Philadelphia Rejects Meters.
By a vote of nine to seven Councils' Water Committee on Tuesday last agreed to report negatively the ordinance providing for the placing of meters in the water supply of manufacturing establishments, hotels, and other large consumers of water.
Director of Public Works Windrim, to hear whom action was postponed last week, was first called upon. He said in part: “The introduction of water meters upon the service of consumers who use water in excess of what they pay for has been suggested for the reason that a large percentage of water which passes their connections is not utilized for the purposes of their business, but is permitted to waste. From the statements of the representatives of two manufacturing establishments at your last meeting, these establishments alone will require per annum one per cent, of the total amount of water that was pumped for the supply of the entire population of the city during the year 1893—a statement that should stir to action Councils, which have under consideration an increase to the water supply for the city, and it suggests that means should be adopted to prevent waste of water, and protect the present supply.
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