Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-09
District Furnishes Fountain,
Ice Is Donated.
MORE OF MONEY is GIVEN
First One at Pennsylvania Avenue
and 7th Street.
FOUR TRIAL FOUNTAINS, TOO
Commissioners Want to Find Out
Whether Public viii Drink Un-
cooled Potomac Water

Ice water is now supplied from the pub
lie drinking fountain at 7th street and
Pennsylvania avenue. Within a faw
days the installation Of four additional
drinking fountains will be begun under
the direction OF District officials and IL
enough money is donated these also will
supply ice water.
In response to an appeal made in The
Star some time ago. the District Commits
sioners decided to establish several public
drinking fountains of this character to
determine their usefulness. Four large
fountains OF the sanitary bubble type
were ordered at once, and they will be
delivered to the water department dur
ing the next week. Their installation will
be taken up at once. SO that they can be
used as much as possible during this
summer.
Commissioner Macfariand pointed out
this morning that there are no District
funds available for supplying ice for
these four new fountains, and that If ice
water is to be supplied the cost of the
ice must be met by private donors. His
appeal for funds to ice the water sup
piled from the existing fountain at eth
street and Pennsylvania avenue was met
SO promptly, he declared this morning.
he hopes some other donors will come
forward to answer this second appeal
More Money Needed.
Unless money for ice is provided by
private donations. II is announced filtered
but uncooled Potomac water will be sup
piled from the four fountains to be in
stalled within the next few weeks.
w. A. Mcfarland superintendent of the
water department. announced this morn
Ing that one of the new fountains would
be placed at Mount Vernon Square. where
is located the Public Library another will
be installed at Sth and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast: a third on Pennsylvania
avenue between 18th and l4th streets and
the fourth probably. at 18th street and
New York avenue. The location of the
upon because of the difficulty of finding a
place to put it at the busy intersection
of 18th street and New York avenue.
Plan Is Experimental.
The four drinking fountains to be estab-
lished soon will be largely experimental.
to determine whether the general public
will use drinking fountains from which
unccoled Potomac water is supplied. In
the belief that such fountains would not
be popular, the District officials have
hitherto refrained from installing them
in place of the public wells WHICH We're
closed few years ago. but the demand
for something to take the place of the
closed wells has recently become strong,
and Engineer Commissioner JudsoIs de-
termined to erect four drinking fountains
ar an experiment.
If the public demand warrants it. Com
missioner Mcfarland announced this
morning. more fountains will be installed
at prominent points.
Donors Names Withheld.
The icing of the water in the drinking
fountain at 18th street and Pennsylvania
avenue has been made possible b. the
generosity of donors who wish their
names withheld. Immediately after Com
missioner Macfarland made public a
statement as to the popularity of an ice
water fountain in Philadelphia, maintain
ed by temperance society OF the Quaker
city. and pointed out that there were no
District funds available for such work
In Washington, the money was forth
coming for the ice for one fountain. II
individual donors cannot supply ice for
the four additional ones it Is expected
that some local organizations will take
up the matter.