The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-04

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mains are heinR patrollcd as ~ Ia prevent
any move on tho part ~ tho private coin.
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tiuna With tho City'a mains Digging is
"a hegin IN two lncalitiep. m each ~ which
tho Commissioner SUSPECTS connections,
a. the ayitHms " the city n the private
company there run close together. ID
first Of these localities IL that along Cypress
avenue, Elm avenue and Myrtle street.
The other, within a few blocks ~ tho first
discovery, IL ut st Nicholas avenue and
Stamford street
Commissioner Ellison has tclegraphed
to Cord Meyer, president ~ the Citizens
Water Company, informing hun that on
Tuesday morning at 10 o clock a city engi-
neer will he on hand M ~. Nicholas avenue
and Stanhope street TO give Mr.. Meyer or
his representative a chance 10 explain
away the "a inch pipe connection that has
there been found. This telegram was sent
to Great Neck. where Cord Meyer has his
summer home. Mr.. Meyer called Com
missioner Ellison up on the telephone from
Great Neck yesterday to protest against
the charges OF water theft.
Commissioner Ellison went on to make
a reply to the denial issued by Bernard
Suydam, Mr.. Meyers son-in-law, on behalf
OF the company. He dealt first with the
claim that the ~ inch connection W
the city main and that OF the private COM
pany is a dead" pipe. He stated that there
was undoubtedly a flow of water throug h
the pipe. The fact, he asserted, had been
established by a thorough series of tests
of a technical nature, accurate enough not
only to establish the fact that water was
flowing through the pipe, but also to deter
mine the rate Of the flow and It's quantity.
At the time the tests were made, three
days ago, water was flowing. he said, from
the city's main into the private company's
at the rate Of somewhat over 10000 gallons
per day.
This fact, according to the Commissioner.
discredits also the assertion OF Mr.. Suydam
that the pressure in the mains OF the Citi-
zens' Water Company was stronger than
that in the city's mains. Had it been
stronger the flow through the connecting
pipe would have been into ard not from
the City's mains. 1t was notorious, the
Commissioner added, that the company's
mains were pumped to an inadequate pres
sure. He cited the case of the Ridgewood
district, where, owing partly TO the high
ground, the water had often failed to run
at the faucets altogether.
Though the Commissioner would name
no names, he minated that he was in pos
session of further information regarding
water thieving, which he would Use to guide
him in his digging. He would not specify
what this information was, but said that 1t
would come out in due time. Somebody,
he added, had grown discontinued with the
water companies and had told on them,
specifying the locations of many secret
pipes that had been laid.
From now on the Commissioner expects
to find that the company will maintain a
higher pressure in its mains, in order to
give the impression that a higher pressure
has previously been the rule.
Bernard suydam, treasurer OF the Ct-
zens' Water Company, who is at present at
Elmhurst, Long Island, was questioned over
the telephone Yesterday evening. Asked
whether he had anything to say regarding
the connecting pipe that Commissioner
Ellison said that he had found at the corner
of st. Nicholas venue and S~tanhope street,
Brooklyn, he at first knew nothing Of any
pipes, dead or other, in that locality.
The following statement, printed as COM
ing from him., was then read to him; The
az inch main from the corner of st. Nicho-
las avenue and Stanhope street is a dead
pipe and has been for several years" This
brought the matter back to his memory.
The pipe he said, lis one laid long ago,
that / believe used to connect our main
meter which was later detached; at the same
time the pipe was disconnected.
-"The pipe certainly il Joined to our main,
and used to join that of the city at the
other end. But it has been n dead pipe
for several years back and is still so to-day,
unless the city employees have again
opened it by mistake"
Asked whether the company had re-
oeived the Commissioners invitation to be
on hand tomorrow morning and explain
things, Suydam replied that President
Cord Meyer, in his talk with the Commas
sioner over the telephone yesterday morn
ing, urged the Commissioner to make the
date Monday morning. To this, he said,
the Commissioner at first agreed, but later
by telegram put the date off until Tuesday.
AS to Commissioner E%llison's further as
s~ertions Suydam contradicted them out
right. He said that the two and a half inch
pipe had not yet been completely meow
cred from the city main to that of the COM
pany. Here and there. he said. Ellison
had laid it bare for n way, but he added
that there was an extensive portion not
yet dug up, in which, no doubt, the dis
connection would later be found, Finally
he denied that there was any reliable way
to test the current, If any there were, flow
ing through the connecting pipe. Even if
there were a flow Of water through such a
pipe the fact, he claimed, could not ascer-
tanned without employing a metre.
The commissioner" he concluded, has
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