Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-15

admits that MS one time superior with
whom he worked as assistant. Mr..
Tidd, was eminent in his profession.
The counsel for the other side had at
his right hand, the only living man
who could speak of the minuteness of
the construction of this DIanr Mr..
Hammatt, and did not even call him
to the stand
Two witnesses, Messrs. Wescott and
Payson, agreed that these works an
peaIcd to be admirably fitted for the
purpose of their design. No system
exists. with which not one soul, can
find what he would have changed, but
after the most minute tests, for out
of the line of the ordinary working.
extreme and trying in every way, this
plant Notwithstanding such test still
stands and is doing business. We
would have admitted had we been ask
ed. that there is a different pressure
on different levels,-in a country like
Gus this cannot be avoided.
Mr.. Richards could not find in the
entire system Of fire service, more than
one nait of the section to his taste
and that was in Randolph. If, as |
trust he will, our young friend finds
entrance to the city beyond, I am sure
he would fail to criticise the fire SER
vice there. if the venacular of that
cline could he 50 changed as to bring
to his mind some idea of questions in
voIved. Let us hope he may never
find that other place where the matter
of fire efficiency is a burning question
The eminent counsel in his closing
argument does not presume to speak
against the present efficiency of the
fire service AS to the average per
capita consumption, it may be that
Maine men drink more water than
other States, but be this as it may, it
never seems to have occurred to him
that in these manufacturing plants
there might be ABDOMINAL use of water
as he pleases to term it-thcre is no
normal use of water all you want and
can nav for may be considered the
normal use, if there is one. More than
three times the daily needs of the
takers in this district. is stored in
yonder reservoir, and submarine diver
and all had to agree it is q good res
ervoir without crack or leak of any
kind-Who says on the other side tina:
it is not as good as it ever was? The
test of time has only increased its
value, and where can you discover a
better test? Like the giant oak its
roots thrust deep into the earth for so
years. it's branches fixed and sure in
the sky standing there bidding defiance
to the blast. so this reservoir has PROV
ed it's stability, and no argument has
been advanced as to depreciation other
than that "some day somebody may
want to change it,
Real estate they have appraised as
waste land but never with any refer
ence to the Water Co. Why should
these tracts be taken from us and
given to them at one-half of their first
cost? They ask that several
lots that together cost us over
500. be appraised at a little
over 5000. If this can be done
we'll might the eminent counsel say he
could discover no reason why we should
be equitably treated. These things,
superintendent house and all, are nee
rSsary to the efficiency of the plant.
The pump has been subjected by Mr..
Richards to every abnormal test that
AN abnormal mind-collld abnormally
suggest and it compelled them all to
speak good words for it. Mr.. Whitney,
one of the best machinistS in. Maine,
has pronounced all well, man dwell
ing in Gardiner, who. if he had bias
would lean to the interest of the Water
District i'll which he resides.
In estimates of the cost of reproduce
ton Of the plant there is but a range of
only $4,000 between the highest and
the lowest.
Depreciation has no standard by
which ii can be determined and all
engineers differ in the important mat
ter. This tribunal cannot fettcr itself
with Il formula that is born simply out
of conjecture. None of tie pieces of
pipe here Introduced, proved the truth
of the assumption of the Safford-Coffin
formulas, but quite to the contrary, and
Mr.. Stafford was obliged to fly from the
conclusions he drew from his own form
uIa, When tested here.
While the Gardiner water contains
II of chlorine, Sudbury river water
runs % of the same dangerous element
always attacking cast iron when it can
and renewing it's attack as its percent
age may be increased. Chemically
speaking, we have demonstrated that
the pipe in this system must be more
free from tuberculosis than shat con-
vcyiug any of those waters cited. Tho
test applied by which an 1Syear-old
pipe was made 40 years old, is absurd
and must be so considered by any
thinking mind.
We declined to have our service in
tcrrupted, and our system mangled by
the taking up of pipe, while we We're
in charge. but we submitted to this
court the poorest piece Of pipe we ever
moved from this system. ! believe
am indebted to the aSsiduity Of Mr..
Iittlelield for one of our best witnesses
as to the condition of the pipe i'll the
mains. the first man in the hole" whom
| MIR. Littlcfield Immediately followed
Mr.. Ryder. The witness told your
honors that all the other pipe taken
| for this plant was worse than this one.
| Even the experts on the other side had
| to confess that the depreciation in this
pipe is not more than from ) to 10 pei
cent. and We have shown that the rest
| Of the pipe is better than this. MIR.
| Flynn. after looking and squirting and
| feeling these specimens. had to say
| This pipe is as good as new We de-