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Page 172 WATER SYSTEM
"No amount of expense is to be spared to make this
water system as complete as it can be made."
As the editor progressed his enthusiasm increased and
he makes these remarkable statements:
"The reservoir is located northeast of the city on
lands of John E. DuBois, Esq. It has an altitude of 200 feet above
the Borough, creating a pressure suitable for fire service direct
from the hydrants located within the city limits, at the highest
point in the business portion of the town, corner of Long and High
Streets, at a pressure of eighty pounds. The capacity of the
reservoir is one million five hundred thousand gallons. It receives
its water supply through pipes from several mountain springs from
three to five miles beyond, at an elevation of two hundred and
thirty feet higher than the reservoir, so that there is nothing
whatever to pollute and make it impure.*******
"The pipes used to convey the water will be the famous
Wyckoff Patent, considered the purest conductors of water extant.
These are manufactured to sustain an indefinite amount of pressure.
The size of the pipes are twelve to fourteen inches, internal
diameter."
Still not being content with these enthusiastic
descriptions of this proposed water system, the editor goes on in
another editorial, as follows:
"The United States Pipe Line Co. are owners of water
works at different places throughout the Co., States. They are
recognized as having the most approved water systems in this country
today.*****The many extra and special features that they are
introducing in their plant at DuBois is an evidence that our council
did not err when they contracted with this company to supply DuBois
with water.*******
"They are constructing this system with a view of
furnishing increased water facilities as the increase of population
demands it. As this is the first plant they have constructed in
Pennsylvania they are making a model system.*****Mr. C. J.
Shuttleworth, their capable and industrious superintendent has a
large force of men at work at the present time."
Whether one of Mr. Shuttleworth's dinners, (in which
the "Volstead Law" did not figure), he had furnished on several
occasions to a select few, inspired the editor who wrote these
editorials, or whether Mr. C. J. Shuttleworth furnished the
information himself, is not known. But alas, for all of this
bombastic talk, the unsophisticated Council of the City of DuBois,
who did not know enough to secure an hydraulic engineer to
investigate the needs of the Borough as well as the source of supply
before they made their contract, entered into an agreement with the
United States Water Works Company, prepared by it, and at the time
this article ran, in the same issue of
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