The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-19
COUNCIL TO REQUIRE WATER COMPANY TO SIGN
 CONTRACT ON FILTERS
Mr. PdYs Statement Discussed at Meeting of Board and Con- mtee Appointed to Draft Contract-Ciy Wants Work to Begin on Filtration System at Specified Time,

The officers of the Birmingham Water Works Company will be asked to sign contract with the city agreeing to in stall filtration plants. Such paper will name a specified time for beginning the work and for completing 1t. Mayor Dren- nen Alderman Altman, City Attorney Smith and City Engineer Kendrick were named as q committee to have charge of the contract.
 The naming of this committee was the result of motion by Alderman Altman. which followed the reading of a report from a special committee recently ap- pointed to arrange for the erection of fil- tration plants after plan outlined by the City Council. In this report the state ment of President J. II. Purdy of the water company. to the effect that flltra- tion plants would be put in operation was confirmed.
 The report Is as follows:
 Your committee respectfully reports as follows: In pursuance of resolu- ton passed by the board, your commit tee notified the Birmingham Water Works Company, that they must within the time prescribed in the resolution, be- gin work to Install filtration plants suf- ficient to filter all the water supplies of the city. Thereupon the Water Works Company employed experts to investigate the condition of the water supplied to the city, and the report of these ex- perts were submitted to the board on June II.
 MT. J. II. Purdy. president of the Birmingham Water Works Company, In an open meeting of the council on that date, stated to the council that the Br- mingham Water Works Company would filter the water supplied to the city and would begin work to that end immediate ly. This statement of MT. Purdy's has been confirmed by letter of Mir. A. M. Lynn, representative of the Birmingham Water Works Company, which Is sub mitted. We are informed also by MT. Lynn that all diligence is being used by the Water Works Company looking to the installation of filtration plants at the earliest possible moment.
 Tn view of this action on the part of the Birmingham Water Works Company, we believe further consideration Of the reports of the experts employed by the Jefferson County Sanitary Commission and the Birmingham Water Works Com pany, and that 6 further investigation into tke water supplies of the city is un- necessary at the present time by this commission.
 "The Birmingham Water Works Com pany. both through It's representatives, Mir Purdy and Mr. Lynn, represent that there is now large waste of water sup piled to the city, making filtration of the water uni easonably expensive, and in the letter above referred to the said company requests that a committee from the board be appointed for that purpose with power to investigate the subject and make a recommendation in the matter to the board and that said company be author ized to call on the Birmingham Water Works Company for all information in their possession which will elucidate the natter
 The letter referred to Is as follows:
 This is to confirm the statement made by Mir J. H. Purdy, president, In open session of the council at a meeting held in the council chamber on Wednesday, June Il, that the Birmingham Water Works Company will at once start work