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Show SEW PIPE LINE EC BEBUILTAT ONGE Board of Pnhlic Works Authorizes Au-thorizes Work to Cost $16,000. RAlrJB0ULD WINS POINT FOR FIFTH SOUTH PEOPLE Wait of Thirty Years for Sewer Connection Is Now Ended. . B. G. Raybould is not as big a man physically as Secretary of War Taft, but when Mr. Raybould decides to do n thing he weighs at least thirty tons. If there is anybody who desires to dispute, dis-pute, this assertion he is respectfully referred to the Board of Public Works. A week' ago, last Friday evoning, Mr. "Raybould reached the conclusion that the people who reside south of Fifth South street and west of Main street had waited a sufficient length of timo about thirty yoars for sewer connections. con-nections. Accordingly Mr. Raybould slipped into his overcoat and went down to talk to tho Board of Public "Works about the matter. What Mr. Baybould said is a matter of record and It was what is generallv termed ' ' n-plenrv. ' ' The board told "Mr. Baybould that it would look into the matter of connecting connect-ing tho intercepting sewpr with the gravity sewer in order that Mr. Raybould Ray-bould " nnd his suffering colleagues might be given relief. Wins His Point. A week glided by and the Board of Public Works mot again. Mr. Rav-bould Rav-bould was prosent. Mr. Baybould assumed as-sumed again tho rolo of inquisitor, and wanted to know what the board had done in the matter of connecting tho two sewers. Ho was" informed that nothing definite had been decided upon and he then insisted upon being informed in-formed as to when, if nvor. anything i would bo done. The answer was a decision to go out i and inspect the sewer outlet Saturdnv morning. The members of tho party I were Mayor Bransford, City Engineer Kelsey and the members of iho Board of Public Works. Tho intercepting sower stop" abruptly at, Seventh North and Bight West streets. Iwonty-two foet below tho surface of tho ground, i From this point it is 'H300 foot to tho gravity sewer, where the connection if to be made. After lonking over the ground thoroughly, the board returned to the congested district, went to Chairman McMillan's oflico and held a mooting, at which the contract for tho construction of the pipe line connecting connect-ing tho two sewers was awarded to the Campbell Building companv upon its bid of $1 0,000. '.It will be necessary to pump the sewerage up and force it through the pipe line, but tho contract for the installation in-stallation of the pumping plant and other mnchinon has already been let at; a price approximating $20,000. As a result of tho action of the Board of Public "Works, Saturday, it is now fair to presume that the intercepting inter-cepting sewer will soon be completed. |