The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-25
WATER QUESTION.
A Board of Health
Crime.
CITY WATER vs.. SPRING WATER

The people of Minneapolis are aroused
over the water question as they have
never been before, and no wonder, for
right here in this great commonwealth,
where civilization has made It's greatest
strides and where bodies philanthropc
religious and charitable abound for the
purpose Of lettering the conditions Of the
people. thereby reducing through i'm
proved sanitary methods the death rate
and sickness from contagious diseases, etc.
In this favored community where the
health of the people is unusually good,
the city authorities suddenly turn death
into the drinking water Of the people, and
when the people after many deaths from
Typhoid Fever (Which Is preventable
disease traceable to city water) rise up
and protest against such an outrage. what
then? Behold! Champions arise in de-
4 Tense Of the city water, indorsing 1t, and
using their influence to overcome the fears
Of the people. and this In face Of the fact
that it has been demonstra ted repeatedly
that the city water at it's best is not
pure, but Is dirty and not fit to drink. .
These same champions Of city water for
some unknown reason are prejudtced
against the Spring Water which is being
delivered throughout the city for drinking
purposes: and they have on numerous oc-
casions expressed doubts as to whether
the people really got spring water all the
time or not, intimating that the spring
water drivers were liable to substitute
city water from the hydrants at any time
that they might run short Of spring wa
ter, altho so far as we know none Of
them doubt the purity of The GIenwood-
1nslewood Spring Water at its source.
Now all such statements this. we
characterize as false, absolutely But
In order to convince the people that we
mean business, and that any and all such
reports mere heresy and not worthy
Of notice. we hereby challenge any one to
,I,,.,1 80 IT,
jury that any one Of The Glenwood- Ingle-
wood Company's drivers ever did up to
this date (F'eb. Goth, 19Qi,) fill one of our
wagons from city hydrant. For such in
formation we hereby offer reward of
One Thousand Dollars ($1.000.O0).
Such reports are so absurd that 1t
hardly seems worth while to deny them.
and we only do in order to assure
some that may have given attention to
these rurnors without considering how
impossible such a thing would be. Now,
in the first place, city water is so dirty
IN the summer season that the w no
drive the street sprinl1lers are compelled
10 strain 1t in order to prevent the sprin-
klers from becoming clogged up; and in
the winter season the hydrants are turned
r off to prevent the water from freezing
thus it's use would be impossible; and
furthermore, the natural color of the city
water is always cloudy. which is caused
from fine clay and filth in solution, which
becomes readily apparent if the water
is allowed to stand for two hours or So
We suggest that the best evidence OF
the truth of our assertion would be to
draw a one-galon bottle full Of city water
and compare 1t with bottle of GlenWeod
1nglewood Spring Water The difference
between the two waters is so great that
no one would believe that any sane mar
would try to substitute one for the other
IT Is estimated by the Health Depart
1nent that there has been over 800 new
cases of typhoid fever developed since
January LIST, 1904, and many deaths WHO
shall say but what all of these case:
might have been prevented if these PEG.
pie had used nothing but Pure Glenwood
Inglewood Spring Water for drinking pur.
poses. Think of the suffering and the
many precious lives that might have beer
saved. and the cost is so little that il
comes within the. reach of all, for W.
d can supply a whole family for less thar
o cents per day. We offered to supply the
school children for cents per month fo
each pupil. and furnish pure ice to kee1
it cool and the use of a water cooler tt
each room, which offer was rejected or
the ground that the board did not wisl
to establish precedent" and then Their,
was an objection from a doctor on thu
ground that he had heard that the sprin.
water drivers had been known to fill u,
their wagons from hydrants when the,
ran out Of Spring Water.
GLENWooD-INGL
Pure Spring Water, put up in nice cleal
bottles. only 5 cents per gallon, for eithe
Natural or "Distilled.' Or. with Pur
Ice, and the use of a good clean waite
cooler-two gallons daily-s1.75 per month
This is the cheapest and best Health In
surance" to get. e..
G!enWood- 3l3
lngIewood Co. "f a,'' :: s?:a.t
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