Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1927, Page 5

*NEW WATER PLANT TOOPEN N JUNE Most Modern System Pos-| sible to Supply District From Dalecarlia Structure. ‘When the residents of Washington turn on faucets in their homes after next June they will get a supply of water unexcelled in purity and in such amounts as they care to take without fear of a shortage. At that time the new filtration plant and ad ditional water supply system will_be put in commission, marking the Na- tional Capital as having the most mogern piant that science and en- ginecring have been able to provide 48 an insurance against diseases which come from impure water. The new plant and the old one, the latter in some places now being rebuilt, will furnish a supply with a margin of safety that will not be wiped out until about the year 2000, so far as the experts are able to forecast the population increases of the Capital and the metropolitan districts. The present filtration plant at Me- Millan Park, just south of the Soldiers’ Home, ‘will still be kept in commission, but its supply will go largely to the & supplied area in the business di and a small strip of territory Immediately adja- cent. The new supply, to come through the new filter plant, will go for the most part to the residential districts and to Arlington County, which has made plans already to cut in on the new line at the Chain Bridge. Tests to Be Frequent. Tests of the water will be made almost every hour as it flows in and e of the filters at the new plant, now fearing completron at Conduit voad and the District line, and a corps chemists will see that it is pure when it enters the distributing reserveir, under the parking sur- rounding the buildings of the new pla Not only will its purity be watched at the plant, but frequent tests will be made as it comes from the taps in the consuming areas to ascertain that it gathers no baclli on fts run from the new plant. The new plant will be able to supply from 0,000,000 to 100,000,000 gallons of filtered water daily, while the com- bined output of the two plants will be in the neighborhood of 185,000,000 gallons, the need for all of which, it has been figured, will not become a reality until the vear 1995. The new concrete conduit, lying alongside the old one, was completed some time ago, and has been in use for several months, while the old one has been drained and is being re- paired. They are cross-connected, in sections, so that any section may be cut out for repairs and the remaining portion used, or if a section in each should fail at the same time, then the water can be raced around the breaks. Tower Contains Tanks. The modern features of the filtra- tion plant at Conduit road and the District line are in the immense brick building below the Daletarlia reservoir. There, too, will be located the offices of the water works and the chemical laboratories where the water tests will be constantly made. The great tower erected on the build- ing is for utility purposes, and not for architectural decorations. In it are to be located great tanks which will contain the chlorine and sirup of elum, the former for purification and bacilli killing, and the latter for co- agulating purpeses. As the water flows from the Dale- carlia receiving reservoir into which the t great conduits will dump their supply, 1t will pass under this tower, receiving, as it passed, the purifying materials. The water then passes into the mixing basins, which are nothing more than baffle plates to stir it up as it passes through and to mix the purification materials. Mixed here, it flows into either of the two coagulating basins to the east of the building. It is here that the alum does its work. As the water passes slowly through the basins, remaining in them from three to six hours, the alum gathers the dirt or suspended matter, forming it into jelly, causing it to drop to the bottom of the basins. Incidentally, it might be stated here that the materials for treating the water will be mixed at the plant. After leaving the coagulating basins, the water passes again to the building into 20 great filters there, drain- ing through the deep layers of sand and gravel, which remove any sus- pended matter that might remain and then to the covered distributing reser- voir. From this point electric-driven pumps will drive it to the high alti- tudes of the first, second, third and fourth high reservoirs, three of which have been completed and the latter of which is yet to be built from funds which are to be provided in an appro- priation bill now pending. Fillers Under Flooring. The great filters are under the flooring of a large white, pillared room in the rear of the building. In these filters, too, will be found a new feature. daily instead of every three months, and will be cieaned automatically. To clean the new filters, all that will be necessary is to send a flow of water under pressure back through the mand and gravel which will take all the mud from the top, and this water will be dispatched by pipe lines direct to the river nearby. In the old plant it is necessary to drain each filter, men Wwith shovels cleaning off the top layer into hoppers which lead to pipe lines, which, 1n turn, go to the clean- Ing basins where the sand is separated from the mud, the former used over ain. Everything in the new plant re- flects a pure atmosphere, the interior being constructed of tiling and white stone, which even goes as far as the fuotor-driven pump room, where six steat pumps are provided, two for each line, 50 that in the event one fails there will be another to take its place. The electric power to be used in driving the motors will be furnished trom waterariven turbines located on the edge of the river, but con- trolled from the switchboard room in the main building. contain two 1,500-kilowatt turbines and generators. The surplus water brought down from Great Falls will drive these two machines, and it is — 2 Carloads FIR The filters will be cleaned || This plant, will | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO FILTRATION PLANT FOR D. C’s NEW WATER SUPPLY rict line. Lower: The coagulating basins. the building to the filters. LY : Mixing and filter room of