WARING, warIng, George Edwin, Amer ican sanitary engineer: b. Poundridge, N. Y., 4 July 1833; d. New York, 29 Oct. 1898. He was a pupil in agriculture of James J. Mapes, in 1853-55 lectured in Vermont and Maine on improved farming methods and in 1855 was made by Horace Greeley manager of the lat ter's well-known experimental farm at Chap paqua, N. Y. In 1857-61 he was agricultural and drainage engineer of Central Park, New York, whose drainage system he planned. Hav ing entered the Federal army in 1861 as major of the 39th New York Volunteers (Garibaldi Hussars), he fought at the first Bull Run, was transferred to the Department of the South west, recruited a battalion of cavalry (Fre mont Hussars) at Saint Louis, and when these were consolidated with other troops to form the Fourth Missouri Cavalry, he was made colonel of that regiment lie served as such until mustered out of the service in 1865. In 1867-77 he was manager of the Ogden Farm, Newport, R. I., writing during that time the 'Ogden Farm Papers' for the American Agri culturist. At the time of the yellow-fever epidemic in Memphis, Tenn., in 1878, he was appointed to alter the drainage system there; and subsequently he devoted himself to sani tary engineering. In 1882 he was appointed a
member of the National Board of Health, with which he remained connected for several years; and in 1894 he becatne assistant engi neer of New Orleans. From 1895 to 1898 he was street-cleaning commissioner of New York; during.his administration he thoroughly reorganized his department and brought it. to a lugh state of efficiency. In 1898 he was selected to be head of a commission for the improvement of sanitary conditions in Havana, Cuba, with the purpose of eradicating yellow fever. He prepared a detailed report of great value, but died of the fever not long after his return to the United States. He was a mem ber of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great Britain; Fellow of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain; honorary member of the Royal Institute of Engineers, Holland, and corre sponding member of the American Institute of Architects. Among his published works are 'The Elements of Agriculture> (1854) ; (Whip and Spur' (1875) ; Fanner's Vacation' (1876) ; 'Village Improvements and Farm Vil lages> (1877) ; 'Sewerage and Land Drainage' (1889) and 'Modern Methods of Sewage Dis posal' (1894).