Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-05-27
INDORSES PLAN FOR
THE FILTRATION PLANT
Civic League Promises Active Co
Operation.
LETTER TO PRES. MELVIN.
Water Company's Head Outlines Bene-
fits That Would Result There
from

1 from.
The Woman's Civic League has
promised its active cooperation in the
proposition advanced by President
George T Melvin,of the Annapolis Wa.
ter Company. for the installation OF q
filtration plant at the works of the
Company. President Melvin recently
addressed the following letter to the
Women's Civic League
| Annapolis, Md, May IA, '15
Miss Katherine Walton. President wo-
mems Civic League
My dear Miss Walton:
Your League has been of splendid
service to the City of Annapolis in
helping to improve and build up our
municipality, and | am glad to have
had share in the inception of the
movement and in organizing the Wo-
mems Civic League few years ago
for its work of usefulness 1t has fully
justified all the hopes that were then
entertained of the fine results to be ex-
pected in this community of interest
ing the ladies in municipal house
keeping" and having them take an en-
thusiastic part in the effort to make
"a city beautiful"
| am sure the League will be in SYM
pathy with a project which has been
brought TO the attention of the city
| government, and should be discussed
and considered by all citizens. Es-
pecially is it of interest to the ladies
of the community, for it relates to a
subject of which they, more than men,
have keen appreciation. They know
the vital Importance of clean, pure
water for drinking and domestic
| purposes.
In my report, as President of the
Annapolis Water Company, to the city
| corporation, / have given much space
to the proposition to install 6ltra-
| ton system at the water works. so
that the water supply of the people of
Annapolis can be given n-ABSOLUTE
PURITY at all times and under all
circumstances.
/ have no doubt that most of the
members of the League, if not all of
them, are not altogether unfamiliar
with the progress of water purifica-
ton in other parts of the country, and
with the unanswerable arguments in
its favor Last year l recommended
TO the city corporation the installation
of filtration plant. and at that tmie
referred to the growing sentiment. and
the scientific reasons, for filtration in
the city of Baltimore.
Since then filtration has become a
reality in Baltimore. and the largest
| filtration plant in the country has been
constructed herewith a filtering ca
pacity of one hundred and twenty mil
lion gallons of water day.
Not only have we this example at
our own doors of the care of the city
of Baltimore for the health and COM
/ fort of its people in the use of its
| great necessity of life, but the Legis-
| lature which met here last winter
| placed Maryland abreast of the most
advanced commonwealths in theUnited
States by making water publication a
matter of governmental function.
| That is, the Legislature enacted a law
which gives the State Board of Health
the widest and most effective control
of all public water supplies and under
which, in its discretion. the State
Board of Health may take over the
management and control of any plant
which it finds TO be so operated as to
give disappointing results, from a sani-
tary standpoint. or to be, in any way a
menace to health or comfort
The sanitary engineers of the State
Health Department have recently ex-
amined the Annapolis water works.and
have learned at first hand of the need
of filtration, and Or Stone, district
health supervisor for Carroll, Howard
and Anne Arundel counties, in connec-
tion with the county health survey
now being made, stated to the Mayor
Counselor and Aldermen on Monday
night of this week. when my report OF
the years work of the Annapolis Water
Company was presented. that he
could endorse and heartily approve The
recommendations for a filtration svs-
EN- In this report l said:
That the people of the State cap.
ital are fully as appreciative of a
pure water supply and should be
as determined to secure it, as the
people OF Baltimore have shown
| themselves TO be.canot be doubted.
Our live, fnely-located little city.
| with its widespread fame as the
heart of Maryland. its municipal.
State and national Importance.
eAnnot longer remain unheedful
OF its most pressing question of
sanitation and municipal welfare.
II Baltimore filters l20 900 600
| OF water day. at an approximate