The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-27
BLAKE ASKS WHERE
 MAYORS NELL IS
Wonders What Has Become of Project for Artesian Water
 on the Green.
DRILLED DOWN l24 FEET
Park Board Head Tells of Pro- lessor Weir's Plan to Make
 Fountain Water Cool.

Say" said Henry T. Blake, president of the New Haven park commission, ''where's the mayors well gone to?"
 Yes, the mayors we'll" said MT. Flake. You know that well that he and Director Coe and the rest of them had dug near the town pump. Better look into that. I think that 1t has been abandoned. There was no ar engagement made for it's waters to bub- ble forth in the Bennett memorial foun- tain that know of.
 "The mayor, as I understand 1t, when he learned that we were think ing of using city water in the Bennett memorial fountain said that the water we were going to use was not so good as 1t should be. He wanted an arteslan well: said that the water should be better. He was prejudiced against the city water, I believe.
 '.Now the we'll, as I understand 1t, has been dug within a few feet of the present town pump, but so far as l kniw there's no pipe nor pump there, and it looks to me as though the scheme had been abandoned. If that is true it is rather important.
 ''The well was dug down 124 feet or 50, but don't think that a pipe has been put in Go down there on the green and see if you can find the mayors we'll
 .I understand that there is nothing to show where the we'll was dug, What the man who dug the well got was nothing more nor less than ordinary we'll water. Now they have an artesian well over at the Y. NJ. c. A.; it isn't the greatest well in the world by any dneans, nor Is the mayors we'll the greatest well.
 "Find the mayors we'll if you can," added MT. Blake his face beaming.
 Ut is. something like Diogenes look ing for an honest man with a lantern, said another man in the anteroonl oi the aldermanic chamber with MT Flake lalst night"
 ''That reminds me" said MT. Blake 'that the Bennett fountain is patterned somewhat after an old fountain in Athens that is in the shape of a Ian tern.
 T guess they don't know what tt do with the mayors weM now Filled Up probably. The mayors idea wa that the city water that would be used in, the Bennett fountain would not bt cool in summer, but Professor Weir has overcome this by making a refrigerat ing and Altering apparatus througl which the water must pass before i reaches the public, and this, beina filled with ice, will render the wate e the public drinks nice and cool in sum mer.
 'But you go over to the green anc see if you can find the mayors well I think that they covered it up.e
 A journal and Courier man wake, over to the green, and, going to a poin about ten feet west of the presen town pump, he saw two boards. Ol top of these boards was some dirt. Il the interstices between the boards h inserted a lighted match and there, sur enough, was the hole.
 "Oh, yes" said L. u Bassett, who dug the well, fit is down 124 feet, an( we have put pipe in there. There i' no pump there now, but there probably will be later on. The work Is now felt up on account of the mayor and Direc tor Coe not yet being able to get the proper kind of pump for it. That: what they're figuring on now at any rate"
 An attempt to find Mayor John P Studley and Director James B. Coe las night to ask them about the future O the mayors well, as it has come to b. termed was fruitless.
 The well is there The city water pipes will be run into the Memoria fountain. The town pump will be abol ished
 Director Coe said yesterday that the well was driven by direction of tht mayor.
 He also said that Controller Jona than N. Rowe and City Engineer Gas sius w Kelly were considering tn ]