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Show ! Tl)i I I rnirr jilliiiiLSmL Tin' Brighain City Waler Works System Bi-mes a lliii' SlUTI'SS. A Powerful Stream of Water Thrown Clean Over a Sixty-Font Sixty-Font Building. Tli o Pressure is Found to be Seventy Puu:id.i to ilio Square Inch, Which is Immense. ! Jl.jr Tiiuirr. ('LhrUUta mill Olli.-rs. nf 'hjKu. lii Ij.-.tlr ii: llii:, VAu h urine ivrih citj r liwiui'N. of cannon. Alex. Baird managed the , big-voieed fellow admirably, keep-' keep-' iug up a continual booming from llnuii llliiil -I o'clock. About every l u:t i ll-- of an hour the people 'w ere : almost lil'icil fri.in their fed l.y its ; tremendous roar. I An hidi-and-a-quarter nozzle ! was used aL first. Willi tliis a I j powcrlul stream was thrown high j over fori y -foot buildings. 'J'hcn ; ; both tliat anil an inch nozzle yeri' j j used simultaneously, expelling two ' j large streams some sixty losevenlv j fct into (! air. A Iiearly shout of a p probation went 1 1 j I'luiii the assembled throng when a fi'i-i-. 1'ul i-tivani from the ineli nozzle was Ihrown clean over one of t he largest buildings in (own, tin: new (Jo-op, which is a' three-story building, about I j courteous head of the Ogden Fire Department. 'Die (k-den boys are to In? congratulated. The gentle-I gentle-I man has pro 111 ml to come up a ml put our boys through a drill at any time it suits their pleasure. Ho also makes it a point to treat them , with much hospitality ami cmir-i cmir-i teousness whenever lliey call upon him at Ogden. I Mayor Jensen merits a large share if praise for his unswerving labors lor water works. Undaunted Un-daunted by obstacles that would ha ve discouraged a less resolute person, hi' pushed valicntly ahead, and finally had the satisfaction of witnessing I ho successful completion comple-tion of a worthy project, lie so ably generalled through. Chief Ul lodes drilled about l.hirl.v of the hovH al. Bri.dcim who belong to the volunteer fire department. depart-ment. The)- were initiated into the mysteries of coupling and laying lay-ing of hose, throwing streams, shutting oil' the water and everything every-thing connected with fire-work. ; A stream was easily Ihrown over the new three-story building of the Co-op. Ogden Standard. The Brm.Eii has "pulled" long ami persistently for water works since its inception, over two years ago. We have never said one word, that we are aware of, that would in any way throw a damper upon or discourage the promoters of this laudable enterprise; but, on the contrary, have done everything every-thing that lay in our power to encourage and assist the work and the workers. i:.i.V.lli- l)i llKiil.il nn. I Isfl- tl uith llw It. sullft .if Hit! 'I'rlnl 'I t'll - liih-r .ij.ntiun. The water was lirst turned into the r.rigliam City water works Hyslem Krhlay, .1 uly l.)th. The fol lowing Tuesday, a thorough thor-ough test was given of the pressure and eliicaey of the system in cane of (ire. The result of the test exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the advocates, the promoters anil the i o istruelors of the enterprise. Not a leak was found in the entire en-tire system of eight miles; the pressure pres-sure was amply heavy and the propelling force great. The City Council certainly deserve de-serve great credit for the unqualified unquali-fied success of the project; and Supt. David J.imcs is to hi; congratulated con-gratulated for the ability , he has shown in superintending the construction of the system. The laying of a system of the extent of this, free from flaws, leakages or breaks is so; net hi ng unprecedented. unprece-dented. Tuesday noon. Mayor Turner, Chief Ithodes, Couneilmen Mc-Manis, Mc-Manis, Lundy and ShurtlifT came up from Ogden, by in vital vi-tal ion, to over-see the testing of the Brigham City writer works, which are just completed. They were met at the depot by May'nr Jensen, Couneilmen Pott, Steed, Christenser., liich, Snow, Madson, Ipsen; Sherifl' Lovcland, Marshal Boden, a Bt:;i,Ki; reporter and others. A long line of a dozen carriages escorted the visitors up Foi est street, through the city and on to Reservoir Hill, cast of town. The gentlemen were loud in their prai-es of the fine reservoir, capacity capa-city lo".