The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-04
GETTING RID OF A NUISANCE
City Engineer Tries to Pump
Out Stagnant Water
THE PUMP THAT FAILED
Why Chief Moore Decided That He
Didn't Want to Play
The Park Superintendent Had . Plan, but II
Failed. and the Board Of Public
Works Took Smell
THE PUMP THAT FAILED

BE the powers av all tn saints, its lit.
tie I'm knowing about pumps, anyway,
but thot bates me; whin the murtherin
haste IL whaze and whaze an no wathe,
be after coomin' out
'Sure, tn dom things s got tn anne,
Moike.'
"Azme? azme2 Divil bit, its tn cpl
zoot I'm after thinkin', wild thot schrap.
pin noise loike TIL Wildly O'Garrigan' s
maxim on Monday mornin wild tn
dashboard an pair o. Tiddy O'Garri-
CANS wife pants"
"Rhaise oop tn handle, Moike; be
after pourin' tn wather dooun tn throat
av tn critter. Give 'er tn elbow whist
drap tn wather in, now"
whist! be aisy, we bl:therin' idiut,
we're pourin' tn wather doown me
butte. -
go AM We dom fule, I'm dom me
July, moinde thot It's boss o. tn job
am
The city is going to pump out the water
which has accumulated in basin near the
corner of Park View avenue and Sixth
street. This is Just beyond the northeast
corner of Westlake Park. The rains filed
the basin with water on top of the rub
bish, garbage and manure of all kinds,
and a terrible stencil is the result of the
mixture.
Yesterday when Herald reporter Wis
tied the place the two gentlemen who
pump were having trouble with the ap-
paratus. The chief difficulty with it seems
to be that it will not pump. 1t was all in
place. on top of high staging. A long
trough led from the nozzle OF the pump
some fifty feet across the ravine to the
side hill, where it connected with ditch
to convey the stagnant water down into an
arroyo where it will gradually seep into
the ground.
All arrangements were perfect by noon
yesterday, and the gentlemen in charge
had drawn lots to see who should take the
first trick at the handle, the lot having
fallen to the gentleman with the billy
goatee.
The Herald reporter arrived on the
scene a. few minutes later, and just in
time to hear the conversation set forth
above.
What sort of pump is that9'' the re-
porter asked, as the gentleman at the
perspration from his 45-degree brow.
That's the domdest pump 1 liver see
Moike, would yer PLACE lave yer fut off
that poipe whilst l see eff MONT swing
it around till she strokes the hole
there?"
The pump doesn't appear to work;
something must be the matter with it."
suggested the reporter.
"Worruck! Howly Mither av Moses,
no! It's meself that worrucks. Moike,
git we off tn frahme entoirely; be afther
takin' the dom pump out by tn roots
again TO see av there's not sumthin' sthuck
in the poipe."
The city officials have been figuring how
to get rid of this offensive pond for weeks
The Park Commissioners called attention
to it first and tried to get Chief Moore to
chief didn't care to use the engines as
filters. The Park Superintendent mag
ined he could sphon the water out with
long piece of hose, but the Board of Pub
lie Works decided to let the City Engineer
wrestle with the problem, and the pump is
the result. What the result of the pump
ing will be remains to be smelled.