Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-29
THAT SEWER PIPING
PROM|SCUOUS AGAIN
Department Directors mo wv
ernment's Recommenoa.io'is
Support Their .Ateituoe'

That little matter of sewer-plpinG iof
A. JTnion. Park Gardens government
housing operation, which tor some weeks
has lain between the street ana sewer
Nenartment like n No Mans Land sweep
~, the fre of requests from the folks on
tLe iob that they be permitted to put IN
, house-connection pipe not In accoru
with the city regulations and barrageu py
tho refusals of the department 70 90 any
such thing, came up again today Wleh
th, directors held their weekly meeting
First. Director Rudolph walked IN WIN
the smile of a man who has Just raked
in fat jackpot on pair oi queens 5 anu
.howed his confereres apamphlet. fresi-
Snarls looked it over and he too as
.ur,ed the jackpot smile Then Director
Johnson took n look. whereupon there
vas a third edition of the grln. finaiiy
street Commissioner Plerson feii helf
10 the pamphlet and the smile
When the reporters got their peek 'hey
found the pamphlet to be collection OF
recommendations for permanent ihois-
trial housing development issued ny tie
Bureau of Industrial Housing and rams
no,tat;on of the Department OF LABOR
a,d 10 contain what virtually amount TO
/, regulations regarding material and meth
ois to be employed on Just such JOBS a.
? .the Union Park Gardens operation. wiz,
sss,recard to piping connecting ho'ises any,
+. .,sewer 1t said that inside the house ana
. for FIVE feet outside extra heavy piping
t'shouId be used.
the directors of the street ana sew
= Denartment have insisted should ne
+, used on that part of the operation within
ngt the CITY limits and therefore within then
Il jurisdiction. What the other folks
wanted to use was n lighter pipe known
as standard Extra neavy is wha'
ssthe local regulations call for, and th'
2 requests that the city othclals aIio" ~
illegal type of piping was therefore w
nnte out of keeping with government
Recommendations -
Finding themselves backed up by IN,
g rroyernment's own views was quite SUI
: fcicnt 10 make the directors feel good
bI,. CITY Solicitor Bayard came along
4 few minutes later and nailed the gooC
II feeling down. Some days ago MT pay
. ard went down to Washington 70 nave
: talk with the powers there aoont IN
i mining matter and saw Chairman oaruci
: OF the War Industries Board. MT. bt
1 r,cb told him il was not the government
1 Intention to transcend local regulations
+ which ouite as a matter Of fact IT had no
1. The power 10 do While the government
had shut down on the use OF pig IRON 10
an, ccessarv purposes, among which wa
the making Of certain sizes OF pipe non
the less there was extra heavy 70 .
And TO top it all, along came letter fror
a big piping manufacturer showing tha
slextrs heavy" was still being made
although at a reduced weight IN
directors show absolutely no signs OF r
cvding from their attitude that "extI
heavy'' must and shall 90 in, IN ACCORD
ance with the law, unless the other SIC
assumed the onus of breaking Il.
The directors heard on first and secoT
reading the amendment to the tran
regulations decided upon week ago
make it unlawful to park vehicles {
Ninth street between Shipley and Ma
ket streets. The amendment says IN
vehicles shall stand in the block onl
long enoghu to unload