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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

EMMY received-and hid away briskly in
a dark corner.
Good You see all. You soon feel at
home. Order soup. d single entree. des-
Sert and mineral water, and your dinner
bill will not be above So for two. / would
try PailIards and the Cafe de Paris for
cookery. and the "Ambassadeurs, in the
open air, attached to the music hall in
the Champs-Eiysee- Its bar. all lilies and
roses, is one of the ideal sights of Paris.
So. too, | would spend a sultry evening
under the trees of the Jardin de Paris.
and another at the cafes-concerts men
toned in the "Elysian Fields 1t is
tonishng how present-day Americans run
exclusively to the stuffy bal Tabarin'
and the all-niSht restaurant attached
thereto. The Moulin Rouge has just failed
again: for years they tried TO run IL
a theater. The Tabarin inherited its re-
nown. Entrance is 40 cents, IN any tour
list gar5 you please. only bicycle Knockers
barred.
a vast dance hall is surrounded by
raised dais and balcony. Here sit
Amer cans. Conversati tons are bright and
weak champagne costs 70 cents per glass.
Or. down on the floor they crowd around
some sensational number" bathed in
pink and golden light OF course. this
play Of lights in the half-darkened hall
is extrac rdinary. Pale quadrilles of girls
enguifed in q rosy glory, half the crowd
around them in twilight the other halt
blinking in floods of intense rays. the
projections are shifted In the razzle of
the supper rooms a table for two means
IS minimum. for enc dish and one drink
each. Give and take line of fattering,
laughing conversation. last ng five min
utes per. and th,n they fit off to some
other table. So an evening to bras
about need not cost above 80 apiece in
Guiding cab TO your hotel at , am.
What is the refined, fairy-lamp-lit tho
Jardin de Paris. with its gentle prom
Grading in cool breezes under shade trees.
its wicker armchaIrs in front of tiny
open-air vaudeville stage in comparison?
1t costs 81.
The great department stores, which
every tourist wants to see. are noted for
their specialties.
The Ben Marche is called province by
the Parisians, carries vast stock OF
beautiful standard goods, very serious,
but not notorious for chic. II you want
linen sheets, laces, lingerie up to the most
perfect. go there.
The Galleries is just the opposite. ex-
cessivey "Parisienne," no solidity. no
regular stock, the paradise of young
women. 1t has principally cargOes of ar
rivals. In the sEOe department they will
one week have an arrival of white-
leather-topped patent feathers at 81 the
pair-eXact imitation Of fifteen-dollar bot
tines de luxe from the Place Vendome.
They pay $3.50 for a dream Of lingerie
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THE PUMPING STATION.

and typhoid germs are said to be dimin-
ished in numbers. By means of the
rious tests made in the chemical labora-
tory at the filtration pan: II has been
aScertained that at least % per cent of
the bacteria is removed and frequently 30
and $40 per cent, thus leaving the water
almost free from this substance. As re-
CARDS the typhoid fever germs. the sta
tstics of the health department are per-
haps the best authority. For the five
years prior to the installation Of the
filtration plant-that is, from 1901 to
1905-the death rate per hundred thou
sand from typhoid was - 40 For the
five years after the installation of the
plant the rate was 81 4-f0. thus showing
reduction of Il per cent per hundred
thousand.
x
Statistics show that the reduction of
the typhoid death rate has not been as
great with the water supply as was the
case at Lawrence. Albany and other cit
les apparently because the Potomac
water before it was filtered was not the
cause Of 2 large part of the typhoid
fever This is not surprising in con-
sideration of the fact that the sewage
pollution of the Potomac is much less
than that of the Merrimac and the Hud-
$3.50
relatively small amount of pollution was
less poten: in causing typhoid fever than
the greater pollution of rivers draining
more densely populated areas
But one branch of the service. employ
ing about thirty men, has yet to be men
toned. This force is divided into four
field parties, with clerical and drafting
force to record the work it progresses.
iS uSiy m 10 rob
for leaks, which, when found are at once
repaired by others. There are a variety
of ways in which leakage and waste may
occur. Broken mains and iron and lead
services leaking valves and house fix
lures and several other causes all COM
bined in wasting 6.364 600 gallons per
dav during the past year.
