Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-08-29
A clTY's WATER SUPPLY IN TANKS.
Novel scheme "a Convey water from
Lake Ontario 10 Rochester.

Lake Ontario 10 Rochester.
BY farthc most novel suggestion that
has yet been Offered for Supplying
Rochester with additional water is the
following:
The proposal Is, in brief, to bring the
water from Lake Ontario by means of
tank ears running ON "A railroad.
In explaining the proposal the pro-
jector said: Since the idea first oc-
Cured to me | have looked at it from
all points, and the more | think Of il
the better il plcases me. But whether
it will be found practical or not re
mains To be seeii. The engineers can
no doubt easily calculate the cost, and
that is the only feature that | am in
fear about. As it is, after a rough cal
culation | estimate that this plan will
give this city and other places pure wa,
ter at low price and in unlimited guam
tity. The whole plan Is to bring the
water in a vessel made for the purpose
from a point in the lake SO far from
shore that there will be no chance of ii
containing impurities.
''The vessel would be somewhat on
the plan 81 the toats used in New
York for carrying garbage out to sea
and dropping it in the ocean through
the bottom "a tie vessel. In the case
Of my ship the cargo. instead Of being
taken to sea. would be brought from
sea TO shore, and in place Of entering
the hold through the matches would
some in through a trap in the bottom.
When We had our vessel full Of the pure
and sparkling water We would tow il to
the harbor by a tug, and pump the
water into tank cars specially made for
the purpose and running like ordinary
freight ears on the common track. The
cars could be provided with trap doors
or valves through which to discharge
their liquid contents into a reservoir
over which the train would run. Just as
q coal or wheat ear ruus and drops its
load. This plan. OF course, would only
be adopted where the system was TO be
applied on a large scale. Where the
idea was to be ad Opted as a temporary
expedient the water could be pumped
from the ears d rectly into the mains
of the town.
Now for SOM figures in regard 10 the
scheme The railroads carry freight at
q profit for half "A cent a ton per mile.
A ton of water contains 2S5 gallons, S
that, allowinI so gallons Of water TO each
person. the railroad would carry n sup
ply for a family of five the distance Of
a mile for half a cent. Ii would cost
8 1-2 cents n freight from the lake To
Rochester, assuming that the distance
is seven miles. Thirty ton is IN or,li-
nary load of Goals on a gondola ear,
and a locomotive would have no diff.
Guilty in drawing a train ~ twenty ears.
or GOO tons, holding l1l. 01O gallons. II
one train made twelve "trip. a day-a
moderate estimate for n run of seven
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