Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 3

- JRDUOLS ROUTI “BRNGS D.C. WATER Conduits From Great Falls *Dam First Step in Task of Purification. When the householder turns a spigot 1n .his home and commands a flow of clear, sparkling water, it is difficult for .bim- to realize the arduous and in- tzicate work that must be performed op the muddy liquid that is brought to fown by the two great conduits which | gupply the city's water mains before water, free from disease-bearing dist .and germs. is ready for his use The District’s water supply all comes from a dam built at Great Fails. This is taken in two large conduits first to Dalecarlia Reservoir on the Conduit soad near the District line. ~About 200,000,000 gallons of water travel through the conduits each 24 hours. Half of this is used for the Distric various domestic, business and indu: trial needs. The other half is diveried into & hydroelectric plant which pro- duces power for the pumps which propel the water from Dalecarlia to _the storage reservoirs in the city. The Dalecarlia pumping plant forces the water through city mains to all the services except for & small section near the present Reno Reservoir. This sec- tion is so high that water is pumped up into water towers by pumps at the Reno Reservoir. Muddy on Arrival. When the water arrives at Dalecarlia 1t is extremely muddy. So much so, in fact. that there is a small bydreulic dredge floating in the reservoir which is put Into service now and then to dredge out the mud from the spot where the conduit empties into the reservoir. Next it is led into a series of settling tanks, where much of the remaining mud is eliminated. The mud that i left is so fine that special treatment is necessary to get it out of the water. ‘This is accomplished by dumping into the water certain guantities of alumi- num sulphate, which is used as a ‘“co- agulant.” It draws the mud particles together into large units, such as are easily taken out in the filtering process. The aluminum sulphate is made right At the plant from bauxite, an aluminum ore, and sulphuric acid. The bauxitc is sucked up to the top of a high tower by a device like a large vacuum cleaner. Then it is dumped little by little into large, lead-lined tanks of sulphuric acid, with which it combines to form the aluminum sulphate. After the water has heen treated with the sulphate, it is led through sand filters. These are large square beds of gravel on which sand is placed The #and removes even microscopic traces of mud, with its accompanying bacteria, and allows pure water only to g0 through. As a double precaution, how- ever, compressed chlorine gas is placed in the water, in the proportion of one pound of chlorine to 1,000,000 gallons of water. This proportion is high enough | to kill bacteria, but too low to affect the taste of the water. Daily Tests Are Made. In order to make sure of the purity of the water, daily chemical and bac- teriological tests are conducted in the Dalecarlia laboratory. _Samples are taken of the water at Great Falls, of the water as it comes out of each filter, and at faucets throughout the city se- lected haphazardly. Thus dangerous water can always be detected. Should bacteria show up in the sample taken from a filter, the filter is at once put out of commission and cleaned.. The fllters are given a regular cleaning once day, in addition to this. This is done by. forcing up filtered water- from. the Jbottom of .the filtr through the top. which carries away with it back to the river all the mud and other foreign matter taken out of the filtered water tn_the filtering process. The power at the hydroelectric plant is produced by allowing water to fall 32 feet through a large pipe at & very sharp incline. This head of water ktrikes the blades of the turbines in $wo generators, and whirls them around at great speed, turning the energy de- veloped from the fall of the water into electrical energy. The station is in a small house on the banks of the C. & O. Canal. It is absolutely automatic in all respects. There are never any at- tendants there except when trouble de- velops, which is seldom. The building 1% kept locked. The power developed there is not enough to run the pumps sfluring their periods of maximum usage, s in the dry hot days of last month. ‘When the load becomes too heavy, part of it is automatically thrown