The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-15

Leave Us Only the Pleasant Memory of
the Visit

| Leave Us Only the Pleasant memory OF
the Visit.
The city of Kenosha is entertaining a
number of officials and prominent bust
ness men of various towns in southern
Wisconsin today. who have come here
to see the new water works system
built by W. Fl. Wheeler & Co. They
are welcome guests, though in reality
in the hands of the company which
owns the water works. They have
been invited to one of the prettiest and
neatest little town to be found any
where in this section, and no doubt the
guests appreciate that fact. The city
is proud of its new system of water
works and would be glad to invite all
the rest of Christendom to see them,
but being unable to do that the next
best thing WAS done and the best peo-
pie of the best part of the earth were
invited They came, they saw and
were conquered by the splendid sys-
TEN.
The official test of the water works
system was made this morning. 1t be-
gan about 1870 o'clock over on Wash
ington Island. From there Che circuit
was made to all the furthest points
away from the power house. In every
possible way the test was most COM
plete success. The pumps hao rot the
least difficulty in standing the strain
Not pipe bursted and there was not
the smallest leak anywhere. A test
could not have been more satisfactory
in every particular. 1t occupied the
time until about noon.
This afternoon an exhibition was
given on Market square for the benefit
Of the guests. Among those here from
abroad to see the test were: c. B. Sal
mon, Edward Salmon, James Croft,
Edgar S. Greene, John G. Rood, G.. L.
Cole, Ex- Congressman Clinton Babbitt,
A. W. Burr, P. w. Laramy, R. j.
Dowd, Oliver j. Stiles, G. L. Clark, 0.
F. Macy, c. F. Hardy, FL. M. Whit
ney, R. W. Whitney, Mayor c. A.
Smith, T. 81. Wheeler, Ralph Rabbit,
Leonard Wheeler, FL. Strong Smith,
Cham Ingersoll, all Of Beloit; S. B.
Smith, A. A. jackson, j. M. White
head, W. R. Proudfoot, F. S. Barries,
P. j. Movat, j. c. Spencer, 81. c.
Stearns, A. c. Burnham, F. S. Wins
low. all of GAINESVILLE; W. S. Healer, A.
Jensen, A. Mcintosh, T. A. Ellingson,
E. B. Ellingson, t. A. Perry, of Edger-
ton; D. p Blackstone, Chr Knuston,
W. G.. Groffman, John Rosa, c. A.
Buck, 81. w. Timme, c. G.. Starks, of
Berlin; Ex-Congressman L. B. Cas-
well, D. W. Curtiss, F. c. Hansen, G.
P. Goodrich, Fl. B. Willard, William
McMillen, W. FL. Rogers, L. B. Cas-
well, Jr., of Fort Atkinson; W. B. Fay,
j. S. Barrett, John Butcher, Henry
Milcher, Chas. Clauson, F. W. Modem
hauer, J. A. Peacock, John F. Bartlett,
of Oconomowoc; j. T. Moak, A. E.
Needham, Louis Schmidt, Herman
Wertbeimer, W. G Stone, S. NJ. Eaton,
James Prendergast, John Kessler, F. E.
Woodward, Alfred Meyer, F. Kruger,
g. May, W. D. Sproesser, j. G. Con-
way, G.. A. Viebahn, j. W. Moore, B.
Blumenfeld, VIM. Reber, G. E. Straw,
S. Molzahn, all of Watertown; Chas.
C. Stowell, of Rockford; W. 81. Laing,
c. 81. Laing, Racine; j. M. KATE, Mil
waukee, and e. S. Haynes, of Mime
apolis. Miss Sarah Wheeler, Mrs. W.
81. Wheeler, Miss Clara Brown, Mrs.
Fl. j. Leonard, Mrs. Clinton Rabbit, Of
Beloit.
About one-half of the Racine city
council came down this afternoon, to-
gether with the reporters of the papers.
Nearly half the town turned out to
see the afternoon exhibition on Market
square. The crowd viewed the forcing
of the water through 2 inch nozzle, a
Il inch and a II inch nozzles. During
the exhibition a pressure OF l35 pounds
was maintained at the power
house. This threw horizontal
stream from the pinch nozzle of
185 feet in length. A stream of III
feet was thrown vertically from the Il
inch nozzle. These two streams alone
would drown any fire Kenosha has
ever had in short order.
During the test this morning the
pressure at the farthest point from the
power house was eighty-five pounds at
the hydrant and after the pumps got
! to going there was not the least trouble
in maintaining pressure of sixty
pounds with only one pump going.
Inman Wants The Job.