Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-10

| 9. SO that you add $4,000 or $4,000 /
your $4,000 and you have soinewher
from $4,000 to S225 .O00e
A.. Yes sir.
have built the Nequasset line or consisi
erred that proposition IL Brunswick ha,
| not been a part of the system and to h
connected with it,
| A. They would not.
| @. Why not?
/ A. We could not afford to go over Their
| for the population of Bath alone
! q At that time was the population o
Bath az much as IL is now?
| A No sir.
| G. There has been a decided growth Ii
Bath in the last two or three years?
A. Yes sir
q. II Brunswick were cut of today
Mr. Maxey would the expense or woult
the oporaiine cost be- am less than n i
now than To supply both Brunswick AM
Both?
A. The difference of coal
q. Is there any other respect in which
he operating cost would be any less than
the cost of operating for the two towns !?
a. Outside OF fuel?
q. Outside of fuel.
A. Not that know of.
Q Have you any judgment as to how
much difference there would be in re,
spect to fuel?
A. No, ] don't know what the fuel Is
now. | presume that some of the officers
Of the company could tell YOU that
q Was this analysis of the Nequa sset
water which was made by Prof Robinson
relied upon by the company when they
went there?
A. 1t was.
@. Was it published at the time do you
know?
A. In the Bath papers. yes sir. and !
am very positive 1t was copied into the
Brunswick papers. too.
Q. And was the result and the recon-
clfi 70 tory
A Very much so, yes sir.
9 During the time of your active man
agement and up to the year 1900 did You
ever hear any complaint from the citi-
zens of Brunswick as to the quality OF
this Nequasset water which you had fur
nished them al an extra cost of this sos
600?
"A. / never did personally myself. nc
sir.
@ Any complaints reported to you?
A. Not any; | don't know of any at all
q. Did you then or at any time hear
any comp laints from any of the citizens
of Bath upon the subject OF this water?
A. None whatever.
G.. As to the quality of the Thompson
Brook supply-dd you ever hear any COM
plants about that?
A None whatever.
c. That Thompson Brook supply was
used in the first place--put in in the firsy
place for Bath?
A. Yes Sir.
@ And was that supply as to it's ade-
quacy examined carefully by an engineer?
1t was before my connection with
the company, but they showed us cor
respondence by which Prof. Shedd of
Providence estimated that there was a
sufficient water supply for 10000 popula-
ton
Mr. Drew: From Thompson Brook?
A. Yes sir. from Thompson Brook.
And it was upon his statement that We
purchased the system.
Mr.. Baker, You purchased the Bath
works?
A. Yes sir, we purchased the Brunswick
works first.
@. The purchase of the Bath works
was on the representation of Mr.. Shedd
and he was an engineer well known?
A. Yes sir.
@. He was an engineer of high repute
and those We're his figures?
A. Yes sir.
O.. What did you find in practical re-
suit?
A. We found after we fastened Bruins
wick to Thompson Brook that it was i'm
possible to supply the two places.
G. About how much did you spend. if
by driving wells and all that sort of thing
and endeavoring to exc out supply from
the Thompson Brook supply?
A. think possibly $4,000; fully that
much and possibly more than that.
9. And it7wfs still fnadeouatea -s----7
A. Yes sir.
9. And how with reference to this
brook that has been spoken of up at the
river, the old pumping station? What
about that brook as to the adequacy of
supply for Brunswick alone?
A. That had sufficient supply in tEc /
spring of the year when there was Il
large amount of water flowing in the
brook
G. In the rainy. frechet season?
A. Yes sir, in the rainy spring season
when the SHOWS were melting, but /
think it gave out along in June or July |
and was unable to supply Brunswick, and
couldn't begin to supply them; that was
one of our principal reasons for buying
the Bath. so that we could connect Bath
and brunswick and give Brunswick n
supply Of water from Thompson Brook.
q. Your experience with the Andres
roggin water as a source of supply was
that it was not satisfactory?
A The citizens all protested against the
use of AndroSeoggin water.
.. And then this brook was tried?
A. Yes sir, the brook was tried.
@ And that was found to be made
suate?
A. Yes sir. We had an engineer come
from New York and he spent two solid
months ut least trampng all around
Brunswick in every direction making a |
careful survey of the water there and
this Mere brook that has been spoken
of.
@. That is what Prof. Robinson has
spoken of as his new source of supply?
A. Yes sir. and it wouldn't one-third |
supply Brunswick, by the flow at that
time.
G. And then what?
A. Well. he walked over every inch of
the country as far as / know of around |
Brunswick trying to find somewhere to
supply Brunswick alone.
@. How long a time?
A. That was before we purchased Bath. |
G. How long a time in a general way
lid he occupy trying to find that?
A. He was there from four to six
weeks
@. And as a result of that extended ex-
what did he report as 10 the |
adequacy of any supply for Brunswick |
Itself on the plains or anywhere?
a. He couldn't find any supply that he |
would recommend other than Thompson
brook.
g. This was along in the eighties
A, Yes sir it was in 1889. think.
Q So that you had the Brunswick sys
tenn upon your hands?
a. Yes sir.
@. AS it stood then?
A Yes sir.
G. And you had discarded the Andres