, 1875-11-07

| TRIBUNE that the Board OF Trustees, the week
before 1aat, agreed informally that the
| members who felt disposed should re-
qneet any competent person Of their ac-
quaintanee to visit the Water Works, and, after
making careful examination Of the machinery
| and the assistant engineers IN charge, make =
report OF the result Of their observations to the
Board. This course was suggested by Mr.
| Trustee Kidder, Chairman OF tue Water-Works
Cnnzni1tae, whose management of the works
has baen se7erely criticised By some.
public, and OF putting stop to the
! rumo1s in circulation Tho other members OF
| the Board. with their customary lack Of back
[ bono" Wera diaincliued to make formal inves-
| tgaton OF the charges presented against the
| Committee by the former Chef Engineer, aad
hailed this proposition a5 an easy way OF escap-
ing their responsibility, and Of avoiding an i1-
vestigation unless it became impe1atlsely neeea-
| sary.
! Mr Trusted Kidder then announced that he
had requested Ar. Robert Commons, nelghbor
| sud competent engineer, to make such an e1am-
| ination IS he had proposed. and Trustee Wheel
er suggested that he would request Mr. Rice, =
ueighbor Of his, to do the same. The other
members appeared to manifest but little interest
IN the matter. aud no other names we're sug-
gested. MIR Commons, assisted by
IL. Andrew RitseE, made test
OF the works, and examined the assistant
ensipee1s as to their competency, week before
last, ard prepared 40 elaborate report, which
was handed to Ar. Trustee kidder Wednesday
morning.
Mr.. Kice also visited the works last Sunday,
and handed Trustee Wheeler . brief report. TEo
Board met Wednesday evening, and it waa e..
pected that these documents would be p:o, i.
Inquiry being made, Mr. Kldder said thar H:.
Commons had not reported.
There is no doubt that the pnb!ie is heartily
tired OF this Water-Worls suuabble, and it was
probably with view OF sparing the feelings OF
those who read the daily press that ALr. kidder
very considegateiy suppressed the report Of
Messrs Commons aud Ritter. But there be those
Unreasonable as the statement may seem) who
claim to believe that Ar. Trustee kidder sup
pressed this report, because, as he said On read
Ing it, II this is presented tonight, shall
reslgu." Sensible people, however, Will gym
have expected that those whom he selected to
make IN investigation. his neignbor and friend.
would have the temerisy to severely condemn
the management Of the Water-WoEks, and pro
noance the petted assi4tant engineers utterly
incompetent. No. he never coutd have expected
anything Like this, aud required time to reflect
before ras]ly thrustiug such one-sided report
upon an unsuepectiug public. Mf. Rlca's report
to Trustee Wheeler, though brief, was to the
GANG effect, aud the result Was grand sur
prize to the Water-HoFks Committee, who,
through Mr. Trustee Kidder, instead Of present.
ing the unfavorable reports Of these experts took
it upon themselves to say that affairs at the
Water-Works we're in = more satisfactory condi-
tion than ever before. But such are the officials
of Evanston
An UNEvExIFuL WEEK.
As;de from what has already been related, the
past week has been comparatively nnaventful
ono for Evanston. In fact, the staple sensations
OF the village seemed to have been exhausted,
aod the week juet closed seems to have wit
nessed the quletrde which always precedas
n ftdhi-TAyB OF new sensations, 1t |