Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-10

still and the water system has gone
|about as far as it can. The city has
lost lin three years $40 people,-along
Cobbossee stream are 81 vacant tene-
menfs and in the heart of the city II
vacant stores and nine vacant houses
in their Silence yet speak. In the last
IS soF 90 years South Gardiner has in
creased in population rapidly. A large
pulp mill and So houses all occupied
have been built, which lie entirely out
side the Water District A change in
Eiardiner manufactures has resulted in
improvements of that property, but has
eliminated many employees. The pulp
mill, valued ut $4,000, employs nine
men where in former years 100 We're at
work. L.
The now blocks have not added one
storekeeper to the business street.
There are few houses beyond the
present limits of the water system; 10
houses in Gardiner are not connected;
% in Randolph and Is in Farmingdale,
or III in all. while all but rs per cent.
of the people are reached by the mains
and services. The present fire service
is decidedly insufficient. Gardeners
contract for fire protection runs two
years longer and the Water District
must fill tke conditions to supply suffi-
Gent protection against contiaSration.
Past history will enable us to show by
the testimony of the firemen that
streams of water from these hydrants
have repeatedly failed to meet the de-
mand in actual service at fires. In
the test of the system. eight MIGRANTS
near Hotel Brunswick, 50 reduced the
pressure that no water could be drawn
for domestic purposes in Il large area
of the city. a single main leads from
the reservoir and in case of accident
to it. the city would be helpless in case
Of q large fire. In the contingency of
repairs 10 the dam or breaks in the
main. we must depend upon the pumps
of the Hollingswo & Whitney and
the S. d. Warren Co. for fire service.
but domestic service would be entirely
cut off. as the sewerage of these mills
would directly enter the system. An
article of $4,000 for great depreciation
will be requested. which is author
lied by present conditions. The con-
sumption of water by night is almost
identical with that by day While the
proper proportion should be one-fourth
u tIie uuy tiIllouIl III IllSut. we CHILL
the works are weak and faulty in con-
struction. According to Gardiner esti-
mates, we claim the real estate owned
by the company is worth not over
$4,000. and the commercial value of the
power we shall demonstrate to be
worth between $4,000 and $4,000 The
annex at the pumping station has sep
arated somewhat from the original
building and the crevice thus disclosed
has been filled by by the employees
The roof is so rotten one can almost
put his hand through it. We consider
the house and station worth $4,000, ex-
|clusive of machinery. We believe the
physical value of this plant to be $780,
600, or $4,000, and the price to be
paid for the Maine Water Cos. plant
business and all will be awarded, not
upon the capitalization, but upon the
fair and commonsense Interpretation
of what is involved here.
Mr.. Littlefeld presented list of
charges that should be deducted from
alleged construction of S164.25. leaving
$41S5.53 to 1899 and six months inclu-
sive and put in evidence Mr.. Maxcy's
report in relation to extension to South
Gardiner. and schedule of market
rates of water securities
Here the witnesses for the Water
District were sworn and Mr.. Wood of
Winthrop, took the stand. He said there
are $50 employees in the WOODEN mill
there, 140 in the oilcloth works. The
village. which has 1000 residents, lies
between two hills and drainage has a
tendency to run into the stream. Att
North Monmouth there is WOODEN
blanket mill on Wilson stream, flow
into Annahessacook pond. Seven of
the II bathrooms and water closets in
Winthrop drain into the stream and
there are three stables within so feet
of it. Baileyville sewerage flows into
ceSspools.
BY Mr.. Baker-Olie bathroom in
Winthrop is Is feet from stream and
the farthes, 500 or 400 feet away. but
connected directly with stream.
l.. II. hammond of Manchester, tes-
titled that 1000 is low estimate for the
summer people. There are lao cottages
around Cobbosseeeontee now: IL were
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