The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-18
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same source.
Baltimore City's water-What It Will
be With the Increased Gunpowder Sup
plv.-The people of Baltimore city used up
"a, OO0 900, 600 gallons of water last year, says
the Meas If the $4,000 people living in Balti-
more had done nothing else day and night
throughout the entire year but drink wafer,
and had managed to dispose of the water at
the rate of half pint cupful each and every
minute. they would not have completed at the
end of the year the task of drinking up this
vast quantity of water. To be more exact, it
would have taken the whole population of Bal
ttmore 485 consecutive days OF steady water
drinking at the rate of half pint minute to
have disposed of the "a 600 900, 900 gallons.
let loose all al once on the city of Baltimore
the "a, 600, 000, 900 gallons of water would have
completely inundated all the built up portion
of the city. 1t would have created a lake 10
feet deep, covering about IL square miles. The
thickly built up portion of Baltimore, extend
ing from Pulaski street on the west to Patux-
emf street on the east, and from North avenue
ON the north down into South Baltimore, but
excluding Ferry Bar and the tip end of Locust
Point, is lust about II square miles in extent.
IF one lone man survived the onslaught or
this vast quantity of water and was set to the
work of drinking up the great lake, it would
take him something like 712,500 years, if he
was able to continue drinking one cupful of
half pint, right straight ahead, day in and
Allotting 10 gallons for each bath. the a.
600. 900, 600 gallons of water supplied, used up
in Baltimore last year, would be enough to
give every man, woman and child IN baltl-
more bath each and every day of theyear for
| IL consecutive years. -
reservoir on the Gunpowder river is com pleted
the city will have stored there at all times al
most as much water as was used last year. The
total capacity of that proposed great reservoir
will be 90, 900, 100000 gallons. Based on the
| figures of consumption last year that would
| supply all of Baltimore's needs for 10 months:
In other words, after the reservoir is built and
| filed Baltimore will not have to fear drought,
| for it will have enough water on storage to
| last 10 full months, even though the Gunpow-
| der river was dried up for that length OF time
Mr.. Walkers Good Work.-On Tuesday
| Mr.. Noah Walker, of Arlington, who is spe-
| cial deputy sheriff. submitted a report to the
I County Commissioners on the violations OF the
motor vehicle law on Park Heights avenue
| from January LIST to December 31st 1907.
II shows that 120 arrests were made, W per-
| sons convicted, q discharged and case is
pending. The amount OF fines he placed at
| $595.50.
Since May Odd, the report says, the automo.
| blists have been running on their honor, and
since that date there have been six accidents.
| In three of the accidents the authorities nave
| not been able to locate the guilty persons or
| get the number of the cars. In one case it took
| six weeks and in another three weeks to locate
the guilty ones.
The report is limited to four miles OF road,
commencing at the city limits and ending at
the Old Court road. Mr.. Walker notes that
1875 motor vehicle licenses were taken out at
Annapolis in 1906 and that the number had
increased to 2679 in 1906 and 4 164 in 1917.
More than 600 chauffeurs have been licensed.
! There are about $50 motor vehicles in the
county In Maryland at present there are
about 4, 400 motor vehicles.
Soon Have It's Own Water Supply
The people of Lutherville will soon have an
independent supply of water. They have I'M
! dertaken to solve the water supply problem
and a Philadelphia firm is now engaged IN
sinking an artesian well. The site is on MT
Conrad Weisbrod's property. which has Deen
secured for the purpose. The workmen have
gotten down 800 feet and are still boring. Inc
Lutherville Water Company, which was re-
! Gently incorporated, has charge of the opera
tons and it hopes to have water to supply the
village by next summer. An independent
water supply for Lutherville was determined
on because of the failure last summer OF the
supply furnished by the Baltimore County
Water and Electric Company, whose wells arr
located at Towson. za4D