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Show ONE THING OK THK OTHER. The Times has been urgent in the past and it is urgent now that the city council should provide tho people with an adequate water supply and cease its ruthless dallying about it. There has already been too much valuable time wasted which might havo been better employed in doing than in talking. No member of that body, nor resident either for that matter, but what knows that tho very life of the city depends upon an ample water supply. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the most favorable circumstances circum-stances so far it is doubtful whether we will come out alright this year or not. But even if we had a sullicieuey of water we do not possess the facilities to conduct it readily through the mains. . The man or men who laid or caused to be laid the eight inch main down Main street made a grievous mistake. No other city in tho world has mains less than twenty inches in diameter, and most of them far exceed these dimensions. It is a pretty heritage of ignorance and folly that the Liberal government had to assume, but it has now to make the best and most of it. Tho people must be supplied with a sufficiency of water at any cost and hazard. The Times, realizing the importance of the thing and the dangers of neglect or delay, de-lay, tried to stimulate the city council to prompt action. The matter is bocoming serious. Can the council assume the responsibility of further delay? Scarcely. If the city cannot do the work as and when it should be done, then let it give a franchise fran-chise to some person or persons, under proper regulations, willing and able to do it. We understand there are responsible respon-sible and reliable parties here ready to undertake the job, one firm of largo experience, ex-perience, Sullivan, Underwood & Co., having a proposition pending before tho council now. The main thing is to insure tho city, and insure it instantly, against the perils Incident to a lack of water. Wo are growing, and it is folly to expect us to jog along in the primitive primi-tive style of the old regime. The people peo-ple havo reason to expect better things of tho Liberal council. Can it afl'ord to disappoint them in the most vital of all their necessities? |
