Show FROZEN FROlEN SERVICE PIPES CAUSE SUfFERING Waterworks Department Kept Co Constantly Busy Answering Appeals Waterworks Va Yes les Wo We 0 will get to you ou as fast a awe as we we- can Wo We havo have two r gangs thawing pipes and are working da day and night the call since I camo came camoIn camoIn I In tho office said paid RO nO Floy of or tho waterworks department this morning It wa wan 11 1 1 then thoo and ho lie came on duty at 3 15 I When the office closed close 1 at 1 o o'clock clock Saturday afternoon there had been beon l leO loO O applications to have frozen water pipes pipe thawed out and 1 this number piled plied up InO Int in t two O days das At t the th rate wo we are going to today to- to day day day-a a little tittle better than one a minute minute- Its It's hard liard to tell what th the anWer 1 will b be before night I said Waterworks 11 1 and 1 Well get to you ou as ns fast as ns we can In my mr sleep last st night The frozen condition of ot mains and house hows connections connection In tho the outlying districts districts' orthe or ot I the thc city and In numerous Instances closer In Is almost as ns bad bul as It was two vo years yearn cars when hen fall In tho the ago IbO an unprecedented mercury worked havoc with the tho water system Ca Cases Cares cB are reported where almost almost al almost al- al most entire blocks aro are frozen up U. It II will willbe willbo be bo days daa before mn pipe are arc tha thawed Neighbors must bo r relied upon for tor water for tor all manner of oC u uc cs Where re there thero Is sickness In homes this Is a a double liard hard shIp Pipes pes Thawed ed Electrically Two san gangs gang of at six men each are aro working without regard to hours In ki thawing mains and house connections Thawing Is done dono by electricity the connection being made through the faucets In tho the homes Atthe At Atthe the tho present rate from thirty to Oft fifty houses are being reached e cr every twenty- twenty four hours the number belil being governed b by B of or the cases According to waterworks department officials the greatest trouble Is experienced I once in tho the new lIew additions In the tho southeast south south- cast east part of oC the city It IB is claimed by bythE bythe bythe the city engineers engineer's office that none nono of ot tho the city It mains maln laid under lI r tho the supervision of the city en engineers engineer's neer's office are frozen All Allor of or these ma mans s. s It Is asserted 1 are laid four feet underground and are aro at grade Private n ta mains are not under the city jurisdiction although on Inspection when such mains arc nrc laid laM Is In supposed to be he made by hy an Inspector of r the wat department to see that regulations are compiled compile with The majority of at the priVate ate Vate maim maIns are two and three Inches n In diameter and are not laid d deep cp lp enough h h. h It itis IB is claimed to prevent ent them from Crom freezing Pipes Not Buried Burled Deep It Is RI also o claimed b by officials of the waterworks I department and of ot tho the city en engineers engineer's office that plumbers having contracts contract to In lay hou house o connections to avoid expense In dl digging Ins ditches lay the tue pipes too cloo cloe to the surface surface- an and 1 make mako connections with the mains by hy an elbow In some fome Instances hO 1 houses es well within the city and amI on the south side of the street are frozen up UI ThiN Is In caused it Is said in the city engineers engineer's office but the tile fact that the tho city main Is on the tho north side Ide of ot the tho street ani the hows how's connections connection are laid Id across acro's this street Rn and 1 probably too near th the surface b by plum plumbers born or contract contract- contractors ors who would save s on their labor ax- ax x- x Pease c. c These TheM house connections are are- one- one half Inch In diameter ter I Inside an and 1 are r easily susceptible to freezing unless freezing unless 1 laid at atlea lea t four feet un underground When connections are arc made with a city main a license to make mako tho the n necessary ce Mry i connection Is 1 Issued a n plumber by the wa waterworks d department It Is Js then th the I dut duty of or the to see Iee that thai the I plumber makes the c connection according to tP specifications It is Impossible for or the tho theone one Inspector employed b by the department to cover cr all the ground it a Is nl asserted He often otten arrives es on the the- con cene to find that the pi pipes N pen have been lIcen laid and covered up several days das previous 18 to hi his visIt People applying today to have havo their pipes thawed out wilt will be he compelled to wait for tor several scrotal days ays before the they can bo reached r unless additional 1 crows are aro pu put l to work ork |