The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1902, Page 5

‘tn WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5 3, 1902, P WATERIN QUEENS MENACE 10 LIFE. . Chemist Asserts It Is Poisoned } _,_ by Acids and Filth from Salt f Marshes and Contains Much Solid Matter. o_o INQUEST ON AN EXPLOSION. Chemicals im It, It Is Maintained, Ate Into Boilers of Pumping Sta- tlon, Causing Them to Blow Up and Kill Two Men. ‘That water poisonous enough to cause the explosion of # boller and the deata ft two mon has been supplied for years to the residents of the Astoria apé Steinway sections of the Borough of Queens may be proved to-night at en inquest to be held in Long Island City. ‘This inquest 1s to fix the blame for the explosion of one of the bollers in Pump- ing Station No. 2, at Steinway, on Bun- Gay, Nov. 9, when Engineer William Dighby and Fireman James Nelson were blown to pieces. { ‘There have been already two eessions bf the inquest. It has been shown thet when the men went on duty in the morning the fires were in good shape, there was sufictent water in the bollers, and to the experienced judgment of the engineer there was no possibility of an explosion. Polsonous Chemicals in Water. It is expecteg that the testimony of chemists wil: show that the water in the bollers—the same water pumped to consumers by the ctty—was so impreg- mated with poisonous chemicals that it ate away the flues and gave oppor- tunity for the explosion, When Patrick Jerome Gleason was Mayor of Long Island City he shut down Pumping Station No, 2. His enemies faverrea that his action was the result of his ownership of the Woodside Water Company and his desire that that con- gern should sell water to the city. The @pvaliing record of deaths in,the As- toria and Steinway sections from dis- eases resulting from impure water sup- ply after Station No. 2 resumed business shows that Gleason's contention that the water was unfit for use was sound. Politica 1s blamed by the residents of Queens Borough for the heavy death rate as well as for the explosion that wrecked the pumping plant. That a few men might be kept at work and because the owners of private water companies refused to be “seen” water reeking with poison was pumpe@ into thousands of homes—the homes of the wealthy ae well as the homes of the poor. Had to Purify It. For months preceding the exploston manufacturing piante in the district supplied by Station No. 3 found tt neces- sary to purity the water by chemical means before it could be used. Con- sumers who ‘had not the faciifties of the manufacturers were compelled to use the slimy fluid as it was served to them. Among the chemists who have been pallea by Coroner Samuel Nutt and the District-Attorney of Queens County to testify to the quality of the water served from Pumping Station No. 2 is F. 8. Tolman, who has hls laboratory in Steln- way. Mr. Tolman made the following statement to an Evening ‘World reporter to-day: “The worst water furnished by the city came from Pumping Station No, 2. 6itu- ated as the station was, in a hollow with salt marsh lands surrounding tt, the pumping station was a disgrace to the clty, and I have no doubt that it was the means by which hundreds died. Dangerous to Life. “The chemists of the various. Health Boards, prior to and since consolidation, made analysis of the water pumped from the artesian wells which wore eunk fm close proximity to the mareh lands * and pronounced the water taken from the wells and pumped throughout this eection as dangerous to the health of our people. “I have made daily analysis of the ‘water from Station No, 2, and prior to the explosion of three weeks ago my analysis showed that there were from 7% to 150 per cent. of solid matter to 4 every gallon of water pumped through that station, or, in other words, we were being compelled to drink some clear water mixed with salt water from the sea and that was brackish, hard and slimy. The water wae totally unfit for household use, and for use in boilers ft was also unfit, “It was the same to the human sys- tem to give an invalld or a weak person @ drink of that water as it would have Deen to inject a dose of poison. I have no heritancy in eaying that the water from those wells when pumped into the Doller which exploded was the real cause of the explosion, and the killing of the angineer and freman, Ate Inte Holler Surface. |, The lime, chioride of sodium and ; muriatic acid would attack the boiler @nd eat out its pits, which means that the acids would eat off its surface, thus weakening the boller, which was per- mitted to carry ninety pounds of steam to the square inch, “About seventy pounds pressure was, fm fact, on when the weakened boller Sxploded. When Pumping Station No. 2 wa: i started I made daily analysis of ¢ A and found only from six to reins of solid matter, but that | Mig Nusder ola ‘there were only ele been Eiroben the y. as the Water rolled down the hills trom he highlands the pumps, if they did ot excced the supply from the hills and were kept Tonk Island City, when 0600 gallons ‘in ech four hours pumped from. dince consolidation. there eee nt ped olng tn conformity with Bhe water which flowed into the welts delivered pure water, but when the wells Could not deliver enough to" keep’ the Dumping station going the sea waters ‘mixed in with the pure water, and both ined were distributed in thousand: Of homes and the results were appalling. is absolutely Bee eon th that we pure water, and reason Timake duily analyein of the supply, nd it would’ be of great benedt to this gommunity if The Evening World would jay the bare facts bef: Uh hort Be pages ea fae i ie a they many bers BOILER EXPLOSION CAUSED A MANIAC AFTER X-SCIENCE "CURE. Henry E. Pratt, a Rich Paper Merchant Whom the Healers Tried Their Powers on, Is Plaoed in a Madhouse. ‘Word reached New York to-day that Heary W. Pratt, formerly a wealthy paper merchant, living at No. 888 Green street. Brooklyn, for the recovery of whose mental faculties two years ago the Christian Scientists claimed great credit, had been sent yesterday to the Middletown Asylum for the Insane in Connecticut. He ig said to be a hopeleas tunatic, ‘Until about three years ago Pratt was Going o large business, when {t was re- ported that his mind was weakening. Hearing of this his creditors pushed him hard for their claims, his business was taken from him and he was placed in oharge of doctors, neurologists and atenists, All declared that his condi- tion was hopeless and that he could live only @ very few years. After this he went to Hartford, Conn., where the Christian Sclentists took him in oharge. It was while with them he regained his reason and was apparently as sound minded as ever. Leverin EB. Simonson, first reader of the Obristlan Sclence Church there, took him into his home about a year ago and he spent last summer at Guilford, Only @ few days ago, in speaking of the supposed cure of Pratt, Mr. Simon. won wala: “Christian Science has done what ma- teria medica has failed to accomplish.’