Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-28

In accordance with the publication
in yesterdays Register, the first water
was turned into the new reservoir Of
the Suburban Water Company, just
east Of Elm Grove, yesterday morning,
and everything was found to work in
the most perfect manner. About six
feet Of water was put into the basin
during the day, and this will be al
lowed to stand for a few days, to test
the tighmess Of the masonry. If
everything turns out all right, as no
doubt it Will, tie distributing mains
viii be turned on the first Of the COM
ing week. and the reservoir viii be
put regularly into service.
The reservoir. as well as the entire
plant of The Suburban Company, of
which Mr. Anton Reymann is the head
and front, is of the best possible con-
strUctiOn, and the plant is of sufficient
capacity to meet the wants Of the terri
tory between this city and the further
portion of Elm Grove for a quarter Of
a century to come, while the reservoir
can be more than doubled in capacity
at short notice should there ever be
@ demand in the future for more
water. AT present however. the cap
acity is thirty per cent more than that
possessed by the Old reservoirs of the
city. which were used for forty years
and which were adequate to the needs
OF a manufacturing city of thirty-fve
thousand or more population. This
fact alone will show how thorough were
the plans of Mr.. Reymann and his
company. The work was all done at-
ter the plans and under the personal
supervision of Engineers Gilmore
Browne and Robert Hazlett, and the
chief contractor was Mr.. L. q. Hal
lock.
Ground was broken for the reservoir
on May 30 last. and the masonry was
commenced August is. All the cut
stone. of which the walls are wholly
constructed. was taken to Elm Grove by
railroad. thence hauled to the foot or
the Hill on which the reservoir is To-
Gated. and were boisted up on an in
clined plane. operated by stationary
engine. The reservoir is an irregular
quadrangle i'm shape, seventy-nVe tees
wide az one end and one hundred ana
nine feet wide at The other the length
being one hundred and sixteen feet.
The walls are fourteen feet high, SIX
feet thick at The top, the capstone being
three feet four inches wide. The main
bodv of the walls are laid in Cumber-
Iaod cement. but in the inside eight
inches Portland cement was used. ne
one hundred and nine foot wall, at the
wide end of the reservoir, is designed
IN he division wall between the two
horizons should an extension on jle
carecity ever be required or lhousnl
advisable. and with this in view Ihe
outside face of this wall was hanqleu
exactly as the inside face, While lhe
side walls We're carried past IL ana
s-enpod off. The present capacity Is
BOD 600 Gallons while the section not
now finished would increase TINS capa-
CITY TO over 100000 gallons. the DOT
ton of the reservoir is composed OF
eiohf inches Of concrete four inches Oh
vi+rifed brick. laid on edge i'm cement
mortar. and grouted on top with ce-
0rnf The top of the parapet Is Jhree
hundred and fourteen feet above the
level of the creek az the pumping SUD
zion which insures q tirsJ-clasS pre-
eura throughout the entire region sup
piled from the works. .:.,
The pumping station IS equipped "..n
q John II. MCGOWAN non-cona-hs-ns
compound duplex engine, guarantee ~
lift $4,000 gallons Of water ln twenty
four hours. with steam pressure IN
ninety hounds. Yesterdays test snow
ed that The engine would do the WORK
q from eighty to oislty-tiye POUNDS
n~os-,ra Water is taken from the
creek. FIRST passing through a flter.ng
bed. enclosed i'm a crib, the pea pens
comDas-d of alternate layers oil cohs'
gravel and sand. This bed IS sixteen
feet wide. From it the water passes
through q fourtsan-.ncn pipe TO a vel
TWENTY-FIVE fee. deep by seven feet IN
diameter. and is thence pumped through
a ten-iHch main to the reservoir.
The distributing main is ten inches
i'm diameter from the reservoir to the
gate Of Wheeling Park, and thence west
If is eight inches 10 a connection with
tho ola water system at Al-enheim. the
junction being al PaXt0n's ON the pike.
AT Elm Grove a siX-.nch main leaves
the big r.pe ut LOring's and runs
through Elm Grove while another SIX
inch n.pa enters the Park at the east
gate. and runs through the grounds, and
r-ioins the main az the west gate. The
total lers.h of mains is 24,820 feet or
almost five miles At PaXt0n's, where