Show tile THE WATER waxen QUESTION RE REPORTS PORTS have reached us to the effect that there hege is much intensity and even bitterness Ditt erness of feeling feelen g among a number of the residents of th the e enort north h bench part of the city in reference water question it appears that their prayers to the corporation have remained so ion lons unanswered that their stock of patience Is well nigh worn out and so some me are talking g of extreme steps while the justice of the cause of the people who complain cannot be properly denied in view of the faith of the corporation having been pledged to give them the relief they ask for their payment of taxes in common with other citizens the urgency of their needs and other numerous reasons y yet e extreme methods will wil I 1 not help the matter along on the contrary we believe they would operate against the interests of the people on the bench there is now a wide public sympathy for them but any exhibition of rashness on their part would turn tile the tide of sentiment in the other direction besides the committee to whom the subject was recently referred are con sider lug it and will probably be ina lna in a position to report to the council at an early day the only thing thin that can be done under the circumstances ances is to await the action of that body it may appear to be asking too manch much to request aest patience from people who have been n waiting the solution of a matter in which their health comfort and lives are to a considerable extent involved and which has been pending for a period of sixteen years batitis but it is the best advice that can b be viven elven given under the circumstances we e believe also that the solution of the question must be approaching the growth and development of the city as well as the needs of a large body of citizens calls for it speaking of the urgency of the desired water supply tile the statement of a man who had bad resided high up on the bench for fifteen years reached us the other day he had carried water from the sect to his house during all that thile thrle for every purpose using it frequently when several days old from tile the creek lately he has been too feeble to carry the water and being such hard labor he was almost compelled to use harshness toward ill lit his children before they would perform the work this necessity ot usina using compulsion toward his children cn ildren lidren distressed him inore more than all the tile hardship he had bad endured personally f from rom the scarcity of water and his being compelled to convey it by hand band to his premises this is but one case out of many involving similar cles it is to be hoped that the corporation will be able soon to afford some permanent relief to the scorched and parched section of this beautiful city |