Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-22 | Page 2 | Omaha People Suffer Lack of Pure Water

city and even rain poola within lyrng park district are being frequented fre-quented by crowde of men, women and children with bettlee. buckets, fruit Jara and anything available Uiat? will hold water. City era-plorea era-plorea bava been placed about the varloua parka In which there are freeh water apringa to aea that It la not wasted. Not Infrequently the water aource la entirely coneumed, the leaa fortunate In line having to await flowing of a supply. PROFITEERING SHOW. One drug atore display a lgn aaeuTing tha thtretrjf padeotrmns and all othera who want water that they may be eatlafled at the rata of it rente a gallon, while othera eeemlngty resentful of profiteering methoda, are 1 making afforta to combat the taking of iueh. advantage. advan-tage. I.-'"''- The ' Nebraska Power company haa announced free . delivery of pure water to peraona 111 In their Gull PEOPLE SUFFER LACK OFPUREWATER f ; . - A j- " f f . . . - ,- " City Officials Report Con-jdition Con-jdition Reiultinf From Caring River Banks Will ; Not B Over Till Friday OMAHA. ?fb, Au.. Omahi totter rontlnu t sniffer etiiN quince of A v-ln ea It Mii-ourl, Mii-ourl, iivr ' watnrork in-taks, ' Which ocurro'J Monday night, t)u to th fiver train- wolin by lat ,1-atna. which changed th - tours of tho rtrr. throwln tour maiapi of soft mud Into lh wator , supply trvtm. '.Accordinc to a tatftnont by A. fi. Hunt, sujprlntndnt of tho wa-tr wa-tr company, a chan- for tha bt- mr eannot ha xprted bfor Friday, Fri-day, at about which lima, ha aaya, rorrna, eoadftiona .. ahould prevail, rhim hawevflr, la mtJnaent upon tntk-lpatlon of fraat Brearaaa to ba mad by Friday In repair and rlaan-1- work at the ba din -affect d. whlra la. filled -with tha murky de posit which haa contaminated the nt!r"wtei anppl with th x-tapttofi x-tapttofi of two Northweat addltiona. known aa Banaan and Miller park. PACKING FLA NTS SUFFER. . Of the Industrie to he affected. ' the South Omaha paofctn plants ar the moat seriously handicapped. They are now trreetly retarded In .their normal fnnctlonlnr and aoma packtnf house officials last nlvht predicted aa entire shutdown today, to-day, unless tha situation Improved by this mom Inc. In such an event. thousands of workers will ba out of tmployment temporarily. . ' City officiate have tendered the use of street sprinklers to convey water to hospitals, hote!a and restaurants, res-taurants, while tha residential see- .'ttons ar left to take care ef their own water requirements, which "jthey are dnlnr with every available ,meane. . Surface aprlnara within - the parka, artesian walla about tha nan.1, upwn in" ' Laundrlea. barber ahopa reatau-rant, reatau-rant, and other Indnatrlee. in the operation of which water la an ee-eentlal. ee-eentlal. remain elooed today, following fol-lowing their declalena of yeelerday eftemonn that It wee a loaa of time and effort to attempt operation under un-der the ronditiona prevailing. ' Thoumnda of autoleta mad ont-of-town tripe laet evening to nearby near-by outlying watering point to obtain ob-tain drinking water. ' While the altuation la abnormal and very Inconveniencing. Omahane eeem to accept It reelgnedly. Optimum Op-timum prevalla that peetllene wdl be prevented, and while there great Inconvenlenc faith la held , thet the eltT' free flowing eprin. and artealafi wella together with help obtained from Council Bluff, the ei.ter city aeroea tho enuree of !lth -Trouble, "will aufrteo 4e weather over the period of dlecom-fltura dlecom-fltura ' ,