Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
Great Saving IN
Cost Of Coal
Promised.
REPORTSONWAY'
Commissioners Receive AppIica-
ton from a ChiCagOan for Posi-
'tiOn as Consulting Engineer
Man Charged for 5years
for What He Never Had.

At the water board meeting last
night Engineer Mason reported that
the final test of the new balance
draught system, wnich was held at
Runyon~ yesterday, had exceeded the
guarantee. The natural draught sys-
tenn was tested on Tuesday and 1t has
been proven by the tests that the ball.
ance draught system will facilitate
economy. With the natural draught
system only pea coal can be burned.
which costs about $3.10 per ton;
with the balance draught system.
buckwheat or rice coal. which can
be bought for less than 50 ton, can
be burned and will, it Is asserted.
give the same results.
At the present time there are four
boilers at Runyon, with only one
stack to supply the draught. For
merly there were two boilers and at
that time the stack was able to do its
duty. Instead of building another
stack the commissioners decided to
purchase balance draught system.
which the test yesterday proved
would save considerable money in the
price of coal.
Engineer Mason is at work on his
annual report and it will be complet-
ed in about month. The annual re-
port of the department is in prepara-
tion and will also be ready in short
time.
Charged for What He Didn't Have.
A communication was received
from J. J. Hoffman, of SIS Cortlandt
street, in which he claimed that he
had been paying for sanitaries from
February 1, 1902, until February 1,
last. Mr.. Hoffman stated that he had
no sanitaries in his house and that he
had been charged for them at the
rate of 81 year. Superintendent
Burns reported that he had examin-
ed the place and found things accord
ing to Mr.. Hoffman's claim. The
members of the board discussed the
matter and instructed the superIn-
tcnt to have the applicant pre-
ut bill for the money, with an ar
ldavit as to it's correctness.
A communication was received
from the Engineering Company. of
New York, in regard to some coal that
had been forwarded by them to Rum
yon to be used in the draught tests.
The superintendent was instructed to
send them bill head which can be
filled out and returned to the board.
Wants. to BE Consulting Engineer.
An application was received from
George Codagan Mogan of Chicago,
who stated in his letter that he would
like to offer his services as consulting
engineer should the board need one
at any time. Engineer Mogan said
that he had heard of the new pro-
posed 100000 improvements that
were contemplated, and in view OF
this fact, rendered an application
AS references, Evanston, and Oak
Park, a suburb of Pittsburg, were
named by the consulting engineer.
who stated that he is in charge of ex-
tensive improvements that are being
made there.
A communication was received
from the Security Bank Note Com
pany, of Philadelphia, with an offer
to print the new bond ISSUE The
letter was received and placed on file.
The reports of the city officers for
the month of February were read and
number of bills were ordered paid.
The pumping records for the month
of February were also handed In and
examined carefully by number OF
the commissioners. At the last meet
ing of the board heated discussion
took place in regard to the pumping
records and it was decided by them
that there was something wrong with
them. According to the pumping
records the average daily supply in
the city is over 100000 gallons,
but it has been stated by officials of
the department that in reality the
daily consumption is only 100000.
This feature has worried the commis-
sioners considerably, as II makes the
accounts differ considerably; for In
stance, last year, for the 486, 600 gal
Ions of water that passed through
meters, $4,000 was received. Be
sides this amount of water, there was
on billion gallons pumped, according
to the records, for which only $4,000
was received. This fact indicated TO
the commissioners that there was
something wrong with the method OF
recording the number of gallons