Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-26

reaehedby any one of the.six streams turned on, This they were able to maintain for about ten minutes, when. no doubt realizing their in- ability to continue longer, orders were given the engineer at the works by an agent of the company to shut down. and We were unable to apply the test any further.
 What principal cause do you as- sign for their failure To supply the necessary water fordomestic and fire pHpases?'
 Al first twas believed to he due to q scarcity of water in the wells; late developments go to show that such k probably the ease, for just prior 10 July and during the dryest season of the year the City Council directed the Mayor te notify the Water X Light Company that owing to their continued failure to supply the necessary water for fire and other purposes no fur thcf bills for N ater would be allowed or paid by the city. Inn mediately after the giving of this notice the pressure which for two weeks previous had stood at less than 10 pounds on the gauge, began gradually to crawl up until the av- yerage daily pressure from June 20 to July 10 reached B pounds-thus demonstrating, in a measure, that water could be gotten if necessary. From all l can learn the failure is due more largely to the picayunish and economical manner in which the works are carried on, rather than a lack of water in the wells. The company's high-handed determina- tion to make money for their stock holders feven at the dissatisfaction and deprivation of their patrons,) ) seems t0 be all object paramount to everything else. Their Acting Super intcndent. Mr Lee, had the audacity to notify the Mayor of this city on yesttrday that if another attempt to test the works was made every fire plug in the city would be immediately dismanteled and the city deprived entirely of further use of the water. Such an indignant and high handed outrage on the part of a water companys official was, per ! I,ff ,fts1 ation gathered concerning the rights and privileges enjoyed by other cit ics we find that nowhere is the Chief of the Fire Department cstopped from the free and unlimited use of water for all tests, practice drills or experiments with fire companies ua- der their control, and in no city can we find where the pressure for do- mestic or fire purposes is less than 70 l pounds, except here in Pine Blnff.and 1 here we often have none at all. So arrogant and independent are the managers Of the water-works at this place that even the Chief of the Fire Department, whose duty it is to make daily examinations and inspect all machinery, paraphrenalia and other equipments used in the preyen- tion and cxtinguishment of fires, was on yesterday actually prevented from entering the water-works' building or from making any inspection of
 the machinery CT workings thereof whatever. The City Council and the people are becoming thoroughly aroused to the necessity of doing something to glin relief from the present odious and unsatisfactory condition of affairs between the Water Company and the city. Pa- tience has ceased to be forbear- anee. and We may now look for war until tie matter is ill some manner settled satisfactorily.
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