| Show the man th s week blent a bev houra m going over eh were turned ib to the city aby the under the democratic city admin and also those which were presented ince january when the affairs of the ty were turned over to the rep felican officers and rescued from certa n shipwreck and d gmal desai tar bonard which the democrats were surely and rapidly steering daring the year 1903 when the water system was handled so successfully by the demo crate the water was turned into the pipes for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon leaving the patrons of the water system without water and the city without proper protection from alre nearly twenty two hours out of the twenty four the reason for this was that the stove pipe waitr ma ns put in by the democrats were so full of leaks that the ty would have become bankrupt in short order had the water been kept continually IL the p e below we the comparison figures taken at random from the monthly reports as lack of space prevents us div ng them for the entire year democratic 1903 manag june cost of water 19 collections 00 august cost of water 60 collections 00 november cost 0 water 28 collections republican 1904 management jane co t of water 80 collect ons 83 august cost of water 75 collections 57 november lost of water 45 collections we will also state that the cost of re pairing leaks during the time that ahe system was operated by the democrats not including the a salary footed up as h gh as 50 per month while at the present time the extra work in counce tion with the system will not average 5 per manth during one month of the year 1902 when the water was allowed to remain in the p pes throughout the day the city paid 19 tor cub a ft and collected 30 65 lees than one halt of the cost of the water the editor of the reprint says that the cans should collect five times as much for the water as they pay for it and of ourse we must take his word to this figur ing on this basis for the month named above the democrats should have collect ed 3 aa instead of 60 quite a difference is it noti the water bill for last month was the largest ainee the new system was installed due to the two fires and yet the collections exceeded the bost of water jt every water asir purchased his water through a meter we will wager that eu r ka city would each month be collecting for many ballor it is paying the eureka H 11 co tor the water is not being lost through leakage As the matter now stands the city buys through a meter and retails the bulk of it at a flat rate of 2 00 per family and nobody with average antell genee expect the system to be more successful than it is now that is enless all of the water fas retailed through meters |
