The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-31
PRESENT CONTRACT.

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Section Is Said Richmond City
Water Works shall construct their
system of water works with all nee
essary lnhltration galleries and i'll
ters for cleansing and storing water
and in connection with their said
system, and as a part thereof. they
shall construct reservoir, with a
capacity of not less than 1000 900
gallons Of water. to be constructed
on the best and most scientific plan
known, and the same shall be con-
structed SO that the same have an
elevation above the corner of Main
and Eighth streets, in said city. Of at
least one hundred and sixty-two feet,
and shall have a water area at the
top of not less than two acres, and
SO that the same shall be capable
Of producing. by gravity. a hydros-
tatic pressure in the pipes at the
corner of said streets of not less
than seventy pounds per square
inch. and shall maintain the water
in said reservoir at or above the
line in said reservoir, at all times,
that will give said seventy pounds
pressure at said point or corner
above named, and Immediately upon
an alarm given at the pump house
OF said company, said pressure shall
exist in said pipes at said point or
corner, and during the continuance
Of any fire that shall occur in said
city, the pressure from said reser-
yoir in said pipes at each hydrant
in said city shall be such as the
head of water in said reservoir kept
at or above said line will produce.
And if the chief engineer, or other
officer having control of the FIRE de-
partment of said city, shall notify
said company, by an alarm sounded
at said pump house, that a pressure
in excess of said pressure above
named is necessary, and required to
extinguish any FIRE that may be in
said city, said company shall, with
in ten minutes after such alarm
shall have been given at said pump
house. furnish such an additional
efficient fire pressure, by means of
the pumping machinery of said wa
ter works, as may be necessary and
required by such chief engineer, or
other officer, not exceeding one hun
dred and ten pounds per square
inch, and maintain such pressure
continuously during the continuance
of any such fire in said city, and
that in all cases, when a fire occurs
in said city, the alarm shall at once
be given at the pump house of said
company, and when an alarm is SO
given the company shall at once
furnish an efficient fire pressure at
all the hydrants in said city.
Section 10. Said corporation shall
construct suitable buildings of brick
or stone, commodious, durable, and
modern in style of architecture,
with brick smoke-stack
Section 20. The machinery used
by said water works shall, in all res
poets, be first class, capable and
durable, and there shall be such an
arrangement thereof by duplicates.
or otherwise, as to guarantee a con-
shall be of high duty, compound du-
pick and condensing Holly pattern,
and known as the "Gaskill pumps"
(the best "Gaskill pumps), and be
subject to duty test of not less
than eighty million foot pounds, at
a (piston) speed of one hundred feet
per minute: their maximum capaci-
shall ho tur0 of
water per day of twenty-four hours
each, or four million gallons COM
bined against pressure of one hun
dred and thirty pounds, and there
shall be at least two of such pumps
There shall be at least two seventy
five horse power return tubular boil
ers, or as many as the requirements
of the machinery demand, properly
encased and set. The pressure power
of the pumping machinery shall be
sufficient to maintain eight one-inch
streams of water thrown to a verti-
cal height of one hundred feet
through two hundred feet of hose,
the hose to be two and one-half
inches in diameter. to be attached to
hydrant situated upon the line of
mains or pipes. The council and wa
ter works to select hydrants at diff
ferent points within the city, either
on high or low level, and throw
water a distance of one hundred
feet through one thousand or twelve
hundred feet Of hose