The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-04-28
KE[[|SON GIVES VIEWS
ON WATER SITUATION
Saws That Miracles Cannot be Accom-
plished With New Electrical System
as Has Been Represented Immense
Saving as Shown is Impossible.

acles of old look like thirty cents.
Mr.. Snoeberger, under the
management and tutilage OF Mr..
Clizbe, is going to make a Z or 8
Horse Power Pump do the work
Of 100 Horse Power Pump. Mr..
Snoeberger under the wizard hand
of Mr.. Snoeberger is going to
make a ton of steam coal generate
and bring forth 3 times as much
steam power as the city can get
out OF the same ton of steam coal,
with such veteran engineers as
John G.. Leonard in charge.
We are going to have water
pumps that will do ten times as
much work, in proportion to their
size and capacity, as the pumps
we now have. but the funny part
of these mysterious and myth
cal pumps is that they will not
work if the city attemps to run
them, but that they will only do
these wonderful things when op-
Grated by the Snoeberger plant
These pumps that Clizbe
speaks of are no doubt wonderful
works of mechanism, possessing
almost human intelligence, but /
don't like their mulish and stub
born propensities. They won't
work for the city and it would be
no use trying to get them to do
so, but the awful fear comes upon
me, what if they should balk and
get stubborn with Snoeberger
and refuse to pump. We would
be absolutely at the mercy of
these pumps, unless there should
be some other man in the city
that could tame them and make
them work And what would be
the cost of securing the services
of professional pump tanner. 1t
would be something terrific no
doubt, and ! shrink from con-
templating the cost.
Again, we are told that the
Council has made another dis
covery that is nothing short OF a
miracle.
A steel or iron basin, or tank
has been discovered that can
stand in the broiling sun OF July,
August and September, and keep
water about as cool as when it
comes from the bowels of the
earth. True, nobody has seen this
wonderful and amazing tank. No
body even knows where one is to
be seen in operation, but that it
exists in the imagination of the
chairman of the water works |
committee there can be no doubt,
for he has declared it himself.
That there is such thing as a |
thermal bottle which has the pro-
perty to keep fluids placed there
in, either cool or warm for sew
eral hours, there can be no doubt,
but they are very expensive
affairs. | see that pint thermal
bottle is advertised for sale for
several dollars and larger ones
in the same proportion. A giant
thermal tank, even if possible
would probably cost half mil
lion dollars, and if Mr.. Clizbe |
has discovered the secret OF
making one hundred thousand |
gallon thermal tanks at the tri-
fling cost OF FIVE thousand dollars,
| think he could get billion dol
lars for his patent before sun
down.
Then, water is to be pumped to
a height of 40 feet, and pressure
still maintained in the water
mains, to supply the consumers
with their daily water, with the
expenditure of about thirty per
cent of the cost OF keeping up
the pressure now and with the ex-
ira work of elevating the water
to that great height. But this
cannot be done by the city, at all
for the reason these miraculous
pumps that are to do the work,
wont bulge an inch or work fof
anybody but Snoeberger. | sup
pose that these pumps are anti
municipal ownership pumps and
wont work for a municipal cor
poration.
These are but few OF the self
evident Sbsurdities that are being
proposed. T.sey make the stories
of the Arabian Nights and the
tales of Baron Munchausen pale
into insignicance.
A man who is ready to believe
such stuff is ready to purchase
gold brick or a solid gold watch
for fifty cents.
Now, that the Editor of the
Tribune has gone back on the
people, and seems to be fighting
in the ranks of those he opposed
but few short moons ago, we
will have to look out sharper than
before for breakers.
Has it ever occurred to you,
dear reader, that it is the same
old STORY Of the sheen the dOpS