WARING, GEORGE EDWIN, Jr. MS33. 98). An Americith soldier and sanitary engineer, born at Poundridge, N. Y. He studied agriculture and agricultural chemistry under James Jay Napes. and became a lecturer on these subjects. In 1855 Borace Greeley (q.v.) employed him to manage the Greeley farm at Chappaqua, N. Y., and two years later Waring became agricultural and drainage engineer of Central Park. New York. He served as major of the Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers in the first battle of Bull Run, and in August, 1861, he went to Saint Louis and raised six troops of cavalry, which he named the FriImont Hussars. and of which he was com missioned major. Later these troops were united with the Benton Hussars to form the Fourth -Mis souri Cavalry, and Waring was commissioned colonel of the new regiment, which he led through the western campaigns until the close of the war. He then managed the Ogden farm at Newport, R. L. until 1877, after which he de voted himself to sanitary engineering. In 1878 he was employed by the city of Memphis, which bad just suffered from yellow fever, to change its drainage system. and in 1894 he was ap pointed assistant engineer of New Orleans. In
December of that year he became Commissioner of Street-Cleaning under the Strong administra tion in New York City. He reorganized the force of street-cleaners, secured new equipment, and did what had been pronounced impossible— cleaned the streets of New York. But his work was only accomplished in the face of the strong est opposition. and when, at the end of Mayor Strong's administration, Tammany Hall again gained control, Colonel Waring was dismissed. On October 2, 1898, he was appointed a com missioner to report on the sanitary condition of Havana, and while in that city contracted yel low fever, of which he died soon after his re turn to the United States. He published a num ber of hooks, including The Elements of Agricul ture (1851 ) ; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health (1867 l ; Whip and Spur (1875) ; A Farmer's Vacation (1876): Sanitalw Condition of City and Country Thrilling !louses (1877); lin prorrinents and Farm i yes (1877); Sewage and land Drainage (1889): and Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal for Towns (1894).