The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
The Pure Air and Beauty Spots
Help to Reduce the Death
Rate.
St. Paul Parks, Car Service and
Public Parks Are I'm
surpassed.

Minnesota, the land of lakes, is the
Mecca for tourists from every land at
this season of the year; and st. Paul Is
the center from which the visitors ra-
date. There is no one city in Ameri-
ca that can offer the innumerable and
pleasing attractions to visitors as we'll as
our own people as St. Paul at the pres
ent time With the perfect and rapid
car service within the Twin Cities the
visitor can take a car at the Ryan ana
for 10 cents can ride via Minneapolis TO
see the beauties of Lake Harriet. From
there he can take a car to the park at
Minnehaha falls, and. after seeing the
land made famous by LongfelowS
poem. the visitor can have bus ride
to historical Fort Smelling, where he gets
an elegant view of hills, blufrs ana val
levs of the Minnesota and Mississippi
rivers. He can return to st. Paul by an
excursion steamer or via electric cars.
Another nice ride is to Indian Mounds
park, with its aboriginal mounds, as well
as it's fine outlook for miles along the
Father of Waters.
Another pleasant trip Is to go by the
saltwater electric line by Silver lake to
WnGwood-the Coney island of the West,
and after taking in the sights there take
the steamer for White Bear town, where
the return to St. Paul can be made by
rail, passing by the chain of lakes that
supplies most of our excellent water
And last. but not least, he can spend
a pleasant day drinking In the sights Of
Como park. the ideal beauty spot Of the
Northwest.
The natural beauties of Como have
been largely enhanced by our extensive
water system, composed of chain OF
lakes, as well as some forty artesian
wells.
Lake Como is held at an even depth
by city water and the Schiffmann foun-
tains scintillating sprays are from the
same source. The park board retains
a pumping station in the park, and our
many readers who have visited there VIII
recognize the Illustration accompanying
this article.
In spite of the fact that each one of
the POO 600 inhabitants of ST. Paul is daily
benefited by the st. Paul water system
few realize the magnitude of the task in
volved in securing good water supply
and the expense of its maintenance. inc
average daily consumption is about TO-
OOOO eco gallons. To insure this amount of
water and provide for all possible ext
gencies, the city has invested approXl-
mately 100000, and the yearly expendi-
lures are about 100000. Pumping sta
lions with a daily capacity OF 6l,OOO'o9O
gallons have been installed. Nearly forty
artesian wells have been dug and 242
miles of pipe have been laid. A vast
area from which the supply is received
has been included in the syst EN- and
stretches to Peltier lake. about twenty
miles north of the city.
AT FIRST TWO ENGINES
were installed, one of two million gallons
and one Of four million gallons capacity
In twenty-four hours. Two pumps have
been added since, one Of six million gal
Ions and one of ten million gallons daily
capacity. The old two-million- gallon
pump was sold to the park board and Is
at present doing duty at Como Park. In
1888 a reservoir for the high service was
constructed on Dale street, mile and
a half north of the pumping station, with
a capacity Of eighteen million gallons,
and supplies all the city on the east side
of the river with an elevation of over one
hundred and fifty feet above the river.
AS the reservoir Is SO feet above the
river, and the corner of Summit and
Western avenues, one Of the highest
points in the city, is only go feet, excel
lent pressure is obtained. The low
service has two sources and flows by
gravitation without the use of reser-
Voir. Lake Phalen supplies the portion
OF town north of Seventh street, east of
jackson street, and south Of Grove and
Fourteenth streets, and west of Phalen
creek. The rest of the lower part OF
town and the business district Is sup
piled from Lake Vadnais.
An auxiliary high service was estab-
lished on the West side in 1892, and a
pumping station Of one million gallons
capacity daily was put in at State and
Page streets, which pumps water from
the low service a height of 200 feet to
tank of 100000 gallons capacity, which
has an elevation of 343 feet above the
river.
In 1899 a ten-million gallon pumping
plant was put in at Baldwin lake. the
outlet of the Rice lakes chain. This
pump raises the water twenty-five feet
and forces it through pipes and a conduit
to Pleasant lake, which connects with
Vadnais. In 1890 the water board began
to experiment with
ARTESIAN WELLS
at Lake Vadnais, and few years later
a permanent plant was put in. The well
plant has a capacity of five million gal
Ions daily and consists Of nine wells two
deep and seven shallow. The deep wells
extend down from 700 to 800 feet; the
shallow ones from 800 to 400 feet.
The pumping station at Vadnais is ad-
mirably arranged, and increases the flow
ing capacity of the wells nearly three
million gallons by only lowering them a
few feet. The pumps are located in a
steel caisson, twenty feet in diameter and
sunk ABOUT twenty feet beneath the
ground. 1t is so arranged that any single