The principal instruments used in dis
covering these leaks are the pitometer
and the aquaphone. The former is a
device by which the velocity of flow at
any point in a main may be determined
readily. The aquaphone is an instrument
resembling Il telephone receiver. by
means of which the sound of water eS-
Gaping under pressure from leak, foW-
ing through a service pipe through d
partially open valve. may be detected.
Under the present method the entire
distribution system is divided into num-
Der of districts. each having an area of
about LOO acres and with population
varying from 1900 TO 10000. Each of
these districts can be so isolated as to
draw its entire water supply through one
of the larger trunk mains. y sufficient
amount of water is sent through this
large main to prevent any risk in case
of fire.
\ permanent connection for recording
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the, under-drainage system of the various
filter beds and is carried 10 the regula-
tor houses through another series of
twenty-inch cast-iron pipes. Thescregula-
tor houses contain the necessary valves.
registering apparatus, etc. for regulating
the rate of filtration, showing the loss
of head. shutting down filter. filing a
filter with filtered water from the un-
der drains, and for turning the water
back into the raw water reservoir or
wasting it into the sewer. Five Of these
filters are generally controlled from one
house. but in two cases where the reg
ulator houses are smaller only two filters
are controlled from each
The filtered water then flows directly
into the clear water basin and from here
is distributed by gravity or the District
pumping station to the various parts of
The city. The ca pacity of this clear water
reservoir is about 15.W3,1l0 gallons. Both
the clear water reservoir and the filters
are built entirely of concrete masonry
The floors are Of inverted groined arches
on which rest the piers for supporting the
Sroined arch Vauting. On the average
of once every two months these filters
must be raked to remove the mud tina:
collects on the filter. sand. When the
filters were first put into operation, and
tefore the completion of the sand bins,
the work of cleaning the filters was car
ried on In the old-fashioned way of scrap
ing by hand and wheeling out the sand
in barrows. In 1906, however. the regular
sand-handling system was commenced.
* i,
y filter may he scraped a number of
times before it is found necessary to re-
sand it. The dirty sand when removed
from the filters is carried by a portable
ejector through one or more lengths of
three-inch hose and fixed four-inch pipe
10 the sand washers. From here the
washed sand is carried to the concrete
storage bins Each of these bins has a
capacity of 80 cubic yards and is at such
an elevation that carts may be driven
under 1T and loaded through a gate By
this method of sand handling the same
sand may be used time and again
For the first three years the filters
were resanded by carrying the sand
from the bins in carts and dumping it
through the numerous manholes of the
filters on chutes which could be revolved
in various directions, in order to facli-
tate the spreading of the sand evenly
over the surface of the filter. This meth
cd. however. has been changed by sub
shutting sand electors for the carts IN
the present operation an ejector is either
attached to, or placed directly under The
outlet gate Of the sand bin. the gate is
opened and the ejector started. From
this ejector the sand is carried back
tn ~ "" "f fn"r-inch DiDe AMI
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Paris is a collection Of vistas. At the
end of each is a misty masterpiece of
chitecture and on each monument a mas
terpiece of sculpture.
Paris is a rark smothered in foliage,
under which soft. silent, wood paved
streets lead TO paradise
Paris is a sanatorium so skilfully con-
Quoted that no one can tell the patients
from the ply s'cians.
Once you have been TO Paris YOU are
never the same-you are better.
These are not my sayings. but collected.
The only enemy of the cure is strain
Drop strenuousness in mounting the gang
plank.
Avoid strenuous baggage Your Tuxedo
a change of suits. light overcoat. rug
and underwear suffice Carry no vaIua-
bles. you may trust your Paris hotel
with the key TO clear your trunk You
just walk 20 a taxi while the others get
a headache in the customs. Ladies need
some kind OF dinner gown corresponding
TO the Tuxedo.
II so be an object. save il on a one
class boat. where every one is frst-class
for the price of second. All the lines are
putting in these one-class boats in haste.
all new. because the gorge OF the Amer
lean does certainly rise against that pain
full word second class.
