Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-23

| from his newspaper articles from which
Boardman had quoted Only in part.
Boardman's report read: The T.-R
states in large headlines"
DAVIS SAYS WATER IS GOOD.
Analyses Are Received from Des Moines
by Chairman Greene Today.
| CONDITION VERY SATISFACTORY
The report of Professor Davis did
not state anything of the kind" the
Boardman report reads. and for the
newspaper to publish such statement
was a little short of criminal, for the
people quit boiling the water and sick
ness resulted"
Mr.. Norris then read tie whole head
line which stood in black type at the top
OF the column:
DAVIS SAYS WATER IS GOOD.
Analyses Are Received from Des Moines
by Chairman Greene Today.
CONDITION VERY SATISFACTORY.
En- State Chemist Says That There Was
Nothing in the Water on March % to
Cause Typhoid Fever Shows Much
More VEGETABLE Matter Than Samples
Taken in 1889.
And he followed with extracts from
the experts report, which, read:
No evidence whatever is discovered
of sewage contamination, for had thu )
been present the chlorine would. in all
probability, have been large. The mum
her Of bacteria. and species of the same.
would have been materially increased.
and the colon bacillus would have been
present. This last named micro organ
;e,,,, &c, III, 90
matter, and. is universally present IN
sewage contaminated waters. Its alb
sence from water supply is positive
proof that no fresh, anG therefore dan
gerous. organic matter l. present. The
condition OF your city water, as 1t was
on March % last can noi pe considered
as the cause of typhoid fever. The wa
ter. however. contains nlJch more veg
etable matter than did any sample
taken from the test wells in 1889. Not
withstanding the vegetable matter
present in the water, consider 1t good
and wholesome, and it compares favor
ably with the other satisfactory water
supplies of the state"
Mr.. Norris then appeaied to the fair
Judgment of the audience whether Mr..
Boardman had been either fair or hon
est when he quoted only half headline
end pronounced it false as compared to
the experts report which followed.
Replying to the charge in the report
that the Reflector and Times
Republican had been negligent, Mr..
Norris explained that the city council
had employed an exraft to make an
analysis and that every citizen had a
right to read that analysis in the news
papers. He further states that he, per-
sonally. laid the fever TO the water ana
in order to counterfeit the effect of the
experts report. If it should happen to
be wrong. his reporters had interviewed
several physicians and had published in
that same newsarGcle something that
Mr.. Boardman neglected to quote, viz:
The physicians advice to his pa
tents will be to continue to boil drink
ing water. at any rate until another and
more thorough test can be made. 1t
can do no harm. as the T.-R. has stated
before, to do this, and is only natural
rrecaution."
neither the committee nor the public
should remember this and he WINGED
when it was read. He Interrupted the
speaker with the remark that the head
lines were false and M. Norris read
again the experts statement that the
condition of your city water as 1t was
on March 20. last, can not considered as
the cause of typhoid fever" He stated
that he did not know whether Expert
Davis was reliable or not, but the news
paper headlines conformed to the re-
port and the report was an official doc
ument.
He then referred again to the charge
in Boardman's report that THE T.-R.
under date of April 20, states: