Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-16 | Page 7 | Improvised Thawer at Work City May Secure New Ones

Improvised d at aft aft- Work Wark 11 I City May Secure New On Ones s I l t. t ii l' l ca 11 v j a 1 t. t V t I f t t f t f hN f t 1 t t r Y f- f a l 1 L 1 r R sl t 4 I 1 i j 1 I i t t J t i j. j f 4 1 U f Ft M t rt A y 1 r r rt Hundred Frozen PI ipes es Opened by Apparatus Put in Use se Last ast Saturday The matter of ot purchasing patented electric T thawing K machines for tor use in inv Salt Lake Ake waa nae Presented informally to v i th the elt fi city y commission Tuesday morning v. v b cy by the tho th commissioner of ot waterworks The cO commissioner commissioner- ml explained that more than one ono hundred frozen service sr pipes pipeR had been heen thawed b by th the tho Improvised machine rigged up b by time the city lat late and ana the saving In time timework and co cost t or of work Worle wa was enormous AU All members of the commission expressed ex- ex expressed ex pressed themselves as heartily favoring favor favor- In ing v the of or at nt least st two machines ma ma- chines Te Yesterday three e of ot the electric machines rigged up by bv the thc water department de department department de- de and city electrician wore kept at work ork all day and until midnight mid mid- midnight night last ni night ht Good headway against ag the frozen pipes Is being made mado h by the department land and the officials hope to have YG all aU frozen pipes thawed I Ih I out It Tf within t a da day or two IK 10 ID s that t front irom to Pipes arc are frozen Complaints are I I swamping the w water orator t r d department p t It Is probable that a to fourth electric will bo be rigged up toda today F fri A zo M J i iA A r 1 t i f t 1 h w wh 1 l h i So t riT r iT et tf t it t r l i 4 i a aN Ji N w. w MELTING ICE BY ELECTRICITY