NEW ENGLAND WATERWORKS CONVENTION
Special report to FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING
The fierce storm of Wednesday week did not deter the members of the New England Waterworks association from gathering in force at Holyoke, Mass., and opening their twenty-third annual convention, nor did it cast a wet blanket over the heartiness of the reception accorded by Holyoke to its visitors. The convention opened at 11 o’clock a. m. in the hall of the Hotel Hamilton, with Edwin C. Brooks, president, in the chair. Mayor A. B. Chapin was introduced by the president and welcomed the members to the city. In his address the mayor spoke of Holyoke as a "city built up by water. Its great canals and its paper mills—the largest in the world— have made the city what it is. So we are much interested in it (added the mayor). But your association takes it up, not from its manufacturing side, but for supplies. We are very well furnished with that from the grand Connecticut river which (lows here and from the many streams which come down the mountains. We are provided with that by Nature. The water commissioners have planned so wisely that it will be sufficient for many years to come. While other cities, some of them neighboring cities, are puzzling over it, we have an adequate supply.” The mayor was followed by President M. H. Whitcomb, of the Holyoke Business Men’s association, and John
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