The record-union., 1899-06-20
Tebbets Has Plans That
He Thinks May Solve
the Problem.

At the regular meeting of the City
Board of Trustees last night there were
present Mckay, Brown. Devine, Dolan,
Douglas, Kent, Paine and Tebbets Alb
sent, Bentley.
A. Aitken addressed the board re-
questing that deed for cemetery lot
be granted to Mr.. Houghton, who years
ago purchased a lot but received no
deed for it The matter was referred
to the Street Committee and the Cor
poration Counsel.
A WATER FAMINE.
Mr.. Donaldson, who lives at Twenty
fifth and F streets. complained that at
his residence there was no water even
Tor domestic purposes. and that fire.
e quently there was not enough water in
the pipe to wash his face. He said he
could not live on his property without
water, and he asked what he was to do.
Trustee Paine said there was moth
ing to be said except that the present
mains were not large enough to supply
the demand for irrigation and domestic
purposes.
Mr.. Donaldson said he bought the
property in October last. and during the
winter, when no water was used for ir-
rigation purposes, the supply for do
mestic purposes was ample.
Trustee Douglas read statement
showing that the pumps at the City
Waterworks building are being over
worked
Trustee Devine said the board should
have taken the matter seriously when
the proposition for issuing bonds for
new mains was up for consideration.
Trustee Kent suggested that if some
of the street sprinkling in the eastern
section of the city were done at night,
it would give relief to the people of that
district
Street Superintendent Touhey said
that such plan would be entirely fea-
sible.
Trustee Paine moved that the Street
Superintendent be instructed to have
half of the sprinkling done at night and
that he be allowed a man to superin-
tend the night work.
Trustee Tebbets protested against
any such makeshift proposition as that
proposed. He said that nothing was
to be derived from such a narrow mind
ed, penurious PLAN The members of
the Board Of Trustees, he said, were
back numbers, and would in case of a
conf1agration or water famine, be held
personally responsible on their bonds.
inasmuch as the people who were taxed
for water received nothing in return.
He wanted to know why, in Gods
name, the board did not take the rev.
enue derived from the sale Of water
and give the people an adequate supply
both for domestic purposes and for pro-
lection against fire. He advocated TAX
ing the money raised by the water tax,
which, he said, amounts to $4,000 a
year, and put it into a plant large
enough to adequately supply the entire
city. Water. he said, is king, and the
fact that the Mayor had vetoed the
proposition demanded by the people
should not deter the board from acting
vigorously in the matter. The people
who pay the water rates are crying for
water. and receiving none. He declared
such state of affairs to be a disgrace
and outrage. He had ever stood for an
abundant supply Of water, and had
voted to override the Mayors veto, and
he protested that the city had no right
to take the peoples money without Civ
ing them any return
Tebbets further urged immediate ac-
ton, and in regretting the condition OF
affairs, said the Board of Trustees were
to blame for it all. He. living in the
First Ward. had heard the cry Of the
people in other wards who were suffer
ing from lack of water, and he inquired
why the representatives of those wards
did not rise and listen to the appeals. If
the Mayor wanted to veto water propo-
sitions he could do so, but in such case
he should shoulder the responsibility.
He wanted it understood that he would
vote for any and every proposition to
furnish the city with an adequate water
supply.
Trustee Douglas said the mains were
not big enough, and that at his resi-
dence, unless under fire pressure, there
was only small pressure while the
people were irrigating. He said that
the supply at the railroad shops, for
fire purposes, was Inadequate, and he
called attention to the fact that just
after the big fire at the shops last fall,
members of the board had promised the
railroad people to lay a new 12-inch
main across the old Third street foot
bridge. He moved that the clerk be in
structed to advertise for 800 feet of r.
inch steel pipe for the purpose men
toned.
Trustee Brown said he was sorry that
there was no water to supply the de-