Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-14

Some entered as cap missing and dirt
in the box" were found i'm that condition
IL would cost y or 30 cents to put on
cap. Here a perfect set consisting OF con
nections. boxes, Newport stop and waste ,
pipe, rods. turnkey. etc. was submitted.
BY Mr.. Littlefield-The company did not |
invite him to take piece of pipe from the
ground even after it had been laid AZ /
hours. This is all new pipe, but he had |
| free access to the whole system. He had |
seen pipe that had been in the ground Is
years-the piece in court. Mr.. Littletield
re]oined: "Oh yes, but this is our special |
pipe
Mr.. Card, recalled, had the chemical !
analysis of the Mystic water and it was
put in evidence. Witness has examined
| the analysis of Sudbury river Cichituate
and CObbosseecontee waters as submitted
by the Water District. and they agree
essentially with his own He should
judge chlorine, a mineral substance, de-
rived from some mineral base. to be in
furious to cast ironi 1t is present in the
| Mystic Most, Cochituate next, Sudbury
river next. and least in the Cobbossee-
contee, and in that order would affect
| pipe. In the Gardiner water, mineral
analysis, he sees nothing that would at
| tack the coating Of cast iron pipe. The
piece of wrought iron pipe taken from
eight inches under ground at the cemetery
| from which the water is drained in the
winter would show more oXydation than
| pipe filled with water continually, five
BY Mr.. Littletield-C Chlorine has a great
| affinity for iron in solution. All water
| has oxygen in solution and the chlorine
would act upon it to oxydize the iron.
| Mr. Wheeler recalled. received from Mr..
Richards the results of his pump tests
land. assuming them to be true, he group
| ed the tests and found five of them were
tests of the ordinary work of the pump,
confirming his own judgment as to slip.
but placing the slip of the pump even less
than he had figured it. In the three other
tests the slip was less again The plum
ger ,)ackings and valves are the working
parts. Ten tests depart from the ordinary
working conditions: 1st. running a low
speed; I'd. running against excessive head
land under these conditions the slip Would
be twice as great The pump should ne
tested against closed gates to determine
Athe slip accurately.
BY Judge Wiswell-The pump running
at normal capacity does not average
BY Mr.. Litteted-He has not made an
leverage of the whole Is tests. but ne
should criticize the finding in an average
He does not consider the method employ
ed in testing good one. He made allow
ance for both piston and valve slips
BY Mr.. Baker-Ile does not consider the
icemetery pipe throws any light on that OF
the cast iron pipe in the system.
| Mr. Allen. recalled, corrobOrateS Mr.
Wheeler as to cemetery pipe He has seen
some of the uncoated pipe. the Oldest pipe
in Boston. taken out and it was pretty
thoroughly coated. while the iron under
the tubercules as disclosed by cutting was
perfectly bright
| He has compared the analyses of wa
tier presented. and if chlorine is the ma
icious agent he should expect the other
waters to affect cast iron pipe more than
the Gardner water ana i can nd I Iee MnS
40 years old in carrying capacity in that
length of time.
BY Mr. I.ittlefield-He would expect to
tnd some of the service pipes in the sys-
TEN that was as old as the specimen IN
court as badly affected. He would expect
1.-THE iron pipe to he affected in proportion
| to it's size. The chance for imperfectlons
is not very great in the process of coat
ing cast iron pipe. He would not care
. 10 change his figures of depreciation be-
cause of anything he had heard here.
Geo. +. Packard of Quincy. Mass,
submarine diver, made a careful eNamlna-
ton Of the pipe at the kcnnebec river
crossing in 90. and found three leaks in
the joints none of them larger than
lead pencil. and it could be fixed for S75.
i BY Mr.. I4ittlefield-He found the pipe
laid decently straight, but zigZagged ut,
tie. He could see no reason why 1t should
not have been laid straight so far as the
river bottom was concerned. He is at
work laying pipe on the bottom of Boston
bay. Has been a diver 20 years.
| Nm. II. Ryder, an employe of the Me
Water Co. in Gardiner. has been foreman
for the last IA years He is the first man
in the hole when pipe is taken up. About
eight years ago a piece of Finch pipe at
Dennis store got broken and no indica-
ton of rust was found in it. Another. a
| piece of six inches off a 10-inch at Central
and Oak streets. was bright and good.
Don't remember the date. One in Water
street above Hills store about 10 years
ago was found shiny and o. X. The
specimen of coated pipe in court was
| taken up by him at DantOrth street. last
: fall and was a little dirty but a perfect
piece of pipe 1t looks about the same
inside, but the outside does not look as
well as it did then. The other pieces
taken out looked better than this. This
\ is good piDp and tit for use.
8 BY Mr.. I.ittleheld-Ic was there when
the pump heated at II revolutions under
long the roof of the pump house has leak
ed He did not see - patches. Missed
' the specimen. as Mr. Morse did, when 1t
was taken out. tMr. I,ittlefield was first
p man in the hole. according to Mr.. Baker,
. when Mr.. Ryder gave misleading, cyl
dencc in regard to a piece of bad pipe
taken out near the gas house. Witness
= gave the impression 1t was water pipe
when in fact it was gas pipe. Mr.. Lit
tloficld did not pull the hole in after him.
, J. S MaNcy. recalled, gave the average
e per capita consumption of water in Gardl-
| ncr for years, compared with other
,. cities. and found the average low
John w. Berry. eX-mayor of Gardiner.
testified in regard to new houses that had
/, been built in Gardiner, FarminSdale and
! Randolph since 50. the capital invested
aggregatng sl663.90o The mayor also
? gave a large amount of general informa-
ton.
Mr.. Lewis, recalled, testified that in the
; construction of the works he and Mr.
d, | MaXcy pledged stock in their own names
and those who aided them financially held
r the bonds ard stock as collateral. They
indorsed notes issued in the name of the
, company. In the transaction of stocks
from w. G. Davis to Messrs. Maxcy, Lew
, is and Arthur Scwall the price per share
was $50 Mr.. Davis sold Mr. j. =. BaX
| ter's stock as we'll as his own
BY Mr.. Littleheld-They did not sell the
| stock to Davis ard Baxter. and do not
know where it came from Mr.. Darling
paid cash for his bonds in December. 50.
Mr.. Coffin, recalled. The friction tests
/ in his estimation not affected at all 10y
: Mr.. Wheelers suggestion relative to MIR.
| Richards figures