Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-09
They CALLED The BLUFF
Councilmen Declare All Negotia.
tons With St. Louis Electric
Company Off.
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Two Norris Pumps Ordered by
Telegraph and Will Be In
stalled in Three Weeks.
Good Progress BEING Made on
Good Progress Being Made on
Disposal Plant..Will Soon
Be in Operation.

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plant are at an end, and Friday night
after special meeting Of the council
was held, an order for two Morris
pumps was telegraphed to Chicago anc
the council will proceed to install the
game. Then will come lawsuit to COM
pei the st. Louis company to pay 70,
them.
During the past few weeks the st
Louis concern has shown disposition
10 compromise. Several propositions
have been made to the council, but all
have been rejected. A special meeting
was called for Friday might, and 1t was
confidently believed that an agreement
would be reached, as the points Insisted
upon by the city in accepting the COM
promise were very fair. The st. Louis
concern offered to give an indemnifying
bond, provided they were allowedeto In
stall the two Van Wye pumps, guaran-
tceing for sixty days that they would do
the work required of them in a salts
afctory manner. The council objected
to the sixty day clause and wanted q
bond for pix months. The city attorney
also objected to the construction Of the
proposition presented by the supply
company, on the ground that it con-
tanned several loop holes. Therefore the
proposition was again met with coun-
ter offer and agreement on the part of
the city, and this was the one under
consideration Friday night. This was
drawn by City Solicitor Van Law. and
the agent and attorney of the electric
company were Invited to be present at
the meeting.
The councilmen have been anxious to
complete the plant and have 1t in oper-
alton, in order to live up to the agree
ment with Tama county, but when
Chairman Mcclure went to Chicago re-
Gently to secure bids ON the Morris
pumps, with the intention Of having the
city Install them itself. he found that
the specifications called for pattern
that is not kept in stock and that some
of the parts would have to be made to
order. Under these circumstances the
council was inclined to allow the Van
Wye pumps to be installed provided the
city was protected IL they did not prove
satisfactory. Therefore the council
submitted a proposition to drop the
present quit in court and allow the st.
Louis company to install the pumps
now here, provided six months test
was allowed and the question of their
efficiency was left to two expert en-
gineers one to be selected by the city
and the other by the st. Louis people.
) If these engineers held the pumps We're
not up TO the requirements, then the St.
Louis company would be compelled to
remove them and install two Morris
pumps as specified In the contract. The
agreement was unanimously agreed to
by the council. but rejected without a
moments hesitation by the representa-
tive Of the electric company and his
attorney, both OF whom left the council
chamber at once.
The council then voted to order by
telegraph two Morris pumps and install
the same as coon as they can be Sc
cured. The order was sent In Friday
night and suit for manages will be in
etituted against the supply company.
The attorneys for the electric COM
pany have filed motion in court to dis
solve the Injunction secured by the city
restraining the installation of the two
Van Wye pumps, ard it is expected this
win come before Judge Burnham for
hearing within a few days.
The Morris company. agrees to have
the pumps built and ready to ship with
IN three weeks from the receipt of the
order. and it will require about weeks
time to install them. The st. Louis
company has the work OF constructing
the balance Of the power plant well un-.
der way. The generators at the water
works pumping station are set and are
all ready to be connected up. The poles
for the electric line are all set and a
portion OF the wires are strung. The
motors at the sewage plant, to operate
the pumps, have not yet been set, but
the sewage committee hopes to have the
plant in operation within month. The
pump house and gate house are finished
and the work of cindering additional fil-H
ter beds is in progress and six beds
viii be completed before the machinery
is ready for operation.
County Attorney r. p. Kepler, of
Tama, spent Friday in the city, for the
purpose Of satisfying himself as to the
city's sincerity and that work was be-
ing prosecuted in earnest. He visited
the sewage plant and was highly graft
fed with the progress OF the work and
with the evidences that Marshalfown
intends to complete the plant at the
earliest possible moment. Mr.. Kepier
gave assurances that the people of Ta-
ma county were not inclined to make
trouble for the city of Marshalitown so
long as the officials We're doing the best
they could to relieve the conditions rel
alive to sewage.
Meetings at the BAPTIST Church.