The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1894-12-08
WATER WORKS ORDNANCE.
lPUBLisHED BY AurHoRIrY.l

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Section ]. Be ii ordained by the Citv
council OF Greenville, Miss. That Theo
rohi, J. X. Yerger and H. Il. Ireys. In
oe and they are hereby appointed Com,
nlssl0ners OF Election for the purnose ~
holding a Special Election for yotinr on
water Works contract between tha
xi'y OF Greenville and Wingfield & El-
us. said election to be held ut the City
Hell In said City on TUESDAY, THE Ism
DAY OF DECEMBER, 1891.
See. z. BE 1t further ordained. That
Iheo. Pohl, one Of the Commissioners
hereby appointed. be and he Is hereby
designated and charged with the duty of
having the necessary ballots printed for
use In the aforesaid election.
Sec. 3. Be II further ordained. That
II shall be and Is hereby made the dutv
OF .he Election Commission to supervise
and revise the last registration OF the
City OF Greenville and strike from the
same the names Of all disqualified or
deceased parties.
Sec. 4. BE 1t further ordained, That
said election shall be held In the same
manner as general municipal elections.
Attest: j. III. LEE. Clerk.
AN ORDINANCE, providing for supply OF water
Tor the City Of Greenvllle, Washington Coun-
", Mississippi. authorizing NIsbet Wing
neio and John x Ellis, OF Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, their associates, successors or assign.
20 construct, msintaIn and operate Water
works, defining their rights. duties, privileges
ana powers, contracting for supply OF water
ior public use and giving the said City Of
Sreenville an option to purchase said works.
section l. Be i ordained by the City Council
OF ofGreenville. Washington County, Mississippi:
That there Is hereby granted to Sisbet Wing
Held and John II. Ellis. their associates, sue
cessors or assigns, the privilege Of establishing.
maintaining and operating water works within
or near the City Of Greenville, Washington
County Mississippi for twenty-five years from
and after the passage ofthis ordinance, and for
supplying said city and its Inhabitants with
water 10 be taken from the most available
source. either wells or river, which shall be
settled or filtered, II needed. to render II good
and wholesome for public and private use, and
wnich snail be ample In quantity to supply al
requirements both for hre purposes and domes-
tic consumption; and to use the streets, alleys,
sidewalks and public grounds Of the said City
I fGreenvile within It's present and future cor
porate limits for placing. taking up and repair
Ing mains, hydrants, or other structures and
devices requisite for the service OF water.
Sec. 2. Be It further ordained, That the said
works shall be perfect and complete In all de-
tailsi that the buildings shall be Of brick or
stone with brick or metal roof, and Of ample
size to accommodate the machinery; that there
shall be two compound duplex pumping en-
gines Of medern make, each pump having ten
Inch high pressure steam cylinders, sixteen
Inch low pressure steam cylinders, ten inch
pump cylinders, and Gil twelve inch stroke, and
each pump having capacity OF at least Seven
Hundred and Fifty gallons per minute or Eleven
Hundred and Fifty Thousand gallons U. 3. per
day Of twenty-lour hours against pressure OF
One Hundred pounds to the square inch, or
such greater capacity as may be necessary to
furnish an ample water supply for public and
private use; that there shall be two boilers each
sixty inches in diameter and sixteen feet long
with the proper number OF tubes, and these
boilers shall be so set that either or both car be
fred at pleasure and shall be so connected to
the pumps by steam pipes and valves that either
boiler can be used with either pump or both
together, and there shall be two boiler feed
pumps. SO that In case one Is disabled the other
can be used, and everything essential to the
operation OF the station shall be so arranged
and duplicated that the liability to accident
shall be reduced to the minimum, and the pump
and boiler power shall be increased periodical
ly as the growth Of the city may needi that the
boilers shall be kept under full pressure oil
steam at all times and the pump shall be run
through the twenty-four hours by
men who shall change Shifts and
here shall always be kept on the mains press
nre of forty pounds to the square Inch and during
Ghe progress ofa FIRE this shall be increased to
ninety pounds per square inch, and the machin-
NY shall be so constructed that this increase OF
PRESSURE can be put on within two minutes from
he time the alarm is given; and gauge or
raures showing the pressure Of the water in the
mains shall at all times be kept In some place
,pen and convenient to the inspection Of the
,ublic, but such gauge or gauges shall be under
he entire control of the grantees, their sssoci-
ties, successors or assigns.
Sec. 5. Be 1t further ordained. That all mains
hall be of suitable size to furnish an abundant
Iupply Of water, and of The entire system herein
contracted for there shall be at least eight miles
n pipe Of diameter not less than six inches,
md the mains shall be so tied up that there
hall be the least possible danger of accident or
allure of water by the breakage Of any pipe,
md all mains shall be placed In trencnes Oh
,uficient depth to allow at least two feet Of
,over said mains shall be tested OF the place