Bridgeton pioneer., 1916-05-18
STARTING PIPE
SCHEME AGAIN
An Effort Made for Belt
Line.
4 VOTE AGAINST
Same Ordinance as Vetoed Again
introduced and Moved
Along.

In City Council last night the read
ing of Mayor Whitaker's message We
toing the Hettinger water pipe ordi-
| nance, was Immediately followed by
determined effort to provide a new
ordinance for the belt line of pipe di-
rect from the reservoir to North
Bridgeton. This effort failed because
four of the seven men have deter
mined upon the pipe line proposed by
Mr.. Hettinger, and which has not the
approval of the Public Works Com
missioner nor any other engineer.
Immediately the veto message was
read, Mr.. Holmes began an intelli-
gent and earnest effort to provide for
belt line. His motion was that the
Public Works Commissioner be di-
rected to prepare plans and specif-
cations for 16 inch belt line from
Mannheim Avenue north to Pearl and
Penn Streets and South on Laurel
Street to the river crossings oppo-
site the plant.
Then followed lengthy debate in
which every member participated. Mr..
Holmes handled the subject most in
telligently and had the backing of
Commissioner Friedrich, who had
worked out the plans and provided
an estimate of cost Mr.. Holmes
| talked direct to the point and Mr..
Hettinger failed to answer many of
| his direct questions.
Mr.. Hettinger, however, vigorously
| opposed the motion of Mr.. Holmes
| and during the argument sought to
| ridicule Mayor Whitaker by saying
| that some of the errors pointed out
| in the veto message were real and
| some imaginary. Mr.. Eettinger also
| said that a letter written by engi-
| Deer Charles E. Collins and read at
the meeting, indicated that Mr.. Col
! Inns did not fully understand the stu
| alton here. In fact, Mr.. Hettinger
| explained that, practically everyone
| failed to understand the situation,
| had erroneous ideas, did not group
| the question properly, ETC., etc.
Mr.. Holmes, however, Indicated
he had fairly good grasp upon the
| situation and was complete master of
the argument from beginning to end.
| While Mr.. Holmes said he made no
| claim to being an engineer, he felt
| that the safe and sane thing to do
| was to depend upon the judgment of
the city's engineer and he was pre-
| pared to follow the advice of the
| Commissioner
Commissioner of Public Work.
| Friedrich showed a detailed estimate
of the cost of the work which is
about s41,70O
Mr.. friedrich said that the belt
| line will provide a more adequate
water supply and maintaining the
| pressure when the pumps are not op-
Grating, while the Hettinger plan will
not add bit to what is now provided
| when the pumps are off. 1t was shown
that the pumps last year operated an
| average of 141a hours a day.
Mr.. Hettinger's reply to this was
| that the pumps should be operating
"a hours day.
A vote was finally taken upon the
motion of Mr. Holmes and the mo-
| ton was defeated. Those voting for
the motion were Holmes. Laning and
Garwood. Those voting against
were Evans, Hettinger, Esibill and
Channels.
Mr.. Hettinger then introduced a
new ordinance which was a copy of
the ordinance vetoed by the Mavor
excepting that the appropriation fig
ures were made $4,000 instead Of
100000. =.
This ordinance was passed upon
first and second readings by the same
vote of 4 to S3, every motion being
decided upon a roll call,
During the debate, Mr.. Holmes said
that at the last meeting he had asked
In good faith what engineer had pre-
pared this ordinance. That question
had not yet been answered and he
now repeated it. There was no reply.
Mr.. Holmes said that it was the first