Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....WARING, George E. October 29, 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 September 11, 2009, 1:49 am The Brunswick Call; Sunday 30 October 1898; pg. 1 col. 6 G.E. WARING IS NO MORE—Died of Yellow Fever Yesterday—WELL KNOWN IN BRUNSWICK— Col. Waring Planned Our Excellent Sewerage System—Died in New York. New York, Oct. 29.—Colonel George E. Waring, one of the best known citizens of New York, and a former official of this city, died of yellow fever this morning. Black vomit came on at 5 o’clock, but Mr. Wring lived five hours thereafter. A strict guard has been kept around the house, which was quarantined. Mr. Waring devised the drainage system now in vogue at Memphis, after the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, which system has been adopted by every progressive American and European city. Mr. Waring was also an author of engineering works and was best known for his revision the [sic] system of street cleaning in New York. He arrived from Havana with the disease Wednesday, but although eh complained of being ill, the quarantine officers let him pass through the quarantine lines, as it was throught [sic] he was only suffering from a cold. Mr. Waring’s visit to Cuba was for the purpose of looking over the sanitary system of Havana and seeing how it could be improved. He was sent there by the government. When President McKinley was informed of Mr. Waring’s death this afternoon he was greatly shocked and sent a telegram of sympathy to the bereaved family. ONE OF WARING’S WORKS—He Was the Projector and Planner of Our Sewerage System. Col. George E. Waring, who died of yellow fever in New York yesterday, leaves one of the strongest testimonials of his engineering ability in the Brunswick sewerage system, which has been pronounced by experts to be the most perfect in she [sic] world, with the single exception of this [illegible]. When it was decided by the mayor and council in 1895[?] [illegible] in a sewerage system here, Col Waring was sent for. He spent several days in the city studying the construction[?]. Based on this survey he formulated his plans for the system, which was afterward put in by Contractor Herbert Tate. While in Brunswick, Col. Waring made an umber of warm friends, who will learn of his death with sincere regret. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/w/waring9556gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb