MORE METERS NEEDED IN NEW YORK.

MORE METERS NEEDED IN NEW YORK.

Colonel Robert Grier Monroe, commissioner of water supply, gas. and electricity, in a recent statement said that this city was now losing in Manhattan and the Bronx from water running to waste in leaky fixtures $1,500,000 a year. Like his report last fall on water waste, this statement bristles with interesting data concerning the consumption of water in various districts mapped out by the water department. Commissioner Monroe argues for the passage of the Morgan bill, requiring the purchase by the city of a larger number of meters, and asserts that the meters will pay for themselves in one year. The statistics as gathered by the commissioner’s inspectors show that, in some of the power districts on the East Side the metered per capita consumption based on the resident population is about forty gallons and the unmetered about sixty. In one section of the Bronx, 174 acres in area, and with a large number of moderate priced apartment houses, the per capita consumption is about fifty-four gallons per day. In two of the upper West Side districts comprising the best types of flat and apartment houses and the very highest class of private residences the per capita consumption is seventy-five and 174 gallons, with eleven per cent, of the water running to waste, and only eleven per cent, of the water is metered. The revenue returned from these districts is comparatively small, and the waste through leaky fixtures is nine per cent., which clearly shows that those who live in fine residences and large and handsome apartment houses do not pay their fair proportion of water rates under the present svstem. Meterage, therefore, is all the more imperatively demanded.

Colonel Robert Grier Monroe, commissioner of water supply, gas. and electricity, in a recent statement said that this city was now losing in Manhattan and the Bronx from water running to waste in leaky fixtures $1,500,000 a year. Like his report last fall on water waste, this statement bristles with interesting data concerning the consumption of water in various districts mapped out by the water department. Commissioner Monroe argues for the passage of the Morgan bill, requiring the purchase by the city of a larger number of meters, and asserts that the meters will pay for themselves in one year. The statistics as gathered by the commissioner’s inspectors show that, in some of the power districts on the East Side the metered per capita consumption based on the resident population is about forty gallons and the unmetered about sixty. In one section of the Bronx, 174 acres in area, and with a large number of moderate priced apartment houses, the per capita consumption is about fifty-four gallons per day. In two of the upper West Side districts comprising the best types of flat and apartment houses and the very highest class of private residences the per capita consumption is seventy-five and 174 gallons, with eleven per cent, of the water running to waste, and only eleven per cent, of the water is metered. The revenue returned from these districts is comparatively small, and the waste through leaky fixtures is nine per cent., which clearly shows that those who live in fine residences and large and handsome apartment houses do not pay their fair proportion of water rates under the present svstem. Meterage, therefore, is all the more imperatively demanded.