Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-03
NOW WATER WORKS
SOME OF THE PUMPING STATION ENGINE
STARTED YESTERDAY,
In ths Presence Of The Members Of Inc New Water
Board, Superintendent Varnsy and Other
Interested Persons - The Test a
Satisfactory One.

Satisfactory Cns.
The contract between the Water
Board and the Holly Manufacturing
Company, entered into more than q
year ago. stipulated that the machinery
at the new pumping station, north Of
the city limits, should be in shape to
pump water on the first Of October.
Yesterday was practically the first OF
the month, which came in on Sunday
and the machinery was in readiness
enough being ready to pump seven and
a haf.million gallons in twenty-iour
hours, had that severe test been neces-
sary. The remaining machinery is be-
ing rapidly set in place, and in a very
short space Of time the plant will be
complete and will be accepted formally
by the Board, and the venerable pile az
the foot Of Eighth street will cease oper-
ations after an almost continuous RI"
Of half 8 century, and will go out % GA
istence as tho city water works pump
ing station.
Several DAVIS ago tue REGISTER chron-
icled tina raising Of steam for the nrst
time a. tbe new plant, and then an
nouDced mat the first and formal test
~ the engines would be made yeSter-
dav Early in the afternoon the mem
hers Of the City Water Board, Superin-
,endent Varney, aud various contrac-
tors who have been engaged upon the
work, as we'll as representatives OF the
Holly Manufacturing Company, assem-
bled at the new pumping STA
tion, to see the first mo-
tions Of the new engines. Steam
was up in the big battery Of boilers, and
after the last adjustment or the ma
chinery had been made the engine hrst
set m was started and was given u most
satisfactory run, everything about the
machinery working in the most salts
factory inner The engine was run
for quite o time, being given thor
ough test, and the members OF the
Board and others present were OF the
opinion that the terms OF the contract 4
been met in q very satisfactory manner
In view Of the many difficulties n &C.
laws encountered in the work. The en-
CINE will not be ran regularly for sew
eral DAYS, as some work has TO be done
upon the pipe line before water can be
sent through IL 70 the new reservoir,
hit this work is Of but a trifing char
acter. and 10 is likely that IN another
week the pumping machinery VIII be
running and the big reservoir on top or
the Hill will be full and ready for ser
vice.
Including the cost OF the reservoir,
the new water works plant has cost the
city something Owe a quarter or q
million dollars, it constituting by Tar
the most important improvement the
city has made during recent years, and
represents more money than the city
has ever put into one item Of improve
ment. With this plant in running or
der. Wheeling will have a water works
only exceeded in size by about four
throughout the whole extent Of the Ohio
Valley, from Pittsburg to Cairo,
q distance OF a thousand miles,
and will be in much better shape
than az any time In the history or the
city, not only as regards a water sup
ply for potable purposes, but also as
regards fre-fghting abilities. The
pressure from the new reservoir will be
such IS to make a plug stream" equal
I'm force and volume 10 the best work or
many steam fire engine, and on the
Island aud South Side especially, water
can be thrown on top Of all but the
very tallest structures without the aid
of q steamer at all.
one of the greatest advantages will
be the supplying OF water to the hill
side residents OF the city. Dwellings
which have been erected high above
the level of the old reservoir, and to
which every drop Of water used had to
be laboriously carried, will now have
an abundant supply, and the sccruing
advantage will be great.