Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-05

mintioned water in my very able
paper. AS Salem has no other use
for its water supply, l would offer
In me umble way a suggestion that
some of it be used to flush our large
and constantly increasin sewer
supply
"R. ]. Bitsforbreakfast: I am we'll
/ acquainted with Salem water. For
twenty years l have used it for ink
in issuing the best morning paper
published in the Cherry City. It also
makes a good water color paint.
Take a brush and write the word
Failure and paste it over yer official
disk, and ye have fittin' motto fer
yer administration
Teddy Rothehild: 4 am fer the
water. l am fer a commission forum
of government. am fer higher
prices, more cash customers, more
bonds and less bridges
Loot Hasbeen There is prob
ably no wan man in Salem better
versed in the QUESTION of water,
water rates and water pipes thin me-
self. 1 ye have time, Mr.. Mayor, I'll
tell ye the beginnin' of it. In 1S46
me grandfather came to what is the
home of Salem water, whose curative
properties are known the world over
He took oop a donation land claim
and planted his vine and fig tree.
Wan mornin' he woke oop and was
surprised to see a river runnin' acrost
his claim. Ye must reminder they
was no river here in thin days.
wander, he says, where the thing is
goin' to. Havin' plenty of wood cut,
he decided to find out, and so built a
boat and got afloat on the bosom of
the then young river, and not think
in of any other name he called it the
Wallamet. Fer days he travelled
down the river, at times waitin' fer
the stream to pick out handy course
Finally he reached the Columby, and
turned the nose of his boat to Van
couver, where he decided to have a
bottle of the fluid extract of William
ct anylized. He hikes to a young
buck by the name of Olympy Fry, a
talented young drugger, who has
since rizzen to dizzy hites in the Dem.
ocratic party. 'Lymp,' he says, I wan
this stuff anylized.' So Fry goes tc
it. Mkt day he say to the old gen
tlemen Hasbeen, l find on eXaminaa
ton ye have a wondeful find. The
stuff ye bring me is across between
ship dip and hop spray. Twill do fol
either. The kimikal analisis shows
it to contain per cubic gallon:
Peroxide of axelgrease ... 10 dramI
Sulphate of bran ....,,.....6 grs
Con- ex. of B. S. .......... .Trac'
Sublimate of sewer 20 per cen
L would suggest, he says, ye use /
sparinly for family use, as it appear
to be death to typhoid and othe
fevers.'
"Gidgen Stoleit: Wan of thu
principal ingrejents of our vinegar Il
: water, SO per cent of Salem waite
and 1 per cint of nitric acid makes
splendid blend
"Mr. Sparks: All this talk abou
our water is nonsense. 1t is pur,
and wholesome biverage, sparklin
with life of every sort; $3,000,O0I
; would have been cheap price fe
our plant, but bein' desirus of get
tin into dryer business l offere,
the whole outfit, water, pipes, good
will, germs and all, fer mere trifie
From the foregoin' " says tn
mayor, "ye can see fer yerselfs the
they is strong feelin' in favor o
! water. 1, desire at this time to NOV
: thet we proceed to buy the waite
plant at the most advantagus price t
,, the water company that we can pay.
Eyer out of order says Actir
Mayor Hasbeen; 1--WE buy no waite
:, while I'm actin head and front G
this glorios city. Before I'd spind
: cint fer the prisent plant, I'd orde
: direct connections made with tn
sewer for every house and thin le
: the occupants dilute the sewage
! suit themselves"
. Must have been a great meetin',
says Tommy Cauheld, "and a rar
3 treat listenin' to the fire works"
"'Twas, says Ford, really intol
S icatin'; and nivir cost me cint."