The record-union., 1899-01-31
STILL PREFERS FOUL WATER
THIS MIGHT BE ALL RIGHT FOR
TRUSTEE DEVINE.
But There Are Many Thousands
Whose Tastes Do Not Run In
That Direction

The Board of City Trustees met last
night in regular weekly session, Truss
tees Mckay Tebbets, Douglas. PANE
Dolan, Devine, Kent and Brown being
present
Rabbi Simon, for the Directors of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, addressed the board, stat
ing that the amount appropriated last
year for the society is now exhausted,
and he asked the board to renew IT,
that the work may go on as heretofore.
On motion of Trustee Devine the Cor
grafton Counsel was instructed to pre-
pare an ordinance providing for 500
month.
George F. Lane complained that he
lived at 1914 Eigh h street, and neigh
Dor had put up a fence ten feet hlgh'
shutting off the light from his mousse
The insurance company had refused 70
renew the insurance on his property
for the original amount on the ground
that the fence deprecated the value or
the property.
Trustee Paine moved the matter be
referred to the Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department.
Trustee Kent proposed that the AS
SCISSOR put such an assessment on the
fence for Improvements at such a figure
that the owner would soon pull it down.
Trustee Tebbets agreed, but it was
thought it could not be done.
NORTH FORK WATER.
A. N Buchanan appeared before the
board and stated that the company to
which he belonged had employed COM
petent firm of San Francisco engineers
to make survey of all the pipe lines,
and sources of supply of the water
with view of furnishing it to the city.
He had the engineers report and would
ask that the board appoint a member
of the Chamber of Commerce and one
from the Board of Health, in conjunc-
ton with one of its members to make
a thorough examination of the subject
in connection with himself and the en-
gineer. If the water supply is not the
best that can be secured for the city,
he did not want it adopted
He read the report of the engineer,
describing the route of the survey, the
elevation and the supply of 100000
gallons day.
Mr.. Buchanan said the sustained
pressure of seventy pounds was not the
highest that could be attained, but is
all that would be safe for the present
mains Water could be furnished to
Oak Park and vicinity.
Mr.. Cobb, one of the engineers. said
the wooden pipe would keep the water
pure from contamination.
Trustee Devine disagreed with him
and said he would entertain no PROPOSE
ton to bring water down in wooden
pipe
Mr.. Cobb said that Dedham, Mass,
had wooden pipes that had furnished
it with water for eighty years.
Trustee Tebbets thought the board
did not need the Chamber of Commerce
to help it, but was capable of judging
for itself. He thought the board should
form a Committee of the Whole to in
vestigate. 1t should examine into all
the propositions and afterwards it could
ask advice from the Chamber of Com
merce He hoped to see the day when
there would be clear water flowing in
the pipes. He wanted to know if the
Chamber of Commerce wants a fair
test of all systems, the card with re-
gard to alum appeared in the Record
Union" this morning, and why man
in their employ was employed to put it
in.
Devine said the Chamber of Com
merce had bonded land outside the city
for $3.50 an acre and there is very little
land outside the city that is worth
that. He had found out by inquiry
that the North Fork, above Auburn,
carries more sewage than the Sacra-
mento River does and in the summer
time it is only a small stream. The
only benefit in the scheme is the prop
osition that it would save pumping for
fire engines. AS regards well water,
he had made investigation of well
system in the East and found that
after they had pumped awhile the water
snnelled bad and it will always be that
way.
Dr. Tebbets moved that the matter
be referred to a committee of the board
and a committee of the Board of
Health and the motion was carried.
Trustee Devine said he had met men
from San Francisco lately who had
come up purposely to drink the pure
water of the Sacramento. and the talk
against it is Infamous lies
J. o. Coleman, for the Chamber of
Commerce, said he was not acquainted
with the writer of the article and he
was certainly not member of the
chamber, Whenever the chamber had
had anything to say to the board. it
has always been in writing. couched in
courteous and calm language. The
communications have not always been
received in the same spirit by some
members of the board. The chamber
did not resent this, for it thought Il
the board could stand it the chamber
could
The chamber had. he said, bonded the
land for the wells, had paid its own
money for boring and testing the wells,
and it has not cost the board dollar.
unless it investigates the matter and
concludes that it is best to buy the
land at the bonded price. 1t simply
made a report of its investigations in
the nature of q petition. If any mem
Der assumes to himself the prerogative
to ignore its petition, so respectfully
offered he ought to be held responsible
by the board. and not by the chamber.
AS for the bonded price. adjacent prop
erty owners asked $500 an acre for SIM
liar land The chamber spent it's own
money for the wells in the public in