Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-10
DOES WATER COMPANY
WANT TO APE BALTIC.
Conditions Here Altogether Differ
ent for Water Supply.
Is CHLORINE BEST?
Experienced Correspondent Wants to
Know Why Filtration Plant is
Necessary.


For logical information for the cit
izen of Annapolis and surrounding
county, can someone inform the writer
and the public in general why we have
10 drink and use water impregnated
with chlorin? Is it because Baltimore
city less fortunate than we. gets its
supply from the Bush River and sew
eral other cities have to resort to river
water for consumption use il, we must
ape after them?
Experts will say chlorine is put in
the water supply to destroy bacteria
That may be the correct and propjer
remedy where it is needed nut our sup
ply | am happy to say. does not come
from river, but is stored from a CON
tinuous number of large and small
springs that form a stream that flows
naturally between the earth and the
west side of the valley running from
above Mille"sville into South river. the
same being caught and housed in the
ponds and pumped into the reservoirs
from whence comes our supply.
To eXemplify the greater number of
springs in this valley, the writer recol-
iects distinctly when a boy. an old wa
ter mill stood near the road where the
bridge now is that spans the overflow
OF water. On the west side of the val
ley there was a mill race that mean
dered up this west side of the valley
about two miles This race supplied
the water that ran the mill. Times
without number in the summer. / have
waded up that race, all along the hill
stie were springs, some large, others
small. Quite number would spurt
up sparkling, clear water as much as
foot high and cold as ice water.
The mill owner always had an
abundance of water power to run the
mill. Annapolis has always boasted
of its pure. wholesome water supply.
II is known fact that time and again
samples of the same have been sent
TO chemists for analysis with results
that Il was nearly as pure as distilled
water. Only on two or three occas-
ions do | remember the water having
foreign taste. and those were when we
had continued drouth for a month or
two. But now we have the chlorine
taste with us always.
The experts say there is not enough
chlorine III the water to do harm
That | think depends very largely
on how much one takes into the system
and how long it is to be continued.
Strychnine is a very good nerve tonic.
in minute doses; a, larger dose will
end YOUR career in short order A
long continuance is detrimental to the
entire system, even in very minute
doses.
is there an Nj. ID. in this city that can
trace any case of typhus fever or
other disease to our pure, wholesome
water supply before we aped after our
sister cities that are not so fortunate
as to have Gods fresh sparklingspring
water to drink? If not. then why
should We be compelled to drink. wash
and cook with chlorinated water? The
present managers of the Annapolis
water plant may he trying to improve
on Gods pure sparkling spring nectar
or they may be trying to prolong life
with chlorine. In the European coun
tries they are at the present time US
| ing il largely to eXtingu sh life.
w II. PULLMAN.