Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-10

connection could not be made
without great deal more work be-
ing done. He gave it as his UNDER
standing that there would be Moth
/ ing more done on the work.
There will be some fireworks in the
council next Monday night, in charge
Of Councilman George Herman. The
rockets will be aimed toward a seat in
the First ward corner, and at gallery
front seat where a department super
intendent Is always found at council
sessions.
Councilman Herman found, after the
II Times Republican had exposed the fact
that effort was being made to tamper
with the city's water supply, that the
work was actually in progress, with
digging done and pipe on the ground
Thursday he secured a petition signed
by all the councilmen except Clark,
asking the mayor to stop the work and
the mayor assured him that nothing
more would be done until the council
had been consulted.
On the regular meeting night Of the /
council there may be expected some
fun. and an official action that will put |
a quietus on any further effort to tap |
the old Pierce galleries.
Interesting History of Deal.
Mr.. Herman says that the first ne |
knew of the effort to connect up the |
galleries owing to a shortage of wa
ter was when the subject was broach- |
ed in franchise caucus meeting Her |
man says that Mr.. Clark, in the first
| Place, did not want even the council
to know anything about it. but that
/ Mr.. MoCarten. the only other member
of the committee in the city at that
time. insisted that the members be in
formed of the proposed work.
| Mr.. Clark then asked the members
if they would support the connection of
the old galleries, providing the water
was found to be good. He said the
work would not cost over 5000.
L Herman Does Some lnvestig atinq.
Mr.. Herman, however. was not salts
fed in his own mind. and he was not
/ so sure that there was so much dan
/ ger of the water being as low as Clark
had claimed it was. He Went himself
to the river and there, to his surprise,
saw that some excavating had been
! done.
Herman found manhole exposed.
| and asked Mr.. Madsen, of the pumping
station, what it was. Mr.. Madsen ex-
/ planned that it was a manhole leading
TO the galleries. and explained what the
| galleries were; how that a long per-
forated pipe lay underneath the ground
and the water seeped into the holes
thru the sand filter.
Herman Sees Devine.
Not being satisfied that this water
ought to be connected, Mr.. Herman
hunted up DR.. W. S. Devine, whom he
knew to have been actively interested
and intimately acquainted with the
typhoid fever epidemic in 1903
DIR. Devine recited the facts of the
galleries at length, and told Mr.. Her
man how the water was found to be
very bad, and that the state board of
health committee had ordered the gall
leries disconnected.
Reports Findings to Committee.
That same afternoon the council met
again in a franchise caucus Mr. Her
man brought up the water question as
proposed the afternoon before and re-
ported what Devine had said. Clark
declared Devine was prejudiced. Her
man said that prejudiced or not De-
vine was intimate with the situation
and that he would take the doctors
word for it that it was an unsafe thine
j, to connect UP the galleries. The Other
members of the council agreed witt
Herman, and 1t was the general un.
l derstand1ng, according to Mr.. Herman
that there was to be no further worI
done in the project. Mr.. Herman sug.
gested to Mr.. Clark that, if the waite,
was getting short, the people had bette
be advised to quit sprinkling thei
lawns. He also said that the council
mad better take the money It was goin,
to spend for an elevated tank and SIM
few more wells. The people, he de
clared, would not object to expense t
get more water, providing they coul
get the same quality of water now be
ing furnished them
Mr.. Clark was much opposed to tn
suggestion Of notifying the people +
quit sprinkling lawns. He said it woul
be bad advertising. Herman declare
that other cities had been forced to q
the same thing during dry seasons an
as long as the council could moi Gun
troll the elements he did not think sue
notice would hurt Marshalltown i
the least.
Then Story is Made Public.
with this understanding, that n
more work would be done, Herman wa
dumbfounded when he read in tn
Times-Republican last Monday nigh
that work was still in progress on tn
proposed connection. Herman wen
straight 10 the river again. He foun
that the facts were as the T.-R stated
that the work was in progress. II
further found that trench had bee
dug from the reservoir, and that pin
was on the ground, ready to be laid.
He returned to town, got out his pc
tition, and secured the Signatures
but that Of the water works chain
man. When asked to sign it Mr. Clar
refused. Clark, according to HERNIA,
made some remark about the petite
not being made public. Mr. Herman as
sured him that 1t would be public, an
very public about next Monday nigh
- Will Guard With Shotgun.
Mr.. Herman says that he is not onl
going to present resolution that wi
forever prevent any more work bein
done, but he is going to see that II
yp,I,r LII.