New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-12
TAP EAST SIDE Spring
Water, Crystal Clear, Now Free
for the Thirsty Ones.
CONTRACTORS PUMP BUSY
But Still East Broadway Supply
Runs On-oldtimer Recog-
niZes Brand.

- the rescue Of the mid-East Side. fever
az IN the heat OF the last few days,
-.o6ern Moses has come. He is the con-
.-sctor sinking the foundation for build
,,c AZ No. It's East Broadway. He tapped
~. earth and water. crystal clear and cool
AZ a mountain spring, flowed miraculcusly
firth All the pitchers. ell the pals, all
,hs bottles. all the pots OF the serried popu-
,..on round about are not enough 10
carry It ali away.
=, is e. strange fountain. this. Nearly
-.orth ago wafer was struck az 20 feet s
,.,hes below the level OF the curb by work
-,sn digging in the fine, sharp sand. Ever
,,,ce then It has been found necessary TO
-, the pump going internationally when
.v.- new section OF the concrete founda-
49,, vas 20 be laid. But the water that
..-,s nom the pipe was sluggish and full
Of mud
A. the excavation deepened II became ap-
-.-snt that water was to be found at the
..-,s level all over the 80 by rs foot lot.
,r,,h me foundation TO 90 IN one place as
.,,ob a. tyventy-six feet below the curb an
.go,, 10 get rid OF the water was deter
lined or What is technically known as
stump" was dug. It's bottom lower than
A. lowest point that the plans called for.
The hose was put into 1t. the gasolene
rynps tuned up and two streams Of spark
r,g water. altered by the sand. poured out
into the street
That was Thursday morning az II o'clock.
last night the streams were still pouring
and the level OF the water had not sunk an
inch
Put the East Side didn't care. With every
conceivable receptacle capable Of holding
v-stsr and a lot that were not, they gath
cred around the pulsins pumps. struggling.
nushing. waiting for a chance 70 get at the
MYSTERIOUS fountain. From blocks Q und
,bsv came. children and old men in the
main. some only for a drink. some for the
sanily's daily water supply. Boys and girls
smashed In the water where it came out.
and infants hardly big enough to toddle
followed IT'S course down the gutter with
their toy ships until II was swallowed by
the sewer az Jefferson and Henry streets.
a block and a half away.
A bent cid fellow stood and watched II
cur,ously. There were two springs around
this Part OF town in the old days" he re-
marked zone Of them ought 10 have been
about here
That's where II was said s. L. Tucker.
bossing the Job Of snoring and bridging
The excavation. we came across what
was left o. the old pump here a couple Of
DAYS ago. There were two logs Of yellow
rine. each about nine inches in diameter,
with a tvo-inch hole down the middle.
They we're incased in a stone wall over
foot thick and We had quite fob making
way for our snoring. The logs were mighty
well preserved. too. except for a little on
the outside They must have been couple
Of hundred years old at that"
The old fellow took drink OF the liquid.
Yes" he agreed. smacking his lips Ike
a connoisseur, chats the same water, the
sane water. used TO drink it when I was
as small as those youngsters there"
A. Halpern. manager Of the Vorvdrts
Building Association, which owns the
ground was beaming from ear 70 ear. We
nav make a fortune out Of it yet he
said IF it's really pure spring water
Ven bottle IL and run these other water
companies out Of business. y specimen or
Il has been sent 70 the laboratories at Co
lumbia University. but We won't hear from
that until Monday They found water I'M
dor the Educational Alliance eighteen years
ago and under the Salvation Army Hotel,
iut IN neither case was II like this. People
say il is the best water that has been
struck here in fortv-hve years or more
IN Inspector was sent up from the Water
department. yesterday afternoon for
specimen OF the water IN order TO deter
nine whether IL came from the Croton
reservoirs It was considered extremely
doubtful that such could be the case,
though a leak I'm the mains was fixed at
tie same point only two weeks ago.
John o. Archer. ir.. of Dawson & Archer
Contractors for tie building. said that he
did not think the spring would interfere