The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-03-10
i.
STATEMENTS STAT EMAIEI!T
ABOUT TEiEPOSTIoN OF THE
TRUSTEES OF CITY
SCHOOLS
ON WATER MATTERS
MIR. J. A. Brock. the Chairman
gives a True Statement of
Trivial. Matter
ON WATER MATTERS


formed that II. has unintentionally done
an injustice to the Southcrn Public
Utilities Company In reproducing from
another paper vhatspurported 10 be a
list ofreasons assigned by the school
trustees for not paying the bill for wa
ter used by the public schools last
month. A reporter for this paper has
been shown aiisotIlciai communication
in which II Ssgfated that the reason
actuating tia hoard was that the
statement might be looked into. The
board had never before been called
upon to pay water bill, and the mat
ter was put aside to be acted upon
at the next regular meeting.
One OF the trustees stated no such
actin as published had been taken, and
the board had not Thought of taking
such action and; had expressly declin-
ed to do 30. and hh1a nnnrni. -asar.sz.l
the matter to the B5Rrd's attorney for
advice. Upon this information, The
Intelligencer inquired of the chair
man OF the board, hfr.S j. A. Brock. just
what had happened
GeRF1d lly Ig. Bf0eh
"We did not nags TINT paper publish-
ed Saturday sasd nffs Brock. Mr.
Shearer during tie meeting presented
a long paper, - long as tie Declara-
tiCn OF IndeP' .:s.;:!he and asked that
be wanted tl::ss g ssist tsj to refase to pay
the water Is.. 20 q + accent these as
the reasons ,.sis I'd ia not want
any such thing sprsa on Tie minutes
and gaid so sdistsit aiid the oIil q
attorney OF the csssl any ana alle city
aitprney. & IS u , E5-s}FB
~ told Mr.: Shearer Sgonaiay 5that. he
had done the board OF trustees ysn .n.
justice In publishing that papsr..
Mr. w. Fl. Saearer, the trus:ee re-
ferred to, is also the city enp,neer.
Mr. H. A. Orr manager Of the util-
tiles company. said g3stsf5Ay that ne
had learned that the publication was
not only grossly mislaa ding, but a
great zeal Oh s.Gnior" hal been given
IL an incident 20 which the board of
tion.
mr.. 1Fzzss Position
Mr. Orr said that he Will not cut
on the water supply for the schools.
as t.s a!:e!ee !!::ea!ee matter Is too trivial 10
work. over and he would not put the
public to any discomfort Just because
OF some people, but he would like To
see the matter determined in court
and he will insist upon It. He de-
c.ares that his company came to the
city with this proposition to renew
the contract, that the matter was
known for weeks and months, that
no snap Judgment was taken and
that the city had a good contract. The
city OF Anderson, as municipality,
VIII In his Judgment, save at least
800 year in this contract.
There are. he says, 169 hydrants. on
which tSe city will save $40 each fol.
the Eater supply for the year. the
rate 55ihB reduced from SOS to s5b per
hydrant;& and there are new hy-
Grants TO be placed at once, making
approximately a gross saving OF ST.
n0. From this deduct The $1,000 a
year In round numbers that the esti-
mated cost for the water FOR schools
and other public buildings, aud the
city VOL have q net saving or about
800 q year on it's water. Mr.. Orr
says that proposition is acceptable to
council.
Wishes the Truth
AiE.g Orr stated that the school trus-
teas should have been charged for
water before this, but the cofnpai1y
never put the cost into operation rn-
tii the new contract went into effect.
he states tnat when the school dis
trict was cut OF from the heart Of
the city, the school board became a.
separate Organization and really
should have paid for the water ali Of
the year. He says that he wishes
that khe trustees. through their attor-
ney, would take the matter Iin and
take q reasonable time for inyestica-
tion, md then Il they are not salts
ned, let them take tbs snatler into
s1e courts. He Is willing FOR the
truth OF the whole thing TO come out.
Tor when It does he feels that the
company VIII be stronger than ever
Ia the respect Of all the people WHO
wish fcr a square deal all around.