onto the power lines supplied with power from he Potomac Electric Power Co. As %00n as the power station can take éare ©of the load the lines from the power| company _are automatically discon- { Bnected. Should anything go wrong with either generator it automatically piaces ftself out of commission and the power company’s line is automatically con- mected up. When therc 1s a break- down a system of signals worked out with colored lights flashes at the con- trol room of the pumping station and mechanics are sent down to do Tepairs. On days when there is a heavy con- sumption of water, the water going through the power plant is curtailed and routed through the distributing system to the city. Eventually, in about 30 years, it is expected that the popu- lation growth will bring about a situa- tion where all of the water is needed for consumption. Then the station will be scrapped. But meantime it pays for ftself entirely in about three years. The cost of power generated there is about 21, mills. The cost of power bought from the company is 1 cent per kilowatt hour. Power bought from the power company last year cost $30,000. The cost during the present fiscal vear is estimated at $58,000, depending on ponulation growth and other factors. The entire cost of handling the water suoplv._including all the details men SPECIAL NOTICES. 10,000 HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSU Pays $25.00 week sickness and acci- hospital and doctor's bill paid: entire “Write agent. 1217 K nw. > RETURN LOADS. INC.. n 1845 _FULL_OR PART LOAD York. Richmond. -Boston. UN] 418 10th St. N.W. WANT TO HAUL Y. ave 1 WILL NOT BE I:L!FO‘NBXBLE FOR ANY \s Giher than those incurred by mysel' e o HOOPES. 314 E. Capitol. _4* ANY ACCOUNT COLLECTED. NO COLLEC- Ao A Charge. Disirict 4550 ARFFT €0 1POTION BERVICE, Suite 216, 805 15th v e e ¢ RYNEX AUTOMOBILE SERV- WALTER Sy Toated av 1074 Jlstogt mow. Hias moved fo larger quarters at 3214 Pros- Dect "ave. nw _ West 0223 72 3 mriié FOR BALE—UPRIGHT PIANO., | electric motors. Lower left: Lower right: WHERE WATER FOR DISTRICT THE SUNDAY Middle: The filter beds at the huge plant on Conduit road. John F. Dominick in the testing laboratory. J. Eugene Curtis, superintendent of the plant. STAR, WASHINGTON, FILTERED AND PURIFIED p: Pumps at the Dalecarlia water plant which force water into all the city mains. They are operated directed by Samples of the water are being tested constantly for purity. —Star Staff Photos. 1 tioned and others, is approaching $500,- | 000 a year. The current appropriation | is $441,000. This is paid out of the Dis- trict revenues, but the supply system is \ entirely under control of the War De- partment, which operates it through its District engineer, assigned from the Corps of Engineers. The present super- | intendent of the plant, who has been in the service 25 years, is J. Eugene | Curtis. He helped design the present | plant. ‘ ILLINOIS MAY VOTE ON 3 DRY PROPOSALS Petitions for Referendum With 350,000 Signatures Will | Be Filed Shortly. | | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, August 2.—Petitions ask- ing for a referendum in Illinois in No- | vember on three phases of prohibition | have each been inscribed with more than 350,000 signatures and will be sent to Springfield next week for filing, it | was announced today by Bernard W. Snow, chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. The law requires that such petitions be signed by at least 10 per cent of the | registered voters. This is equivalent to| 310,000 signatures. Mr. Snow said he expected to have 400,000 signatures be- fore the petitions were filed. The questions on which a referendum is sought ask (1) whether the eight- eenth amendment should be repealed. (2) whether the Volstead act should be modified to permit manufacture, trans- portation and sale of beverages which are not intoxicating in fact as deter- mined by the laws of the various States, act should be repealed. {ano. $40: to DAY SOrage charges. TORAGE CO.. 418 10th st. n iy it wor g8 Raeeoniale ToR wy ! »any one o T TGRANT WARNER, R P. D.. Alex- ndris. Va. = ROOP REPSTRING. paintin Tha best meterials: reasonal ing Co. North 83 Gutier, spout- Zx Roof- ATNT . jobbing. esti- s Tree. y ng Co. 61 N at. ne hone Nat. 0635 for_estimate. 