Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-25
NEW hAvEN'S TOWN PUMP.
Yielding Hot Water At One Spout and
Pure Cold Water at the Other.
New Haven Cor. N. Y. Star. ]

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New Haven Cor. N. Y. STAR
The students and the faculty Of Yale
and the town born" Of the city are pUz-
zled over the conduct OF the old town pump
on the historic Green, which for some time
has been emitting hot water out OF its Tenn
pie street spout and pure cold water, as
usual, ont of it's Church street nozzle, and
SO far there has been no satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION OF the phenomenon.
The New Haven town pump is famous
principally for the quality OF its water,
and for the number OF times IL has been
stolen by skylar king students. Ii stands
fifty rods from the college campus, On the
lower corner of the Green, and Is
tall and ponderous wooden structure
of the seventeenth century, with two
handles, two spouts and two iron drs.kins
cups. The city does not replace 1t with a
modern style iron pump because thase
freeze up in winter and are too cuIuher-
some for the students to lug away. And
SO New Haven people reach up for the long
hickory pump brakes by the thousands in
summer and by the hundreds In wiSter.
Some of the old business men of the place
always stop there to drink on their way
down town from dinner.
Originally the site OF the pump was
cold and limpid spring, ,fr:agsd with aIders,
and near the center of tho nine sGisres
originally laid out. The alder grove was
famous trysting- place aud existed for
years. The spring was walled up In two
sections, and the pump was set up abeHt
the time Yale College was located here.
The students have been stealing it semi
occasionally ever since.
Z Prof. Daniel c. Eaton, of Yale, was at a
loss to account for the aqueous freak OF the
old pump. Never before in his recollection
had there been any such complaint. He
was 10th TO believe the stories about his old
friend at first, but stepping d2 to the
shackly Temple street brake he applied
his right hand to it with vigor, while with
his left,he extended the iron tanka-d under
the nozzle. A stream Of tepid wafer shot
into the cup, smoking with heat in the
cold air. 1t was nauseatingly walm and
strongly impregnated with minerals. Then
the Professor went round to the Church
street side and yanked at the brake.
Here he procured a cup OF ice-cold
water that sparkled in the su8hght.
~ can't account for the phenomenon"
said he. II do not think, however, tSat it
may be attributed to any volcanic or other
subterranean action"
The Professor indicated that bot and
cold springs side by side were not tc be
looked for in that part of the country.
At times the Temple street spout yields
water that is so hot IA to be scalding. Bdsh
streams come from the same source, though
the spring is divided by a we'll from t"e
bottom. Why the water should be hot is =
mystery. But why such marked differ
ence should exist in samples drawn from
the same well through two pumps set over
it is a much greater one. There is a theory
that the water may be heated from one OF
the Chapel street steam heat pipes, but
this Is half block away. A leak in the
pipe might cause the heat but this is held
to be impossible, and the town fathers will
be asked TO dig up the well to see what is
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