Edmund Mather Re-elected.

Edmund Mather Re-elected.

A Harrisburg, Pa., paper says; "When the city councils in joint convention re-elected Edmund Mather as a water commissioner they made him the oldest water commissioner of any cityin the state, not only in point of years, but of service. Mr. Mather has been identified with the water department since the creation of that branch of the municipal government in 1888. No other commissioner in the state has anywhere that length of service to his credit, and in his case it has been real service, whole-hearted and earnest, the kind that keeps a man out of bed on nights when there is necessity, besides hours spent in meetings when matters of economy and policy are to be determined. Harrisburg’s first board of water commissioners came into being soon after the passage of that third-class city act of 1887. Prior to that time the city had a water board, but it n ever exercised any functions and was abolished as soon as it began. In 1888 the city councils elected as the first board Mr. Mather. Edward Drinkwater and J. G. M. Bay. Mr. Mather, with a knowledge of mechanics and engineering, at once became the active man on the board and for years was its president. His re-election has been a matter of course, and although 80 years of age. he is as active as he was two decades ago, and as careful and painstaking in his daily inspection of the pumping station as when he was the executive of the board years ago. Mr. Mather has wen the city’s water system become a model for the state, an example of municipal ownership of the sensible kind and one noted for its results. When lie took hold there were a pair of old engines drawing water within a short distance of a river bank polluted by sewage and with less than half the mileage of mains that it has to-day. Now the filter plant is visited by city officials from many states and the mains gridiron one of the most progressive, healthy cities of the state."

A Harrisburg, Pa., paper says; "When the city councils in joint convention re-elected Edmund Mather as a water commissioner they made him the oldest water commissioner of any cityin the state, not only in point of years, but of service. Mr. Mather has been identified with the water department since the creation of that branch of the municipal government in 1888. No other commissioner in the state has anywhere that length of service to his credit, and in his case it has been real service, whole-hearted and earnest, the kind that keeps a man out of bed on nights when there is necessity, besides hours spent in meetings when matters of economy and policy are to be determined. Harrisburg’s first board of water commissioners came into being soon after the passage of that third-class city act of 1887. Prior to that time the city had a water board, but it n ever exercised any functions and was abolished as soon as it began. In 1888 the city councils elected as the first board Mr. Mather. Edward Drinkwater and J. G. M. Bay. Mr. Mather, with a knowledge of mechanics and engineering, at once became the active man on the board and for years was its president. His re-election has been a matter of course, and although 80 years of age. he is as active as he was two decades ago, and as careful and painstaking in his daily inspection of the pumping station as when he was the executive of the board years ago. Mr. Mather has wen the city’s water system become a model for the state, an example of municipal ownership of the sensible kind and one noted for its results. When lie took hold there were a pair of old engines drawing water within a short distance of a river bank polluted by sewage and with less than half the mileage of mains that it has to-day. Now the filter plant is visited by city officials from many states and the mains gridiron one of the most progressive, healthy cities of the state."