The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-23
THE WATER METER.
Property Owners Generally Do Not
Take Kindly TO Them.

Take Kindly to Them
Water consumers are very much inter-
ested in the outcome of the resolution of
Alderman Carson looking to the adoption
OF the water meter system. The propcsi-
ton to adopt the plan which Atlanta
adopted of requiring water consumers to
pay for water meters to register the volume
OF water they use is not received with
favor, and if council should adopt the
meter system it would lead to a
vigorous kick. In fact, a great many
say that no council will ever
be reelected that compels the
consumers to pay for the meters. They say
that they pay for the water. and if the city
wants to sell it by measure the city ought
to furnish the measuring apparatus, on the
same principle of the gas and electric COM
pany's method, which do not require their
customers to buy meters.
1t is doubtful IL the committee to which
was referred the task of furnishing the
council with water meters, putting the
latter in, etc., will be prepared TO report at
the meeting of council on Wednesday after
noon, as it will take some time to collect all
the information desired, which must princi-
pally be obtained by correspondence.
The water meter, wherever IL is used,
seems to be the butt of as much ridicule and
execration as the gas meter, which it closely
resembles. Probably it does not deserve all
the bad things said about il, but those well
informed say water meter sometimes be-
comes as obstreperous as a Tennessee mule
or Texas broncho, a1d rattles off on a
schedule of its own, defying the house
keeper and the plumber, and a wicked
member of the Spoopendyke family is said
TO have kicked his water meter into the
street without discouraging 1t in
the least. as it cheerfully went
flow until it had been blown up with dyna-
mite, after having first registered water
enough to have flooded the world again.
Probably the writer had sad experience
with a double-action water meter, or he
would never have indited the following
slanderous etfusion on the water meter:
I'm wicked water meter, a Pharisaic water
meter, with a face of white enamel, hard
enamel, trimmed with brass;
But mar the soft expression Of painted
Simon Peter, looking OUT into the future
like goldfish through a glass
Clickl
AS patent fact distorter and STAINLESS story
teller can beat circus porter or stable
auctioneer;
For grind such tough variations in my corner
in the cellar, you may scrape a Beadle
novel from the members of my gear
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Should the people rise and clamor, loudly
clamor for reduction; should the board of
supervisors fix the water rate too low,
By an esoteric hammer, most ingenious In con-
struction, proceed to raise my figure in
opposing ratio
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But 1 rarely, very rarely, need to exercise this
power. for the board and my employers
Keep the water rate secure.
On, they cuddle close together, Just like chick
ems in a shower, aud they yank the mighty
dollar from the pockets Of the poor
Clickl
When water main is leaking in the avenue
- adjacent, and the company are doubtful
who to saddle with the cost,
l announce TO their Inspector with counte-
nance complacent, that I've swallowed and
digested every gallon that was lost
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When it happens that the carcass of an infant
alligator plays the mischief with my vitals
in its efforts to get through,
1 record the strange occurrences on my brass
bound indicator by the fraudulent addition
OF hundred feet or two
C-l-i-c-k!
oh, the miasmatic matter and the poison which
scatter with the simple name of water
unadulterated. purel
While my friend, the undertaken, wakes richer.
sleeker, fatter, and the druggists wife and
daughter take European tour
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Oh, often pause and wonder as ponder DER 1
my plumber, pause and wonder why in
thunder honest people let me lie;
why they do not rise in anger, tear me limb
from-limb asunder and adopt a water
meter more ingenious than /
Click!