Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-09-22
IT IS ONLY SPITE.'
That's What's the Matter
With Mr.. Thayer.
so SAYS SUPT. DARLING.
Entire Question Now in the Hands Of
the Water Commissioners.

known as the Lebanon mills, was con-
sumed, there has been considerable con-
troversy between Mr.. Thayer and Mr..
Darling, Superintendent Of the Water
Works, and the Board OF Water Commits
sioners about the water service afforded
and theifacilities for quenching a tire in
case OF a connagration.
A meeting OF the Board OF Water COM
missioners was called ana Mr.. Thayer
given hearing. He claimed that his
property was never properly protected
from fire because the water service was so
poor.
When the mills were burned the first
time, Mr.. Thayer said, Mr.. Darling, as
superintendent of the water works,
promised TO lay pipes and thus get more of
a pressure, and he had not done so.
Therefore, for the second time his build
ings are in ruins. Before he would build
again he wanted ample fire protection.
He said Mr.. Darling and other business
men OF this city were trying to get new
concerns TO locate, yet the manufactures
that wero always here and we're going to
stay were not properly protected.
gMr. Darling, at that hearing, claimed he
did all he agreed TO and said there was
ample fire protection for Mr.. Thayer or
anyone else.
The Board ordered test OF the water
pressure over there and It was held last
week. Tho showing was not as good as
was expected, not even by the Superinten
dent. The pressure was not a strong as
It should be, but for what reason they did
not know.
Mr.. Thayer then took occasion TO APP
peared in public print denouncing the
water service and said it was only in the
fertile imagination OF the superintendent
OF the water works that certain water
pipes, said by the latter to bo there,
existed.
Mr.. Darling was called on by TRIBUNE
man yesterday afternoon. He sat in his
office I'm the Miller Block busily at work
| at a desk over which was water gauge
which showed the pressure OF water in
| the city pipes at any and all times of the
day.
When shown tho article he laughed and
| said:
"Mr. Thayer is not making this trouble
on account OF the water service or any
thing OF the kind It Is only the way he
has taken to vent his personal spite
against me.
"My attention was called TO this article
today by Mr.. Arnold. / have nothing to
say about the matter. Mr.. Thayer has
been giving hearing, the water service
has been tested and now the matter Is in
the hands OF the Water Commissioners
and they will make a report in due time.
at is true the test was not as good rs ]
expected, but there is something wrong
with the hydrant and have men looking
the matter up today. | believe there is
some stone in the pipe and it will be
taken up and examined.
81 have done all ever promised Mr..
Thayer l would do, and when he says
that that stand pipe existed only in my
fertile Imagination he is very much mis-
taken. There was stand pipe and the
gate that he should have hand handy to
shut tho water off from the four-inch
pipe I'm case of fire, was in the furnace
room and could not be worked. The
water was not shut off until reached
there and then there were four good
streams, but II was too late to save the
mill.
"IIe had force pump In tho mill but
never used it. There were two openings
to the four-inch pipe. One was for
meter and the other was plugged up. II
Mr.. Thayer had only spent a couple OF
dollars and put a hose coupling on to the
plugged up end, the mill could have been
saved. Why, II the watchman had a pail
OF water or garden hose when he dis
covered the fire, he could have extin-
guished it. Ii was no bigger than a
bushel basket when first seen, but there
was nothing to work with.
ale had no hose there. All the hose he
had was furnished him by tho city (only
100 feet OF linen hose, and when the men
went to use that II burst In dozen places
He kept that hose locked up in a cellar
and now wants Blodgett & Orswell to pay
for 1t.
"He says II is his business how he pro-
tects his property. / am sure IL he don't
protect 1t the city will not. l have got
pipes on tho street back OF his property
within 1 100 feet o. his mill but he wont
believe IL.
"Mr. Thayer has always opposed me
and it is only personal spite. | am ready
to stand on my own record and 1 don't
wish to have anything to say i'm the mat
ter. Find out all you can anywhere else,
but don't ask me. The matter Is in the
hands of the Board of Water Commis-
sioners and they will make report
later"
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