the new filtration plant now nearing completion just off Conduit road at the D&“ g\\'ster flows into the great tanks in this room, is mixed with purification materials and flows back_again into filters, 20 of which are under the The water flows from the mixing tanks in the building, shown in the rear, and is allowed to stand long enough for the suspended matter to drop to the bottom. It then goes back into floor. planned now to use one conduit for furnishing the water supply and the other to furmish water for the current generating machines. Will Supply Arlington. The water supply for Arlington County, Washington’s metropolitan district in the Dominion State, wiil go directly from this plant. Bids have just been called for, to be opened March 4, for the construction of a 24- inch pipe line from the filtration basin at the District line to the south end of the Chain Bridge, whence it will be taken by two eight.inch tempo- rary lines under this bridge to the Virginia shore, then into a standpipe near the Fairfax County line. The purpose of laying the temporary lines under the bridge is to save the ex- pense of heavy permanent lines, which would have to be replaced again in the event that Congress in the near future provides a new bridge at this point. This water will be pumped to Arlington County by the Kederal plant, and will be paid for on meter readings. The new aqueduct has a carrying capacity of 110,000,000 gallons a day and is of concrete. Thi is carried across Cabin John Creek by a steel hyphon 10 feet in diameter and three- eighths of an inch thick, with the whole pipe encased and lined with concrete. The new resefvoirs are located in the Northwest ‘section and have a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons each. From the filtered water reservoir in the new plant at the District line pipe lines from 36 to 48 inches in diameter lead. They are constructed of reinforced concrete, with a steel evlinder inside as a water seal. Two Dinner is Deserved —and here’s where to bring your heartiest ap- petite! * Every day from 5 to 10, and Sundays from 12 to 10, our $1.50 Regular Dinner gives you and your wife a _round of superbly cook- ed, plentiful helpings that leave no room for fur- ther inquiry. Bert L. Olmsted materials daily—bought quantities at low prices for cash means big sav- of new build- arriving in large ings for you. —New— Paint Lumber Roofing Millwork Wallboard Sheet Metal MAIN OFFICE-6%2na C Ste. SW. | Sash & Doors CAMP MPIGB-5*and Fla.Ave.NE. of these lines have already been tested under pressw SUWANEE BATTLES TICK. Poetic River Water Used in Pro- tection of Cattle. ¢ is placed in the Sixteenth Street voir will_no longer be needed nor will the District of Columbi pumping stations. It has not been determined, however, what is to be done with them, but they will be retained for at least a short time until it is ascertained that the new plant is working smoothly. JACKSONVILLE, February 12 (#). —Way down upon the vanee River the *old folks at home” are receiv- ing the cattle experts of the 'nited States Animal Husbandry Bureau and are co-operating with them in using the poetic stream in the eradication of the cattle tick. The cattle experts are utilizing Stephen Collins Foster's immortal stream, in south Georgia and Florida, as a patural barrier to the cattle tick and have, through a system of quar- antine and cattle dipping, eliminated the pest on one side of the river The tick was the object of study by the twelfth annual tick eradication conference, in session here this week. —————— Caraway to Boom Reed. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., February 12 (P).—Senator T. H. Caraway of Arkansas has accepted an invitation to deliver the principal address at the Reed-for-President banquet here Tues- day evening, February 22, it was an- nounced today. The dinner and meet- ing is being arranged by the Cole County Reed-for-President Club, which is urging Senator James A. 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MIAMI, Fla ebruary 12.—The growing shadow of uncertainty of out- come which lies over the beginning of negotiations here Monday for a new wage scale agreement in the central competitive bituminous coal _flelds deepened tonight as miners and oper ators pointed to contrasting instru tions or proposals given their wage scale committees. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America and head of the delegation of miners, re- iterated that his organization has no other course than to stand by the in- structions given its wage scale com- mittee at the Indianapolis convention last week. These instructions call for a two-year agrecment based on no re- duction of wages. On the other hand, operator repre- sentatives pointed to the wage pre posal adopted at their meeting in Toledo, Ohio, a few days ago. This proposal seeks a continuous wage agreement in competition with the non-union fields of West Virginia and Kentucky and would ins tinuity of such an agreement, adopted, through a central board, com- posed of representatives of miners, operators and neutral mediators. Attitudes Are Reiterated. The latter members of the hoatd would be selected by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States if the miners and operators failed to igree to their selection. Neither miners nor operators would predict an outcome, both sides reiter- ating their previously declared stands ing the hope that an agree- ment would be reached. In the event that no agreement is dxafted here, it was said other meetings would be called in the effort to settle the. wage question Lefore the expiration of the Jacksonville agreement, March 31. - The expiration of the Jacksonville agreement, with no new wage scale drafted, would bring a cessation of union mining operations until a settle- ment coull be reached. Any agree- ment reached here must be submitted to a referendum of the miners’ organ- ization, The present wage scale contract in the central competitive district, form ed at Jacksonville in 1924, provides for a daily wage of $7.50 for labor and $1.05 for tonnage workers. Competition Is Cited. In many instances, it is pointed out, unjon and non-union mines lie in the same districts, the wage