The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-19

the East Side station, there is danger
that the epidemic will spread.
Board in a Dilemma.
Under the present conditions there
are only two things that the board
can dO-supply the East Side schools
in the danger limit with spring water,
or, make provisions so that the pupils
will be prevented from drinking water
at the schools. The former plan will
school board undertakes to supply
spring water to a few schools, there
will come an insistent demand for
similar benefits from every school dis
trict in the city, and the expense OF
supplying 10000 children with spring
water would be enoruos.
On the other hand, objections would
doubtless be made against deprivlng
the children of water during school
hours, but many believe that it would
be no great hardship Is go without
water for a few short hours.
At the university there is much sup
pressed excitement over the water
question, and if the epidemic increases
it may be decided to suspend class
work temporarily. There is nothing
that the waterworks department can
cannot obtain reservoir water until
the submerged main at Twentieth
avenue N, which supplies the East
Side, is repaired. This work is ex-
pected to be completed some time next
week. There is no other way to get
water from the reservoir, as the main
which extends down Central avenue
from the feed line is too small to sup
ply the whole East Side. #
The Commercial club has taken the
matter up for the purpose Of deter
mining the facts. Health Commits
sioner P. M. Hall addressed the mem
bers of the club to-day.
May Close East Side Station.
AS result of the epidemic, the East
Side pumping station may be closed
tonight. .. ........
The trouble appears to have it's
origin in the breaking of the big SUBJ
merged main at Twentieth avenue n.
This break occurred on the evening
of Dec. 80, yet not until Feb did q
diver reach the bottom of the river to
ascertain the extent of the damage.
The diver was ready to go down sew
eral days before, but was prevented
by the severity of the weather;
The records of the health depart
ment show that the greater number
Of cases come from the section OF the
city supplied by the East Side pump
ing station. Supervisor Mcconnell! mas
bene making an investigation or ms
own, and declares that Of seventy-two
cases. thirty-five used city water eleV-
en- sprin water twenty-one well water
and five boiled city water.
The mortuary statistics of the
health department show that of eleven
deaths in Minneapolis from typhoid
fever this month, six of the cases We're
from the section of the city supplied
by the East Side station. Many cases
- Ave. - - ma
physicians, and it is thought that there
are greater number than the official
figures show. There are many mills
and factories supplied by the water
from hte dangerous station. The work
men in these shops and mills live IN
other sections of the city and in that
way cases of typhoid in other parts OF
the city may be due to consumption OF
the tainted water from the East Side
station. Of ten new typhoid cases re-
ported to-day eight are located on the
East Side.
The university authorities are alive
| to the danger and a committee COM
posed Of Dean F. S. Jones, Professor
+. j. Flather, F. H. Bass, DR.. G. B
! Frankforter and DR.. H. M. Bracken
| met this afternoon to discuss the sit
uation with Supervisor Mcconnell.
Main Will Soon Be Repaired.
The sleeve for the broken Twentieth
| avenue N main is now being finished
able to have the main in service Mon.
day. 1t will require two divers t
make the repairs, as the two section:
| of the sleeve weigh three tons.
Mr.. Mcconnell is firm in the belle
that none of the water from the Eas
Side station goes north of Third av
enue Sc. Others who have investi
gated incline to a contrary belief.
Afraid of City Water.
Northeast Minneapolis residents ar
i afraid of city water. A careful can
vass of a half-dozen sections in tina
part of the city revealed the fact tina
those who found it possible used WEI
water. Those who could use no other
boiled the city water.
| George Bryson, 311 Fifth street NE
said Mrs. Bryson died last week iron
typhoid. City water had been use
without taking the precaution to boz
or filter it. Charles Klopfer, Bryson'
Enext door neighbor, uses city waite
without boiling or fltering. In tn
summer water is carried from near
by well, but in the winter Klopfer ha
, no fear of city water.
Mrs. B. M. Olson, ABB Fifth stree
4 NE, filters and boils the city watel
but thinks the city should supply wa
ter which could be used without sue
!, precautions. In the vicinity of FIT
avenue NE and Fourth street half
dozen wells furnish water for drink
ing and cooking purposes for the Ell
: tire neighborhood. At the residene
of Robert Wilson, 314 Sixth street nj
we'll water alone is used and the Wi
son well is patronizedA by the neigh
borhood. II consider the city waite
dirty and unfit for USE, said Mrs. WI
, son.
Mrs. Phoebe st. Amant, sos secon
street NE, says she has usually use
: well water, but since the freezing U
V Of her pump she has used city waite
Since that time, she says, her CRANE
$ children have been sick and her sol
t in-law. G. L. Litz, 202 Fourth avenl
!: Sc, has been in the hospital with t.
! phoid fever.
Southeast Residents Alarmed.
Several other residences were vi