* ‘The cult in Hartford, even in Boston, re- ferred to the presumed cure of Pratt 4s one of the great accomplishments of the faith. Now that Pratt has suddenly lost hie” mind completely and has become such a maniac that he must_be locked in a cell at the asylum, the Christian Scientists are saying nothing. The experts at the asylum vay Pratt can Hve only @ short time, his mind being diseased beyond ———=—_ MUUST TAKE LIBRARYS HALIFAX, N. 8., preme Court deckled that the Coun- cil's yote to accept $75,000 trom Andrew Carnegie for a ilbrary, and the selection of @ site in accordance with Mr. ie's decree, amounted to a which cannot be anmulled. The Council, because of a deadlock among members over some details of the brary, had rescinded its acceptance. COFFEE DID IT. Put @ Man Out of the Race, Coffee serves some people in a most atrocious inanner. “I was a veritable coffee fiend until finally my stomach rebelled at the treatment and failed to work,” writes a gentleman from New York. “T had dyspepsia in its worst form; blind, staggering headaches with ver- tigo abou: a half hour after each time I ate, and I finally grew so weak and became so thin that my mother Arce Food Coffee. “T did not like it at first, but after experimenting in niaking it, mother | soon got it just right, and J then, liked it better than coffee, “IT soon noticed my _ biliousness stopped and I lost the trembling ef-| fect on my nerves; Postum did not stimulate me but seemed to exhil-j arate, I gradually regained my wont- ed good health; my old appetite re- turned, and to-day IT am well—dys- pepsia, headache and vertigo all gone, and Postum did it. “When I began its use I had been! troubled for two years with all kinds of stomach trouble, I became a verit- able walktug apothecary shop, but I have not taken a dose of medicine BY ACID- Dec. 3.—The Su-{ advised me to stop coffee and try! i FILLED WATER. UIT HUSBAND TO SAVE HER 108 Woman Department Clerk in Washington Feared Dismis- sal, so They Agreed to Separate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—One of the women clerks in the Post-Office Depart- ment has given up her husband rather than lose her position through the re- cent order of Postmaster-General Payne that after the firet of the year women employees of the department who are married may be asked to leave the service. After the order was promulgated this woman went to her chief of division and sald: “I cannot take the risk of dismissal merely because I have a husband. He may lose his position at any time, and then we wiill not be able to live, He and I have talked the matter over, and We could mot figure how we could get Along without the two We ‘have. lived rather Independently of each other and have not been par- tloularly congenial, 90 under the cir- cumstances, we concluded that the sen- sible thing to do would be to separate, I cannot now be classed as a mar- ried woman. ‘Tam single and dependent entirely upon my own exertions. have no husband to support me and do not think the rule of the 2 General will apply in my case.” Mi Cluthe Services —__ aetag® the rusted woman What only the good’ lawyer or Goctor tan dor” He Will MASTER Your. Cos MODERATE COST &i, ‘Trusa makes it unquestionably the only sat- tacto: tou? elution a of your rupture essure on hips or then; lent watereroot ed Caesar Misch Credit System A positive saving of from twenty- five to thirty per cent. is yours— by buying here, Test us at any point. 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The best people of New York, irrespective of their worldly station, have learned that it is the most sensible economy to purchase the highest grade” jewelry made, and that the place to purchase it is at the store where there are fewest profits be- tween manufacturer and purchaser. The LAMBERT BUYERS who visited Europe to purchase” DIAMONDS and PRECIOUS STONES in Amsterdam and the other European markets—where the Maiden Lane importers must buy—bought at exactly the right time. The prices were under the present market quotations. It is only by saving the intervening profits that genuinely good DIAMONDS may be sold at lower prices than other standard retailers may offer. Masonic Emblem Locket, with Six Rose Cut Diamonds. LAMBERT’S Emblem jewelry has a long Diamond Horseshoe Locket For a Guard or Vest Chain. The continued use of guard chains from which a locket may depend has created an unusual demand for jewelled lockets. 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Gold Orchid Brooch of La Valliere Design. An orchid in full bloom, beauti- . as fully made and set with three fine.” $20.00. diamonds on a solid 14-k. gold’ mounting. A baroque pearl drop. ping from the blossom presents thi $10.00; splendid La Valliere effect. a Stork Chatelaine " Brooch, Diamonds, Plain Oblong Gold Locket with Large Diamond Centre. = The front of this 14-k. solid gold locket is” perfectly plain except for the well-cut fine dia- ) mond in the centre. The back is for mono | It is one of the neatest lockets shown. Each petal of the pond lilies is set with a fine diamond against a background of the finest transparent green enamel—the whole effect being a beautiful Oriental design. The mounting is solid 14-K. gold, and the diamonds, though small, are care- fully selected. gram. Diamond Back Turtle Brooch with Olivine Eyes. This is another example of the public's ability to buy the highest class Jewelry at the most reasonable prices. 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