5 PEACHES RIPE ‘at QUAINT ACRES Drive throus only e Crop light: do mot delay. h sifver Spving. qurn st at 3 miles from District. Open every ¥y, 7T am. 8 p.m e Wanted—Load — N York _Philadeiphia. Richmond, T Buitago. 1 Pitisbureh, Fa., snd Hen: , N. C. urgn. N. Y. Cumberland, Md. , Pa. T.;:ans.fer & Storase '(3., and (3) whether the Illinols prohibition | WOMEN QUIT TALKING TO WIN EDITOR’S 10HOUR CHALLENGE El Paso Hush Race Includes Limit By the Associated Press EL FASO, Tex., August 2.—More than a score of El Paso women were strangely silent today. They took up the challenge of the editor of the El Paso Herald, Henry Ansley, who in an unguarded moment wrote in his column an offer to bet no woman in the city could go 10 hours without saying a word. Fourteen hushed tables of bridge were in progress in answer to the editor’s wager that no four women could play bridge two hours without talking. Other women were quite vocal—113 ordered the paper stopped as the result of Ansley's remarks. The editor said today that in writing EDISON STEWART WARNER RADIO SETS Sold on Easy Terms Your Old Set in Trade There are mnone Better and Few as Good. GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. Shell Frames $1. 75 We fit your old lenses into these comfortable frames; or new lenses fitted by our registered optometrist and ground under his supervision in our own shop, 1004 F Street N.W. g St., Alexandria, Va. 14 Tables of Bridge, Where of Two Hours Was Stated. | about women's talking proclivities he | was “talking when I ought to have been listening.” Railways of England are inaugurating a C. O. D. system for perishable goods. || Wrecking Sale D. C, AUGHEST 3, 1S VL WATE RAGE IV ILLIND |Lewis and Mrs. McCormick Prepare to Write Epic in Politics. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, August 2.—August will | see Tilinois launch an epic in politics— | the campaign between Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick and James Hamilton Lewis for a seat in the United States Senate. The eyes of a Nation will turn to- ward this prairie State to watch the struggle between the courtly former Senator and a woman. The campaign will be touched off at the State party conventions in Springfield—the Demo- | crats on August 20 and the Republic- |ans on August 22. Mrs. McCormick today said she would deliver a speech before the Re- | publican convention and at that time | set forth the views which are to carry | her on a politically historic course. | Lewis is formulating the foundation | for his campaign and said today he would advance prohibition and taxation as_dominant issues. State prohibition referendum propos- als are expected to be laid before each of the party conventions. Lewis Favors State Control. | The former Democratic Senator said | he would champlon legislation to grant | the States authority to determine among themselves the alcoholic content of beverages sold within their borders. He said he also would support a Federal act against liquor traffic between States where alcoholic content requirements differ. Lewis said he would advocate a new system of administering the national in- come tax laws that would authorize the Federal Government to return to the separate States any surplus in taxes after the Government’s requirements had been met. The Democratic nominee expressed the opinion that the signing of the Lon- don naval pact had removed from the Fall campaign_international questions. on which Mrs. McCormick largely based her successful primary fight. Committees Prepare to Meet. Cornelius J. Doyle, Springfield lawyer, who heads the Republican State Cen- tral Committee, said today he intended | to call a meeting of his committee next week to plan for the convention. A subcommittee of the Democratic State Central Committee has been named by State Chairman Thomas J. Donovan to draft a tentative platform to be submitted to the convention. The State conventions, beside adopt- ing their platforms of ‘principles, are to | nominate_three candidates for trustees of the University of Illinois and a fourth candidate to fill a vacancy on | the board. On August 25 the Senatorial Com- mittee_investigating Mrs. McCormick’s | primaiy campaign fund returns to Chi- cago to resume its inquiry. McKee Will Whistle. Mickey McKee, whistliny soloist, again| | will be heard during th- Roxy broad- | cast tomcrrow evening vi~ WJZ chain. | 'Mad Dog’s ‘Playful’ Treatment of Fish | Stirs Rabies Scare EThr(-o Persons Who Ate Florida Catch Taking Pasteur Treatments. | By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 2.