The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-24
PUBLIC FOUNTAIN
HAS HARD SAILING
AWFUL BUGS LURN THESE DAYS
IN PUBLIC DRINKING CUPS
AND THE BAN is ON.

The way OF the W. {. |. |. load-
tain has been rather IA nar1 one.
The road over which it has trav-
eled has been rather rough. The
good women of this city who have
spent hteir money to furnish the men
with good cold water so they would
not be tempted to purcase something
else cold TO drink, have had many
ups and downs with their fountain.
They installed it in one of the most
public places in the city, bat il
was rather difficult to keep it SOP
piled with ice and it was neye;
popular drinking place. The faucets
that came with it would not stand
the high pressure OF the Ardmore
water system and it leaked constant
ly. The leakage was so bad that
finally the water was cut off until
the faucets could be strengthened or
new ones procured. Soon after the
water was cut off, some careless
youth who knew where he could sell
a small quantity of brass and knew
right where he wanted to spend the
money for firecrackers to celebrate
the Fourth of July with, took the
faucets, and the fountain has stood
there useless, although it has been
pleasing to the eye. The fountain
has inspired the women to greater
deeds for the poor man who will
sneak off and get cold bottle
now and then, but it has not kept
very many men from going. How
ever, things look better for the sue
cess of the fountain. Gus Mueller of
the city water department has taken
the matter of no faucets up with
some of his kinfolks who make just
such things and the Mueller man
ufacturers of Decatur, Ills, have
presented the city and the w. c.
II. US with faucets for the foun-
tain. They are now in their proper
place, Gus Mueller is ready to turn
the water into the fountain. Hydrant
water without ice does not appeal
to the thirsty these days and some
means of getting ice every day or
twice day must be discovered.
But now comes along the regula-
tions of the state board of health
These legislators We have been send
ing up to Guthrie did not pass that
law eliminating the public drinking
cup, but they gave the state board
OF health power to make certain
regulations touching its work OF
guarding the deer peepul" from the
awful bugs that lurk in the public
drinking cup and gave these rules
the same force of legislative enact.
ments. The health board since the
first day of May have had the ban
on the public drinking cup. One
of the w. C. T. L. ladies Yesterday
stood puzzling over the manner
which the people could use the
fountain. She said the fountain must
be put in order. 1t must be provided
with cups, because these men who
want beer instead of water are seek
ing some excuse not to use the
fountain and they just will not GO
around with an individual drinking
cup Crammed down in their pants
| pockets. 1t is enough for the pocll
ct to carry a knife, pipe, a can
of smoking tobacco and a piece
OF Star chewing, and these men dc
not wear coats in the summer and
| their trousers have no special pock et
/ made to provide a handy place fol
the individual drinking cup. Finally
the lady decided that cups should
be installed. They believe the coun
| ty judge will not send them to jail
| and inasmuch as it is just as i'm
portant for the public welfare that
| the fountain be used as it is to dc
away with the drinking cup, the
lady thought it best that the cups
be installed anyway.