Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-06-07
Fitzgerald's City Water.

Fitzgerald's water, coming from an exhaust
less stream between two vast layers of rock
eight hundred feet below the surface, is as pure
as it is possible for water to be. The very
slight traces of mineral are supposed to add to
its healthfulness. The water Is pumped IN
large stream from this deep well through iron
pipes that do not leak aud if they did the pres
sure from within would prevent the least poss1-
BILE conta mination from without into large
concrete reservoir, closely covered and care
fully protected, thence into the large standppe
hundred feet high from which it flows into the
city mains, a constant stream The stand pipe
is also covered, altho it is above the ordinary
fight of BIRDS There is nothing that could posi-
blv contaminate it in the water mains, for if
there is leak, it leaks out and not in on account
of the great pressure constantly on the mains.
Then what can be purer? Every sumne err
from some mysterious source, rumor starts TO
the effect that the city water is not pure and
clean. Some old gad-about guesses that the
standpipe is not covered because they can't see
it away up there) He tells it to somebody who
concludes that there must be mum Der of birds
roosting in the standpipe and of course quite a
few of them dead and in the water, and before
the gossipers realize that they have got to work
good, all sorts of ridiculous yarns are being told
about the citys polluted water supply.
Supt. Pollitzer tells the Enterprise that he
has lust had the standpipe drawn off and clean
ed, altho it did not need cleaning, as he states
there was only slight sediment from the rust
ing or scaling from the interior on the stand
pipe, little iron rust if you please, which is
IL IN he fhar
otherwise.
The mains are being flushed regularly
which insures a healthfu1 circulation of the
water in the remote branches of the main.
Fitzgera1ds water, like most other things
connected with our town, is all right, and we
contract to thrash the first croaking sore
head that we hear criticising or misrepresent-
ing it.
Occasionally some brash young man, well
meaning perhaps but either ignorant or perverse
makes fool break in stating some absurd
ity. Perry Clegg Cor may be McKenzie)
states in the Cordele News of June 2ud
that Nine out of ten of the newspapers
who are with him (Smith) are either de-
feated politicians, or sore for some reason"
We said fool break if that isn't what is
it? We challenge the editors of the News to
name sore head, or defeated politician in the
list of staunch Hoke Smith papers.
In the same editorial, Editor Clegg, or Nc
Kenzie uses some fine arguement for Candidate
Smith, for ms lance they say:
Every travelling that goes on the road,
is getting rate of fare of IL cents per mile,
aud the farmer and others who take an occas-
sional trip pay three aud four cents per mile.
The travelling man, when he sells bill of goods
has his house to add his railroad fare to the
cost of the goods, and the man who buys of the
retailer pays the railroad fare"
They might have added, with some force.
that but for the pass system, against which
Smith is opposed, the fare might be reduced to
two cents and the consumer save twenty per
cent on this item.
In another place they admit there are evils
existing in many portions of our state govern
ment" They might have added with absolute
safety that these evils may be expected to grow,
that they do grow and flourish until wave
of reform, such as we are now experiencing in
Georgia, corrects them. We agree with the
News that when this race is over our grand old
state will be in much better condition. Hoke
Smith, who is lined up with the com mon people
against the paid agents of corporations that
would corrupt our legislation, and against office
holders who have held Office long enough to
know and see the influences of the hired agents
of the railroad corporations, the large Insurance
companies the book monopolies aud the dirty,
tyranical meat packers that are disgrace toany