In Paris the $50 saved must not be
spent on clothes. II is a sacred taxi-auto
fund. which your intelligence provides
for peace and ease. At top speed thir-
teen miles per hour. without stop. the
Paris taXi-auto tariff comes to $40 per
hour. your stops costing only 80 cents
per hour. So the average shopping hour
costs 50 or 80 cents, plus ~ per cent tip. for
two. three or even four persons to divide.
Cheap. new hotels tfrofE so cents to 81
per day minimum ROOM are found on
streets running off the boulevard. both
sides of the Opera. Such is one hotel on
Rue Caumartin patronized by most of the
American importers of fercheron horses.
Such are the hotels OF TIE Rue de lei
de-
1irIng of the Dutal resIaurants-tasty
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40 feet below the surface. and is eleven
feet in diameter: a very tall man would
have no difficulty in walking through it.
The water then finds outlet AT the
Mcmillan Park reservoir. the largest in
the city. TO prevent the stasnation of
this large body of water a reserve guam
tity of which is kept from day to day.
the water is received at one end Of the
reservoir and drawn from the other
by means of the pumps which send 1t
to the filtration plant. Thus SLOW but
constant motion is maintained. This res
ervoir, located west of list street and
north of Bryant street has capacity
of 3o,,0O9.0O gallons, but only about
1sOOGo,G0o gallons are kept on tap.
Lying to the east of this reservoir and
extending to North Capitol street is the
filtration plant consisting of twenty-nine
filters of the slow sand type. The pump
ing station at the plant has the power to
lift the water from the Mcmillan reser-
voir through the filters at height of
from twenty to forty feet. When the
water becomes low in the reservoir these
pumps must necessarily be run at high
pressure in order to lift the water to
sufficient height to be carried by gravity
through the filtration plant.
After the water has been filtered. which
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dollar dinner. 1t is refined. leisurely, and
coffee on the twilight terrace of Nine de
PCnlpi dour prepares for dreamy moon
1t strolls in the old royal park.
In Il e corridorS-a maze OF Silence-you
NAV meet the ghost of Pompadour. This
was her house built in the palace
grounds Nightingales sing in the trees
she knew. and they are all round you.
This is dreaming.
Drift mast the book uuaiS of Paris,
through the ancient Cite Lutece on its
island whose eladiatorial arena Is now
unearthed, whose Roman baths were part
of the palace of Julian. still intact and
occupied by Fredigonde and the slothful
kings, lollinS on purple NeiFet IN thelr OK
carts
Dream in the students cafes by the
Pantheon Beneath you run the Cate
combs vast subterranean city. as ancient
as Paris entrance In the Rue d'Enfer
beside the Students Ball. There seek the
fais OF the extreme left hand corner, and
Thursday nights look down on. pande-
rarilium of innocent reVelry.
Drift into studios. even If you do not
know a painter Tie rue Falguiere, near
the Care Montparnasse. is warren of
budding American genius. Knock at any
door and introduce yourself-a pilgrim of
the arts On the chance of selling YOU
small thing for a ten-dollar-bill, the
welcome Years later the painting will
he worth $,o-always buy landscape
studies-and you can brag about your
''od art days in Paris
In all this your three friends are your
legs, the taxi-autos and the cafe terraces.
Do not seek to master Paris street cars.
The underground is swift and perfect for
long distances to get to any Paris quar-
tier But the tram routes are so sinuous
and the trans so crowded that their use
to the tourist is naGSht. An autobus
or street car pa sses-"complet"'-
not even stop to let you argue. Nine
people sit at ease on each side, where
twelve might be squeezed. The aisle is
empty-.'complet"
All the blessed rest of cafe terraces,
With the word cafe give up all ideas
of restaurants, bars or beer saloons.
Ladies are at home in them at once. AS
to the terrace-little chairs and tables
under a cool Tapping awning-the one ex-
clamation of Americans is: why can't
we do this at homer" Respecting those
of the boulevard / know a New York
physician who runs over every summer
only for the ocean trip and their rest
cure.
81 want no better resting than these
awnings and this crowd he says.