()t.H) gallons, the j splendid site chosen and, in fact, j the entire system was unreserved- j ly approved. The party then procevdi-d loMrs. j Bodcn's cottage hotel, where they . regaled on an excellent dinner, j spread by that estimable lady. A j pleasant hour was spent. j At 2 o'clock a large concourse of j the eiiicns of the city, consisting ; of men, women and children, i gathered in and around the Court ! lloiw; front, anxious to see the; coming trial test of the water works, i The Brigham City vohinteeis were out in full force. A f'-w minutes after two, Chief Khodes appeared on the seem- and the tc-e were attached to the Cily lhug St. ire hydrant. The boys w r.iih ! raw at the business ami .at fust found consid.'rablediliieulty in coupling and uncoupling the hose, in the littledrillChief llhodcs put th-'iu througli. The n-e:r was att-ieln d to the hvili-ant and li.e pre.-.-ure was ascertained as-certained ! be seveiiiy p uir.ds to the square inch. When n)l the lawn sprinklers in th-1 eity are turned olf and -ill tap ch-.d it ii thought this uiil be raised to .-a-t seventy-tiv.' p nn N. Tin- v at'T v as turuol into the hn- and a re.it .-ircam shot high into the air au.;d great shouts of delight and .-ali-laellow jV .m the expectant iro.d and the hoomi, sixty f'-"t high and fifty feet wide. For several minutes the stream was allowed to play in the air, at . least twenty feet above the topmost point of eorniceon the high building, when the nozzle was turned to an angle of about filly degrees and over the sj ream went, scattering the unsuspecting on the opposite : side. That trial proved a salisfaet-I salisfaet-I ory vcriiication of Supt. James' ! prediction that the force would ' make this feat possible. The (est was now over and the Ogden visitors were escorted to the depot by a large crowd. Before their departure they, the City Council, Sunt. James and the B. C. Fire Department De-partment received a hearty round of cheers from the crowd. Satisfaction over the results of the afternoon's work was expressed on every hand. People who had hitherto quietly, if not openly, opposed op-posed the project, now came forward and I u si ily cheered the promoters promo-ters of the enterprise. Some doubted the value and efl'icacy of the system, but the Tuesday test entirely en-tirely dissipated their apprehensions and incredulity. The friends and supporters of the water works are fast multiplying, to the utter dismay dis-may and chagrin of the few remaining re-maining straggling oppositionists who we may expect to hold out until Gabrial blows his horn. not FJvervnne is clamoring to have the wafer works placed in his house now. The Brigham boys worked like beavers. Several of thorn, Smurth-waite, Smurth-waite, Bandick and Berg, proved that they were not entirely unacquainted un-acquainted with the business. Our volunteer laddies were a little hit fresh at their maiden trial at the hose, but only wait until they have a few more good drills and you will I'm 1 they'll get there just the same. Councilman Steed was the Chairman Chair-man of the first water works committee com-mittee appointed by the Council; and to his honest, earnest tabors is due much credit of the success of our water works. He gave it 1 it s tiit te'li ng move, j Tin; works have been carefully ; and substantially built, and the! ! people of Brigham City have a ! rivrht to be proud of them. The : machinery works perfectly and ! the wall r has a pressure of ! i J s iventy-five p mud.-. Ogden r,(. Tin-: IUI.LKof June 1-lth, IS'.H), the first paper ever issued in ! r.rigliam Cily, contained the fd-! fd-! lowing local: i "A svslcm of water mains is ; what our town mu.-t and will soon i We don't poi'e as prophets but claim wc struck tin- nail Square on the head that time anyway. Who was that dark-vis:ig d man who st'-od alone and unnotiei d . under the new an'hway of the Anicla. viewing v.ith -u.-h im me:;se di.-s.:tif.i'tioii tie' phc-iH.mehal phc-iH.mehal suee-vs of the wat-T works t- -1 Tuesday :ii'e.'l'ii i'.' If you fail- d to Sec hl discml'dted aspect oii h-l half the fun of I in-aflerno in-aflerno e.i. Chi. f llhodcs is an obliging and |