Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-03-23
1T WINS WITH HANDS DOWN
"a RE>SEExVOHR WASN'T HN KIT
WITH THE STA<DPHPE.

The Joint Board. nv a Vote of SIX
TWO, Decides aO Accept the
Hssu of sH,e COnnerv ssosner Com
E.anV.
Mayor BIanton held handshaking
with those members of the Joint Board
whom he had not seen since his return,
at the meeting of Aldermen and Advisors
yesterday afternoon There were in
attendance Advisors Bcarden. Miller and
Cummings. and all of the Aldermen with
the exception of Alderman Gudger.
There was a very small attendance of
outsiders, and all those who were there
sat outside tho railing Janitor Erwin
had received orders te allow one
beside the officials and reporters to pass
the railinr. and he enforced he order.
1.-The object of this meeting.'' explained
Advisor Cummings upon request of the
Mayor, lis to consider the question of a
reservoir for he city of Asheville." "Or
n standpipe,'' chimed in Alderman Baird,
and it was seen at once that the stand
pipc had come out prepared to make a
struggle of it, if necessary. Mr.. Cum
mings, however, would not accept Mr..
Baird's amendment. mo" he said, ''the
old one fell down" But he evidently
event it Blind as the vote later
ShO wed.
Advisor Miller was the first speaker
H. said the city did not need a great deal
| of storage ca aPacity; in fact, but for the
need of pressure in case OF a fire, there
would be for a reservoir stand
pipe, because the water coul be pumped
| right into the city. a reservoir would
cost anyw here from So, 900 to $4,000.
He thought it best to economize in this
storage mat ter, and apply as much of
m 1hn as na TO seg
| mains. He declared himself in favor of
| a standp piI
| Advisor Cummings had by this time
| seen that he tide setting StandD1De-
| ward and lac talked manfu1ly against it.
| He thought the citv wanted sonnet hing
| more than ordinary StandPipe. Be-
| sides, the standpipe had proven itself
not t" he permanent. and, at best, the
stand is ID TO 15 years. On the other
| hand. a reservoir, If properly put in,
would last :, Thousand years or more.
| Mr.. Cummings VAS in favor of the res
| ervnir, strongly belle wing. he said
| that as Pru'tcnr business men the Board
| should provide a reservoir
| Alderman StarneS. who has champ
| toned he cause OF he standpipe when it
had few friends, rea fiji rned his faith in
the steel cylinder, aud made a motion
| that Cit, Engineer Lee be instructed to
| telegraph the Connery Boiler company
| lPhiladeiphia, that it's hid of So 800 TO,
| rebuilding the standpipe, 80 feet high
| 45 feet diam, ter. was accepted, pro
| vided the- c1,.lpanN would do the worl
| within 60 DAYS. This was seconded b,
Alderman Baird and carried by the fol
lowing vote: Ayes. Miller, Baird. Leon
ard, Mcdowell. Starnes, Bcarden; nays
-
The same company. tlI- Counerv, wher
| bids for re building were opened couple
of mont hs ago. offered to d" the work
for 81 $50. but the Board decided that il
did not want standpIpc. and the bic
was rcjec,sd- Since then the price has
been advanced to So, 800, SO that ths
city has finally tn Alder
Starnes idea, although 1t cost just $3.50
and some very va1ua ble time.
| The city engineer inst Trctcd to al
| once notify the Councrv company to h<
on hand and begin work soon as pos
sible.
special committee report next
Friday was appointed to look into thu
needs of certain streets in the way o
water main extension. The committee
| Messrs. Starnes, Baird, McDO well, Mil
Ter. Cummings and Green.
| On motion of Alderman Starnes th
city engineer was instructed to pur
tchase enough te.ra Gotta pipe from th
| Vanderbilt works to drain w alnut street
north side, between North Main ant
Water, and Water, east side, betweeI
| Walnut and HiawasSee Place
Mayor Blanton sand several prospect
i've bidders on the brick and granit
paving to be given out next month hat
| suggested that it would be better if tn
Board would extend the time f openin,
| bids, set for the 14th of April a
the Specifications had not been ready 70
distribution until the 21St-
w. R Penniman. jr., took the viev
that the Board. by extending the time
could get fuller competition. He ais
thought that, as the specifications ha
been so far behind time, it was due out
side bidders that the date be changed
He said the time was not sufficient for
bidder to make his calculations and pul
chase his IN ac hinery. etc. but Advise
| Miller said no bidder would get his ms
chinerv ready before ne was sure of ge
| ting the contract. Mr.. Penniman fu
| ther suggested that each contractor
| made file a bond. wit h peNalty. to do
: | certain amount of work Cvery fair da.
There motion to extend tt
| time for opening bids, so the chair ente
| taincd a motion to adjourn, and that
| wnat the meeting did.