There is no other crowd like IL on
earth. Foreign mobiles, renowned finan-
ciers and kings of industry rub shoulders.
famous beauties, actresses and women Of
title fit past unknown. Swindlers who have
made hauls, criminals with bloodstained
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Drifting and dreaming is the cure Take
an example in Versailles.
For 81 apiece you can go in vast
automobile cars from the American Elk
press. through lovely countryside, lunch
at Versailles included. The dominant tone
will be laughter at old kings. on small
collective information. You must come
back with them to Paris in the evening.
You do not see all Versailles, and you
have not been drea ming.
For 16 cents, besides the Louvre, you
can mount tie top o. a double decker
trolley that takes you through the same
lovely countryside to Versailles. With
the balance saved. take room for 81 40
at the historic Hotel des Reservoirs. bat
lunch outside for 40 cents, but pay their
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one more lengths of three-inch hose
to the point of discharge in the filter bed
which is being resanded.
In resanding. the filter is first filled
with water to the proposed depth of the
sand layer. The hose carrying the sand
from the sand bin to the filter Is then
connected to a three-inch pipe. which is
by a boat. Work IS first ieGun
at the far end of the filter, and II is grad
ually filled by swinging the boat from
side to side and backing it gra iilaliy 10
the front end.
When the water has passed through
these sand filters it is almost clear.
In the winter months, however. this
process occasionally fails to remove the
last trace Of turbidity. The clarifcdton
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gown at Paquin's. initiate its general
appearance and put it on the market in
500 copies at SIG each.
The Printemps is between the two. 1t
is mot bad as to chic and more solid
than the Galleries.
The Louvre Is the Grands- MagaZins
type. good as to chic high quality, but
dear.
All are continually abused by ladies'
having home addresses. They order five
blouseS. try them on at home and send
Ave back. High-class boarding houses
give home address, instead of saying
Powers HOTEL. tell the clerk eel ez
Nine. Powers" In the big shops, be sure
to ask for one of their gratuitous in
terpreters. They are extra intelligent
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A FTER Entering Intake
1 \ Above Great Falls the
Water Passes Through Three
IS e ttling' Reservoirs-Is
Then Pumped to the Filtra-
ton Plant-Cleared of Impur-
tiles by Slow-sand Process
From Clear Water Basin" 1t
Is Either Pumped to Con-
sumner or Flows by Gravity.
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A SIDE TRIP FROM PARIS.

young folks. anxious to prove their use
fulness-and will give you valuable tips
and even obtain you favors.
Right through, I would begin with
paid hotel guide or else join Seeing
Paris" party for the first three days.
With either. three days will give you a
bird's-eye idea and working knowledge of
Paris-and make the remainder of your
trip restful and clear.
Most tourists like to do certain
amount of wandering and loafing-drift-
ing and dreaming-in beautiful Paris.
Any guide would spoil it. but unpre-
paredness also spoils 1t. Get your bear
ings first. and get a certain stock OF
mental pictures of Paris past and present,
food for dreaming.
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ROM its source.
the Potomac river.
the water which
supplies Washing
ton. passes through
many stages before
il is finally de-
livered, clear and
almost free from
bacteria, to every
residential a n d
business section OF
the CITY. To the
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deposited at the upper end of the Dale
carlia reservoir After several years of
service this reservoir becomes so com
p,etely filled that it is necessary to dredge
a channel through the deposit in order
to allow the water to pass it, Such was
the case in 1905. During the summers
of 1907 and 1905 more than 100000 cubic
yards of mud were removed. In the
Georgetown and Mcmillan Park reser-
voirs the mud deposited is so fine that
very noticeable in its effect on the depth
of the water.
Since the installation of the filtration
plant a tremendous reduction in the
turbidity of the water has not only been
accomplished, but, in addition, bacteria
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~ - ~ - =
VERY summer more
and ore Amerl-
cans Of moderate
income take the va
cation cure of Paris.
The ocean trip is
pure rest.
Paris is a forest
OF pink and white
blossoms, u n d g r
which the inhabi-
tants sit with their
hats off.
