 1895 superintendent of the street-cleaning department of New York city; and the author of The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns; A Farmer's Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps; Village Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health; Book of the Farm; How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land Drainage; Sanitary Condition of City and Country Dwellings; and Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal.