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Show QTY Of OGDEN IS PRACTICALLY DRY Sixteen-Inch Plug1 in Cross Joint of Water Main Bursts Temporary Tempor-ary Wooden Plug to be Made Mayor Besieged With Calls From Every Direction. It 1.4 not necessary to lower the lid tu make Ogden go dry. Jim break tho plug in the water main au.l tho city becomes separated from a water supply. Tho city Las practically hern "dry" a number of hours today. I lie mishap that caused It being more serious, perhaps, than many may fully ful-ly really It teaches a splendid object ob-ject lesson, nt least. Since 0:30 this morning only l." pounds water pressure has been fur-r.'shed fur-r.'shed the city, the cause being tho bursting of a IGlnrh cast Iron plug In the cross Joint of the water main nt the intersection of Taylor avenuo and Twenty-fifth street. ' How the plug was broken cannot be understood. under-stood. Inasmuch as the main Is threo foet underground and there is no possible chance for anyone to get at ii to strike It. with a sleJge hammer or other Instrument. It juot broke, that Is all. The plug has b?en in tho main for a long time and the workers In the waterworks department stato that It Is posolble that the corrosion of the long period of time has so weakened the piece r.f cast Iron that !t was no longer strong enough to withstand the great pressure. The break placed the waterworks department In an awkward position, because It was found In looking over the supply of fixtures and extraj that there was not a single 16-Inch plug l:i the lot. This meant that a wooden wood-en plug had to bo turned, and tho process pro-cess of doing that caused considerable delay Hut every man In the department depart-ment got busy, and all available h-:-lo has been employed In the task of getting get-ting to the main and removing the parts of tho broken plug, and the plac'njj of the one made of wood. Tho city would havo been completely without with-out water during this time had It not been that there was a little space in the main below tho broken parts, through which some water could be WTzMwmmm ill m mtiwwihe ill awn. This furnished about 15 pounds pressure and made It possible to furnish a small euppl of water to the distributing system below Adams avenue. The pressure was low during dur-ing last nlgnt and u Is thought that lhc pluu began to give, way early in the evening of yesterday, finally bi caking loose this morning The fire underwriters have predicted predict-ed that ju.t such thing as thU would happen to Ogden some day, and that, if a fire should break out before the repair to t..e water main could bo made It would be disastrous to tho city. They have contended that for Ogden to get the host flro Insurance rale the city should have a double main leading to the distributing system.. sys-tem.. They say today that this 13 an object lesson that may bring the taxpayers tax-payers to tho realization that they have been living In constant danger of being choked for water at any time, or their buildings endangered. It seems Imperative that the water r.ystem of the- city havo another main extending from the reservoirs to tho distributing system This Is necessary, neces-sary, first, because more water Is needed in the city, and, second. If one of tho mains should bo broken the other would be Intact and tho city would be protected against fire, and a water famine. The proposed bond issue will aid the city administration In Improving the water system to a point of efficiency that today seem? to he demanded. Who knows, but what provlJence has directed tiro breaking of the 16-lnch plug that the people might awaken to tho necessity of voting bonds for the betterment of the system. Mayor (Jlasmann Is besieged this afternoon with telephone messages asking why there Is no water, many of the communicants saying: "Turn on the water. Mayor, we will voto the bonds." We see the poluL |