Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-05
new MAIN IN
RIVER NEEDED
FOR RESULTS
Plans for 500, 600 Improve
ment Under Way Water
Board Discusses Project.
MAY LAY As INCH PIPE
--ENGINEER'S VIEWS

foIioW1ng Its reorganization last
night, the Board Of Water Commits
sioners took up a highly importan,
matter in regard to improving the
present facilities for supplying Perth
AmDoy with water. In addition te
Inc present twenty-four and sixteen
linch mains connecting the city with
water works at Runyon. another
twenty-four or a thirty inch main is
planned at an estimated cost of from
$4,000 to 100000.
city Engineer Mason will prepare
more extensive data on the PROPOSE
ton for a thirty inch main and will
submit 1T at the next meeting Of the
BOARD, when the matter viii receive
further consideration.
The whole situation was very
clearly illustrated In a sketch pre.
N'tv Engineer Samuel Ma
son. The present sixteen inch main
~4y useless. 1t was laid
seventeen years ago and has fire.
quent breaks. The present twenty-
TOUR inch main was laid about Ave
years ago. Should anything happen
10 This main the city would probably
experience a water famine. as tbe
sixteen inch main could not stand
the strain for any length of time. 1t
IS the idea of the board to have as
many units as possible c~onnectinp
the city with the water works. where
the mains have to cross the river. at
Which point the danger of breakage
is greatest.
u new main planned would run
beneath the bed of the Raritan river
seartlng near the southerly side OF
the Amboy bridge. 1t would enter
mis- city near the C~hesebrougb
Vaseifne Works, through Sheridan
street to Market street. On tbe
~southerly side of the river 1t would
De connected by a gate with the pres-
ent twenty-four inch main. which 10
connected with this city mainly al ng
the on the westerly side
the Amboy bridge. The new main
would make a direct cut across the
river ON the east side OF the bridge
Ehe new main would Be 1900 feet
a feet of which would be
nhstrnctad-th aI& the riverl the re~
4 1rashman was nhaltEEeu TO stop ana 100
at him. Mclean said:
Here's that half dollar / borrowe,
of you. Now you must quit telling tn
neighbors that I never pay my debts.
Half drunk and wholly dazed, th'
Irfshman took the silver piece, looked
at 1t tntently and then said.
"Be dad, yez can't get Off thot aisy
1t wor a whole dollar thot yez borryd
80 fork over"
and he forked over another half dol
lar and went his way, laughing hearti
~ at the quick wit of the Irishman.-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Real Love.
A young couple married. She loved
him madly. He loved her devotedly
They were good. and they were young
The good die young, and he died. She
did not bury him; she had him ere
mated and his ashes placed In an urn
In the course of time young fellows
came counting her and tried to per
suade her that they ought to pay fol
with the ashes in the urn, and they
withered away into thin air. But there
was one desperate and persistent fel
low who hung around after all the 9th
ers had left, and finally she married
him to get rid of him-a sort of de
fensive movement. She grew to love
him without knowing anything about
1t, and he didn't know 1t either.
One day 1t rained In torrents, and
at night the frost came SO that in the
morning the front steps were coated
with ice. AS he opened the door to &c
to the office she saw the condition OF
the steps, and a great wave of love
swept over her, and she rushed and
got the urn and sprinkled her first bus
band on the steps sc that the second
husband could walk down in safety
That Is real love!