scale at the non-union plants varying from $1.50 to $5.00 per day. The operators im thev are unable to compete with ch a difference in wages, but the miners counter that there are many instances where union worked mines are paying better dividends than the open mines. While the work of this conference is directed at negotiations for a new wage scale in the central competitive district, a new scale would form the basis of agreements for union mining in other districts. Miners’ officials pointed out that usual procedure was to formulate the scale for the central district first. The- central competitive district is composed of Illinois, Ind‘ana, Ohio and western Pensylvania. Both miner and operator delegates were slow in arriving. Only a scat- tering of operators were represented here tonight in the hotel arrival lists. A few more miner delegates, including President Lewis' official party, were present and had established head- quarters. The Chinese often paint their houses with a mixture of powdered oyster shells and water. 604-610 9th St. N.W. zli’-ffigmiofl.'-fgl’ei- and’ lavatory. 8 % 'm like ore. —R00! other's. I TEXAS “SLAVE RING™ TRAPPED THROUGH PLUCK OF D. C. BOYS OUTLOOK DARKENS| Azen Nichols and Leonard Swanson De- scribe Stirring Adventures They En- countered in Cotton Fields. ‘ Trapped in a Texas peonage ring that forced scores of men and boys to | toil like slaves in the broiling sun of the cotton fields or serve long senten- | ces in jail or trumped-up charges, two | Washington youths who set out to| “flivver” across the continent plickily | turned the tables on their captors and | helped to have them convicted in a Federal court. The boys are Allen H. Nichols, whose home here is at 1751 Church street and who served as a page in the House of Representatives, and | Leonard Swanson, his closest “pal.” | They left Washington last July, hop- | ing their “bus” would hold out until | they reached Galveston or Houston, where Nichols had some relatives, and then hike the rest of the way. Trouble started hefore they had left the State of Tilinois, but their story did not become known here until yester- day’ when the tale of their court fight was sent to The Star from Corpus Christi, Tex. The case came to an end January 28, with the conviction of five officers of Willacy County. Flivver Gives Up Ghost. At Danville, TIL, their “fiivver” emitted its death rattle and gave up the ghost. Then the hike began, and Houston was reached in due time. The visit with relatives completed, the boys encountered a smooth voiced employment agent who as- sured them they could have a picnic in the cotton fields, picking cotton at $1.25 a hundred pounds and ‘keep.” Positively told they could make about $6 a day and board, they were dropped at Lyford, in Willacy County, by a wheezing train and had their first glimpse of cotton country. Then they learned that the promise of “keep’ was a false one. They were given “credit’” at a grocery store and floor space in a seed house for lodging. The rest of the job they would have to do themselves, and pay the bill out of their wages. Nichols was elected by six of the mislead pickers to be their cook. Home economics having been neglected as one of his school studies, Nichols pro- ceeded to drop the first dinner from the frying pan squarely into a square yard of Texas sand and thereupon de- cided to resign altogether. Swanson, he set out for Lyford with the next morning’s sun. They Accept a Ride. Before the town was reached, a car drove up and its occupants offered to give the lads & “‘hoj They accepted with alacrity, but when it stopped again they were in front of the jail. A magistrate gave them one of four altetnatives: Repay the farmer who paid the railroad $7.85 as their fare, work out the debt in the cotton fields, pay a fine of $13.70 or go to jail until the debt was paid. They agreed to “work it out” and discovered then that their job was to be on the farm of the justice's brother- in-law. Here, however, friendly lawyers intervened and the boys were told they were free. Th™ lawyers ar- ranged a legitimate job for them, at 1.25 a hundred pounds and “keep.” After one good meal at this plantation, however, the officers appeared and again arrested the boys as “vagrants.” This time the friendly lawyers ob- tained bail for the boys and succeeded in having them exonerated at a sub- sequent trial. At this point Clarence Kendall, assistant district attorney for the Southern district of Texas, inter- With | the arrests of 14 men, officers of the county and plantation owners, on charges of peonage. Case Brought to Trial. | The case was brought to trial be- | fore Judge J. C. Hutcheson, ir., in the | Federal District Court. Several of | the officers turned state's witnesses | and told how men and boys were | trapped in the ring by the scores, s worked like slaves under the vigil of armed guards employed. by farmers. The five convicted were Raymond | Teller, sheriff of the county; Frank Brandt, former deputy sheriff, Floyd Dodd. magistrate who _sentenced | Nichols and Swanson; Carl Brandt, on whose farm the boys “served” out part of their sentence, and L. K. Stockwell, another farmer. The case was completed about two weeks ago and the judge reserved | sentence for 30 days while govern. | ment inspectors completed a further | investigation into other possible seri- ous charges: Neither Nichols nor Swanson, intl- mated whether they would renew their travels or whether they had “seen’ enough of the world for the present. | They returned to Houston for an-| other visit to Nichols’ relatives. | | | the Dorsey Richardson Resigns. Dorsey Richardson of Maryland, | assistant_chief of the division of | western Europe affairs, Department of State, has resigned to accept pri- vate employment in New York City. | Prentiss W. Gilbert of New York, of | the same division, may be promoted | to fill the vacancy. Mr. Richardson | has been attached to the State De- | partment since 1920 and ‘recently | served as a member of the committea making a survey of the work of the department. He also was a member of the United States delegation to the recent disarmament commission at Geneva. 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