The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-09
The amounts appropriated are

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| Salaries ............ .......... $500
Bridges ...,...................,.. 2OOO
Streets and ALLEYS .......... 10 500
| Fifth avenue sewer. .......-.....-..-. 600O
| Offices, etc. ................. 1900
Health .... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Lulu
Contingent $500
Water works ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 900
Emergency .................... 7100
Total. ...................... s1o5, sou
The total amount that can be appropri-
ated under the existing law is $105, 1903,
so there remains S. unappropriated.
Alderman Warnock moved that it be
the sense of the council that the road tax
be collected this year; carried. Ayes
Warnock. Gray, Collins, hitman, Rel
mers, Hull, Sinnet, and the mayors.
Nays-Stengel, Bennett, Henry, ladders,
Cavanaugh. Larkin, Cary.
Ira A Holly made the following report
as to the condition of the water works:
GENTLEMEN:-At the request of his
honor the Mayor, have made thorough
examination of your waterworks machin-
cry and beg leave to report you as follows
| visited your works on Wednesday morn
ing at ! O'Clock and found the engines
running thirty -six revolutions per minute
with three pumps attached, which would
indicate, if the pumps were in good work
ing, Older supply Off, 944 gallons pei
minute, or fifty four gallons per revC
revolution, or supply of 2,799,3f
gallons per twenty-four hours, which was
nearly double the amount of water that
should be pumped AT that time of night
| made some little enquiry of the engi-
neers and superintendent in charge, and
and asked them if they had been pumping
that amount of water every day since they
| took charge of the works, and their reply
was that they were only running two
pumps when they first commenced but
that they had to put on an other pump
within the last day or two to keep up the
supply and not run the engines so fast
| Wednesday afternoon | made a partial
examination of the left front pump, and
in the valve chambers and under both the
suction and discharge valves | found piece
of bark from the size of nickle up to the
size of my hand After meking an exam
nation of all the valves / made an exam
of the suction chamber, and found them
| literally filled with pieces of timber, bark,
shells, gravel, sand, mussels, turtle shells,
fish bones, and the last, but by no means
theleast, a huge or monster catfish which
weighed fifty one pounds, and which re
quired the strength of two able bodied
men with crow bars to get him out OF tho
pump or suction chamber. This fish haC
to travel at least six feet through a pipt
| only ten inchs in diameter. After gett nG
| this fish and wood etc, out of the pump:
started the engines up with two pumps
and at 10 O'Clock last night. They were
running at q speed of twelve revolutions
per minute, showing reduction of speed
of two-thirds of twentyfour revolutions
per minute and reduction of 1879 gal
Ions per minute, or at this rate of speed
AIT $50 gallons per twenty-four hours
this showing that they were terribly W
with something that prevented them from
getting full supply of water. l wish t.
state here that | have found no evidence
of the pumps or any machinery being
| tempered with except by that monstc
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valve seeds in feed pump badlo worn, anC
have ordered new one the same; have
also ordered eight new valves and brass
bolts for main pumps. / beg leave tC
make the following Recommendation
l. That you have the well thorough
ly cleaned, and that you have copper
wire screen made IN place of the one yor
are. now using, and the mesh of the screer
to be not over three-eights of an inch
square.
2. That you cover over the well OF
top on the outside of the building will
plank to prevent anything being thrown
in there.
g. That you have suitable iron lat
ltice or screened crib put over the enc
of infinent pipe, and have at least tw,
thousand one half inch holes drilled IL
same, and plug up the end of SAINT
pipe,
A. / would further recommend tina
you hire of the Holly Manufacturing Co.
a thorough machinest and engineer, OF
some one who is perfectly familiar will
the Holly machinery, for at least one veal
to instruct your Superintendent ant
engineer, the manner and mode O
running these engines in order to havt
the engines do work economically and b,
ready at all times to respond to fir
alarm quickly and with plenty of waite
lpower do not consider the city SAT-
with all new men in charge of your ma
chinery, not but what you may have 81
good lot of engineers as you could hav
got, but it would be utterly impossible
for competent man to learn any new Sc
of engineers, who have never run thi
style of engine in less than six months 81
that he could safely leave them in charg
of the same. / would also Recommend
that there be a meter attached to the fec
water of the boiler and all of coal an,
ashes weighed, so that your engineer ma,
know Just what number of pounds o
water they are evaporating with eacl
pound of coal, also that there be per
feet record of every days work.
/ have connected up all the pumps thi
forenoon ana opened one opening, or tw,
separate MIGRANTS, and with pressure O
eighty to ninety pounds the engines mad
thirty four revolutions per minute, show
ing that the pumps are just as good nov
as when started and they will remain $
for many years to come if you can pre-
vent the refuse from getting into them
commenced this afternoon at 90 t
make steam test of six good fire strear
but after running ten minutes with fiv
streams on and at pressure of 10
| pounds to the square inch there was
lsixteen-inch main burst close to tn