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elevation of from 30 to 800 feet. Water
is supplied to the houses built around
the reservoir, as around lake, by means
of pump which sends it into an elevated
tank and thus by gravity to the highest
points
These various reservoirs are not only
kept clean, but attempt is likewise
being made to beautify them. Special at
tention has been paid to the road through
Mcmillan Park, and at one end of that
reservoir a small fountain has been con-
structed. Vines are being trained over
the sand bins and various buildings of
the filtration plant Both pumping sta
tons are also remarkable for their clean
illness. White tiled from top to bottom
and with their smooth running machin-
cry, they make in their orderliness
pleasing picture. To keep the grounds
and equipments of the filtration plant in
good condition. and to manipulate the ma
chinery in the small pumping station 10
Gated at Mcmillan Park from eighty to
ninety men are employed.
1t is of course. necessary that the Dis
trict pumping station remain in operation
at all times end for this purpose the men
are arranged in shifts of about nine each.
The boiler room, where the steam is made
that supplies these pumps, is also white
tiled and cleanly. If one of the pumps
should become disabled another is held in
reserve to take its place.
The water. having been sent by the
pumps to the reservoirs or large mains
is then distributed throughout the city by
cast-ron trunk and secondary mains
varying in diameter from forty-eght to
three inches There are some 800 miles
of these water mains in service in the
District today.
Under the streets running east and west
the service mains are laid two feet north
of the center, while those running north
and south are two feet east of the center
thus leaving room for sewers. Each of
these mains supplies water for the houses
either side of the street The man
who desires to connect his new house with
one of these mains must first secure the
services of a plumber having a certificate
from the water department at the Dis
trict building.
A trench is dug and lead pipes are laid
Formerly many of these pipes were of
iron, and q very large number are still in
use. Under the inspection of a man from
the water department, the main is tapped
and the connection made. The ditch is
retiled, and an abundant supply Of wa
'er is there to be drawn by turning on
the spigot.
Little has been said of theactual proc
ess of filtration Of the water supply. By
means of the small pumping station lOcat-
ed on the filtration plant the water is
lifted about tWenty-One feet to the filters.
These are Of the slow sand type. having
an effective area Of one acre each.
These filters contain. on an average, forty
inches of filter sand and twelve inches of
filter gravel. The gravel is graded from
coarse to fine: the lower and coarser
stratum acts part of the under-drain
system. and the upper and finest layer
supports the filter sand. The water
from the pumps is carried to the filters
through rivetedsteel rising mains. which
have twenty-inch cast-iron branches for
supplying the individual filters.
The filtered water is then collected in
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of the water begins at the dam above
Great Falls. Here. when an excessive
quantity of mud appears in the river
water, the gates are closed and the mud
dy water is allowed to flow over the
dam, while the city is supplied from
water stored in the three settling reser
voirS
Though a considerable reduction in
turbidity is effected in each of the reser-
NOirS the ,cnr.in., cf A.. -,
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average good housekeeper the presence
of water when the spigot is turned is
more or less a matter of course. But il
this same housekeeper should follow step
by step the course of the sixty million
gallons of water consumed daily, she
would, al least. be interested in the sys
TEN which converts and directs the mud
dy water of the Potomac river into clear
streams flowing smoothly through lead
pipes to the consumers.
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pitometer is then located on this trunk
main and the total rate of flow into the
district is thus calculated. Permanent
pitometer connections are also placed at
various points on the service mains
throughout d district. thus ma King II pos
sible 10 divide il into smaller divisions
of only few blocks area each.
In testing the isolation of district
the survey party does not begin 10
work until IL o'clock at night, all the
mains supplying the district being left
open in the daytime. Arriving on the
ground at that hour, the party pro-
ceeds to isolate the district by clos
ing all controlling valves except the
one on which the pitometer is placed.
The main is then closed for few min
utes The operator reopens IL and
notes the detection in the pitometer
U-tube and from this calculates the
total rate of flow into the district. lf
the pitometer U-tube shows deviation
of 6 or 5 inches a section Of main sup
plying a single block is cut off. the
drop at the pitometeT is noted and the
flow to this short section at once esti-
mated The water is then turned on
and. furnished with aquaphones, the
inspector and party proceed TO test
for flow each service pipe supplied
from the short section of main under
test.