Show our new sewer pursuant to call cur ever alert city firemen had a good drill yesterday afternoon while in their exercises they had occasion tho efficiency of the new ewer about which there is yet tome grumbling indulged in when pumping the water for their engine they emptied the tank on main street in two and a half minute while that on fourth street was even depleted after 48 strokes these facts furnish tolerably conclusive evidence that the draining efficiency of our new system is fair thereby insuring a certain degree of salubrity hitherto unknown there is onar one consideration marring the satisfaction at the cation of our underground it the thought of the calamitous cons sequences which would attend outbreak of a fire in our populous business quarters seeing the total insufficiency ot tho water supply wherewith to combat a conflagration possibly our wide o public trill draw the legitimate conclusion from this and henceforth lend a willing ear to the appeals made from time to time although not once teo often in behalf of the erection of suitable water works property health and life of hundreds depend in an degree on an early consideration of this question and on a speedy prosecution of the work it is not enough to get rid of the effluvia drain ings and slops of the underground we also need water rom the mountain irater good clear and plentiful let us have it as soon a possible afore our mortality reaches at greater proportions or before the ire fiend punishes our thoughtless neglect with a general of property |