The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-06

Minneapolis will have a pure-water
commission composed Of recognized
experts.
At the meeting Of the council COM
mittee on waterworks yesterday after
| noon, a commission Of five members
| was selected, subject to the confrma-
| ton of the council.
The nominees are City Engineer
Andrew Rinker; former City Engineer
F. w. Cappelen, who planned and built
the reservoir system; Allen Hazen of
New York city, a well-known authori-
ty on water systems; Frederick A.
Bass, professor of sanitary engineer
ing at the state university, and DR.. H. M.
| Bracken, secretary Of the state board
! of health. It is assumed that the
commission will be formally author
lied by the council at its meeting Fri
day evening. s-.. -s
Notice was given by Supervisor Nc
Side stations were blocked and that
the old machinery should be disposed
Of before it became entirely useless.
All the pumps will be disposed of ex-
cept two Jumbos, which will be moved
to the north station: " r.. ..
The report Of DR.. J. Frank Corbett
announcing the presence of colon ba-
cilli at the Northeast pumping station
intake, and also at the reservoir, was
something Of a shock to the mem
bers Of the committee.
Mcconnell Criticized.
Alderman A. E. Merrill again took
Supervisor Mcconnell to task for fail
ing to notify the public whenever the
lower stations were started. Mr.. Nc.
. Connell declared that he had always
| done SO except when the East Side
. station was run for five hours at the
urgent demand from Fire Chief Can
terbury for more pressure during the
fire at the Minneapolis Bedding com
, pany's plant.
, Mr.. Merrill said that he could no
, recall that the fire chief had any au
, thority to start the stations. Alder
man ]. s. Lane came to the aid OF thu
8 supervisor and stated that he had him
self introduced the resolution requir
ing the opening Of the lower stations
( when the pressure was insufficient. TO-
= fighting fire. AS for himself, he di(
= not know whether it was any wors
9 to be killed by typhoid germs thai
by fire. Mr.. Merrill was glad to hea
S that his colleague recognized the ex
7 istence Of typhoid germs, to whicl
$ Mr.. Lane entered a decided negativ
and volunteered to eat a bushel o
2 them. '-= T. #' "a 80 - - l.
a A proposal to install an ozoniZini
plant at the reservoir at the actua
cost was referred to the proposed wa
ter commission when it Is organized.
Aldermen Frank L. Schoonmake
and G. B. Holmes were authorized t
make an investigation as to the cos
r of various filtering devices.
New Mains Ordered.
% Water mains were ordered laid thi
season as follows:
. First-California street, Twenty mint
"a to Thirtieth avenue.
"A Third 49, Plymouth avenue, Oliver |
a Penn; oliver avenue N, Plymouth to Si1
- teenth.
~ sixth-sixth street, Twenty second
~ Twenty third avenue; Second street, c.
70 dar to Nineteenth.
j., Eghth-Holmes avenue, Thirty -secor
IA to Thirty-third street; Emerson avenu
n Twenty-second to Twenty seventh stree
Fremont, Twenty ninth to Lake stree
m Lake of the Isles boulevard, Twenty-fift
street to lot 10, block 4, Lake Of the ISL
l. addition.
or Tenth-Third street N, Twenty ninth
~ Thirty-first avenue Thirty-frst avenu
h Third to Sixth street; Thirtieth avenu
Queen to Russell avenue; Russell avenu
Twenty ninth to Thirty-second street.
acknowledgements and a He
avenue, Franklin to Twenty fourth stree
Butler place, Twenty third to Twent
I'M fifth avenue; Twenty second avenr
Twenty second to Twenty-fourth stree
Twelfth-Lake street, Twenty
G. to Thirtieth avenue; Thirty-second stree
ed Minnehaha avenue to Thirty seco
ts. street; Thirtyseco avenue, Thirt
elk third to Thirty fourth street.
ng Thirteenth-Pleasant avenue, Thirt
at sixth to Thirty-seyenth street; Fort
all fourth street, Upton to Vincent avenr
as Upton avenue, Forty-seventh to Fort
TO eighth street; Lyndale avenue, Fort
ne third to Minnehaha boulevard.
to =. ,
nv. The water mains in the other war
en- have not yet been agreed upon.