Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-25
REPORT ON WATER WORKS
Committee and Mayor Maloney Refuse
to Discuss the Document.
GOES TO THE COUNCIL TONIGHT
Inderstood Report Goes Fully IntO
All of Plans Proposed, Presenting
Facts and Figures, but MAX
ing No Recommendation.

The report Of the special committee Of
business men appointed by Mayor Maloney
At the request of the Improvement clubs
OF the csy. to investigate the water works
question, with a view Of assisting the
municipal authorities In arriving at some
solution Of the problem will be submitted
60 the city council tonight by the mayor. In
whose hands the document was placed just
before he went to Davenport to attend the
annual state meeting Of the Ancient order
of Hibernians, Of which organization he
was elected state president.
The report has been locked up in the pri-
vate desk Of the chief executive of the city
and its contents will not become public
until It Is read at tonight's session Of the
city council. Secretary ]. J. Stewart and
fhe other members OF the committee have
been most r~eticent on the subject Of the
report and have declined to make public
It's contents In advance OF It being pre-
scented TO the city council The informa-
ton. however. was vouchsafed that the
report is an exhaustive one and deals with
all three propositions now before the city,
namely. the construction Of a municipal
plant In accordance with the plans of City
Engineer Etnyre on the bid OF Contractor
wickham: the purchase by the city of the
present plant. and the granting OF a new
franchise to the present company on It
bringing its plant up-to-date, extending its
mains to parts OF the city now without
water service and furnishing service to the
hill district5 as proposed by Hon. NJ. l..
Bruce Of New York, counsel for the stock
holders of the company.
The committee, II Is said, while giving
all the facts and figures in favor Of and
against each OF the three propositions, does
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council. preferring to leave that body to
arrive at it's own conclusions from the in
formation contained in the report.
Councilman Jensen. chairman of the
water works committee. arrived home Sat
urday. and il Is possible that his committee
may nave some recommendation to make
tonight. Up to yesterday no word had
been received from William II. Bryan, the
hydraulic engineer employed by the com
mittee to check over the plans and speoi-
fications for the proposed municipal water
works plant prepared by the city engineer
and on which the bid Of Contractor Wick
ham was based. 1t In possible. however,
that a report may be received from MI.
Bryan before, tonight's meeting.
1t is understood that while In the east
Councilman Jensen made some inquiries re-
gardlng the possibility of floating the city's
bonds for a water works plant In the event
that It is decided to award the contract
TO Wickham. He is expected to report the
result OF his inquiries to his fellow coupcil-
men tonight, .a,,. .., p.
Asother matter to come before the city
council tonight will be the proposed ordi-
nance regulating plumbing work and pro-
vlding for a plumbing inspector. The
ordinance has been drafted by City Solicitor
k,inball and will be introduced this even
ing. The ordinance was drawn after the
special council committee had held a con-
ference with the plumbers of the city,