Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19

water, clear, pure cold water. The price
less liquid is housed in deep pool, which
Is lined with moss and pebbles and shaded
bv a clump of friendly willows The
skilled hands of friendly man have further
protected it by wall of granite and shell
tered it from the gaze of the curious by q
covering of oaken planks. Furthermore,
this regal gift of nature is located in a
secluded spot, 200 yards from the blistered
pavements of the busy street, protected
from the same by stout fence.
A Friend OF Thirsty Thousands.
Few of the many thirsty. travellers who
stop before the rusted iron pipe that
springs from the sidewalk and from the
mouth of which spurts the waters of the
spring in steady and never-ceasing stream
knows the source from which the blessing
comes.
The supply is enormous, but it hardly
equals the demand. From dawn until long
after midnight that half-inch pipe is en-
girdled by circle of parched humanity
There are old men with jugs and dinner
pals; women of all ages and conditions,
pallid and overdressed dudes with pocket
TASKS and children with battered tomato
cans
1t is well worth the trip from the lower
sections of the town to gain a glimpse of
miss the spring for every cable car running
out Fifth avenue pauses in Its flight before
the pipe. The conductor and the gripman
religiously alights and drain big cups of the
water, and a ma ajority of the male passengers
follow their example And the Greystone
is a democratic spring If there ever was one
Not content with satisfying the army of
thirsty bipeds it fills the buckets of teams
tiers. Tne horses, wise brutes that they
H..
vagrant cows in the neighborhood make
daily pilgrimages to the spring In word,
every living thing who has once patronized
Greystone straightway become regular
patrons
Despite the fact that it has been doing
business ct the old stand for so many wears
the spring is just beginning to attract atten-
tion. The people living in the East End,
the cable car men and the men and women
who frequent that section of Fifth avenue
are familiar with its vesture, but there are
thousands who live down town and across
the river who are unacquainted with it
What scientists Say.
But brighter day is dawning for the
Greystone, the skilled men of science. and
the men of medicine are mainly responsible
for this pleasant transformation. DR., f.
lie Moyne, of the East End, orders his
patients to drink no other wafer, as does
DR. Edward Mathiot, who has thoroughly
tested it. DIR. Otto Wuth, the chemist,
who has made careful analysis of the
water. also recommends it most highly In
an interview with DISPATCH reporter he
said: The amount of organic matter is
not greater than that found in carefully dis
titled water, and is of vegetable origin. 1t
would be impossible to find a better drink
ing water anywhere"
An enterprising grocer who has shop on
Fifth avenue near the spring bottles the
water, having leased the privilege, and
sells it to his customers for IL cents per
gallon.
Found by General Howe.
The history of the spring can be told in a
single paragraph. Twenty-six years ago
the late General T. NJ. Howe bought the
land which the spring is located and
built a great stone house. He named the
place Grevstone. A month later he discov-
cred the spring, together with another,
which is located about 600 yards from the
Greystone-
This is the plain, unvarnished story of
Greystone Spring. story which will be
read with more than passing interest in