—It may sound queer, but three Jacksonville | residents were taking Pasteur treat- ments today because they ate fish that had been bitten by a mad dog. Tt nappened like this: A man and his wife, who owned the dog, went fishing. As fast as they pulled in a fish the dog grabbed it. They thought he was just being playful. After they had cooked and caten the fish they noticed the dog doing strange things. They came to the conclusion that he had hydrophobla. | Then they remembered the fish. The dog was observed, later killed and found | to_be aficted with rabies, The man_and woman and another person who had eaten the fish asked the | Health Department what to do. The | Pasteur treatment was prescribed. 19: Building Material Bargains! Tearing Down 2 City Blocks for Supreme Court Site Conducted at Our 13th and B Doors Plumbing Lavatories Camp Meigs.......... Downtown ........... Brick Windows Heating Plants Many Other Bargains! First and A Streets N.E., East of Capitol Tearing Down at Walter Reed—Sale Being Brightwood Branch Tearing Down 1 City Block rear Agriculture Bldg., Streets S.W. Frames Lumber Flooring YARDS: ; 5th & Florida Ave. N.E. .....6th & C Sts. S.W. Brightwood. .........5925 Georgia Ave. N.W. This material may be purchased at any of jobs or our 3 yards at the same low prices. 30—PART ONE. SHOUSE, COOL AND CALM HIMSELF, POURS LAVA UPON G. O. P. “FOES™| Political Enemies Like Him,{ Although He Is Formidable | Opponent. Motto Seems to Be: “When You See a Hostile Head, Hit | It, and With Anything.” BY WILLIAM HARD. Prussia once had a monarch mag- nificently called “the Great Elector”; | but what of it? The “Great Elector” | for us today in American national life | is Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Ex-| ecutive Committee of the National | Committee of the Democratic party.| He is electing Democrats to the House | of Representatives and to the Senate with an air that seems to turn the hearts of Republican beholders into | quaking_fellies. Mr. Shouse is a man of great de- liberation of manner and of frightful celerity of punch. Thouh he never went to a naval training school, he has the “Nelson touch.” It is his strategy to bear down upon the Republicans, | with all his sails set to every gust of | passing publicity and to keep their captains defending and _apologizing. 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It is as if Ve- suvius were operated in a corner of a | formal garden of trimmed box trees | and neat tulip blooms. Mr. Shouse’s publicity 1s volatile and ferocious, He himself is solemn and sweet. Never Seems Agitated. He seems never agitated, never cross, | never fretful, never hurried, always con- He has been intimately friendly with Al Smith's inveterate enemy, William G. McAdoo. He has been intimately friendly with William G. McAdoo's inveterate enemy, Al Smith. He has been xntlm-u{y friendly with Al Smith’s and William G. McAdoo's inveterate enemy, Herbert Hoover, The solid character of Mr. Shouse that attracts inward friendships to him, while his publicity talents make him so outwardly formidable, was never better shown than in an incident preceding the Republican National Convention of 1928. Mr. Shouse was in Washington on an errand on behalf of Kansas City. He encountered Mr. Hoover, who had known him as a Treasury Department official. Mr. Shouse’s membership in the Democratic party did not at all deter Mr. Hoover from confiding in him. A considerable conversation took place at that moment between Mr. and Mr. Shouse on Mr. Hoover's proper methods of trying to secure the Repub- lican nomination for President at the Kansas City gathering. Plays the Man as Well. Mr. Shouse plays politics, but all the time also plays the man. He has pretty well known every possible variety of his fellowman. He has been reporter, edi- tor, publisher; farmer, breeder, Federal legislator, Federal bureaucrat, banker, Southerner, Westerner, na- tional political organizer. He grows race horses and races them. As befits a pa- tron of the track, he dresses with care and with flare. He is a sartorial orna- ment to the pital City and a pillar Hoover | lawyer, | !uf its amenities whils also a shootinge gallery of its hostilities. 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