Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-17

MACK HAS NURSED IT
CAREFULLY FOR YEARS
Professor Marston Reports Favorably
on Tank, and Altho Herman Votes
a Thousand Times No. Tank Car.
res With Rest Of Council as Unit
Herman Grows Eloquent.
of mains, to be responsible for the
elevated tank idea, Councilma George
Herman Monday night waxed eloquent
in his denunciation of the expenditure Of
large sum of money for tank at a
time when he declared it was unknown
what the demands from such tank
should be. Despite the earnest protest OF
Mr. Herman, who voted "a thousand
times no. on the building of the tank,
the rest of the council voted as unit.
This followed the favorable report of
Prof A. Marston. head of the engineer
ing department of Iowa State College
who was employed as a consulting en-
gineer in the project.
Herman Outlines History.
Mr.. Herman was first 10 speak fol-
lowing the report of Professor Marston.
and the motion of Clark to accept the
lowest bid for a construction of he
tank, and begged the councils indlll-
gence in a little history of the tank
-Four years ago said Mr.. Herman. "a
baby was born to the public utilities
of Marshalltown. The father of .his
baby was Ed Mack. He brought
picture of the baby into the council
chamber. and told US how pretty it was
and how much we needed il. But thank
God there were wise man enough on
thiS council. and the baby was not
adopted
Neck took the baby back to its
ara6le and nurSed i. carefully We
never lea~d d II before election. but
a,1az-s after election For three years
~ nan has worked 10 nurse that baby.
~ PERHAPS for political reasons it has
ea pU back into tbs cradle. and AZ
- el=c-i7r i has been -esurrected. and
Mack has I Ally found food TO get the
aaoy or Is feet. altho crippled The
srs- ming We know the city Of Mar
s1al'-o-va has SO, 100 or $4,000 infant
j N IS hands
Ma-ston's Bill 500.
Nj Na-s.on's bill for 500. ID cover
RS work IN connection with the recon-
Slr5 :,
and this furnished food for Herman.
wao declared thai - had told the
I council :. would cost he city 900 to
/ ga Marscon- whereas -ta council tn
s!s.A5 -.a. tae EXPENSE you'd not be
ove- So What have you got?" asked
Herman \ sheet of paper wor IN
noting
Herman declared 1Ir. c,ark's mo-
-5on q award ne con -ract 70 the low-
- Bidder a ou.-a g=ous, and tH7piorsd
- -ae members Of the council % take
Inc 5=f7-@ considering i, and wait
-.I1ook = ne future" advised Herman.
Oar .9z- i growing, and growing
=ss- Peraa1s II fex years We viii
aave . Ter dorm this tank and build
bigger ore Wal. until w install tae
law pumping station and he dam. ana
nan So w-a- we NEED IN The way Of 3
-ank. Then i we need one build one
nat vii be large enough. say Of 500
0gQ gallons capacity. Al any rate val
Until We know what We want and
wha- our City demands. Would any o
you -nen.'' asked Herman. addressing
me council spend $4,000 for some.
, -hsnE that you had not carefully in
: vesttgated? Wouldn't you stop 70 con
: slider whether or not you could &c
along without Z? Not q man Of VI
would 90 Il. and yet .-ou 90 not hest
tate to spend the peoples money. Yol
have been entrusted with this money
wait and see whether you need t
spend r. Wait III We get the dam.
Mr.. Herman noved % amend Clark
motion by Indefinitely postponi-lg &C
ton, but failed To- second.
Persists TO Be Msinfornned.
a. Mr.. Clark replied 70 Mr.. Herman b
= saying mat This vas an .ntelliger
council. there need be no hesitatio
about the necessity for the tank Tn
council had had all the Information o
frhe subject that was necessary. Pro
fessor Lambert had advised it, Super
intendent Madsen had declared 1t nee
essary. and now Professor Marsto
had reported favorably. Clark consid
tered Mr.. Herman a bright man, III
Thought that he had been uistnforue
as to the tank question. Furthern or
he considered that Herman had PEI
sistentiy refused to inform 1nimsel
Clark thought, however, that thel
we're other members on the counc
just as intelligent as Mr.. Herman. ar
they considered that they had enoue
Information On the subject to vote IL
Ve diligently.
ch Mr.. McCarten didn't quite like son
nd phases Of Professor Marston's repol
.ti especially The lack of any definite IL
st formation as to the difference the tar
he might make in the temperature of u
r. water, which was characterized in II
r. report as not being "appreciable." N
av McCarten also did not like the answe
TO some of the questions in wifi
Marston said that such and such we
so if he had been reliably informed
McCarten thought Marston should n
have relied ON information, but got
the facts himself.
The lowest bidder on the tank Is t
Des Moines Bridge and Iron Col
Va pany, at $500. The mayor was autho
. lied by resolution to sign the contra
Professor Marston's Report.
+ Professor Marstons report on t
tank proposition was quite exhausti