Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-25
THE so7, 900 LOAN.
KEAsUNs rOK APPROVAL OF IT.
Mr.. Schlelch Warmly Recommends Its ror
ular Endorsement

Mr.. schlsieh Warmly Recommends Its rop.
uiar Endorsement.
LANCASTER, Jan. "a, 1882.
EDITORS INTEIIIGENCER The voters
OF the city of Lancaster should vote for the
city to borrow sG7, 900 to be used in put
ting an additional six million gallon WOr.
thington steam pump in the water works,
and for laying a twenty-inch main Oh
Orange street, from Lime to Charlotte
street, for the following reasons, viz:
I. Because the present pumping power
at the water works ought not to be wholly
depended upon to supply this city, as in
July and August 1880, while the repairs
of the eastern reservoir were going on, the
three million gallon Worthington pump
doing its very best could not supply water
to the western reservoir from to II a.
m, and from to 6 p. M, as fast as con-
sumed. In other words, the water fell
about one inch per hour for four hours in
the morning and four hours in the after
noon, although tho pump all the time
threw at the rate of 5000, 900 gallons in
twenty four hours Gts full capacity.
.. Because, although the boilers and
pumps, at the water works are doing all
they can. it is not wise or prudent to have
no reserve power to fall back cn, in case
of accident. Boilers ard pumps, no mat g.
ter how we'll and carefully constructed,
will give out in time, and that time may
be very short, when they are used almost
constantly to their utmost capacity.
3. Because the water pumps have
ceased to be reliable as means Of supply,
as during the summer Of 1880 they were
entirely useless.
4. Because, should any serious accident
occur to the boilers or pumps at present in
the water works it might be the cause of
most disastrous results, rs there is no re-
serve to fall back on.
5. Because the Worthington pump in,
tended to be purchased and put in at the
water works works excelently and very
economically.
&. Because if Il six million gallon WORTH
ington steam pump is put in the water
works and twenty inch main is laid on
Orange street, it will or may prevcn. an
Indebtedness to the city within the next
thirty years Of half million of dollars
and the increase Of tax it would occasion.
:. Because it will give the people of this
city good supply Of water for the next
thirty years or more.
s. Because the people OF this city want
this city to prosper and the number OF
manufacturing establishments to increase.
They must have good supply Of water.
1t is the water of the Conestoga creek that
has made this city what it is. If we had
no water we would have no cotton mills,
no rolling mills, SC.
9. Because good supply Of water is
necessary in extinguishing large fires, such
as cork works, &c.
10. Because it will give tho people of
this city a good supply of water for the
next thirty years or more in the cheapest
way possible.
II. The twenty inch main should be laid
on Orange street, from Lime to Charlotte,
because as much as you increase the size
Of the main it amounts to the same thing
as if you had increased the size Of the
reservoirs that much.
1e. The twenty-inch main on Orange
street, from Lime to Charlotte street, will
give better supply of water to the cotton
mills and to the people in the higher points
of the western and northern parts of this
city, and therefore the people Of the west
ern and northern parts of this city should
vote for it, as is to their interest to vote
for it. Respectfully,
J. SCIH.E!CH.