Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 11 | Simple Device is Effectively Used

SIMPLE DEVICE 13 EFFECTIVELY USED "Flowing Well" Ceases to Be Such When McQuar-rie McQuar-rie Scented Waste. This is the story of a "flowing well" that was not an artesian well. It establishes es-tablishes the existence of the pitfall into which he may fall who forsakes words of proper etomoloy for expressions expres-sions of roo'dorn invention. In ordinary ordi-nary parlance a "flowing well" and an 'artesian well ore synonymous. If tho expressions had been actually ' and fully synonymous Allan McQuarrie known as the "Colonel K. M. House of : the city waterworks department would have been balked. He was not. An incidental remark, quite in order here, would be to the effect that the colonel won his title by his capacity for keeping still at all timos, concerning anv and all things. I In a certain part of Salt Lake there : was a heavy drain upon the water supply. sup-ply. The colonel started to detect the leak. His investigations narrowed i down to a small neighborhood. In this neighborhood wa.s a householder house-holder who had many square yards of; lawn, which ho sprinkled daily from a "flowing well." lie assured the colonel colo-nel that he sprinkled from tho "flowing "flow-ing well." Tho neighbors bore out in; their statements to tiie investigating officials of-ficials of the waterworks department : the assertion of the man who owned j the well. Ho sprinkled his lawn from j it. The colonel pondered and remained silent. Then he hied him to tho repair shop of the waterworks department and came forth with a long rod having a peculiar shaped socket at' one end and a double crank or cross bar at the other. He used the instrument to turn off the water supply from all houses in the neighborhood. When he had ; turned it off from the residence of the man having the "flowing well" the "well" stopped. Thereby was the difference dif-ference between a "flowing well" and an artesian well demonstrated. An artesian well is one that taps a natural underground supply of water. Also, when the "flowing well" had been disconnected dis-connected from the water system the waste of water charged to the vicinity was no longer noticeable. Tho colonel did not tell of the occurrence. occur-rence. A thing so rich but provoked to greater display his capacitj' for Be-cretiveness. Be-cretiveness. But the colonel reckoned without tho neighbors whom he had interviewed. in-terviewed. They told of it to various persons. It took a long time for it to land at a proper news depot, but it did and here it is, the name of the owner of the "flowing well" being withheld because it is of no great importance to this story.