Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-15
SOuthsiders Dissatisfied With Hunt e.
Clapp'S Report Of Their Water
Examination.
THEY ARE PREPARING A PETITION
Asking That Microscopic Analysis of the
Water be Made by the Council.
manic Committee.
TO BE PRESENTED BY DIR. BREWSTER.
Opinions of Representative Citizens the Result Of the
Committees Work

The result of the chemical analysis Of the
Southside water has created so much dis
satisfaction on that side of the river that a
petition is being prepared. which Dr.
Brewster, Councilman OF the Twenty-ninth
ward, will be asked to present to Councils,
asking that a microseopicGl analysis be
made. Expressions of dissatisfaction could
be heard on all sides yesterday. The citi-
zens are greatly stirred up over the matter
and it is safe to say that when the committee
meets next Saturday it will not need to in
vite the Southsiders to state their grievances.
They will be present and Will not wait for
the invitation.
The chief objection to the work OF the In
vestigating Committee is the fact that they
secured chemical analysis of the water.
"Not only as Councilman, but as citizen
will not be satisfied with that kind of an
investigation" said Or. Brewster, last
night "The chemicals that were used in
making the examination may have killed
the very matters that were expected to be
found. Then again organic matter, the i'm
purties which contain the most dangerous
disease germs,
CANNOT BE DETECTED
bv Q chemical analysis So | cannot see
what good the examination has been. We
are Just where we were. Mr.. Atterbury has
always said the Monongahela water was the
second in qual!tv and purity in the country,
and suppose we will have to accept it as
such now. But we have had microscopic
analysis of the water before, and we know
better"
DR.. McCord. Councilman from the Thir-
tieth ward, is not very well pleased either.
He has no fault to find with the chemist, but
has grave doubts as to the condition of the
water from the standpoint OF purity. The
water contains much that the chemists said
nothing about, and he is not at all satisfied
with the report of the chemists.
a. A. Allies, the real estate agent, said:
II don't care what the result of the exami-
nation is, am satisfied the water is bad. 1
have lost tenants through 1t. People have
rented houses from me and have moved to
the hill districts to the Old City or ALE
gheny. Many have moved away again and
others threaten to go. The long and short
VI IL IL, luG COuulllOu VI lu6 HdbeT Is
hindrance:to the real estate business on this
side AMI it will not improve until they give
us better water
REAL ESTATE DEPRECIATING.
81 know l have lost sales of property
through it, and it crops out as one of the
difficult questions to answer in every deal
We make, especially with people coming
from any other section OF the city,"
c. E. Succop said he could not see where
the benefit would come from the present ex-
animation. He had all respect for the
chemists who did tine work, but in his judg-
ment mistake had been made by the COM
mittee in ordering a chemical analysis. An
other thing he noticed, that these examina-
tions are invariably made when the river is
high and when the water is in its best con-
dition. There can be no question as to the
waters condition, but 1 suppose this is an
other of those periodical agitations that
spring up for time ard then die away
without resulting in any good, and the peo-
pie must continue to use bad water.
The position OF DR.. E. A. Mundorf is so
we'll known that call upon him was
unnecessary. He has made several micro
scopieal analyses of the Southside water.
taken from various points and at different
periods of the year, when the water was in
various conditions. He has made the |
Southside water almost life study. and in
a recent interview with a DISPATCH
reporter said the water was so full of
organic matter, and the conditions sur
rounding it such that the city never will
get pure supply of water without going to
some one of the lakes for it,
ALL ARE DISSATISFIED.
Several other citizens were spoken to.
All we're dissatisfied with the result of the
present examination, and even 1ntimated
that If a new analysis is not ordered, they
will start a popular subscription for the |
purpose of collecting funds to have micro
scopic analysis made. And they will not
get the work done in Pittsburg, either, |
Samples will be procured when the river is |
in its ordinary condition, and they will be |
sent away for examination, leaving those |
who do the work in total ignorance of where |
the samples come from, or why the examina- |
tion is being made.
1t will not be difficult to raise the amount |
Of money necessary to do this There are |
citizens on the Southside who are so dis |
eouraged over the water question that they |
will 60 to almost any extreme if there are |
any prospects for an Improvement in sight, |
They raised enough money a week or two |
ago in hall days time to put down a test |
we'll to be drilled in the Twenty-sixth ward. |
and work on the we'll will be commenced |
this week. The well will be drilled on |
Sarah street, near the Twenty-sixth ward |
schoolhouse.