Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04
MUNICIPAL MATTERS
Cutoff OF 700 Feet Being Built
to Shorten the Soldiers
Home Sewer.
Fire Apparatus Expected Within
Week...Station Almost
Ready.
Delinquent Water Consumers
Receiving Attention..Protest
Against Market Place.

| The sewer department of the city mas
undertaken a work that is extensive
| and expensive, but it is believed Will
stop the continual expense of maintain
| ing bad portion of the big Soldiers
Home sewer. This sewer, which is
state, runs across the bottom land al
moss east from the Home until 1t
strikes the bluff on the city property,
| then makes a sharp turn. For several
hundred feet west of this turn the sew
err is laid thru quicksand, which is con-
stanly washing into the pipes and un-
dermining them, causing frequent leaks
and overfows. A diagonal line 200 feet
in length is being laid, cutting out the
sharp bend, shortening the sewer and
escaping from much of the quicksand.
Where the sand is found rock founda-
ton for the pipe is being put in and the
joints cemented. The state has agreed
to bear its PORTION of the expense of
making the change, and it is the opinion
of the officials that the money is being
well spent.
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Chairman T. r. Kirby, of the fire COM
mittee, is in receipt of a letter from the
Chicago manufacturers informing him
that the new fire wagons and chemical
izer will be here some time within
week. Ii is expected that the uptown
station will be in readiness by that time
and that before the LIST of July the de-
partment will be in working order. Mr..
HutchinS the representative OF the
company who is to drill the men and
horses, is expected when the apparatus
arrives. Fifteen applications are on file
for positions, most of them from men
who are now members of the volunteer
department. These men, it is probable,
will be given the preference. Four have
applied for the position of chief, While
others prefer to be drivers or hosemen.
The council will select the men after
Mr.. Hutchins arrives Minute men,
who will be- called out when their SER
vices are needed, will also be selected
and will be chosen from the present de-
partment The matter of disseminating
the striking of the court house bell ex-
cept on the second alarm calling, out
the minute men has been discussed, but
this cannot be done unless double
alarm system is installed which would
be expensive, and the bell will continue
TO strike for every fire. rl4
East State street residents in the, vi
entity of Second avenue are up in arms
because of the removal of the market
scales to a vacant lot in that territory
thru the discontinuance Of the Center
street market place. This lot is so small
that it does not afford sufficient room as
a market place, and there is conse-
quently an overflow to the street. Those
who have homes near by, who maintain
neat parkings and who have paid for
the street paving are indignant because
the city is responsible for the making
Of the street into market place. 1t is
probable the city council will take some
action to relieve the conditions.
Superintendent of Mains Danskin is
shutting off a number of water serv-
ices where the property owners or ten
ants have not paid the rental. Seven
teen services were shut off Tuesday
but majority of these We're for hose
connections and at the request of the
property owners who are disseminating
the lawn and garden services because
of the abundance of rains.
Chief Engineers Madsen, of the water
and light station, is preparing to try an
experiment that may result in provid-
ing more street lamps. One of the two
old thirty light dynamos discarded by
the city few years ago because they
were too small is being placed in the
electric station and an effort Will be
made to operate it in connection with
the others. altho the ones at present in
use are sixty light machines. Mr. Mad
sen hopes to make the operation sue
cessful by the the installation of equal
izers on the smaller machine.