Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-27
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mAYom sTaAxaK ON pgLTRAsEeN
No sma can aanY Mayor elrmase 8
Ssglit 10 bis 0piason % tho ssbjeat
az filtration, and the Capital vas glad
to publish his statement lii yesteF-
days. issHa II also aeens@ pvepsg ta
comment on tha npparent misconcep-
aion 0g the subject which ID Indicated.
ii The arss placs. the disagreement
~ I'D easenslal point between Mayor
asrangs and ChieE Engiaess Morse, a
the Health Department, u curious.
AzayoF zsgamge says that she plaDs viii
cost alaost dOable what II would two
ysars ago, Engineer Morse writes:
xlsa ccnssructlon can be carried ont
more fayornbly thar at any time dur
Ing the past Two years. a slight
snar9in In the length oE the period,
bet still Indicating q distinct dlaer-
ea Aetween the advocates of altra-
{ fs.
MAJOR Strange also sazs this:
akag consumers near the west
end og town. naturally get the better
spBsy. RCr as the water comes down
th Circle. Il begins to bring with Il
deposits and shows sediment when
draws fFoa the plpes 10 the lower
peFts u the CITY I
Tia other w0rda. the MAIN contanlina-
tics arid da@c0logakson OF the water
takes place IN The pipes alter n Reaches
AnnapeIIs, yet the proposition ID 70
agsar the water and put II In those
same pipes
But ina most unfortunate thing
shout Mayor stFanse's stand IL that
he apparently fails I'd understand the
naaaslaasI0n put upon Annapolis BY
non-sasistance to the order of the
zealth Department, Perhaps he
knows n0rs than the general public
about alI ths circumstances which lead
MS ID this order. e %, he will tell
aAouk Il, sog no one questions Mayor
HkFangess loyalty To the city and his
xaithfulnesn to It's inteFests aa he sees
them. one thing 4 knows, and that Is.
dirt TIE Department had before them
sha very misleading statement that
ne peopie 81 AAnapoiln favored aItra-
ti0n IL this time peraAps. othex
etatsast @, Just as errOneoua, wore
nads t0 the Department and had M
fiuanes with II
rho MAYOR II unfortunate III his
rsa0ica Is quotations People Of An-l
nsD0lss d0 not like ID De compared
Ia sshird shAt woaat aing and must
"a mafs Eo siag. An aptet quotation
woald has sYoO can laad horse TO-
water hnt yOn cant make It ariuk
in net. isa application is remarkably
eloaa The people look TO Mayor
Strange md tAe other members De
the Council 10 oppose to the last ditch
81 order which Is not justified By the
conditions. which opposes the Wish
0g the majority ot the taxpayers, and
which would humilIats the whole CONS
Enanltx IL put Into eject
As matter 0f fact, no one opposes
filtration Il lscaa be accomplished at
me right tiEae and N the right way.
Opoaasi0n to It 10 entirely along the
ilne oe tie greater need 81 larger i'm
poandlng facilities nj this time and
the extension Of ne system TO East
port and because there are the naost
serious doubts IS to the good faisI |
og the whois propoastiOn
Mach IA said shout the sam OF money
uAtah the water Company has ae-
cnmaiasad, 20 that the Altsation plant
wsli moi cast the taxpayers i cent
ghla III utterly insslaad ding. The
money has been accumulated b. the
aame people who pay taxes paying the /
water rates. and Is as much pnblin
naeA9y - that raised BY taxation. Ifl
81 Is nDant ADr i altration plant. the /
pnsaie nast raise the sum ID bniid
Iaaosa 1snpoanaing dams ana their
Ell pussnt. No one VIII agree with
tAA Mayor that the public does NOT
49, ID any case.
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