The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-11-18
BONDS CARR ID
BY TWO TO ONE
PURE WATER WINS GREAT VICTORY
State Board OF Health Addresses Mass
Meeting Clearly Explaining
Situation.

| When the votes we're counted Fri
day a victory was shown tor pure
water and municipal ownership.
which was in its proportions suIprls-
ing TO the most optimistio partisan
tor the voting of the bonds. The
count showed 10 IN favor and 80
against the issuance Of $50, 900 In city
bonds for the installation of a water
system to bring IN the City Spring
and dlstIihut the water to consumers
OF the oity. Bonds would have carried
even had the old provision OF the
charter been in effect which required
tWo.thirds vote to cause the issu.
ance of the bonds.
The last day of the campaign show
cd good deal OF activity on both
sides ot the water question and the
climax came with big mass meeting
In the opera house Thursday evening
at which time four members OF the
state board OF health aud }. p.
Newell, consulting engineer, spoke
60 the citizens on the local wator sit
uatlon and explained it in clear
'ashlon which made the people mole
nearly realize the situation as it really
was, than hey had ever before.
DR.. A. h. Pierce, president, DIR. K.
Y. lenney, secretary, and DR.. Andrew
y. Smith, member OF the state
board OF health, came from Portland
thursday morning and spent the
afternoon with Mayor Mcdonald,
membeIs of the council, City Health
Onlcer Edgington and City Engineer
Morse and visited the present and pro-
posed sources of supply of water for
the CITY. The party inspected the
upper aud lower systems and some
OF the smaller springs from which
residents OF the city are now getting
water. They then drove out to the
City Spring and inspected it and the
surrounding country, returning to
the city alter dark.
When the meeting was called to
order In the evening" the opera house
was f1lled to the doors, and DR.. 4. q.
Broslus, who presided, outlined the
situation from the stand point of the
city administration In brief intro
dnctory speech. lie then introduced
DIR. Pierce, who spoke briefly OF the
necessity to pure water and the dan
gers OF contamination when the
source was SURF ounded by thiokly
populated community. DIR. Yenney
was the next speaker and he put fur
ther emphasis ON pure source OF
water for the CITY and In the course of
his remarks, then and in answer to
questios later In the evening, he stated
that 1t would be impossible to absol-
utely safeguard the present water
system OF the city so that could be
used safely.
DR.. q. j. Smith, member of the
State Board from Pendleton, who had
not been able to reach the city in
time to accompany the party on the
inspection tour In the afternoon, was
present and addressed the meeting.
lie showed the dangers OF impure
water and told the citizens that cit
uated as they we're where il was pos
sible to get good water with oompara-
tive ease there was no excuse Ifor not
having 1t. lie showed the difficulty
which the cities are up against which
live In the irrigated districts. The
Pendleton physician also strongly re.
commended municipal ownership to
the people as means of controlling
their water supply.
DIR. Andrew &. Smith followed and
spoke OF the source OF typhoid fever
which had visited Eugene few years
ago and said that at present Hood
River was liable to an epidemic OF
the sort. lie highly recommended
the City Spring as source of water
supply, as had the other speakers pre-.
cedinghim, providing that 1t was
sufficient to supply the city.
j. r. Newell, engineer, was present
and spoke to The audience OF the
municipal plant from an engineering
standpoint. He explained that the
preliminary estimates were as nearly
correct as could be made without
great expense and spoke of the oon-
stant flow of the City Spring as evil
dence of the depth of its source.
After he spoke the meeting was
thrown open to qHestioners from the
audience and number of matters
we're brought up by various citizens
for further explanation by the experts
who had spoken. Among the quest.
toner's we're: A. A. Jayne, Ii T..
Davidson, s. W. Stark ii. b. Ian.
gille and j. l.. Henderson.
Attorney Jayne gained the floor
and made quite an extended speech in
which he attacked the mayor and city
council for the attitude they have
taken on the water question. He
made several accusations against the
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please the audience. At the close OF
Mr.. Jayne's speech, DR.. Broslus left
the chair and took the floor for
brief defense of the council, which
had been elected to do certain things
and were carrying out those policies
to the best of their ability.
The Civic improvement League has
called meeting for Thursday but an
adjournment was taken and the mem
bers attended the mass meeting.