Year: 1870

/ Committee that this inquiry be pub iely
answered.


That the water is to be filtered" will not
NIT gate the dire coeEequences OF such
location. Water may pass thro7gh q
thousand feet of pul est sand and yet carry
locked up in tempting Transparency most
deadly poisons. Will the Committee
please answer. AQUA PURA.
We confess to some surprise that
our correspondent, one of the most
intelligent men of the city, supposing
for an Instant there was a design to
locate the works below the city. By
inquirine of any member Of the Water
Works Committee he could have as
certained the contrary. The assertion
of the JOURNAL to that effect has
no foundation in truth whatever
Courier.


It will be seen that the correspon-
dent, zone of the most intelligent
men of the CITY," calls upon the Wa
ter Works Committee to say whether
the we'll aud pumps are to be located
below the mouths of the sewers. We
presume be will not regard the i'm
pertinent declarations of the Courier
as an answer. He, like other citizens
of the city, would prefer some official
declaration from the Committee it
self. The Courier's assertions are alto
gether too unreliable to be accepted
as an authoritative answer on this
important point.


We think, however, had the cor
respondent Of the Courier taken
pains to consult the contract careful
IL, he would have seen for himself
that said document, which has been
''signed sealed and delivered" fixes
the location of the we'll and ma
chiuery below the principal sewers of
the city. In describing the quantity
aud location of the pipe to be laid,
the contract determines this point.
It says:


eleven hundred and fifty feet twenty
inch pipe from pumping floor to First
street. along First Street to Leet Street.


Now how can the pipe described be
laid according to the contract unless
the we'll and pumps are within eleven
hundred and fifty feet of the intersec-
tion of First ADD Leet Streets? Can
the we'll be located other than below
the sewers? This is the only large
pipe mentioned in the contract and is


unquestionably the main pipe from


which the water is to be distributed


over the city.


The city owns two and half acres


of ground between Fulton Avenue


and Fifth Street. extending to a low


water mark, in front of what was


once the old Aikman Touring mill. In


our judgment, that is the place which


has been selected for the well and
building for the machinery, for the
following among other reasons:


1. 1t is just about eleven hundred
and fifty feet from the intersection oi
First aud Leet Streets.


2. 1t was carefully examined on
Sunday by the Water Works Com


mittee in company with Messrs.


Weir and Gushing.


8 Mr.. Weir would not-could not
make a specific and Intelligent
, proposition without knowing where
, the we'll was to be located, and how


much difficulty he would experience


in getting water.


4. Since the contract has beer


"signed, sealed and delivered" Mr.
Van Ripper has stated that the Com


mittee might feel compelled to locate
the we'll below the sewers.
5. There is a good deal more money
D In the job for the contractor to sinl
: his we'll where the deep water run
q near the shore, than where he will bt
/. compelled to construct long tunnel
e as originally designed.


e 6. The failure to secure a loca
Q ton above the sewers, before making
c a contract, demonstrates that tn
o Committee had determined to max
t the location below the sewers.
These reasons, we think, are con
i elusive to any INTELLIGENT mind as +
= the location of the we'll and engin
! house. 1t remains to be seen whethe
l. the Water Works Committee vii
= deny that their intentions are right
,s interpreted.


|. The location of the we'll just belov
.e the mouth of the main sewers of tn


city. solely tor the advantsg. of a con


tractor, is a piece Of criminal toll
n that we leave every god citizen an
S, tax payer to think about and speak q
c as his Indignation may give him utter