The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-31
NEWS SUMMARY.
city Affairs.

city Affairs.
An adjourned meeting of citizens of the
Fifteenth ward, to act upon the shortness of
the supply of water for the ward, was held
last night at the northeast corner of West and
Coates streets. Mr.. VIM. II. Snowden pre-
sided, and Mr.. William II. Kemble acted as
Secretary.
Mr.. II. w. Price, chairman of the commit
tee to wait upon the Chief Engineer of the
Water Department, reported that they had an
in terview with Mr. Graft who was much sur
prised to learn of the deficiency. He stated
that the water in the different reservoirs had
been kept and was then within foot of the
high water mark. He was unable to account
for the shortness of the supply, but supposed
there must be some local cause for it. He
thought that probably there we're some stop
cocks turned off that they we're not aware Of,
and was having them examined.
Mr.. Harper said that he had been told by
an engineer that there was a difference of
eight feet in favor of the Spring Garden basin
(the one that supplies the district) between it
and the Corinthian avenue basin (the one that
supplies the lower part of the city,. If the
connection between the two basins was
opened, as it was said to have been on Satur-
day last, it might account for the deficiency.
Mr.. Kemble suggested that unless some
one had been tampering with the water, the
Chief Engineer must certainly know the rea-
son of the difficulty, having so thorough a
knowledge of the system. Other gentlemen
said that the supply had been growing shorter
and shorter for the last three years, and it
eliminated on Saturday last, though it had
been somewhat better since. 1t was very
serious matter, and if on Saturday last fire
had occurred in this neighborhood there
would have been no water to extinguish it.
1t placed a number of families in great dan
ger of explosions of boilers.
Mr. Kemble offered a resolution that, as
the Chief Engineer had admitted his inability
to give any satisfactory reasons for the sud-
den failure of the supply of water for the
Fifteenth ward, that Councils be requested to
appoint a commission of competent engi-
neers to examine into and report upon it, 1t
was adopted, and the meeting adjourned.
The following cases were admitted to the
Pennsylvania Hospital yesterday:-Julia Nc
Laughlin, aged nine years, living at Third
and German streets, arm fractured. John
Roberts, aged twenty-one years. residing at
Front and Mead alley, arm fractured.
The TELEGRAPH of Tuesday contained a
reference to the discovery, in Kersey Dam, on
the road from Carlesburg to Frederick, in
Kent county, Delaware, of the body of a
peddler, supposed to be Thomas Hogan of
Philadelphia. The description then published
has led Mr.. Martin Cranston, tinsmith, No.
707 Shippen street, to come forward and state
L
Hogan, who for ten years has been living
with him as boarder. Hogan, who was
formerly sailor, was in the frequent habit
of visiting Delaware for the purpose of col
lecting muskrat skins, and he left Mr.. Gran
ston's on his last trip on Tuesday, the 18th
inst. (the body was found on the 10TH, and
his absence over one week, his usual trip, first
occasioned alarm. He was man about fifty
years of age, sober and Industrious, and not
in the habit of carrying with him more money
than was necessary to make his small pur-
chases of skins. Parties who know Thomas
Hogan will to-day visit the place where the
body now is for the purpose of identify
ing it.
Between II and ~ o'clock on Tuesday
night, as Mr.. Fales and his wife were ap-
preaching their home on Forty-tirs street,
above the Lancaster Pike, man stepped out
from place of concealment and told Mr..
Fales to stop. The sudden appearance of the
man and his manner alarmed Mrs. Fales, and
she ran up the street, followed by her hus-
band. The highwaymen went a short dis.
tance after them, and then turned back. Mrs.
Fales was 80 much overcome with terror that
she dropped her muff and shawl in the street,
and before reaching her own door she
tainted and remained unconscious for some
time.
Yesterday morning, Michael Mohan, re
siding in Maple street, below Melvale, en-
gagged in a quarrel with his wife. In the
course of the conflict he was struck in tn,
breast and thrown down, and in falling he
fractured his thigh, He was removed to the
Episcopal Hospital. His wife was arrested
and held for hearing.